Affinity Photo was one of our favorite Photoshop alternatives, doing almost everything that Photoshop did at a fraction of the price with no subscription. We wondered what would happen when the program's developer Serif was bought out by graphics giant Canva, especially when the Affinity website went ‘dark’ prior to the relaunch. But we needn’t have worried. Affinity Photo is back, reborn as part of an all-in-one Affinity application, which combines photo editing with vector drawing and page layout tools. It’s like Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign all rolled into one.
Let’s be clear about the direction it’s taking, though. Even though it's one of the best photo-editing software applications, Affinity is a powerful photo editor, but, like Photoshop, it’s also a design tool. Photography is not the only thing it does, and Affinity is also about design projects where photography is simply a component – and this is true of new owner Canva, too.
