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Thanks to CTOnews.com netizens horizon, has Samsung closed down today, unhindered clue delivery! CTOnews.com November 13, Affinity Creative Suite V2 has been released for professional photo editing, publishing, graphic design and illustration, covering all applications. Supports a variety of platforms. No subscription is required. One-time purchase is supported.

Affinity Creative Suite V2 has hundreds of time-saving improvements and a completely redesigned UI to optimize workflow.

Experience the power of the Affinity Creative Suite V2 application with a general license. A full Affinity suite (including Publisher iPad version) is available on all devices (including macOS, Windows, and iPadOS) for an one-time discount.

CTOnews.com learned that the Affinity V2 General license is priced at 648 yuan and is applicable to macOS, Windows and iPadOS. Version 2 Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo, and Affinity Publisher are available.

The following is the cost of purchasing software separately:

Affinity V2 upgrade is completely voluntary, and you can continue to use the original application all the time if you like. Please note that V1 will not receive any more updates. If you want to upgrade to V2, you need to pay, but like V1, you only need an one-time payment and no subscription. The Publisher iPad version has been released as part of the V2 suite. You can now buy the Publisher iPad version for ¥78.00, or you can buy it for only ¥648.00 as part of the General license. Affinity V2 offers a 30-day free trial and a general license for all applications, so you can try it together to experience the full functionality of Affinity. If you buy an Affinity V2 product, not only can you take advantage of the many new features and enhancements that are now available, but you will continue to receive free updates until version 3 is released.

The following is an introduction to the update:

Publisher iPad version

Affinity Publisher iPad is a professional page design application that allows you to create beautiful layouts and creations anytime, anywhere, without compromising the quality of your work.

Touch-centric UI-each tool, panel, and control is carefully designed for touch capabilities to provide an excellent immersive experience.

From the shortcut menu, you can quickly access clipboard options and up to nine customizable shortcuts with just one gesture.

The compact mode of the layers panel simplifies the way content is displayed, making room for what really matters-your creation.

Support for iPadOS 16-New virtual memory swapping is fully optimized to significantly improve performance, making it easy to work with large documents.

Lay out the content as much as you want-you can easily and seamlessly create exquisite layouts and designs for printing or digital publishing with the touch of your fingers.

Smoothest workflow-just like the desktop version, if you have other Affinity applications, you can switch between their various toolsets without leaving Publisher.

Optimize for iPad

Please browse a series of screenshots of the functions below, or check out our technical specifications page for more details.

Path text-add text along the path to learn about a variety of layout designs.

Footnotes, endnotes, and side notes-add notes in academic style or references to text sections.

Master pages-you can use real-time master pages, including nested master pages and smart master pages.

OpenType support-take full advantage of your typesetting and try to use the extended character set.

Control colors-you can use end-to-end CMYK, PANTONE libraries, ICC color profiles, RGB, LAB, HSL, grayscale color spaces, and so on.

Custom table-create your own custom table format and save it for later use.

The rich new features and enhancements of the Affinity V2 suite Affinity V2 provide a unique creative experience.

Vector distortion

This new tool is powerful and highly anticipated to apply non-destructive vector distortion to any vector work of art or text. Editing any distortion provides an ultra-fast real-time preview, even on complex illustrations, and provides a true vector end effect.

Shape Builder tool

Add and subtract shapes and segments in a simpler and more interactive way. You can quickly create complex shapes by dragging between sections to combine or hold modifiers to subtract.

Cutter tool

Cut any shape, curve, or text into components at an unprecedented speed.

Measuring tools and area tools

Measure the line length, segment, distance, and area of any object you want to scale.

X-ray view

This is a new view mode that can show the composition of the work, which is especially suitable for selecting specific curves / objects in complex works of art.

DXF / DWG Import

Import and edit AutoCAD and DXF files quickly and accurately, while maintaining the layer structure and scale of the original file.

