Find out how to customise your workspace, then save and load presets to quickly switch between workspace setups. Photography by James Ritson.

Take advantage of hardware acceleration with Metal Compute on Mac and OpenCL on Windows. Stock imagery from shutterstock.com used under license. Astrophotography image by James Ritson.

See how to enable linked resources in Photo, allowing you to place images and documents into your work that can be updated externally. Photography and composition by James Ritson.

Multiple tools are bound to the same keyboard shortcuts as tool groups. See a quick tip for adding a Shift modifier to prevent accidentally cycling through tools. Photography by James Ritson. Image from shutterstock.com used under license.

Take advantage of hardware acceleration on Mac using Metal compute, and learn some pointers for ensuring good performance. Photography by James Ritson. Image from shutterstock.com used under license. Composite created using rendered 3D assets from cgtrader.com used under license. 3D scene from evermotion.org used under license. Composite created using rendered 3D assets from project file (“Space VFX Elements” by Aidy Burrows and Gleb Alexandrov) used under CC BY 3.0 license.

Placed images are classed as ‘image’ layers rather than ‘pixel’ layers—find out why. Photography and compositions by James Ritson. Stock imagery from shutterstock.com used under license.

Explore the Develop Persona, a workspace dedicated to editing RAW images. Photography by James Ritson.

Resize your document canvas space using a dialog or the Crop Tool. Photography by James Ritson.

Change the pixel resolution of your document using different algorithms and resize to specific dimensions for print and layout. Photography by James Ritson.

Output your document to a recognised graphic format. Photography by James Ritson.

Use Undo/Redo commands and history scrubbing to step back/forward through your edits, plus see how history branching works. Photography by James Ritson.

See how to show and hide layer content using mask layers. Photography by James Ritson.

Find out how to select layer content in your document. Photography and composition by James Ritson.

Resize layer thumbnails, colour code layers and use a chequered background for better visualisation when compositing. Composition by James Ritson. HDRI from hdrihaven.com used under license. Render assets from cgtrader.com used under license.

Learn how to manage layers in your document. Photography and composition by James Ritson.

Transform layer content on the document or via the Transform Panel. Photography and composition by James Ritson.

Introduce another image into your document. Photography and composition by James Ritson.

Open images and save to the Affinity document format. Photography by James Ritson.

Explore the New Document dialog, how to create a new document, and how to install and use Affinity template files. Photography by James Ritson.

The Affinity apps default to a dark user interface. See how to switch it over to a light interface. 3D scene from cgtrader.com used under license.

Explore the Affinity Photo user interface. Photography by James Ritson.