In many ways, I found the iPad version of Affinity Photo to resemble that other iOS powerhouse: the painting app Procreate - except for the facts that Procreate is a pure painting app and doesn’t exist outside of the iOS world. You can also create a new empty canvas, panorama, stack, focus merge and HDR merge project. The result is that you can load images (including RAW) from cloud services, your Mac and the iPad’s camera and Photo app. The Serif developers built their own image loading and management feature into the app. The biggest difference is how you get to the images you want to edit. everything you have in the Mac version as well. It’s all there, from the development of RAW images to “inpainting”, brushes, effects, filters, colour management, masks, clipping masks, etc. The iPad version of Affinity Photo is not slimmed down in any way.

I found the whole experience to be quite satisfactory, but a couple of icons could do with a bit of explaining. Dragging with your finger or a stylus increases or decreases the values. Round control discs with values displayed in the centre give you total control over everything that would be a slider on the Mac. Soon, however, I found that you can get rid of everything that gets in your way - effortlessly, even automatically.Īffinity Photo lets you access the levels of the toolbar by tap-holding a tool group and when you have what you need, the tool’s controls appear at the bottom of the screen.

That means a lot of screen real estate is taken up by menus, toolbars and the likes at launch time. The iPad version of Photo has an interface that closely resembles the one you’re used to on the Mac.

Photo on the iPad is just as powerful and feature-complete as it is on the Mac. Serif, the company behind Affinity Photo on the Mac and now the iPad as well, hasn’t done that with Affinity Photo. Watering down their Mac or PC offerings when they port them to mobile platforms is what many big software developers do. I tried Affinity Photo on my iPad Air 2 and I was very impressed with it, especially the speed with which everything works, including the effects you can see in real-time before you commit to them. Affinity Photo drops its price to $19.99 for the iOS portĪffinity Photo is a strong competitor for Adobe’s Photoshop CC product on the Mac and now, at $19.99, it’s an equally strong alternative for Adobe’s Photoshop on the iOS platform.

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