06-07-2019, 10:37 AM
Serif Release Affinity Photo And Designer 1.7
<div><p>Serif have just released version 1.7 of both of their flagship applications, <a href="https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/photo/">Affinity Photo</a> and <a href="https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/designer/">Affinity Designer</a>. These tools provide excellent alternatives to Adobe products such as Photoshop and Illustrator with a much lower, pay once price tag. The 1.7 update applies to all platforms, Windows, Mac and iOS.</p>
<p><a href="https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/photo/#whats-new">Affinity Photo</a> changes:</p>
<ul>
<li>Big performance increases across Mac, Windows and iPad</li>
<li>Pen and dial support for Surface devices</li>
<li>HDR / EDR monitor support</li>
<li>At least 2x faster loading of RAW files</li>
<li>More effective noise reduction, hot pixel removal and wide colour space development</li>
<li>New Sub Brushes to combine multiple brushes in a single stroke</li>
<li>Symmetry (up to 32-way) is now supported – including on-canvas controls and optional mirroring</li>
<li>On the fly nozzle rotation now available with shortcut keys</li>
<li>New “Procedural texture” and “Voronoi” filter effects</li>
<li>Live filter effects have been rewritten to improve performance</li>
<li>An all-new HSL adjustment layer has been added, supporting custom hue ranges, new UI and picker controls</li>
<li>Layers studio revamp</li>
<li>Alternate futures for document history</li>
<li>HEIF images can now be loaded, including loading of any depth map</li>
<li>Added support for 12bit and 16bit CMYK TIFF files</li>
<li>New Assets Panel available to store and drag and drop regularly used assets</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/designer/#whats-new">Affinity Designer</a> changes:</p>
<ul>
<li>Big performance increases across Mac, Windows and iPad</li>
<li>Pen and dial support for Surface devices</li>
<li>HDR / EDR monitor support</li>
<li>Create and edit directly in any isometric plane</li>
<li>Arrowheads!</li>
<li>New transform mode in Node tool</li>
<li>Lasso selection of nodes</li>
<li>New sculpt mode added to pencil</li>
<li>Add unlimited strokes and fills to a single shape</li>
<li>New point tranform tool</li>
<li>Many grid improvements, including a new cube grid and column guides</li>
<li>Many PSD import / export improvements</li>
<li>Layers studio revamp</li>
<li>Pixel persona now supports sub-brushes and symmetry (up to 32-way)</li>
<li>Alternate futures for document history</li>
</ul>
<p>Learn more in the video below.</p>
<p align="center"><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text/html' width='853' height='480' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/9BH4rtq6L50?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent' allowfullscreen='true' style='border:0;'></iframe></p>
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<div><p>Serif have just released version 1.7 of both of their flagship applications, <a href="https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/photo/">Affinity Photo</a> and <a href="https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/designer/">Affinity Designer</a>. These tools provide excellent alternatives to Adobe products such as Photoshop and Illustrator with a much lower, pay once price tag. The 1.7 update applies to all platforms, Windows, Mac and iOS.</p>
<p><a href="https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/photo/#whats-new">Affinity Photo</a> changes:</p>
<ul>
<li>Big performance increases across Mac, Windows and iPad</li>
<li>Pen and dial support for Surface devices</li>
<li>HDR / EDR monitor support</li>
<li>At least 2x faster loading of RAW files</li>
<li>More effective noise reduction, hot pixel removal and wide colour space development</li>
<li>New Sub Brushes to combine multiple brushes in a single stroke</li>
<li>Symmetry (up to 32-way) is now supported – including on-canvas controls and optional mirroring</li>
<li>On the fly nozzle rotation now available with shortcut keys</li>
<li>New “Procedural texture” and “Voronoi” filter effects</li>
<li>Live filter effects have been rewritten to improve performance</li>
<li>An all-new HSL adjustment layer has been added, supporting custom hue ranges, new UI and picker controls</li>
<li>Layers studio revamp</li>
<li>Alternate futures for document history</li>
<li>HEIF images can now be loaded, including loading of any depth map</li>
<li>Added support for 12bit and 16bit CMYK TIFF files</li>
<li>New Assets Panel available to store and drag and drop regularly used assets</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/designer/#whats-new">Affinity Designer</a> changes:</p>
<ul>
<li>Big performance increases across Mac, Windows and iPad</li>
<li>Pen and dial support for Surface devices</li>
<li>HDR / EDR monitor support</li>
<li>Create and edit directly in any isometric plane</li>
<li>Arrowheads!</li>
<li>New transform mode in Node tool</li>
<li>Lasso selection of nodes</li>
<li>New sculpt mode added to pencil</li>
<li>Add unlimited strokes and fills to a single shape</li>
<li>New point tranform tool</li>
<li>Many grid improvements, including a new cube grid and column guides</li>
<li>Many PSD import / export improvements</li>
<li>Layers studio revamp</li>
<li>Pixel persona now supports sub-brushes and symmetry (up to 32-way)</li>
<li>Alternate futures for document history</li>
</ul>
<p>Learn more in the video below.</p>
<p align="center"><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text/html' width='853' height='480' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/9BH4rtq6L50?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent' allowfullscreen='true' style='border:0;'></iframe></p>
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