Affinity Photo Photoshop Mac

 



A new astrophotography processing contender Affinity Photo has entered the Mac…and PC race. Affinity introduced it’s suite of applications to compete against Adobe Photoshop, Indesign, Illustrator a few years ago. They are extremely capable applications and in their effort to remain competitive come at a very nice discount in pricing compared to Adobe’s applications. Currently Affinity Photo is for sale at a 50% discount.

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They’ve recently upped their game to add features beyond Photoshop’s set of tools by getting into the Astrophotography realm with the following new features in their 1.9 update:

To find the default location for Affinity Photo Plugins, click the “Open Default Folder in Finder” button (number 1). This opens a Finder dialog on a Mac or the File Explorer in Windows showing the plugin folder location. This will probably be empty as most people don’t have any plugins installed there. Affinity Photo is available on the Mac App Store, from the Microsoft Store in Windows 10, and as a website download, for a one-time price of $49.99 (discounted to $24.99 at time of writing). Affinity Photo - redefines the boundaries for professional photo editing software for the Mac. With a meticulous focus on workflow it offers sophisticated tools for enhancing, editing and retouching your images in an incredibly intuitive interface with all the power and performance you need.

  • Dedicated Persona for stacking

  • RAW and FITS image support

  • Stack light and calibration frames (dark/dark flat/flat/bias)

  • Stack, tone stretch and retouch entirely in 32-bit

  • Stack files from different sessions using file groups

  • Create full color, composite (HaRGB, SHO), grayscale or false color images

One advantage to Affinity Photo compared to existing astrophotography stacking and calibration applications is that it takes advantage of the GPU in your Mac for very fast processing and stacking. I calibrated and stacked a set of 12 images in about 1-2 minutes on my iMac Pro. This compares to about 10 minutes in APP and PixInsight.

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Not only does this program calibrate and stack your images, but it’s a full fledged photo editing program, so you have all the tools at your disposal for stretching, sharpening, color enhancement, mask manipulation, and more with a vastly superior interface for ease of use.

Affinity Photo Photoshop Plugins

  • Affinity Photo provides full support for 64-bit Photoshop plugins, The Nik Suite from DxO, and LAB plugins.
  • Switching from Photoshop to Affinity Photo and it's hard to notice the difference quality of a professional's work. They say that PS is the industry standard, but so very few pros that tried Affinity Photo ever look back.

Here’s a set of tutorials to get you up and running with Affinity Photo’s new features.

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  • Astrophotography stacking: LRGB composition (mono cameras)