I'm so excited for version 2 of Affinity Photo!🥳Be sure to also check out the biggest changes in Affinity Designer and Affinity Publisher. 😊 ► Top 10 Changes in Affinity Designer: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rJuToN2kyb3YaXU.html ► Top 10 Changes in Affinity Publisher: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/p7hmnZOa1L-aZH0.html

Whilst I have some sympathy with those users who only bought AP1 in the last 6 months or so, many of us have been using it since early 2020 (and even earlier), enjoying multiple updates along the way. Paying for a major update after nearly 3 years doesn't strike me as so awful. And, as someone else has commented, you can't seriously expect Serif to survive financially without income AND far from being abandoned, AP1 users not wanting to jump up to AP2 can continue to use the excellent AP1 "til the cows come home" with no loss of functionality/usability. PS. Thank you Ally for your excellent summation of the new AP2; I look forward to more of your outstanding teaching videos 😀

Thank you Ally. You do a great job teaching Affinity Photo. Your classes have saved me lots of time trying to figure out the tools and their functions. I now spend too much time playing with them, but that's where the fun lies. The new masking options are really cool and I know I'm going to enjoy them. I am also pleased that I have support of my new camera in the develop persona for raw imaging. Once again thank you.

let me start out by just say thank you! easy listening, easy to follow. I always tried to get everything on camera but i came to realize this could come in handy one day. I already feel like a pro by watching your videos. Keep them coming!

I had just bought the update - and then your videos showed up. A great combination because the update is quite overwhelming (in a good way). Thank you!

Thanks for all the videos you put out there! Will have to figure out the new masking features. I had bought publisher awhile back with intent of learning it but never did. I did like some of those new features for adding pictures so hopefully I will work with it with this time with the help of your videos. Plus I never had design before so also will be looking for your videos on that also.

Very impressive updates - thanks for the great explanations (as usual) Ally!

Thank you, that made it all a lot more clear than previous videos I had watched.

OMG - I bought this suite of apps as soon as I found out it was available. I am over the moon that the universal license includes both the desktop (MAC & WINDOWS) and iPad version licenses! It was a total no brainer! I paid Adobe thousands of dollars in the 25 years I used their software and just couldn’t bring myself to pay a subscription FOREVER! I switched to Affinitiy 5 years ago and didn’t pay a dime for an upgrade! They deserve my money - I love their software! My favorite is Affinity Designer but I also like using Photo and Publisher! I can’t wait to dig in! Thank your for you excellent videos! I know you’re going to give us some excellent tips and I’m looking forward to watching them all! You are an excellent teacher and I enjoy your channel (looking forward to more videos)!

Nice changes!! Really looking forward to seeing the additional charges.

This is fantastic as its been sometime since we have had any form of update. Cheers Ally

Thanks Ally! Just updated. First thing I noticed was the massive improvement in the RAW processor. That alone was worth the upgrade for me. Keep up the great work!

so helpful. Thx for all your hard work

Your tutorials are THE BEST! Thank you!

Great trio of videos! Thanks!!

Thank you both for your excellent work and education! I have purchased today Affinity V2 Universal License (the latest version of the Affinity Suite) on its first day. Strongly appreciate your extraordinary efforts on this very valuable educational Channel.

Thank you for the really useful summary of the update. Today could have been difficult without your speedy response.

Nice update! Thank you for this!!!!

Always clear and interesting. Great. Tks

Ally is a wonderful teacher and has taught me a lot about the original version of Affinity I now use, and really like. However, there is not much in this new version that would speed up the workflow on the projects I do. I'll wait around for Affinity's answer to Luminar NEO, then I'll start getting excited about an upgrade.

Thank you Ally. You made great presentation of crucial changes of Affinity App.

Thankyou Ally. I feel Affinity Photo has made good improvements and helping me. Have even invested in the full package. Designer and Publishing.

