Typora gives you a seamless experience as both a reader and a writer. It removes the preview window, mode switcher, syntax symbols of markdown source code, and all other unnecessary distractions, replacing them with a real-time preview to help you concentrate on the content itself.
Features:
Markdown support including tables, code fences with syntax highlight, LaTeX, table of contents
Aimed at professional photographers and other visual artists, Affinity Photo is a comprehensive and multi-platform software solution for powerful photo editing that offers an interesting alternative to other more expensive and more popular similar apps.
Keeping in mind that most fully featured photo processing apps are not what you would call resource friendly, Affinity Photo’s takes on a different approach and focuses on performance and speed, a fact that becomes obvious from the first minutes you start using it.
Everything is done with the help of the app’s five “Personas”
You interact with Affinity Photo with the help of five built-in design environments, named “Personas”: Photo, Liquify, Develop, Macro, and Export. The Photo Persona will probably the most used mode because it features all the main tools needed for basic photo editing tasks, while the Liquify Persona bundles a couple of special warping effects and useful retouching tools.
The Develop Persona is designed with RAW photo processing in mind and it provides you with full control for adjusting your image’s tones and colors, the Macro Persona is specially useful for building and applying macro presets, while the Export Persona, as its name clearly suggests, makes it easy for you to export your images, layers or image slices to a wide variety of formats.
Well organized, but not without faults, user interface
Build to be a valid alternative to other fully featured photo editors, Affinity Photo’s interface doesn’t stray from the common layout with applications of this kind, and, therefore, its majority of features can be easily accessed from the panels found in the extreme left and right sides of its main window.
Regarding its interface, the only downside would be the fact that it bundles very small buttons, which, on the long run might decrease your productivity rate, as well as annoy you at times, especially if your have a Mac with a Retina display.
Bundles a plethora of useful and powerful photo editing tools
As expected, the software enables you to work with overlays and to perform basic adjustments (clarity, contrast, exposure, shadow, highlights, vibrance white, balance, detail refinement, noise reduction, noise addition), as well as to correct the lens’ distortions and chromatic aberrations.
Furthermore, Affinity Photo helps you work with layers and perform complex layer related operations, perform retouching effects, use filters and effects from its large collection, as well as perform local adjustments with the help of its versatile brushes.
All in all, Affinity Photo proved to be a fast and powerful photo editing solution for the vast majority of Mac users, but we will probably see a lot more additions, further improvements and enhancements in the near future.
What’s New:
Version 1.10.8:
Release notes were unavailable when this listing was updated.
Affinity Designer is an advanced graphic design application that provides all the tools and features you might need to prepare various graphic materials for websites, interface design, icons and even modern concept art.
Professional-grade graphic design application for Mac users
Affinity Designer comes with a versatile and fully customizable workspace that enables you to work with a docked or floating UI that seamlessly integrates with macOS’ workflow features such as iCloud, Full Screen and Spaces.
From the main window you have instant access to a wide variety of design and graphic tools such as node, pen, crop, pencil and crop tools, as well as vector brushes, gradient fill tool, text, alignment guides and more.
Numerous highly customizable and powerful design tools
What is more, Affinity Designer offers accurate pixel control with a real-time pixel preview that allows you to edit in pixels if the desired result cannot be obtained solely in vector.
In addition, the suite of raster tools also includes lasso tool, pixel and paint brush, eraser, blur, dodge, burn, smudge, selection brush and sharpen.
Furthermore, you can use the pressure and velocity of a stylus and draw smooth, clean strokes that are fully editable. Consequently, you can enjoy the flexibility of brush texture and variable opacity and create natural-looking artwork while taking advantage of the benefits of vector editing.
Affinity Designer allows you to use pixel brush tools to erase and paint inside vectors in a non-destructive manner, a function that enables you to paint shadows, textures and highlights onto vector shapes with high precision.
Take advantage of the support for most popular file formats
On top of that, Affinity Designer delivers a broad collection of customizable shapes that you can adjust with the help of smart-snapping indicators and a full set of Boolean geometry operations.
Finally, Affinity Designer offers you the option to work in the desired color space, being it RGB, LAB, CMYK or Greyscale and comes with full support for AI, PSD, PDF and SVG files. At the same time, you can export areas, layers or objects independently with standard or retina versions.
What’s New:
Version 1.10.8:
Release notes were unavailable when this listing was updated.
Bring your vision to life with Affinity Publisher, the next generation of professional publishing software. From magazines, books, brochures, posters, reports and stationery to other creations, this incredibly smooth, intuitive app gives you the power to combine your images, graphics and text to make beautiful layouts ready for publication.
With essentials like master pages, facing page spreads, grids, tables, advanced typography, text flow, full professional print output and other amazing features, Affinity Publisher has everything you need to create the perfect layout – whatever your project.
Double page spreads
Live master pages, including nested master pages
Image frames with intelligent scaling options
Text wrapping with fine padding control
Custom shaped text frames
Link multiple text frames together across your document
Advanced guides, grids and snapping
Tables and custom table formats
What’s New:
Version 1.10.8:
Release notes were unavailable when this listing was updated.
