

New features in the iPad edition of Affinity Photo 2.1 On Windows and macOS, is also now possible to batch export images in WebP and JPEG-XL formats. Other changes include the option to display special characters, and to have the Paint Mixer brush automatically clean itself of stored colours. The Guides system gets new keyboard shortcuts for cloning, snapping, nudging and deleting guides, and the distance a guide has been dragged is now shown in an on-screen readout. The Assets and Layers panels get new options for expanding or collapsing all sub-categories, and the Assets panel gets the option to sort assets by name. The Brushes panel now shows thumbnails of brushes, and shows brush names.

The desktop version Affinity Photo 2.1 features workflow improvements throughout the software, particularly to the Crop tool, the Brushes, Assets and Layers panels, and to Guides.Ĭhanges to the Crop tool include the option to crop to the current selection, and to use a Phi grid as an overlay, for cropping images to proportions based on the Golden Ratio. Workflow improvements in the desktop edition of Affinity Photo 2.1 You can see videos of more of the workflow improvements in the Shorts section of the Affinity YouTube channel. Workflow updates to the Brushes panel in Affinity Photo 2.1. The update was released alongside version 2.1 of Serif’s other Affinity products, vector design software Affinity Designer 2.1 and page layout tool Affinity Publisher 2.1. In addition, the iPad edition gets more features from the desktop edition, including the Style Transfer tool and the Rulers system.

The update features “hundreds of improvements and usability enhancements”, including updates to the Crop tool the Brushes, Layers and Asset panels and the Guides system. Serif has released Affinity Photo 2.1, the latest version of its image editing and digital painting software. Posted by Jim Thacker Serif ships Affinity Photo 2.1
