Affinity Photo 2 v2.6.2 for Win (easy-to-use photo editing software comparable to PS) latest activated version

Affinity Photo 2 is a powerful photo editing software that is your ideal Photoshop alternative, optimized for every system to take full advantage of your hardware. It provides you with advanced and sophisticated tools to enhance, edit and retouch your images in a stunningly intuitive interface. It has all the power and performance you need. This is the fastest, smoothest and most precise photo editing software.Test environment: Windows 11 I912 generation CPU

Image editing software function introduction

An excellent choice for professionals

Faster, smoother and more powerful than ever, Affinity Photo continues to push the boundaries of professional photo editing software. With a massive toolset designed specifically for creative and photography professionals, it has all the features and performance you need, whether editing and retouching images or creating complete multi-layered compositions.

Professional corrections and adjustments

Correct and enhance images using Levels, Curves, White Balance, HSL, Shadows and Highlights, plus over a dozen other non-destructive adjustments that can be previewed and edited at any time. Affinity Photo also offers advanced lens correction and best-in-class noise reduction, so you have complete control to achieve the best results in any image.

Complete retouching tools

Whether you want to make a quick correction or take the time for a detailed retouching, Affinity Photo has you covered. As well as the usual dodge, burn, clone, patch, blemish and red-eye tools, you’ll also find an almost magical healing brush, frequency separation functionality, and a full suite of liquify features built-in.

Clone, dodge, burn

Recolouring

Image restoration

liquefaction

Frequency separation

Treatment tools

Affinity Photo update features:

Update V2.3 is just the right amount of powerful and introduces the much-anticipated Screw Tool as well as some great new features and improvements.

This highly requested, flexible new tool lets you create different types of spirals, including:

Linear

attenuation

semicircle

Fibonacci

Drawing

Here are some creative examples of how to incorporate these spirals into your designs:

Pixel Grid Options

A new Pixel Grid option is available under the View menu in all applications. If enabled, the pixel grid appears when the zoom level exceeds a certain threshold (based on the current document's DPI). By default, the grid is gray, but you can customize the color and transparency of the pixel grid, along with the normal grid lines, in the Grid and Axis settings.

For Affinity Designer, this feature is particularly useful when working on UI elements such as icon designs. When using forced pixel snapping, objects will snap to whole pixels, with the pixel grid and pixel-based view modes acting as a visual aid.

For Affinity Photo, this new option is particularly useful when editing enlarged images, as it allows you to see the pixels. Using different grid colors can also help when there is little color variation in the image.

For Affinity Designer's Pixel Persona and Affinity Photo, the pixel grid also acts as a visual aid when drawing pixel art using the pixel tools.

Note: In Affinity Photo, the main grid was previously set to the pixel grid. The great thing about this new version is that it’s independent of the main grid, with options to turn them on and off separately, and control their appearance independently.

Create and place password-protected PDFs

You can now create and place password-protected PDFs from all Affinity apps.

create

In the advanced export options for PDF files, you will see two new options:

1. Require password to open - After you set a password, anyone who tries to open the PDF file will be required to enter the password.
2. Permissions Passwords — You can further protect your PDF files with secondary passwords, restricting access to options like printing, modifying, editing, and copying

You can also see the type of encryption used for the file in question. This is based on the PDF compatibility used in the export (PDF 1.6 and 1.7 both use AES-128, PDF 2.0 uses AES-256; PDF 1.4, 1.5, or PDF/X file compatibilities do not offer password protection).

You can save passwords in PDF presets. For example, you can use the "Internal PDF" preset to specify export settings for a certain type of document (DPI, etc.) and password settings.

place

Previously Affinity did not support placing password protected PDF files. Now it does! When attempting to place a PDF you will be prompted to ask for the password of the document you are trying to place.

Improvements to the "Mobile Data Input" feature

After reviewing feedback from the last beta, we are happy to announce that some of the requested "mobile data entry" has been implemented.

1. You can now create copies before or after the original data using the new Insert mode option
2. There's also a new scaling feature that lets you quickly resize an object by a given percentage (when you create a copy, the scaling percentage applies to all subsequent copies, and this feature can be used in conjunction with other transformations)
3. It is now possible to adjust properties of transformed objects without exiting the dialog

We've also changed the range of the Number of Copies slider to make it easier to use at lower values (ie the first half of the slider is 1 to 50, the second half is 50 to 1000).

Tip: When using the Move, Shape, Picture Frame, or Artboard tool, pressing the Enter key will enable the Move Data Input dialog box.

Change the background color of the Assets Panel

You can now switch the Assets Panel background between Light, Dark, Checkerboard, or Automatic, depending on your current Light/Dark UI setting. Like changing the background color of layer thumbnails, this feature is primarily intended to help you achieve higher contrast when viewing specific assets.

You can change the background color from the hamburger menu at the top of the Assets Panel.