Affinity Photo for iPad

I bought a new toy last week, a 10.5� iPad Pro, with 512 GB, the keyboard,
and Apple Pencil. My purpose was to update my old iPad2, and to see how well
it would fit in as a replacement for a laptop for my photo travels.

I already had the Adobe Mobile Apps, Lightroom Mobile, Photoshop Fix, and
Photoshop Mix installed, and I had read good things regarding Affinity Photo
for iPad. So, I stepped and bought it. The end result is, I am very
impressed, it is so much more than the desktop edition, which I find to have
an awkward workflow. It is built to integrate with the iCloud file, or any
other app. For example I can save an edited image to my iCloud Drive, and/or
Dropbox, and/or Lightroom Mobile, all of which can make the file accessible
across all my devices, and sync with desktop/laptop LR.

I can transfer image files RAW, and/or JPEG, to my iPad from my X-E2, or X-T2
via WiFi.

So for any of you folks with an iPad I can highly recommend Affinity Photo
for iPad. Quite frankly I believe that it is currently one of the best photo
editing apps available for the iPad along with the Adobe Mobile set, and
Pixelmator.
https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/photo/ipad/

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Regards,
Savageduck

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Savageduck says...

I bought a new toy last week, a 10.5? iPad Pro, with 512 GB, the keyboard,
and Apple Pencil. My purpose was to update my old iPad2, and to see how well
it would fit in as a replacement for a laptop for my photo travels.

I already had the Adobe Mobile Apps, Lightroom Mobile, Photoshop Fix, and
Photoshop Mix installed, and I had read good things regarding Affinity Photo
for iPad. So, I stepped and bought it. The end result is, I am very
impressed, it is so much more than the desktop edition, which I find to have
an awkward workflow. It is built to integrate with the iCloud file, or any
other app. For example I can save an edited image to my iCloud Drive, and/or
Dropbox, and/or Lightroom Mobile, all of which can make the file accessible
across all my devices, and sync with desktop/laptop LR.

I can transfer image files RAW, and/or JPEG, to my iPad from my X-E2, or X-T2
via WiFi.

So for any of you folks with an iPad I can highly recommend Affinity Photo
for iPad. Quite frankly I believe that it is currently one of the best photo
editing apps available for the iPad along with the Adobe Mobile set, and
Pixelmator.
https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/photo/ipad/

Just curious - why not a tablet with a 12" screen - or is that too big?
Would make it easier to edit high res images.

And well, a tablet for image editing, not sure how much sense that
makes.
Personally I need a fast processor, a screen as large/high res as
possible and lots of storage (on a typical trip I take 100-150 GB of
image files, and uploading these to a cloud is not really feasible).
When I factor all that in, the ideal device is a notebook PC.

By the way, I gave a try a while ago to the desktop version of Affinity
and wasn't impressed.
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Alfred Molon

Olympus E-series DSLRs and micro 4/3 forum at
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MyOlympus/
http://myolympus.org/ photo sharing site

In article , Alfred Molon
wrote:

I bought a new toy last week, a 10.5? iPad Pro, with 512 GB, the keyboard,
and Apple Pencil. My purpose was to update my old iPad2, and to see how
well it would fit in as a replacement for a laptop for my photo travels.

I already had the Adobe Mobile Apps, Lightroom Mobile, Photoshop Fix, and
Photoshop Mix installed, and I had read good things regarding Affinity
Photo
for iPad. So, I stepped and bought it. The end result is, I am very
impressed, it is so much more than the desktop edition, which I find to
have
an awkward workflow. It is built to integrate with the iCloud file, or any
other app. For example I can save an edited image to my iCloud Drive,
and/or
Dropbox, and/or Lightroom Mobile, all of which can make the file accessible
across all my devices, and sync with desktop/laptop LR.

I can transfer image files RAW, and/or JPEG, to my iPad from my X-E2, or
X-T2
via WiFi.

So for any of you folks with an iPad I can highly recommend Affinity Photo
for iPad. Quite frankly I believe that it is currently one of the best
photo
editing apps available for the iPad along with the Adobe Mobile set, and
Pixelmator.
https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/photo/ipad/

Just curious - why not a tablet with a 12" screen - or is that too big?
Would make it easier to edit high res images.

would also make it less portable.

And well, a tablet for image editing, not sure how much sense that
makes.

quite a bit, actually.

Personally I need a fast processor, a screen as large/high res as
possible and lots of storage (on a typical trip I take 100-150 GB of
image files, and uploading these to a cloud is not really feasible).
When I factor all that in, the ideal device is a notebook PC.

for you, perhaps.

keep in mind that an ipad pro tops out at 512 gb of flash storage.

