Serif, a UK-based graphic art and design software company, has just dropped a new photo_editing app for the Mac to compete with Adobe Photoshop. Affinity Photo, released today as a public beta, joins sister app Affinity Designer, a vector art and design tool. The new photo app touts_pro-level raster tools like _CMYK (four-color separation), LAB color, Raw processing, 16-bits-per-channel editing, ICC color profiling, Adobe_Photoshop (PSD) format and 64-bit plug-ins._It provides Frequency Separation editing, live blend modes, and inpainting (like Photoshop’s content aware fill feature) wrapped in an elegant, uncluttered interface. The software is months away from a formal launch, but…

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