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    Serif Affinity Photo image-processing software

    Jul 15, 2021 4 minutes
    WORDS: DAVE EAGLE

    Affinity Photo is the image-processing package in Serif’s Affinity suite of products, gaining popularity with many professional photographers who are discovering just how powerful the software is. The program is constantly being updated, with some extremely useful astrophotography tools being introduced earlier this year. The most notable are tools for star alignment, and background and gradient removal, as well as Affinity’s ‘Astrophotography Stack Persona’. Here, we take a look at these and other features that are useful for astrophoto processing.

    These new astrophotography tools will certainly turn the heads of many astro imagers who are wanting a single package that does everything at an affordable price. We particularly liked Affinity Photo’s single one-off

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