A few readers commented in our review of Affinity Photo for Mac that the performance of the Windows version lags on some systems.Īffinity Photo for iPad runs on the following models: iPad Air 2, iPad 2017, iPad Pro 9.7-inch, 10.5-inch, and 12.9-inch. That works for some people, and not for others, for various reasons.

Interface smartly designed for touch operationĪllow me to head off a common talking point at the outset: Yes, devices such as the Microsoft Surface give you a mobile tablet experience running desktop applications, including Serif’s Affinity Photo for Windows.

Projects can be edited in Affinity Photo for iPad and desktop.

Sophisticated layers enable compositing.

It’s not a literal translation from the desktop version, nor should it be. Whereas some companies have chosen to make multiple apps that specialize in a few image editing features-a big photography shop that begins with an A comes to mind-Serif has packed the gamut of features into Affinity Photo for iPad. One of those apps is Affinity Photo for iPad, a full-fledged image editor that doesn’t feel as if the developers had to remove features from a whiteboard to make the app a reality.

The arrival of the iPad Pro, along with a commitment in iOS to take advantage of the hardware, has opened the door for more powerful applications. We’ve come to expect less from iOS software on the iPad compared to desktop applications because, in most cases, they’re mobile-and “mobile” has traditionally meant “limited.” A lot of that has been due to hardware: even as the iPad’s main processors improved, most models included a minimal amount of RAM that made it difficult to pull off operations expected of a modern image editor, such as smoothly dealing with many layers and real-time effects.

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