Last year, to support that community, we made all our apps free for anyone to use for 90 days. The company has reintroduced its 90-day free trial for the Mac versions, and offers a 50% discount when buying them.įor almost a year now, the COVID-19 pandemic has continued to severely impact people all over the world, not least in the creative community. The 1.9 update is available across all Affinity apps on macOS, Windows and iPad from today and is free to existing users. Placed PDFs can now be set to ‘passthrough’ ensuring 100% fidelity on export, and users can easily integrate text and image links into a document from an external data source with the new data merge feature.

In Affinity Publisher, IDML import will be noticeably faster and the new Package feature allows users to bundle all the image and font resources from a project into a folder which can be transferred easily to another system to aid collaboration or for print production. Also added is the ability to place linked images and resources, reducing file size and simplifying collaborative working. On top of that there are substantial improvements to its RAW engine, new linked layer functionality, path text, as well as a whole new mode to control the stacking of astrography images for stunning results.Īffinity Designer, the graphic design app, gets a new contour tool which offers an incredibly intuitive way to add contours and line offsets to any shape or path. The company says version 1.9 of the creative suite is faster, takes the app’s non-destructive workflow to the next level, and enables significantly easier collaboration between remote workers…Ī key feature which sets Affinity Photo apart from the competition is its non-destructive workflow, and that has been taken to another level again with the ability to add liquify adjustments as live, maskable layers. Significant Affinity updates are landing today across the company’s Photo, Designer, and Publisher apps on Mac, iPad, and Windows.

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