By the way, I gave a try a while ago to the desktop version of Affinity
and wasn't impressed.

that's because you tried the windows version.

Alfred Molon:
And well, a tablet for image editing, not sure how much sense that
makes.

Try carrying your iMac around with you and you'll find out!

Personally I need a fast processor, a screen as large/high res as
possible and lots of storage (on a typical trip I take 100-150 GB of
image files, and uploading these to a cloud is not really feasible).
When I factor all that in, the ideal device is a notebook PC.

€ The iPad has a fast processor.
€ The iPad Pro display is large enough for its purpose, large enough
for image processing.
€ You don't have to upload the image files to a cloud; the software
does it for you as you take the photos.
€ It's for when you can't take your MacBook Pro.

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you will say in your entire life.

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In article , Davoud
wrote:

Alfred Molon:
And well, a tablet for image editing, not sure how much sense that
makes.

Try carrying your iMac around with you and you'll find out!

the original imac had a handle...

Personally I need a fast processor, a screen as large/high res as
possible and lots of storage (on a typical trip I take 100-150 GB of
image files, and uploading these to a cloud is not really feasible).
When I factor all that in, the ideal device is a notebook PC.

€ The iPad has a fast processor.

one which benchmarks faster than most laptops.

€ The iPad Pro display is large enough for its purpose, large enough
for image processing.

not only that, but the ipad pro has a wide gamut dci-p3 display, making
it ideal for image processing, versus a typical non-apple laptop.

€ You don't have to upload the image files to a cloud; the software
does it for you as you take the photos.

not if they're taken by a traditional camera.

ipads have as much as 512 gig, plenty of space for even the most active
shooters.

€ It's for when you can't take your MacBook Pro.

yep.

On 9/23/2017 8:38 AM, nospam wrote:
In article , Davoud
wrote:

Alfred Molon:
And well, a tablet for image editing, not sure how much sense that
makes.

Try carrying your iMac around with you and you'll find out!

the original imac had a handle...


So did my old Compaq. So what is the relevance of your comment.




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PeterN

In article , PeterN
wrote:

Alfred Molon:
And well, a tablet for image editing, not sure how much sense that
makes.

Try carrying your iMac around with you and you'll find out!

the original imac had a handle...


So did my old Compaq. So what is the relevance of your comment.

whoooooooooooooooooooooosh.

In article , Davoud says...
? You don't have to upload the image files to a cloud; the software
does it for you as you take the photos.

The problem is the connectivity. Often connections are slow and if you
have a 5GB package, you can't upload 100GB.

But again, in many interesting countries the Internet connections (both
mobile and fixed) are just too slow. Try doing a cloud upload in Papua
for instance.
--
Alfred Molon

Olympus E-series DSLRs and micro 4/3 forum at
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MyOlympus/
http://myolympus.org/ photo sharing site

In article , Alfred Molon
wrote:

? You don't have to upload the image files to a cloud; the software
does it for you as you take the photos.

The problem is the connectivity. Often connections are slow and if you
have a 5GB package, you can't upload 100GB.

often connections are quite fast, but if not, use wifi.

or just keep everything local. with 512 gig of space, 100 gig won't
make much of a dent.

But again, in many interesting countries the Internet connections (both
mobile and fixed) are just too slow. Try doing a cloud upload in Papua
for instance.

how often are you in a location where there's no wifi or cellular,
where you've completely filled all of the 512 gig of the device, and
where you don't have any other local storage options, forcing you to
upload content to free up space?

likely never.

On Sep 23, 2017, Alfred Molon wrote
(in om):

In , Davoud says...
? You don't have to upload the image files to a cloud; the software
does it for you as you take the photos.

The problem is the connectivity. Often connections are slow and if you
have a 5GB package, you can't upload 100GB.

Then don’t bother with the cloud, use local storage on the iPad, or
supplemental storage with:
https://www.sandisk.com/home/mobile-device-storage/ixpand
....or one of these which works just fine with an iPad.
https://www.sandisk.com/home/mobile-device-storage/ixpand-base

But again, in many interesting countries the Internet connections (both
mobile and fixed) are just too slow. Try doing a cloud upload in Papua
for instance.

So what? Papua NG, or the Amazon Basin would be a very different road trip to
one in Europe, North America, or South Africa, so you would plan, and
provision differently. Different locations are going to have different
requirements, so you plan for them.

In December and January I spent a month away from home in the Netherlands and
South Africa, where I travelled light with all my computing needs dealt with
by a 256 GB iPhone 6S+, not an MBP, or notebook PC. If that iPhone could
handle things, I know that I am not going to have problems with an iPad Pro
with more memory, and a much more powerful processor.

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Regards,
Savageduck