Affinity Photo for iPad is a genuine desktop-grade, professional photo editing app. Completely reimagined for iPad with the same power as the desktop version and with complete file format compatibility, you can work across the same document wherever you are, without any compromise.
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Unlimited Layers
Brush Support
PSD Smart Object Import
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Best of all, Affinity Photo for iPad does not require any subscription, it’s simply €21.99 – and right now available with 50% off!
Dodge, burn, inpainting, sponge, blur, sharpen, healing brushes, paint mixing brush – experience the incredible power and capabilities you would on desktop, on iPad.
CMYK, RGB8, RGB16, Greyscale, LAB and even RGB32. Work in any colour space, with full confidence that any documents taken from the Windows or macOS version will always render with 100% fidelity.
Take advantage of the full suite of selection tools, including lasso, magic wand and pen tool. Use advanced selection refinement to achieve perfect selections, even down to individual strands of hair.
Work with unlimited layers, including real-time blend modes with advanced range adjustments and simple drop zones to mask, clip, reorder and group all layer types. Text, vector, pixel and image layers are all fully supported.
Produce stunning composite images, including perfectly stitched panoramas. Use HDR merge with tone mapping for breathtaking results and even stack images with different focal lengths to create detailed macro photography.
Drag and drop stock imagery directly into your work and use the asset panel to store visualisation assets and more. All asset packs can be shared between Mac, Windows and iPad.
Edit and create brushes, with control over all dynamics supported by Apple pencil, and even import .abr brushes. Any brushes you create can be shared across desktop and iPad versions as well.
Curves, channel mixer, gradient map and more — you have a full library of 22 adjustment layers available with no compromise.
Use a huge selection of live filter layers, including blurs, lighting, distortions and deformations. You can even apply filters non-destructively, allowing you to reorder, mask and edit them at any time.
Develop RAW images in a 16-bit colour space, with lens corrections, advanced noise reduction, chromatic aberration reduction, curves adjustment, white balance adjustment, defringe and more.
Push, twirl, pinch and punch non-destructively within the Liquify Persona. Freeze areas to prevent adjustment, save meshes and reconstruct to your heart’s content. You can also apply a live liquify layer over the top of multiple layers.
Add text along a path. Explore a range of diverse typographical designs by creating a path from any line, curve or shape drawn with any of the line or shape tools.
Fully optimised for iPadOS, with the ability to drag and drop images from any location on iPad and full support for smart objects. You can even work directly on PSD files and save back to PSD.
Create your own shortcut keys using a keyboard attachment for an even more streamlined workflow.
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Best of all, Affinity Photo for iPad does not require any subscription, it’s simply €21.99 – and right now available with 50% off!
About the photographer
Meet Xavier Portela, a Belgo-Portuguese creative director currently based in Brussels. He is entirely self-taught and originally started his career as a web developer. In 2012, he made the bold decision to leave his career as a developer working for Bose Europe to go it alone and follow his passion for imagery and photography.
His work first caught our eye early last year when we came across his Glow series, a neon-lit personal project in which Xavier travelled the world capturing the glow of various cities at night. So when he approached us wanting to try out Affinity Photo for iPad for his latest trip to Iceland, we were keen for him to document his experience. Here Xavier reveals more about his trip, which took place earlier this year, and how he got on editing on the road using Affinity Photo for the first time on an iPad.
The objective
At the end of February, I spent 12 days around Iceland in order to create a new series of photographs representing those dramatic winter landscapes you can only get in that part of the world. As a freelance photographer, I think it is important to get a healthy balance between both commissioned and personal projects to better develop your own work without any client constraints. That’s why those kind of photography trips are so very important to me. Those images will be part of a new fine art collection that I hope to exhibit soon. I was looking for an extremely minimalist landscape, that is out of this world.
“As a freelance photographer, I think it is important to get a healthy balance between both commissioned and personal projects to better develop your own work without any client constraints. That’s why these kind of photography trips are so very important to me.”
The trip
As it was not my first time in Iceland during the winter, I had a pretty good idea of the places I wanted to see—I knew South was a ‘no-go’ because that’s where you have most of the tourists and I was looking for something more deserted and wild. So I drove North-West from Reykjavik to Snæfellsnes which is like a little Iceland by itself as you have a lot of different sceneries within that single Peninsula.
I did my first stop in Borgarnes and that’s where I start to shoot and explore. On thesecond day I planned to reach the extreme West of the Peninsula, but The Icelandic WeatherOffice: ‘Vedur’ sent out an alert that a snowstorm was coming, so I decided to drive to my next stop which was around Grundarfjörður to be ahead of the storm to return the day after when the weather would allow.
“Iceland is the kind of country where you better check the weather forecast three times a day. Audio 2 driver for mac. The morning after it was all white, the landscape was monochromatic. It was as close as you could get to the appearance of the moon I guess.”
