…All rendering, adjustments and filter effects have been fully hardware-accelerated. “Each tool, panel and control has been completely reimagined to optimise for touch – either with fingertip or Apple Pencil. Ashley Hewson, Managing Director of Affinity Photo developer Serif, explains.

Having something like this for iPad is extremely exciting, and the whole experience has been tailored to take advantage of the iPad’s power (iPad Air 2 and later), allowing for speed throughout. We’ll be brining tutorials on it in the very near future so check back soon. It has been hailed as the first real substitute to Adobe Photoshop, and many of our team at SLRL have been using it for the past year or so, more than Photoshop. Affinity Photo has become a primary working tool for photographers and graphic designers who love it for its intuitive nature, speed, and the fact that it costs just a one time shot of $49.99 USD (**on sale right now for $39.99) – no subscription model. Some reading this may not be familiar with Affinity Photo for Desktop, and if so we recommend you check it out.

It’s mobile photo editing ‘neat’ not watered down. Suffice to say this is the first time we’ve seen a fully fledged image editing and retouching application on a mobile device, and for only $19.99. That appears to have changed today as Serif brings Affinity Photo to iPad with all of its layering, color management and pixel-bending technology with it. The idea and wish has been there and huge strides have been made over the past year or so to bring editing to a point where working photographers can actually do something with it, but there’s been no substitute for the desktop applications. Up to this point, mobile image editing and post processing has been half formed, or incomplete at best.

Editing photos in affinity photo