Thank you for your very clear introduction to ten well chosen features of Affinity 2. Without this, it would have taken me ages to figure out how to apply and adapt the knowledge and techniques I have learned using Affinity 1!

thanks for the tips, i had figured that Affinity's radio silence as of late was no doubt due to a major upgrade. I had predicted tweaks to the raw developer, but the mask tools are a welcome surprise as i use masks frequently i conjunction with the curve tool.

Thank you, looks awesome!

This is GREAT! Thanks Ally!

Thank you for the video Ally!

Very interesting, thank you very much.

Great work Ally. I am thinking that in short term you can run V1 and V2 side by side as 2 separate apps.

Great update!

Awesome Update!

Thanks for the overview, really excited for v2. Will the affinity revolution courses be updated to reflect the changes in v2 or will there be new courses later?

This was informative. I was going to update anyway, but your video was the one that demonstrated the increase in value based on the interface improvements. I’m not a heavy user, but sometimes it is a useful program. If you have suggestions as to use DXO Photolab for this / Affinity for that, I’d be grateful. Currently, I’d tend to finish with DXO to do final noise reduction. Would I get two sidecar files? I’m assuming yes.

Thanks Ally! You're the best!

Great video! Many thanks.

Thanks for the info. Do you know if you can use the "presets" in library and assets you have in V1 in V2, as I find them a great starting point.

love it !

Great video Ali -Thank you for reviewing the main changes... are we ever going to get Affinity Photo APP on our cell phones ?

Thanks for that useful insight, has helped towards my decision to upgrade or not.

Some nice changes. I'm mostly excited by the luminosity & hue masking. Having Serif make a big deal that their RAW editing is not destructive is actually kind of embarrassing for them. Most RAW editors have been non-desctructive from the get go.

Great review! Looking forward to use Affinity Photo for the first time, moving from the adobe Photoshop because I don't like their subscription payment structure.

Truly revolutionary 😁

Hi Ally, It's Kev Borg, and I wanted to pop in and Thank You very much for getting back to me regarding my question in yr Publisher Course I bought from you, it is excellent., thanks for yr help. All the best for 2023. Cheers Kev

Thank you for the video. Have they improved extractions? I do a lot of them in PS.

Love, love, love 💕😍🥰 Affinity! It’s the best for me. Thanks for create software.

Being a long time Affinity user, I was a little skeptical about updating. Update didn't look worth it and merely incremental. Some of the changes and tools are definitely well worth the faster workflow. Going to love the non-destructive RAW editing. Thank you!

I'm really enjoying your "Affinity Photo / Designer for Beginners" courses in your site, learning a lot and I wanna say Thank you, Ally and Ezra. Now my progress rate of the courses is about 20%. So... Could you keep these courses as long as possible? I'm not sure but just guessing... maybe the time could come when you finish making beginners courses for Affinity V2, uploading them and then sadly removing the previous courses for Affinity V1? (Cuz Affinity V1 gets older and naturally New users wanna buy V2) Before that time comes, I would like to finish this V1 course😂. Thank you again for you guys efforts for Affinity classes

updated, thank you

Wonderful video Ally,

Mesh Warp filter FTW! I use the tool all the time, and its a major pain not to be able to adjust the result.

Of course we enjoyed and thank you.

Thank you for all of your videos!! With the new Affinity 2, have you heard anything about the move tool randomly not working? It’s driving me nuts today! I can’t figure it out at all. Thanks again!

Thank you!!

Thank you so much

love these. the adjustments mask was making me mental. i knew there had to be a secret, no one they would rid that. whew.

You all are giving Photoshop a run for its money. Especially since that program is only on a rental service now. Thank you Seraf.

Hello i wanted to ask (i have all 3 affinity but version 1) in the new version in the developer .it's there the possibility to change the vibrance , saturation of colors , like in photoshop lightroom wen you eddit photos? or is the same as version 1

Long time subscriber here, great video as always!!!! Is Affinity Photo 2 an upgrade to AF 1? or is it a separate purchase. Lastly...if separate...do I need to keep both 1 and 2? Thanks in advance!

I've just known Affinity for a month.I'm impressive, it's cheap and full for me.

Thank goodness for non destructive raw editing! No more dealing with Luminar's slowness for me!

