#Affinity photo for ipad full#
#Affinity photo for ipad pro#

When monopolies become this self-serving because they think they can, they have sown the seeds of self-destruction. Their blatant rental system serves Adobe only…not their customers.

Not their staff or products, but the company and its management. On top of that I must admit I am an Adobe hater.

With the new 10.5/ios11/affinity photo release i see this dream of tablet editing becoming a big step closer to reality. Images are for sharing and the combination of mobile editing and the web for instant results, is my way of doing things. Editing my images from a comfortable arm chair or anywhere in the field I only could see this to be the future of image editing and still do.

#Affinity photo for ipad pro#

When the first iPad pro came out I jumped on it and started editing with whatever app I could get my hands on. Outside of sketching/painting apps (which cater to a skills set that few people really have), I’ve yet to see serious creative tools take root on tablets. In powerful mobile apps like Snapseed & VSCO, the vast majority of use happens on phones, not tablets. I saw that when people wanted to work, they’d simply put away the tablet and take out their “real” computer (which no one had confiscated, and which retained a larger screen, more memory, etc.). That is, it’d be sticking a serious, productivity-oriented tool into a lean-back consumption context. Building a desktop-style editor was like building a great home office… on the beach. Working on Photoshop Touch, I struggled to discern an audience that wants “real” power/complexity on mobile devices. I’m eager to try it, and I wish these folks well-but I’m skeptical about it finding a large audience. Affinity Photo for iPad offers an incredibly fast, powerful and immersive experience whether you are at home, in the studio or on the move.

#Affinity photo for ipad full#

Built from exactly the same back-end as our award-winning desktop version, and fully optimised to harness the full power of the iPad’s hardware and touch capabilities. On Monday Serif introduced Affinity Photo for iPad, offering desktop-level photo editing for $20.ĭeveloped without compromise, Affinity Photo for iPad is the first full blown, truly professional photo editing tool to make its way onto the Apple tablet. The more interesting question is, will anyone care? Years later, I think (or at least hope) Adobe might be taking this plunge across their imaging tools. Instead our mobile play (Photoshop Touch) remained built on top of a mid-90’s platform for banner ads (Flash!), which was almost whimsically insane. It would run beautifully on mobile hardware & scale up to desktops.

Shivering in the former East Germany back in 2011, I tried-and painfully failed-to get Adobe to invest in a fresh, modern, from-the-ground-up imaging pipeline for Photoshop.