He started trying out Haze Removal on every photo and 9 times out of 10 it improved the photo dramatically. Our friend Ron, who is an accomplished photographer, traveled with us on our trip to Hawaii, and he had just recently bought Affinity Photo on my recommendation. What I didn’t realize was that Haze Removal would be so useful on just about every photo. While our smog is way way way better than it used to be, since we still live in a bowl shaped by mountains off of the sea, there’s a natural haze even on the best of days. When I first heard about it, I thought it would be super useful to someone like me who lives in Los Angeles. Next up is Haze Removal, and it is positively magical. Personally, I’d just uncheck that one and get it out of the way. These are the functions in Affinity Develop. In Photos you can adjust lighting including exposure, contrast and more, you can add clarity, saturation and vibrance, you can adjust the white balance and change highlights and shadows independently and Noise reduction. It provides functionality that’s already built into Photos itself. The first one is called Develop, and to be honest, it’s the weakest of all the extensions. Some are super cool and awesome and some are just plain silly. if you select More it opens up System Preferences to the Photos Extensions preference, and you can add the new ones from Affinity Photo.Īffinity Photo comes with six extensions and I’ll walk you through each one, giving examples of what you can do with them. If you click on that you’ll see any extensions you’ve already loaded up but also a button that says More. Then next time I’ll tell you all the reasons you need to flex your power and use the full tool!Īffinity Photo is available from a company called Serif, at /…, and like I said, it’s in the Mac App Store too.Īfter you install Affinity Photo, in Apple Photos select an image, hit the edit button in the upper right, and you’ll see an Extensions option on the far bottom right. I’ll start us off with the Photos Extensions because they give real power to the majority of the listeners. I hope that’s enough problem to be solved! I think this review is going to go much like the video for Don – it’s going to have to be in two pieces because the tool is so powerful. Simple tools that are super powerful and all come with that same $49 price. Or you took some cool photos under water of some crazy turtles in Hawaii but they look all green and hazy.Įnter Affinity Photo again, but with tools as Extensions inside Apple Photos instead of using the full standalone application. Or you have a nice photo of Uncle Ned but he has a hat on and his face is in shadow. You’ve got a great shut of your baby but there’s a branch behind her head and it looks like it’s growing out of her. You use Apple Photos and you’re pretty happy but there are times that you wish you could do a little bit more for your photos. Now let’s say you’re not a huge pixel pusher, and wouldn’t ever consider buying Photoshop. it will remain to be shown whether Affinity Photo is good enough for most photographers and designers, so stay tuned as I talk through the features. I’ve spent $400 on Photoshop Elements over many years so it’s not really as great of a price as it sounds either.Īffinity Photo is a grand total of $50 in the Mac App Store, so you can use it on all of your Macs. They have a version in the Mac App Store but it’s not updated to the new hotness until well after the pay per device version. I used to really like Elements, but they charge huge upgrade fees pretty much every year. If you can’t afford that steep price, you can buy the less capable but still really excellent Photoshop Elements for $80. In three years you’ll spend $360 on image editing and organization. You do get the very popular and capable Lightroom software along with it so I’m not saying it’s not a good value, but inexpensive it is not. You can’t buy it month to month so it’s really $120 per year, paid monthly. I don’t ever want to hear a NosillaCastaway call it $10/month, because that’s simply not true. Unfortunately Adobe have chosen to go with a subscription model, at $120 per year. They fall into a few categories, the first being money, or lack of disposable money: The big daddy of photo editing and art creation is, of course, Photoshop. Let’s define some problems to be solved first. I’m preparing a video for Don McAllister’s ScreenCasts Online podcast, so I’m learning a lot about it right now and the more I study it, the more I like it. I wanted to give you a more in depth look into this fabulous new program and why even if you’re not a huge photography fanatic, you might still want to give it a look. If you heard Chit Chat Across the Pond this week with Devin King, you’ll have heard me chat a bit about it as a fantastic image editor. I have fallen in love with Affinity Photo.
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