The Liquify Persona is best for pixel manipulation. The Photo Persona is where you will spend a lot of time doing many of your editing tasks in Affinity Photo. When you open the program, the user interface of Affinity Photo is divided into different workspaces and personas designed to manage and conduct various editing needs. Preference to limit initial zoom to a maximum of 100%.Paste Style support for copied text selections.Style Picker Tool offers a dropper-based transfer of object styles (for desktop only).One-step undo/redo of complex assistant actions.Isolation (Solo) mode offers better group control.Easier Quick Masking of pixel selections in Channels panel.Create pattern layers from any raster layer content (including image layers).Multiple shadow, outline and overlay layer effects per layer.HSL Colour Wheel has box wheel type and offers recent colours and hex code readout/input.Redeveloped Boolean operations and compounds.Fill Opacity for ‘special 8’ blend modes.Support for additional spare channels in TIFFs.Displace filter offers Sobel (Affinity) and Red/green offset (Photoshop) load methods.Force scale of stroke width, layer effect radii, corner radii and text frame content on object resize.Import Affinity and Adobe® Swatch Exchange (.ase) palettes (iPad).PDF export will export hidden Affinity vector layers that have child layers as invisible layers.Drag/drop stock photos for new document (for desktop only).HIF file import (HDR 10 bit PQ encoded) produced by newer Canon cameras.Brushes panel can display brushes as either nozzle thumbnails or strokes.Paint Brush Tool now has its own B keyboard key shortcut.Recently used brushes can be seen and reselected for each raster layer.Switch to a crosshair cursor on all brush tools using caps lock (for desktop only).Brush tip interpolation for improved tip quality.Distance controller changes brush characteristics with stroke length.Improved raster brush quality and accuracy.Group contents remain editable when part of a mask.Create non-destructive Live masks based on targeted hue ranges, luminosity ranges or frequency (band-pass).Non-destructive compound masks for combining multiple mask layers using Boolean operations (Add, Subtract, Intersect, .Pixel grid displays when zoomed in beyond certain level.Drag-and-drop bitmap fill creation with intelligent scaling.Normals adjustment for editing normal maps from material and texturing workflows.Perspective transforms: tool and filter have rotate and flip options.Layer states to experiment with design options and versions (for desktop only).Non-destructive development of linked/embedded raw images.Dropbox API integration to retain placed resource linkage across multiple devices.Place linked web images using their URLs via ctrl+drag-and-drop (for desktop only).Layer visibility override for placed files (PDF/ DWG files/ DXF files)-turn off layers you don’t need.Autoflow of multiple images and multi-page PDFs.Resource Manager for controlling placed image and document resources (iPad).Freehand Selection Tool (Polygonal and Magnetic) automatically pans if you drag beyond document bounds.Link custom content to share with other apps.Migration of custom 1.x content on upgrade (for desktop only).Avoids unnecessary exporting/importing of content between apps on the same device.All Affinity apps on a device can now share brushes, styles, assets, application palettes and more.Collapse parent layer/group from its child.Merge selected layers via right-click (for desktop only).Rasterise selected layers simultaneously.Drag-down Visibility icon to turn on/off multiple selected layers (for desktop only).Hover-over lock icon toggle (for desktop only).Copy layer effects (FX) from one layer to another.Identify layer types by icon (curves, shapes, text, pixel, mask, adjustment).Unlimited levels of cropping/masking layers.Parent bar to easily collapse parent items and drop layers above/below current parent group.Much clearer drop zones for masking, clipping and reordering.

“Always on” Document summary panel (for desktop only).Recent documents (grid or list) are searchable and support pinning (for desktop only).In-dialog access to new document presets, templates, samples and your account details.Easier preset management plus preset previews and favourites.Compact Mode for Layers and Brushes Studios (iPad).Quick Menu for context-sensitive access to commands (iPad).Command controller for improved modifier-driven workflow (iPad).Redesigned Export dialog offers “always on” export preview.Restyled Studio panels via the Window menu (for desktop only).Drag document tabs to new windows (Mac).New monochromatic iconography via Preferences (User Interface).

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