Lossless RAW development

Develop RAW files in a lossless manner and choose to embed document files or external links.

Tip: if you have a general license and Publisher 2, you can use StudioLink to put the RAW file into the document and edit the development settings at any time (which is not available from other publishing applications! ).

Real-time mask

Use new real-time masks to build powerful, non-destructive workflows that are automatically updated based on the properties of the underlying image.

Tonal range

Create a mask based on a specific color and apply adjustments, special effects, or simply paint on a mask that is automatically generated based on the selected hue.

Bandpass

Use bandpass to create a mask concentrated around the inner edges of the image. This has a wide range of uses for cartographers who process content on layers with different frequencies, and can also create artistic special effects.

Luminosity

Specify the luminosity range to mask (for example, isolate a specific range of highlights or shadows (or any luminosity in between), and apply controlled adjustments to these areas.

Composite mask

Use addition, intersection, subtraction, and XOR operations to easily merge multiple mask layers together in a lossless manner. This means that when you create a new mask based on a separate mask you create, these components can be maintained in a non-destructive manner.

Real-time mesh distortion

Want to distort the image or file to match the surface of the underlying template? Now, you can do this by applying lossless distortion, and then you can go back and edit it at any time.

Bonus: this feature implements some powerful use cases when using photo characters in Publisher 2. You can distort the linked file without affecting the integrity of the link, and you can distort the picture box to quickly drag and drop other images.

Brush engine

Improve

Reorder the nozzles by dragging and dropping. You can apply any swatch to the intensity brush, including gradients and bitmap fills. In addition: a new distance controller, brush tip interpolation, and improve the overall performance and accuracy.

Books

You can merge individual Publisher documents into chapters to make a full-length publication and automatically synchronize page numbers, catalogs, indexes, and styles throughout the publication-a particularly useful collaboration feature because participants can work on their own chapters separately and then merge all chapters together. This feature is only available in the desktop version.

Footnotes, endnotes and side notes

Add comments in academic style or references to the text section.

Place automatic arrangement

Create a single layout that can be automatically repeated throughout the document until all the desired images are arranged. In addition, by selecting the number of image repeats, you can set up advanced templates so that multiple variations can be generated immediately in the future with just a few clicks.

Linked file layer visibility overrid

You can turn any layer on or off in placement files, including PSD, PDF, DWG, DXF, and other Affinity documents, without affecting the integrity of the link. The layer visibility settings remain the same even if you change the source file. Designer 2 and Photo 2 also provide this feature.

Style Selector tool

Quickly apply the style of any object or text on the page to another object or text. Designer 2 and Photo 2 also provide this feature (desktops only).

Performance

Redesigned the way memory is handled for imported PDF and other large documents resulting in significant performance improvements.

Carefully optimized and redesigned the new UI not only provides a new look and feel for the application, but also enables many workflow improvements.

Desktop computer

New documents now include more accessible preset lists, easier preset management and organization, the ability to mark presets as favorites, and clearer previews and document summaries.

You can now view the recent document in the form of a thumbnail preview or a list. You can also pin the document for quick access.

The revamped layer panel has a number of new features, including:

Clearer drag-and-drop areas for internal placement, masking, and reordering

Use the new parent column to easily collapse the group and place layers above or below the current parent

New shortcut menu for color marking (right-click the visibility icon)

Options to show / hide other layers

Drag to adjust the visibility of multiple layers at once to show / hide them immediately

Drag the FX icon to copy layer effects to another layer (or drag to the trash can)

You can lock without first selecting a layer

New option to display icons that indicate the type of layer (pixels, images, text, curves, etc.)

In addition to the existing triangle color wheel, the optimized color panel also provides a new box color wheel, which can more easily change the saturation without changing the luminosity by moving vertically and horizontally, and vice versa.

View the most recently used grid brush by layer. Any pixel layer you draw now provides a drop-down list of brushes used on that layer, making it easier to continue from where you last broke, even if you made a lot of edits to the document during the period.

