Interface Visual Reference

Select a Persona and tap any highlighted area to display a tooltip that identifies it.

Photo PersonaPhoto

Liquify PersonaLiquify

Develop PersonaDevelop

Tone Mapping PersonaTone Mapping

Export PersonaExport

Home

Returns to Affinity's Home screen, where you can save your changes to the current document and close it, and create or open another document.

Persona Menu

Allows you to switch between Personas: different workspaces for various tasks. The active Persona's icon is shown when the menu is closed.

Document Menu

Contains document-related options like resizing, exporting, and placing images. You can show or hide the Command Controller, which is used to access alternative tool behaviours, and adjust which notifications are shown when you interact with the app.

Edit Menu

Contains operations for duplication, object insertion target, layer merging, rasterisation, and more.

Photo Persona Tools

Gives access to various photo-editing tools, including Crop Tool, Paint Brush Tool, Clone Brush Tool and Inpainting Brush Tool.

Studio panels

Various panels for controlling settings and organising document contents, including Layers panel, Adjustments panel, Filters panel and Navigator panel.
This area will be scrollable to accommodate all panel icons (except 12.9" iPad Pro).

Context Toolbar

Displays options for the currently selected tool. The options may differ according to what is selected and the active Persona.
This may be scrollable for tools offering many options (except 12.9" iPad Pro).

Helper

Touch and hold to display tooltips on the interface.

Delete

Deletes the currently selected object or layer.

Zoom, Preview Mode and Snapping

Tap these buttons to toggle the zoom level, visibility of design aids, and snapping, respectively. Tap the menu to the right of a button for related options, e.g. to select a specific zoom level, configure and show the baseline grid, and to set snapping candidates.

Command Controller

To show or hide this, select Toggle Command Controller on the Document menu (top left). Tap or drag the button to reveal the Command Controller's modifiers, which can be used to alter the current tool's behaviour when drawing or transforming objects.

Home

Returns to Affinity's Home screen, where you can save your changes to the current document and close the document.

Persona Menu

Allows you to switch between Personas: different workspaces for various tasks. The active Persona's icon is shown when the menu is closed.

Edit Menu

Contains mesh and masking operations, including to save/load a mesh, reload the last-used mesh, and invert the current mask.

Liquify Persona Tools

Gives access to various tools for manipulating the mesh that distorts an image, including Push Forward Tool, Twirl Tool, Freeze Tool and Thaw Tool.

Studio panels

Various panels for controlling settings and organising document contents, including Liquify panel and Navigator panel.
This area will be scrollable to accommodate all panel icons (except 12.9" iPad Pro).

Helper

Touch and hold to display tooltips on the interface.

Context Toolbar

Displays options for the currently selected tool. The options may differ according to what is selected and the active Persona.
This may be scrollable for tools offering many options (except 12.9" iPad Pro).

Zoom

Tap the Zoom button to toggle between the current zoom level and the zoom level most recently selected from the Zoom menu (to the right of the button).

Sliders

One or more sliders are displayed for some tools and selections. Drag to adjust or tap the number to type an exact value. On some sliders, tapping the icon cycles through settable attributes.

Home

Returns to Affinity's Home screen, where you can save your changes to the current document and close the document.

Persona Menu

Allows you to switch between Personas: different workspaces for various tasks. The active Persona's icon is shown when the menu is closed.

Edit Menu

Contains options for swapping and syncing the Before/After split view, and displaying clipped highlights, midtones and shadows.

Context Toolbar

Displays options for the currently selected tool. The options may differ according to what is selected and the active Persona.

Develop Persona Tools

Gives access to various tools for raw image adjustments and fixing imperfections, including Red Eye Tool, Blemish Remove Tool and Crop Tool.

Studio panels

Various panels for colour and lens correction, processing detail and noise, and managing overlays used for adjustments, including Basic panel, Lens panel and Details panel.
This area will be scrollable to accommodate all panel icons (except 12.9" iPad Pro).

Helper

Touch and hold to display tooltips on the interface.

Zoom

Tap the Zoom button to toggle between the current zoom level and the zoom level most recently selected from the Zoom menu (to the right of the button).

Basic panel

Contains sliders for adjusting an image's exposure, white balance, shadows and highlights, and enhancing overall contrast, clarity, saturation and vibrance.

Home

Returns to Affinity's Home screen, where you can save your changes to the current document and close the document.

Persona Menu

Allows you to switch between Personas: different workspaces for various tasks. The active Persona's icon is shown when the menu is closed.

Context Toolbar

Displays options for the currently selected tool. The options may differ according to what is selected and the active Persona.

Tone Mapping Persona Tools

Including Overlay Paint Tool and Overlay Erase Tool.

Studio panels

Various panels for controlling settings and organising document contents, including Basic panel, Presets panel and Overlays panel.
This area will be scrollable to accommodate all panel icons (except 12.9" iPad Pro).

Helper

Touch and hold to display tooltips on the interface.

Basic panel

Contains sliders for adjusting an image's exposure, white balance, shadows/highlights and more. Your choices can be saved using the Presets panel so you can re-use them.

Zoom

Tap the Zoom button to toggle between the current zoom level and the zoom level most recently selected from the Zoom menu (to the right of the button).

Home

Returns to Affinity's Home screen, where you can save your changes to the current document and close the document.

Document Menu

Contains options for saving, resizing, flipping and rotating your document, flattening to a single layer, image placement, and exporting. You can show or hide the Command Controller, which is used to access alternative tool behaviours, and adjust which notifications are shown when you interact with the app.

Persona Menu

Allows you to switch between Personas: different workspaces for various tasks. The active Persona's icon is shown when the menu is closed.

Export Persona Tools

Including Slice Tool and Slice Selection Tool.

Studio panels

Various panels for controlling settings and organising document contents, including Slices panel, Layers panel and Transform panel.
This area will be scrollable to accommodate all panel icons (except 12.9" iPad Pro).

Helper

Touch and hold to display tooltips on the interface.

Export Slice

An area of the current document designated for export to its own file using the Export Persona's Slices panel.

Export Slice

An area of your current document designated for export to its own file using the Export Persona's Slices panel.

Zoom

Tap the Zoom button to toggle between the current zoom level and the zoom level most recently selected from the Zoom menu (to the right of the button).

Slices panel

Defines the file format for each slice that will be exported and the folder to which files will be exported. Open the panel by tapping its icon to the right.

Photo Persona

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