Affinity Photo 2 for iPad 4+
Pro Retouch Drawing Camera Art
Serif Labs
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
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The next generation of the iPad App of the Year, Affinity Photo 2 for iPad is a genuine desktop-grade, professional photo editor used by photographers, graphic designers, illustrators, artists, and other creators around the world. Wielding tons of incredible new features, hundreds of enhancements and a completely redesigned UI, the award-winning photo editing app has everything you need to edit images, retouch photos, create multi-layered art, beautiful raster paintings, designs and so much more – no matter where you are.
OPTIMISED FOR IPAD
• Fully integrated and optimised iPad gesture controls to speed up your workflow
• iOS16 ready, including optimisation for virtual memory swap, dramatically increasing performance on large documents
• Sensitive to pressure, tilt and angle, the app harnesses the full power and precision of Apple Pencil
• Command controller hosting on-screen modifiers
• Quick Menu for context-sensitive access to commands
• Full iCloud drive integration for seamless file management, storage and sharing
• External display support with separate configuration options
POWERFUL TOOLS & FUNCTIONALITY
• Non-destructive RAW development of linked/embedded RAW images
• Non-destructive Live Mesh Warp filter and other live effect layers
• Luminosity, hue range and band pass live masks
• Compound masks
• Multiple shadow, outline and overlay layer effects per object
• Normals adjustment for editing normal maps from material and texturing workflows
• JPEG XL file import and export
• OCIO v2 support – particularly useful for video editors, VFX, film and 3D artists
PERFORMANCE & POWER
• Massive image support (100+ Megapixels)
• Pan and zoom at maximum refresh rate
• Open, edit and save Adobe Photoshop ® PSD/PSB files
• RGB, CMYK, Greyscale and LAB colour spaces
• Full 16-bit and linear unbounded 32-bit per channel editing
• Work with all standard formats like PNG, TIFF, JPG, JPEG XL, GIF, SVG, EPS, EXR, HDR and PDF
UNSURPASSED PRODUCTIVITY
• Full support for unlimited layers, layer groups, adjustment layers, filter layers and masks
• Edit live filters, adjustments, effects, blend modes and masks non-destructively
• Remove objects or erase backgrounds with magic eraser tool, blur photos, add filters for pictures, cut, crop and more with ease
• Saveable history with alternate futures
• Customisable shortcuts with attached keyboard or new quick menu
• Isolate, edit and duplicate spare channels with a simple touch
• Link layers to edit simultaneously
• Stitch picture-perfect panoramas on location
PROFESSIONAL IMAGE PROCESSING
• Open RAW in a dedicated 16-bit development workspace and edit straight from your camera
• Adjust exposure, blackpoint, clarity, vibrance, white balance, shadows, highlights, etc
• Advanced lens corrections including chromatic aberration, defringe, vignette and noise reduction
• Paint areas or use fully customisable gradients to mask adjustments
• View histograms, blown highlights, shadows and tones as well as detailed EXIF information
• Focus Merge, HDR Merge and Tone Mapping for advanced image processing
QUALITY RETOUCHING & CORRECTION TOOLS
• Intuitive selection brush and refinement for precise selections like strands of hair
• Dodge, burn, clone, patch, blemish, red eye, advanced inpainting and object removal
• Smooth and retouch skin with built-in frequency separation
• Dedicated Liquify persona gives freehand control over warps, twirls, pinch, punch and turbulence
ADVANCED BRUSH ENGINE
• Huge library of painting, drawing, textures and professional DAUB® Brushes included
• Create custom brushes and nozzles with full control over advanced dynamics
FAST, CUSTOMISABLE EFFECTS
• Massive collection of effects available, including blurs, distortions, tilt-shift, shadows, glows, lighting and many more
• Swipe-able split or mirrored screen always available for before and after views
• Path text capabilities
What’s New
Version 2.4.2
Bug fixes and stability improvements.
Ratings and Reviews
Editors' Notes
There’s no task too big—or too small—for this robust photo editor. If you want to add some cool filters, you can. If you want to adjust the exposure, add some saturation, and make it ’gram-worthy, you can do that too. And if you’d rather draw than edit? You’re in luck. Affinity Photo packs support for Apple Pencil and an incredible array of basic and advanced illustration tools. Create unlimited layers, choose from an unsurprisingly enormous selection of brushes, and even create your own brushes—complete with jitter, spacing, and flow. (Sounds like dancing, right?)
Opened up my creativity
To be fair, I’ve never spent very much time in Photoshop-like applications on iOS or on PC, so I don’t have any kind of professional baseline.
As a hobbyist that likes to have a good amount of control over my photos without having to come to terms with extremely complex and vague interfaces, I’ve had a really good time with Affinity Photo. A large part of my creativity gets sucked out of me when I’m presented with what I imagine a rocket control panel is. The majority of the interactive parts of the interface are presented in a way where I could figure out what they did, and for what I couldn’t figure out, the “help” button was really nice to have.
Not everything was that obvious, such as the concept of live filters, or what flow, accumulation, or hardness actually meant, but using the application for a little while definitely helps you learn if you’re stubborn like me and you don’t want to read through a bunch of tutorials online. I also love the brushes I got in the integrated store, though I do wish some of them were a little less obtuse to install, since you can’t install everything through the integrated store.
I haven’t had much bad luck when it comes to stability, thankfully. In the several weeks I’ve spent using Photo 2, I’ve had about 4 crashes, which the autosave thankfully saved me from. It was frustrating, but nothing unrecoverable. The UI tends to glitch out if you connect to an external display, or if you use Stage Manager, knobs tend to be oversized and some screen elements disappear completely. This all goes away with a restart, but it does take away from the experience.
I’m using this application on an M2 iPad Pro, and I’m able to have tons of layers and effects on my photos at a time. My iPad does heat up during certain situations, such as adjusting colour curves, and certain brushes such as the clone brushes from the Glitch pack are a little laggy when using the hover feature of the Apple Pencil, but I’m honestly still getting over being amazed that software this powerful can even run on a mobile platform.
I’m not a professional by any means, but Affinity Photo 2 sure makes me feel like one.
NICE BUT ONE MISSING
It’s good but one thing missing is how to save photos to the Apple library photos and no one answer to my question. So this app end up be 3.5 out of 5.
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Information
- Seller
- Serif (Europe) Ltd.
- Size
- 1.7 GB
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Compatibility
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- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2023 Serif (Europe) Ltd
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Free 7-Day Trial $0.00
- Photo 2 for iPad Licence $24.99
- Affinity V2 Universal Licence $224.99
- Affinity Collection for iPad $49.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
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