Affinity Photo
Affinity Photo is a professional macOS image editor for retouching photos, developing RAW files, and creating layered raster artwork.
What is Affinity Photo?
Affinity Photo is a native desktop photo-editing app for macOS that helps photographers, designers, illustrators, and other creators edit and retouch images with precision. It is published by Serif and is used for RAW development, non-destructive adjustments, compositing, masking, and detailed raster artwork. The app supports layered document workflows, high-bit-depth editing, and common professional formats used in photography and design. Many users rely on it for portrait retouching, background removal, panorama stitching, PSD-compatible exchange, and preparing graphics for print or digital publishing. On Mac, it fits well into creative workflows that need advanced editing tools without moving work into a browser-based service.
Key features
- Develop RAW photos with dedicated editing controls before final image adjustments
- Retouch images with selections, masking, cloning, healing, and object removal tools
- Edit non-destructively with adjustment layers, live filters, and layer effects
- Create multi-layer compositions for photo manipulation, design mockups, and digital art
- Open and export common professional file formats including PSD, TIFF, PNG, JPEG, PDF, and more
- Stitch panoramas and combine multiple images into larger compositions
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Safety overview
Status: Safe
Affinity Photo is legitimate creative software. It normally needs access to files and folders you choose so it can open, edit, import, and export images and project documents. That level of file access is expected for a professional photo editor. If you remove it, your image files stay on your Mac, but app-specific settings, add-ons, and unfinished Affinity workflows may no longer be available until you reinstall it.
Recommendation: Keep Affinity Photo if you edit photos, work with RAW images, or use layered image documents on your Mac. Remove it if you no longer use it, but export or back up any templates, custom assets, macros, or active project files you still need first.
Common paths
/Applications/Affinity Photo 2.app~/Applications/Affinity Photo 2.app
Cache paths
~/Library/Caches/com.seriflabs.affinityphoto
Support paths
~/Library/Application Support/Affinity Photo 2
Preference paths
~/Library/Preferences/com.seriflabs.affinityphoto.plist
Container paths
~/Library/Containers/com.seriflabs.affinityphoto
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