IPad

Although the iPad version has almost all of the above new features, they also have some proprietary improvements of their own:

Shortcut menu-just swipe three fingers to instantly access clipboard options and nine customizable shortcut actions.

Command Controller-this new radial menu provides quick access to common modifiers in all tools.

Compact mode-the layers panel provides a new mode to keep the panel open while maximizing document space.

New context bar-makes more options easy to access for all tools.

New attribute slider-such as brush width and opacity, stroke width, filter special effects settings, and so on.

Zoom to fit / zoom to previous, attach, and preview mode options-now available in the top toolbar.

IPadOS 16 ready

All iPad applications are now optimized to take full advantage of the increased memory limit since iPadOS 15. Customers of iPadOS 16 will also get another benefit, the new virtual memory swap, which greatly improves the performance of processing very large documents.

And not only that.

Multiple layer effects-contours, inner shadows, color overlays, gradient overlays, and outer shadows can now apply multiple instances to the same object. This feature applies to all applications.

Shortcut Grid-use the arrow keys to quickly create a mesh of any object, including shapes, text boxes, and photo boxes, during the drawing process. This feature works for all applications, but is particularly useful in Publisher (desktops only).

Fast Bitmap fill-drag and drop to immediately add a seamless bitmap texture fill to any shape. You can drag the source texture directly from the file or from the assets panel of the Affinity application. You can now also set the bitmap texture to scale with the object (desktop version only).

Pencil tool improvements-provides new line mode and auto-close options, which now allow you to automatically connect the last node to the first node by releasing the mouse button (Designer 2).

Specify key objects-controls exactly which objects to align to, the objects subtracted from them, and other features (Designer 2).

Content link

All major content types (including resources, brushes, samples, and styles) are now linked between Affinity applications on the device. This means that if you create a new brush in Affinity Photo, you can immediately use it in the pixel character of Designer and the photo character of Publisher. Or, if you drag a new asset to one of the asset classes, it will also be available in all three applications.

You can easily control whether you also need to link to any content category.

Force scale everything-with this new option in the transform panel, you can override any individual zoom settings, forcing all strokes, effects, and fills (all applications) to be scaled according to the settings of the currently selected object.

Normal adjustment-adjusts the lighting information added to the existing normal map. As a stand-alone feature, it is ideal for texture artists, but you can also edit lighting layers generated from 3D rendering software (Photo 2).

Display Pixel Grid-this new option displays the pixel grid when zoomed in, helping to improve editing accuracy (Photo 2).

Create a new document from the inventory panel-drag directly from the inventory panel to the top toolbar to create a new file from the inventory image (for all applications, desktop only).

JPEG XL Import / Export-Affinity Photo has always been a leader in editing wide color gamut and HDR images, fully supporting full HDR display. Now, with this new export option, external developers can use the features in Affinity Photo.

Number of words and characters-gets the number of words, characters, lines, and paragraphs of the document or current selection (Publisher 2).

Resave the package-resave the package and automatically update the content of the resource at the same time. This feature is very efficient and prevents the creation of duplicate resources (Publisher 2, desktop only).

Frame text / WordArt conversion-you can convert frame text to WordArt and vice versa (Publisher 2).

DXF and DWG Placement-place DXF or DWG files in your Affinity Publisher publication.

Brushes panel grid view-this option displays as a nozzle grid instead of a stroke preview list when viewing brushes. This option is useful if you want to view more intensive brushes at a time. (Photo 2, desktops only)

Select the same / Select objects-with this new feature, you can determine the selection range based on the current artboard or from the current selection range. In addition, Select same now provides options based on width, height, or rotation, as well as the option of whether or not to hide objects. Designer 2 and Publisher 2, desktops only.

Smart layer States-you can save various visibility states of layer stacks to quickly view different designs or versions of your work (Photo 2, desktop only).

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