AFFINITY PHOTO

Bring your pictures to life with this powerful image editor – no subscription needed. Nik Rawlinson introduces the best features

Whether you’re shooting with a smartphone or a powerful DSLR, your photos can often benefit from a little light editing. You can tweak them with Windows’ integrated Photos app, but for more advanced, professional-grade edits you’ll need a more capable tool, such as Affinity Photo. Developed in the UK by Serif (now part of Canva), Affinity Photo is part of the three-app Affinity suite, along with Designer and Publisher. It’s a dedicated image-editing program, much like Adobe Photoshop, with support for a wide range of image formats, including raw files straight off the camera. It’s available for Windows and macOS, and there’s also an iPad edition for editing on the move. One thing that makes Affinity Photo particularly appealing is its price. By contrast with Adobe’s subscription-only licensing for Photoshop,…

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