Affinity Photo 2 for iPad
Affinity Photo 2 for iPad
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Affinity Photo 2 for iPad

Unshackle your creative potential: The app transforms your iPad into a professional-grade studio, allowing intricate design and photo work from anywhere.

Key Figures

Downloads

1M+

User Rating

4.5/5

Total Ratings

8.0K

Publisher

Serif (Europe) Ltd.

Category

Photo & Video

Locales

8

Latest Version

2.6.4

Size

1.7 GB

First Released

Nov 9, 2022
Features

An analytical overview highlighting key features that empower photographers, designers, and artists on the go.

Affinity Photo 2 for iPad: Core Capabilities for Creative Professionals

Optimized iPad Workflow & Apple Pencil Precision

The app provides fully integrated and optimized iPad gesture controls for an accelerated workflow. It also harnesses the full power and precision of Apple Pencil, sensitive to pressure, tilt, and angle, for intuitive and accurate input.

Comprehensive Non-Destructive Layer System

The app provides full support for unlimited layers, layer groups, adjustment layers, and filter layers. It allows users to edit live filters, adjustments, effects, and masks non-destructively, ensuring flexibility in complex creative workflows.

Extensive Professional File Compatibility

It allows users to seamlessly open, edit, and save Adobe Photoshop® PSD/PSB files, alongside other standard formats like PNG, TIFF, and JPEG XL, facilitating interoperability and collaborative projects.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you need to know about Affinity Photo 2 for iPad

Is Affinity Photo 2 for iPad a professional photo editor?

Yes, Affinity Photo 2 for iPad is a professional, desktop-grade photo editor used by photographers, graphic designers, and other creators.

Is Affinity Photo 2 for iPad optimized for Apple Pencil?

Yes, Affinity Photo 2 for iPad is fully optimized for Apple Pencil, harnessing its pressure, tilt, and angle sensitivity for precise control.

Does Affinity Photo 2 for iPad support non-destructive RAW editing?

Yes, Affinity Photo 2 for iPad provides non-destructive RAW development for linked or embedded RAW images, allowing full editing flexibility.

The following screenshots and description are sourced directly from the app's official store listing and are the property of the app developer.

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Screenshots

Affinity Photo 2 for iPad - This tool streamlines workflows by enabling rapid object selection and offers a comprehensive toolbar for swift adjustments.

This tool streamlines workflows by enabling rapid object selection and offers a comprehensive toolbar for swift adjustments.

Precision Selection Power

Affinity Photo 2 for iPad - Users can apply non-destructive Hue Range Masks and manage complex edits with the intuitive layers panel and mask settings.

Users can apply non-destructive Hue Range Masks and manage complex edits with the intuitive layers panel and mask settings.

Dynamic Live Masks

Affinity Photo 2 for iPad - The app offers extensive blend modes for creative compositing and provides detailed Layer Options for fine-tuning visual effects.

The app offers extensive blend modes for creative compositing and provides detailed Layer Options for fine-tuning visual effects.

Creative Blending Options

Affinity Photo 2 for iPad - Experience comprehensive RAW development with precise adjustments for exposure and white balance, complemented by a real-time histogram for accurate tonal control.

Experience comprehensive RAW development with precise adjustments for exposure and white balance, complemented by a real-time histogram for accurate tonal control.

Professional RAW Workflow

Affinity Photo 2 for iPad - The app enables seamless drag-and-drop functionality for integrating saved assets into projects, with categories like 'People' and 'Trees' enhancing organization.

The app enables seamless drag-and-drop functionality for integrating saved assets into projects, with categories like 'People' and 'Trees' enhancing organization.

Efficient Asset Integration

Affinity Photo 2 for iPad - This tool provides powerful features like Frequency Separation for skin retouching and precise Curves adjustments for unparalleled image refinement.

This tool provides powerful features like Frequency Separation for skin retouching and precise Curves adjustments for unparalleled image refinement.

Advanced Retouching Suite

Affinity Photo 2 for iPad - Create expansive panoramic views with ease, utilizing the Navigator panel for precise control over zoom and rotation.

Create expansive panoramic views with ease, utilizing the Navigator panel for precise control over zoom and rotation.

Seamless Panorama Stitching

Affinity Photo 2 for iPad - Achieve highly accurate selections, even for fine details like hair, leveraging the dedicated selection tools sidebar and refinement options.

Achieve highly accurate selections, even for fine details like hair, leveraging the dedicated selection tools sidebar and refinement options.

Intricate Selection Control

Affinity Photo 2 for iPad - The app provides extensive file type support, including PSD, allowing users to manage complex multi-layered compositions and Smart Objects effortlessly.

The app provides extensive file type support, including PSD, allowing users to manage complex multi-layered compositions and Smart Objects effortlessly.

Broad File Compatibility

Affinity Photo 2 for iPad - Users can achieve exceptional depth of field with the Focus Merge feature, seamlessly combining multiple images listed in the dedicated dialog box for crystal-clear detail.

Users can achieve exceptional depth of field with the Focus Merge feature, seamlessly combining multiple images listed in the dedicated dialog box for crystal-clear detail.

Detailed Focus Merging

Description

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. OPTIMIZED FOR IPAD • Fully integrated and optimized iPad gesture controls to speed up your workflow • iOS16 ready, including optimization 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 color 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 • Savable history with alternate futures • Customizable 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 customizable 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, CUSTOMIZABLE 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

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This page is not an official page of the app or its developer, but an independent editorial publication created for informational and commentary purposes. Unless expressly stated otherwise, neither the app nor its developer is affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, authorized by, or otherwise officially connected with MWM, Apple, Google Play, the app publisher, or the app's developer, and nothing on this page implies that the app was developed using MWM's services. Any trademarks, logos, screenshots, and other content remain the property of their respective owners.