I was made a Freeman of Lichfield through The Worshipful Company of Smiths (established 1601). Under the name Idustrial Revolution, I have written and sold plugins for Final Cut Pro for 13 years. I have also worked as a broadcast and corporate editor for over 30 years, starting on one inch tape, working through many formats, right up to today's NLEs. I am the Editor-in-Chief of FCP.co and have run the website since its inception ten years ago. In the meantime we suggest you download the beta and put it through its paces. So we are all rather excited about Affinity Photo and if Designer is a benchmark to go by, it will probably end up on the App Store for a one-off payment of $50. And it's fast, we've seen customers tweeting that Affinity Designer opens a PSD 10x quicker than Photoshop itself. There are some differences between the apps Photoshop can't do everything Affinity apps will do so there will be some translation, and Affinity apps don't do things the same way as Photoshop in all cases but the transport is pretty good already. The devs are actively engaging with creative pros over at our Forum and are releasing regular beta updates to improve things further (regular updates so far for Affinity Designer beta builds anyway, they will become regular for Affinity Photo). Regarding PSD import/export, yes the intention is to maintain layers, our aim is to have the best PSD support out there. We asked Affinity about this and they sent this reply: Importing the PSD export works, but there is no access to the layers at the moment even when we followed these Apple best practices. The native file format isn't recognised by FCPX, but the PSD export should be. On to Affinity Photo and Final Cut Pro X. I’m also very happy to say to all photographers and creatives, when Affinity Photo launches it’ll be a one-time purchase - we don’t do subscriptions.” It’s early days for the Affinity Photo beta, but with the welcome help of our professional users during the test phase we’ll be able to fully deliver on these aims for launch and with free updates afterwards. Tony Brightman, Head of Affinity development adds “We directly targeted professionals when we dreamt up the Affinity range, making performance, reliability, pro-level tools and a slick workflow our top priorities. Even as a beta and with the suite still growing, there’s nothing else quite like it.” He continues “Affinity Photo also joins the award-winning Affinity Designer as part of a brilliant creative suite with seamless switching between apps, one file format, and a common Undo history. Affinity Photo is silky-smooth, accurate at a professional level, and fully-featured - and the beta can be downloaded for free.” says Ashley Hewson, Serif’s Managing Director. “We’re delighted to be shaking things up with this exciting new app that doesn’t compromise on power and could make creative pros fall in love with photo editing and raster art all over again. Not everything works, we have had a few oddities with opening PSD files, but it is a very slick application and the team behind it are pretty bullish. You may have already heard about them as they were runner up in Apple's Best of 2014 Apps with Affinity Designer. Designer is a $50 vector graphic application that has had rave reviews and has already had many converts from Adobe's Illustrator.īack to Affinity Photo Beta and as the name suggests, the application is in a free beta test period at the moment. Affinity are a company based in Nottingham, England.
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