The 'live' aspect of watching images update as you work on them extends to customisable effects that include lighting, blurring, tilt & shift, and many more. This makes the editing process wonderfully fluid, and enhances the creative experience. Most adjustments can be previewed live, in real time and without any lag, even if you're working on images with huge numbers of layers. Not only are the editing tools very good, with excellent fine-tuning and customisation options, they're also super-fast in action. That speed is on show throughout Affinity Photo.
The speed and fluidity with which edits are updated on screen is particularly impressive. The Liquify persona comes complete with a mesh view, and contains a range of tools for push, pinch, twirl and turbulence distortions.įinally, the Liquify persona hosts an array of pinch, push, twirl and turbulence tools, complete with mesh view and the ability to freeze or thaw selected areas of the image.