Serif has released a new version of Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer. Version 1.7 is a significant update with GPU compute acceleration, HDR monitor support and a new memory management features plus much more.
Here’s just some of the new features added in Affinity latest Affinity Photo 1.7 update:
- Big performance increases across Mac, Windows and iPad
- Pen and dial support for Surface devices
- HDR / EDR monitor support
- At least 2x faster loading of RAW files
- More effective noise reduction, hot pixel removal and wide colour space development
- New Sub Brushes to combine multiple brushes in a single stroke
- Symmetry (up to 32-way) is now supported – including on-canvas controls and optional mirroring
- On the fly nozzle rotation now available with shortcut keys
- New “Procedural texture” and “Voronoi” filter effects
- Live filter effects have been rewritten to improve performance
- An all-new HSL adjustment layer has been added, supporting custom hue ranges, new UI and picker controls
- Layers studio revamp
- Alternate futures for document history
- HEIF images can now be loaded, including loading of any depth map
- Added support for 12bit and 16bit CMYK TIFF files
- New Assets Panel available to store and drag and drop regularly used assets
- Huge macro and batch processing improvements
See the full list on Serif’s pages for Designer.