Affinity Photo for iPad

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Professional photo editing on iPad

Developed without compromise, Affinity Photo for iPad is the first full blown, truly professional photo editing tool to make its way onto the Apple tablet. Built from exactly the same back-end as our award-winning desktop version, and fully optimized to harness the full power of the iPad’s hardware and touch capabilities. Affinity Photo for iPad offers an incredibly fast, powerful and immersive experience whether you are at home, in the studio or on the move.

Multi-Touch

Enjoy a full range of fluid Multi-Touch gestures to speed up your workflow and enhance productivity.

Metal optimized

Achieve blazing-fast performance even when editing large files or complex multi-layered compositions.

Apple Pencil support

Sensitive to pressure, tilt and angle, Affinity Photo for iPad harnesses the full power and precision of Apple Pencil.

iOS 11

Fully optimized for iOS 11, Affinity Photo takes full advantage of the new drag and drop and multi-selection functionality.

Capabilities never seen before on iPad

We have been fastidious in our approach to developing the iPad version of Affinity Photo. Every tool, panel and control has been completely reimagined to optimize for touch. All rendering, adjustments and filter effects have been fully hardware accelerated. The result is an all-new way to interact with your images, with performance you will find hard to believe.

Dedicated retouching tools

Brush directly on screen for an incredibly fluid retouching experience. Apply tools such as dodge, burn, clone, blemish, patch and red eye with even greater precision, using touch control or Apple Pencil. You’ll also find tasks like recoloring, inpainting and selection refinement can be more naturally controlled too.

Clone, dodge, burn
Inpainting
Frequency separation
Recoloring
Liquefy
Healing tools

Non-destructive adjustments

Correct and enhance images with Levels, Curves, Black and White, White Balance, HSL, Shadows and Highlights and over a dozen other adjustments that are previewed instantly and can be edited any time. Adjust, readjust, and drag and drop onto any layer, group, mask, or in any place in a stack to control how they’re applied.

Fully optimized for iOS 11

Thanks to iOS 11’s new Files app you can now drag and drop multiple images straight into Affinity Photo for iPad and start editing. This is tremendously useful when working with HDR merge, image stacking and panoramas and will provide an instant boost to your workflow. And if you ever receive images, or even PSD files, via email, you can now open and edit that file – with all layers intact – by simply dragging it in.

Super accurate selections

Affinity Photo for iPad contains all the standard selection tools including marquee, lasso and magic wand, but what really sets it apart is an incredibly advanced selection refinement algorithm. This allows you to make extremely precise selections – even down to individual strands of hair – with ease.

Comprehensive liquify workspace

Push pixels around with your finger and manipulate them like putty, or use brushes like turbulence, pinch, punch and twirl, alongside a real-time mesh warp tool, to creatively reshape, sculpt and deform your images.

Real time effects

Affinity Photo for iPad provides a huge range of high-end filters including lighting, blurs, distortions, tilt-shift, shadows, glows and more. Precisely adjust every aspect of a filter’s properties and see a live preview of your changes as they happen in real-time. Filters can also be applied as live layers, enabling you to edit, erase away, or mask effects after they have been applied.

Realistic brushes

A massive library of over 120 professionally designed brushes including effects, bristles, paint, dry media, inks, markers and more are all available. With complete control over pressure, angle, tilt and velocity you can paint and sketch with incredible precision for super smooth, natural-looking brushwork.

120+

Digital brushes

Dynamics

Including pressure, angle, tilt and velocity

Custom brushes

Create your own brushes and nozzles

Advanced layer support for incredible photo compositions

Take your work a lot further than pure photo editing. As well as being able to handle unlimited layers it fully supports layer groups, adjustment layers, live filter layers and masks. All layers can be grouped, clipped, masked or blended together to enable the creation of complex photo compositions.

Unlimited layers

Blend modes

Vector paths

Adjustment layers

Text tools

Mask layers

Layer effects

Live filter layers

Layer groups

Dedicated RAW studio

Compatible with all major camera file formats, the Develop persona offers a dedicated processing workspace with all the precise adjustments and corrections you need combined in an unbounded linear color space.

EXIF & Metadata

Supported

Unrivaled PSD support for import and export

Import, edit and export Photoshop files keeping adjustments, effects and layers intact. Affinity Photo for iPad has the best PSD support around, plus support for all the standards including PNG, JPG, TIFF, EPS, PDF, and SVG.

HDR Merge with Tone Mapping

Bring out detail not possible with a single shot by merging multiple exposure brackets together into a single unbounded 32-bit image. Drag and drop multiple images in at the same time and watch as Affinity Photo for iPad goes to work aligning and merging your chosen selection.

Unlimited source images
Tone Mapping
Merge from RAW
Automatic alignment

360^° image editing

Pan and zoom around 360^° images with full control over heading, pitch and field of view. You can also use the full suite of tools in Affinity Photo for iPad to edit them live.

Focus merge

Expertly stack and merge multiple images taken at different focal distances for greater depth of field. Affinity Photo for iPad takes care of the alignment and completes a detailed analysis to determine the best areas of each image to use.

Create stunning panoramas

…and so much more

And it doesn’t end there, here are just some of the other capabilities of this revolutionary app…

32-bit editing

32-bit unbounded images can be composited and edited along with full Radiance HDR and OpenEXR file support.

OpenColorIO Support

End-to-end OCIO color workflows are supported, with the ability to move dynamically between color spaces.

Live perspective projection

Work on perspective distorted areas of your image as if you were looking at it straight on.

Full snapping capabilities

Advanced snapping options including snap to grid, guides, auto alignment to other objects, along with forced pixel alignment.

Transform studio

Offering full control over an object’s position, size, rotation and shear.

Vector drawing

A comprehensive set of customizable shapes, a pen and node tool, and full Boolean geometry operations allow for the creation of complex vector paths and shapes.

Professional print output

Pantone^® support, end-to-end CMYK and ICC color management alongside full PDF/X output including bleed, trim and crop marks.

Instant undo history

Instantly scrub through hundreds of undo steps with the history slider. Plus save your history with your document.

Image stacks

Automatically align and blend together a series of images based on the same scene, allowing for differences to be removed, composited together or used for creative effect.

Histograms and scopes

Get feedback on your edits with histograms and scopes. Plus see blown highlights, tones and shadows live.

Professional brush engine

Create custom brushes and nozzles with complete control over advanced dynamics, including full pencil support.

Channels

View and edit image and layer channels, make masks from channels and create and add to selections based on channel data.

Advanced typography controls

Adjust kerning, tracking, shear, baseline and other character attributes. Easily set leading, indents, tab stops and justification too.

Crop and straighten

Quickly crop and straighten images with a dedicated tool, including with thirds, golden spiral and diagonals overlays.

Smart color picker

Dedicated color picker tool to accurately pick a color, including single point or averaged sampling over an area of your image.

Rotate canvas

Spin your canvas around to work at any angle, particularly useful when painting with Apple Pencil.

Undo Brush

Use the undo brush to revert specific areas of your work back to a previous state.

Beautiful Gradients

Create super-smooth gradients for overlays, shapes and masks – all with live tools to drag on screen using touch.

Pro font support

Add elegant text with OpenType, and True Type fonts, including advanced OpenType features including Ligatures.

Live spell checking

Spellcheck on the fly.

Frame Text

Add body text paragraphs using frames as containers with full control of alignment, justification, character and paragraph settings.

Compatible with iPad Air 2, iPad 2017, iPad 2018, iPad Pro 9.7-inch, 10.5-inch and 12.9-inch