Hi Ally and Ezra. I just got the 2.0 trifecta. I know nothing about Photo. I'm looking at your "Affinity Photo for Beginners" course. I have a few questions before purchasing: 1. How relevant is this course to the 2.0 overhaul and will it just be confusing to follow along by having to find additional resources to understand how menu items / functionality has moved? 2. What is the date you expect to release a 2.0 update for this course? Will I get an automatic update or credit for the new course by purchasing the 1.x course now? 3. Do you have bundle pricing for your Photo (and Designer courses)?

Thank you :)

Wow 🥀✨

As always, a great video from Ally. So easy to understand and follow. When you add an adjustment layer, it is a new layer above the image layer. When I add an adjustment layer it is NOT a separate layer, it is the same layer. Any ideas why? How is Ezra these days?

Hey ally will you be revamping the affinity tutorials on the site due to all the new updates to the program? Sorry if this was asked before. I'd love to get some version 2 tutorials :)

Thank you

have been using Affinity Photo and Design ver1. I have not used Publisher. I have a Avada wordpress website that I want to redesign. Would Affintiy Publisher help with the new website? Also curious if the Selection brush tool in Affinity Photo V2 has gotten more accurate and easy to use.

Thanks for the clear info. And I am sorry for you that you will have to redo all your past videos to match the new user interface... (And what are you going to do with the old videos? I for one do not currently plan to pay for this upgrade, even though I would love to have luminosity mask)

Hi thanks for the video. I have some questions: 1) I have the old version of the three programs for windows. Do you advise me to switch to version 2 considering that I also use a mac (where, however, I had not yet installed the suite)? 2) I noticed that version 1 of affinity photo doesn't open files created with version 2 even if simple. is there a way to fix it? 3) how long do you think version 2 will last before version 3? if I'm not mistaken the 1 came out in 2015 4) By the way I tested v2 both in mac and windows (equivalent hardware) and on mac it seems more responsive. Did this happen to you?

Wow nice

Thanks for that great video. How did you zoom in on the photo in the export window? No matter what tool I am using when I go to the export window, the tool switches to the grabbing hand. In your video, all I can tell is that you are using the pointer and somehow clicking on the image. Help, please!

As with yiour courses I was Impressed by your excited evaluation and description so I bought it. I use Lightroom as my catalog and Photo as an external editor . I have just "pointed" Photo.exe to enab;e this. Not so with Photo 2 though - I cannot find the location of Photo 2 - can you advise?

Hi, any news regarding the iPad version of the program? Thanks!

Does AP v2 process the new RAW files from OM System OM1 camera?

Did the add a way to edit batches ofRAW photos easier by copying the edits from one pic to another like in Adobe Lightroom?

Does AP2 still work with capture 1 Express, which has great raw converter and digital asset manager? If not, the new features in AP 2 are not enough to encourage an upgrade

I've not long brought the trinity 3, it said I get free updates but I guess I get none, I was under the impression that v2 would be free, obviously I would of waited if I knew. And it's not working on Windows 11, so when I upgrade to Windows 11 then its like serif has robbed me as there most likely won't be any updates to V1. If they don't get it working on Windows 11 then I'd never recommend or buy from serif ever again, at least they could promise us that they'll stand by its customers and fix this issue. I'd rather have a dedicated ssd with windows 10 on it just for this program than buy v2 and support a company that doesn't seem to care less for its customers. I have to add with what a great teacher you are, your amazing. Thank you.

I think I’ll be waiting for something more groundbreaking like face-aware warp tbh. Affinity 1.0 is already way too powerful for what I do anyway, although Ally’s videos have helped me get much more proficient!

I have a quick question, can you save and transfer preferences from one computer to another? I would like to have the same layout on my laptop as on my desktop computer. with the previous version you have to find a file, copy it paste it over to the other computer (or something like that) would be great to log into your account and share the same "look and layout" on all my computers

Dank je wel :-) :-) :-)

I knew before buying that whenever v2 , v1 would stop having updates. "Sadly" I bought the v1 version a few months ago, so I'll probably pass on this version for now plus I haven't finish most of your amazing tutorials. Thanks for the video!

