Affinity Photo image processing software

A user-friendly astrophotography program with updated adjustment tools

Affinity Photo is the image-processing package in Serif’s Affinity suite of products, gaining popularity with many professional photographers who are discovering just how powerful the software is. The program is constantly being updated, with some extremely useful astrophotography tools being introduced earlier this year. The most notable are tools for star alignment, and background and gradient removal, as well as Affinity’s ‘Astrophotography Stack Persona’. Here, we take a look at these and other features that are useful for astrophoto processing.

These new astrophotography tools will certainly turn the heads of many astro imagers who are wanting a single package that does everything at an affordable price. We particularly liked Affinity Photo’s single one-off payment user licence model, as it means you’re not locked into making long-term monthly payments. The only time the licence holder will be asked for extra payments for the software is when Serif releases a major software update with new features. Unlike a lot of software, the licence allows the software to be installed on as many machines as you have, running on either Windows or Apple operating systems, plus there is a cheaper iPad version. You’ll need a separate licence to run the software on the different platforms.

The installation files proved easy to download and they were installed flawlessly on the Windows and Apple computers we tried. New updates were prompted, downloaded,