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Something exciting happened at the end of October. Canva, best known for its online design and photo-editing tools, launched a single Affinity software suite, combining the image-editing, vector-graph

Be fluid and free with your photography, but be bold, writes Rob Read…

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For the past decade we’ve been recommending Affinity Photo as an affordable, buy-once alternative to Adobe Photoshop, with companion apps Affinity Publisher and Affinity Designer making persuasive riv

Most paintings are based on an idea which is reduced to a pattern of lines, filled in with colours. Each element is dependent on the others, but because we see the real world in colour, the pigments w