Affinity Photo, Publisher, Designer get big performance boosts in v1.10 update

Serif, the makers of Affinity Photograph, Designer, and Publisher, have rolled out an update for the entire Affinity suite of applications. Affinity v1.x brings improvements to all three apps, including improved rendering in Affinity Designer, ameliorate blending in Affinity Photo, and faster loading of large documents in Affinity Publisher.

There isn't a total changelog of the Affinity v1.10 update at this time, only Serif shares many of the new features in a recent postal service.

Retentiveness direction in Affinity Publisher has been completely rewritten as part of the update. As a result, Serif promises that the app tin can instantly load "huge documents" with thousands of pages. Live editing, which lets you meet edits in real-time before committing to them, is also smoother in the app following the update.

Affinity Designer'due south rendering engine is now upwardly to x times faster when handling circuitous documents. Serif director Ash Hewson explains that this comes in handy when bringing PDFs into the app, "While it's quite rare for anyone to create designs with hundreds of thousands of objects, although some people exercise, nosotros are seeing many examples of PDFs beingness imported into Designer – for case that were generated in a CAD app or like – which can easily accept that number."

Serif explains that Affinity Photo "has also received extensive performance tweaks." The only specific instance shared is that blending layers together is more than efficient post-obit the update.

The updates to the app are free and available through either the Analogousness website or the Microsoft Store, depending on where you purchased whatever of the apps.

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