Iceland is the kind of country where you better check the weather forecast three times a day. The morning after it was all white, the landscape was monochromatic. It was as close as you could get to the appearance of the moon I guess. I drove back west to visit a lighthouse but the snow was so heavy and deep that even with a four-wheel-drive it was not safe to continue. Another car was already completely stuck in the snow, so being literally in the middle of nowhere we lent them a hand before getting on our way.
The people responsible for cleaning the roads in Iceland are doing an amazing job of keeping almost all accesses open. But unfortunately taking the road early in the morning to get the sunrise—because we all know how important the light is and you want to shoot at sunrise or sunset—meant it had its challenges. What’s very special in terms of light in Iceland is that it doesn’t matter if the sky is blue or cloudy or even if there is a storm, your pictures will always show something interesting. It’s like having a different atmosphere with the same amazing landscape.
“What’s very special in terms of light in Iceland is that it doesn’t matter if the sky is blue or cloudy or even if there is a storm, your pictures will always show something interesting. It’s like having a different atmosphere with the same amazing landscape.”
After the Peninsula, I drove six hours through Iceland to reach Myvatn, a wonderfully peaceful place in Northern Iceland where I spent four days. That’s where I was lucky enough to see and shoot some northern lights.
Editing with Affinity Photo for iPad
I knew how rough the conditions are when shooting during winter, so while preparing my gear for this trip, I was looking to be mobile and lightweight in any circumstances.
One of the big problems I face when I travel to create new visuals is how long it takes me to get that content out once it’s captured. It’s frustrating, and I still have images from two years ago that need to be edited and published. So, being able to work on location and already start the post-production is a must, especially if you want to be able to show your work on social media and create more engagement with your audience.
“Being able to work on location and already start the post-production is a must, especially if you want to be able to show your work on social media and create more engagement with your audience.”
That’s why I started to look for an alternative to my laptop that would allow me to be more mobile or at least get more things done on the road. For this trip, I decided to challenge myself by working with a tablet. Something I could use everywhere, in a coffee shop or the lounge of a hotel. Easy to transport and powerful enough for retouching RAW files.
I didn’t expect how easy it would be to get the RAW files from the Canon 5D Mark IV to the iPad Pro. I used the app Canon Camera Connect and it created a direct connection between the camera and the tablet via WiFi, so it’s an entirely wireless process. Then I could review all the photos directly from the camera on the iPad screen without copying them. It saved me a lot of time and space to skip the initial copy and only transfer the files I was going to work on. After that Affinity Photo can open them directly.
I usually work with Adobe Lightroom and/or Photoshop on my Macbook Pro, but I found it quite easy to get from the Adobe ecosystem to Affinity Photo on iPad. I had to watch a few basic video tutorials at first but then I became really fast using the Pencil and Affinity on the iPad. The pencil was really a nice surprise, honestly, I didn’t miss my Wacom tablet once. It’s way more accurate than I was expecting and I like the pressure sensitivity. I think it’s a must if you want to really explore photo retouching on a tablet.
The pencil was way more precise and easy to use than your fingers. I spent my days producing content and my evening sorting and retouching photographs, especially as it was so easy to quickly experiment.
“I was impressed with the way Affinity Photo handles selection and correction. It’s very precise and it doesn’t require a lot of input from the user, it’s like it knows what you want to select, hide, replace. Great when you need to work fast.”
At first, I thought the Develop Persona was a bit light in comparison with Camera RAW from Adobe, but once you develop the file you can find almost all the same settings in the Photo Persona. Besides that, I was impressed with the way Affinity Photo handles selection and correction. It’s very precise and it doesn’t require a lot of input from the user, it’s like it knows what you want to select, hide, replace. Great when you need to work fast.
I specifically used the colour corrections and the selection tools. The way the layers/masks work is also way easier than Photoshop in my opinion. It’s really made to be used quickly on the iPad with just a few interactions.
I also really like the fact that you can share the photo directly without saving. Sometimes I crop one of my photographs just for Instagram stories but I don’t care about keeping it. So, using Airdrop, I sent it directly to my phone for use on Instagram instead of saving it on my iPad and then transferring, saving both time and space.
“This experience definitely changed the way I will handle my workflow in the future. It showed me how comfortable it is to work on a tablet and Affinity Photo.”
This experience definitely changed the way I will handle my workflow in the future. It showed me how comfortable it is to work on a tablet and Affinity Photo. Niresh mac os x mountain lion for amd. I must admit that sometimes the processing on the iPad was a bit slow in comparison with my main computer but that’s still ok, especially on the road in the middle of Iceland.
I didn’t have the chance to test Affinity Photo on my Macbook Pro, but after seeing what it can do on an iPad, I’m pretty sure the performances must be even greater.
Whilst I don’t think I’ll replace my existing workflow after testing it for just a week, it will become the first layer in my post-production process for the ability to select and try a lot of things on the fly, before ending up on my desktop computer for more advanced fine-tuning if needed.
I think the combination of Affinity Photo and the iPad with Apple Pencil is perfect for in-between production and post-production.
This is a sweet spot for experimentations in which photographers need a fast and lightweight solution.
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To explore more of Xavier’s work you can check out his website, Instagram account or Behance.