All tagged Affinity

Capture One Adds Affinity File Format Support. How To Round-Trip to Affinity

Capture One and Canva have recently announced that Capture One will now support native Affinity files in the photo editing application. In conjunction with an update to Affinity, you can now open and save native Affinity format files in Capture One. I can’t emphasise enough how important a step this is. If you wanted to use Affinity with Capture One before this, you would have had to use the TIFF or Photoshop format, but that was an absolute pain for round-tripping because you can’t save directly in Affinity to TIFF or Photoshop; you had to export from Affinity and overwrite the file from Capture One or manually re-import. Now, round-tripping is basically as seamless as working with Photoshop.

DXO adds full Affinity compatibility to the Nik Collection

Just a quick PSA as you may have missed this - but DxO has added full compatibility between Nik Collection 8 and the latest version of Affinity, allowing Affinity users to integrate Nik’s editing tools directly into their existing workflow. This update enables photographers and creators to use the Nik plugins inside Affinity without relying on additional host applications.

Affinity Photo - First Impressions

If you haven't come across it before, Affinity Photo is a Photoshop competitor from Serif labs, the same people who brought us the excellent Affinity Designer (an illustrator competitor). The software got a lot of attention when it was launched, and Apple named it the best Mac App of 2015. With this quick first look, I'm going to talk about my general impressions of using it, and I'm not going to go too in-depth, butI'll follow this up in a little while with a full review.