Any batch processing of raw photos possible now? (ie: make basic adjustments to 1 photo, save it as a preset and apply automatically to a series of RAW pictures without having to do it 1 by 1?)

I'm still not sure if it is really necessary for me to spend this extra money in the upgrade. Hue masks seems interesting and a quick way to process different colors and specific parts of an image, a bit like color range in PS. But I'm a bit confused about Luminosity masks and what is the difference in applying these or a blend range in a curves adjustment layer for example.

Thanks for this video. I just went on the site but can't find anything relating to upgrade for existing owners. Just want to double check before I buy; existing v1 owners don't have any upgrade discount to v2, right? Thanks in advance.

Ally, how does this work? I've downloaded and installed. I wanted it to go to my D drive but there was no option. When you look at properties in Explorer does not mention C or D drive for location. Seems to be going back to Serif?

Awesome

I can drop the money now for the discount for Photo and Designer. Hoping Serif sticks with updating it like Affinity 1 suite so that even if the current changes are mostly QoL and things that should have been an update to Photo 1 (non-destructive RAW). The way I see it, this is basically CS2 to CS3 where CS3 had features but mostly changed the appearance with QoL items bundled and then hopefully the CS4-CS6 levels of improvement/updates can happen over time with Photo/Designer 2. I do wish Serif would take some time to develop a version of Bridge and provide an importer/library management system. There's already a lot of RAW development apps like darktable, Capture1, etc, so I don't really expect them to try and shoehorn their CameraRaw tool into said library management system, but it would be nice to have a selfcontained workflow for easy backup and grouped storage (I import an image from a card, that card is moved over to the assigned library folder + date or whatever, then if I select it to edit it's automatically grouped within the management software grouped with an affinity file that just contains the linked raw edits. From there the edit and base raw is a "single" group entry in the library, I could scan over it seeing all the edits, and then export from there using Affinity's export tool. TBH I would pay an extra 20 bucks for that tool on its own if it received the same quality updates for efficiency, bug fix, etc as the other Serif programs. I could pretty much replace my lightroom/photoshop workflow at that point unless I really need a specific tool/feature.

can I update my previous version? or do I have to re buy it yo have version 2?

I am really curious - are there equivalent of lightroom presents and if there will be updated Afinity photo workbook for V2?

These changes are great

Hello Ally. Thanks for your (always) interesting videos. Due to my age (I'm a rather old guy 😊), the old version of AF-Photo does its job for my use. So, I'll continue with V1 as long as possible. Or, maybe, the V2 of AF-Photo, will be useful in a near future !? - Considering this, please allow the following question : "If I'm downlaoding V2, may I work with both versions !?" - Thanks in advance for your estimated advice ... 🖐🤠

Another great video but there is one bit of info I wish had been included = what is the cost of moving from V1 to V2?

Thanks for this great walk through. How do we upgrade to version 2?

excellent

Since your how-to lessons are step-by-step and detailed, it seems you'll have to update (or completely re-do) your previous lessons. I think some people (maybe most?) are like me and will need that extra detail how-to on the 22.0 version.

I was really impressed with the Designer update but the update to Photo doesn't seem nearly as impressive and quite minor although they are quite useful features.

Although I like the changes, I can't see myself buying it (for another ~50€), except there is a better upgrade price for those who already own the previous version that I just couldn't find.

More thoughts. I agree the feature additions are not worth a full point upgrade. Maybe a 1.10 to 1.20, but not to 2.0 with more $$. Editable raw is nice, but there was no mention of improvements to the actual raw engine which are sorely needed. Also missing (still) is a browser to integrate work flows and file navigation. This has been requested for years. It need not be Lightroom like, just simple like Adobe Bridge. Even DxO has now added some basic functionality in their latest release.

I already bought Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer a year ago. The question I have is, do i need to purchase again to get the new version or is there another process for previous buyers?

Are you able to change the icon sizes yet? Working on an Ultra Widescreen they're impossibly small.