Affinity Photo

Working as a photographer can be a tedious job, especially if you have to perform various editing on your material and have no appropriate tools that can simplify your work.

Fortunately, nowadays there is a broad range of specialized third-party software solutions that can help you achieve quick, convenient results in almost any situation. Affinity Photo is one of them.

Affinity Photo can help you edit your photo or retouch it in various manners by providing you with an outstanding palette of features.

Some of them include classic photo manipulation tools, such as a brush, an eraser, a blur tool, a clone tool, a healing tool, a pen, text boxes, magnifying glass and paint bucket, but also more complex ones.

The application encompasses multiple filters that can be found by navigating to the "Filters" menu. They are organized in several categories, making them easy to access.

Categories include "Blur," "Sharpen," "Distort," "Noise," "Detect" and "Colors", but there are also some standalone entries, such as "Frequency Separation," "Apply Image," "Lighting," "Shadows/Highlights," "Haze Removal" and "Plugins".

Shortly after launching Affinity Photo, you are greeted by a splash screen that provides you with basic information regarding new projects.

To be more specific, you can create new documents by pressing the dedicated button, open existing projects from your computer or download some of the sample files available and test the program's capabilities on them. Most of the samples have moderate sizes, but a couple of them are rather large (over 300 MBs).

All things considered, Affinity Photo is a handy application that can help you edit, retouch or manipulate photos on your computer without significant efforts. It comes with a comprehensive user interface, packs an outstanding amount of functions and provides you with a bunch of sample files that you can test this app's features on.