Aldus picked it up in the days when everybody who had one good product tried to pump it up into a 'suite' through acquisitions (a process that invariably creates bloated crap). It's creators, Altsys, couldn't figure out how to successfully market it, and shopped it around to a bunch of other software companies. Freehand was the program that nobody wanted. 'FreeHand was more intuitive and far easier to use than Illustrator.' English, German, Spanish, and French languages are supported. There's full 16-bit channel editing, RGB/CMYK/Greyscale/LAB color spaces, Raw support, advanced lens correction tools, correction and retouching tools like Liquify and red eye removal, the ability to create custom brushes, and more.Īffinity Photo's regular price is $49.99 USD, but until July 23 the software is priced at $39.99 USD. Yesterday, Serif took the software out of beta and officially launched it in the Mac App Store for users running OS X 10.7 and later.Īffinity Photo is hailed as a Photoshop alternative that is considerably cheaper while retaining the same variety of pro-level features Photoshop users require. Serif's software supports Photoshop's PSD files, as well as 'all standard formats' like JPEG, GIF, PNG, and TIFF. The software is a Photoshop alternative designed specifically for Mac OS X, and the beta has been updated several times since the February launch.

In February, Serif launched a beta version of its image editing application Affinity Photo.

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