Anything you can do in Affinity Photo on your desktop computer you can – as far as I can see – do here. It’s a full-powered, professional image-editor cast from the same mould as Photoshop but without the controversial subscription-based payment system and with the benefit of a ground-up rethink of traditional image-editing processes.Īnd it really does seem to offer full feature-for-feature parity with the desktop version. Affinity Photo for iPad is not a budget image effects tool for social media users. What does it do?ĭon’t be fooled by the price. Be aware that it does not work with older iPads.Īffinity Photo for iPad is a full-blown image-editor for your tablet with full support for layers, ‘live’ filters, HDR, focus stacking and more. It’s currently from the Apple App Store at an introductory price of £19.99/$19.99. It even supports the Apple Pencil for pinpoint control if the regular touch-screen interaction proves just to blunt for small and delicate adjustments.Īffinity Photo for iPad is compatible with the iPad Air 2, iPad 2017 and all three sizes of iPad Pro – 9.7-inch, 10.5-inch and 12.9-inch. All the rendering, adjustments and filter effects are fully hardware-accelerated using Apple’s Metal graphics rendering processes for high performance. The company says it’s been built from the same back-end as the desktop version but every tool, panel and control has been ‘completely re-imagined’ for the iPad.

Can Serif really reproduce a full-size desktop application within the screen size, interface and hardware limitations of a tablet? It doesn’t just think so, it’s gone ahead and done it.Īccording to Serif, Affinity Photo for iPad has been fully optimised for the iPad hardware and interface.

That’s a bold ambition no other publisher has attempted. Affinity Photo for iPad is not a simplified, cut-down accessory app – it’s a full-blown version of the desktop Affinity Photo application with every feature intact and optimised for the iPad hardware and touch interface. It’s not the first time a software publisher has produced a mobile version of a desktop application – take Photoshop Express and Lightroom Mobile, for example – but this time it’s different. Affinity Photo can stack live filter effects with adjustment layers and other image layers in a non-destructive workflow.Īffinity Photo, Serif’s professional photo-editing application, is now available for the iPad.

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