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Affinity Photo for iPad
On Sep 23, 2017, Alfred Molon wrote
(in om): In iganews.com, 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. While there is a 12” iPad Pro available, the 10” is the better choice when it comes to portability. The resolution provided by the Retina display is superb. I can edit 6000 x 4000 images down to a pixel level if I need to. And well, a tablet for image editing, not sure how much sense that makes. It makes a lot of sense. It is actually a natural interface, and the Apple Pencil takes controlability to a level tough to obtain on a desktop/laptop environment, even with a Wacom Tablet. 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. To start with, the Apple A10X with M10 coprocessor is as fast for my needs as most laptop/desktop machines, and in some cases faster. I bought my new iPad with the 512GB option, more than enough to handle 100-150 GB of image files. The manner with which the current generation of iPad /iOS 11 hardware/software integrates with the various cloud services is seamless, and very feasable. The battery gives me 10 hours of portability which slips easily into a camera bag, and provides me with all the function I need on the road, and then some, all with less weight and bulk than even a notebook PC. By the way, I gave a try a while ago to the desktop version of Affinity and wasn't impressed. As for the desltop version of Affinity Photo, it is very good, but for somebody who has the habit of a Lightroom/Photoshop workflow, it is for me a little awkward. Affinity Photo for iPad is a very different animal to work with, and is in many ways the best tablet editor I have yet encountered, and in many ways better than many desktop editors. As I said, I have all the free Adobe Mobile apps installed, along with Pixelmator, VSCO, and Snapseed, currently my choice for on-the-road image editing is Affinity Photo for iPad. -- Regards, Savageduck |
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Affinity Photo for iPad
On Sep 23, 2017, Alan Browne wrote
(in ): On 2017-09-23 04:51, Alfred Molon wrote: In iganews.com, 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. The difference between the 12 and 10.5" is not enough to matter when portability on a long trip is factored in. I had considered the 12”, but after working with one in the Apple store, the portability factor kicked in, and I loose nothing but bulk and weight with the 10.5”. And well, a tablet for image editing, not sure how much sense that makes. Image editing on a tablet? Very natural interface. Very much so. Personally I need a fast processor, a screen as large/high res as The ARM/GPU in the iPad's are very fast. Indeed it's a near certainty that ARM will begin to replace intel in the Apple Mac line in the coming years. The A10X is amazingly fast. 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. Hmm. 512 GB is quite a lot then. No issue. No cloud needed. 512 GB is as much as many laptops are provided with, and just incase I need a little bit of extra storage I have a 128 GB Sandisk iXpand Flash drive, and there is a 256 GB edition available. https://www.sandisk.com/home/mobile-device-storage/ixpand I can't speak about Affinity, but I can say that I will never buy an Adobe photo editing product again. In the 10 days I have been giving it a work out, I can say Affinity Photo for iPad lacks for nothing. -- Regards, Savageduck |
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Affinity Photo for iPad
On Sep 23, 2017, PeterN wrote
(in article ): On 9/23/2017 9:07 AM, Alan Browne wrote: snip. Hmm. 512 GB is quite a lot then. No issue. No cloud needed. When I was traveling I looked into the iPad. Because of my workflow, it didn't work for me. Remember, I use a high megapixel camera. So far the iPad Pro is not choking on my 24.3 MP image files, and Affinity Photo handles my RAFs, NEFs, and SOOC JPEGs well. I can't speak about Affinity, but I can say that I will never buy an Adobe photo editing product again. I recently asked Topaz if they had any tutorials that might solve an issue I was having with hair extraction using Re Mask, after they updated it. First they suggested Clarity, to increase contrast. When I pointed out that I had clarity and it did not work, they never answered my support question. I plan to bring that issue up at Photo Expo in NY, and continue looking on their forum. Meanwhile, Adobe is the best around, if only because of their available support. I am not a fan of Topaz, or Clarity. -- Regards, Savageduck |
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Affinity Photo for iPad
In article .com,
Savageduck wrote: When I was traveling I looked into the iPad. Because of my workflow, it didn't work for me. Remember, I use a high megapixel camera. So far the iPad Pro is not choking on my 24.3 MP image files, and Affinity Photo handles my RAFs, NEFs, and SOOC JPEGs well. no reason why it would choke at all. it's *very* capable. |
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Affinity Photo for iPad
On Sep 23, 2017, nospam wrote
(in ) : In iganews.com, Savageduck wrote: When I was traveling I looked into the iPad. Because of my workflow, it didn't work for me. Remember, I use a high megapixel camera. So far the iPad Pro is not choking on my 24.3 MP image files, and Affinity Photo handles my RAFs, NEFs, and SOOC JPEGs well. no reason why it would choke at all. it's *very* capable. I know. Why, when I have it sitting in front of me after 10 days of exercising it, should I think otherwise? -- Regards, Savageduck |
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Affinity Photo for iPad
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 |
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Affinity Photo for iPad
In article .com,
Savageduck wrote: When I was traveling I looked into the iPad. Because of my workflow, it didn't work for me. Remember, I use a high megapixel camera. So far the iPad Pro is not choking on my 24.3 MP image files, and Affinity Photo handles my RAFs, NEFs, and SOOC JPEGs well. no reason why it would choke at all. it's *very* capable. I know. Why, when I have it sitting in front of me after 10 days of exercising it, should I think otherwise? you obviously know what it can do. many others do not, and consider the ipad to be somehow inferior and incapable. |
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Affinity Photo for iPad
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. |
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Affinity Photo for iPad
In article .com,
Savageduck says... While there is a 12? iPad Pro available, the 10? is the better choice when it comes to portability. The resolution provided by the Retina display is superb. I can edit 6000 x 4000 images down to a pixel level if I need to. Maybe your eyesight is better than mine, but if I have to go through 200-300 images in the evening, a big screen helps a lot. For my purposes, a 10" screen is just too small. I cannot zoom in and out all the time. Actually even 12" is too small. I'd like to have at least 14". snip To start with, the Apple A10X with M10 coprocessor is as fast for my needs as most laptop/desktop machines, and in some cases faster. But tablets are optimised for battery life, not performance. When you quickly browse through hundreds of images, open RAWs for editing trying out different settings, use panorama software to stitch images - that all drains the battery quite a lot. By the way, RAM also matters. 10 or more GB are very helpful in my case, but I don't think there are tablets with that much RAM, are there? snip The battery gives me 10 hours of portability which slips easily into a camera bag, and provides me with all the function I need on the road, and then some, all with less weight and bulk than even a notebook PC. But there is no need to lug around the tablet the whole day, while you are taking pictures, right? Just leave it in the hotel, or why would you want to carry it around? Instead of the tablet you can bring along another lens, a flash or piece of photo equipment, which improves your photo capture capability in the field. -- 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 |
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Affinity Photo for iPad
In article , Alfred
Molon wrote: While there is a 12? iPad Pro available, the 10? is the better choice when it comes to portability. The resolution provided by the Retina display is superb. I can edit 6000 x 4000 images down to a pixel level if I need to. Maybe your eyesight is better than mine, but if I have to go through 200-300 images in the evening, a big screen helps a lot. For my purposes, a 10" screen is just too small. I cannot zoom in and out all the time. Actually even 12" is too small. I'd like to have at least 14". the bigger the display, the less portable it is. To start with, the Apple A10X with M10 coprocessor is as fast for my needs as most laptop/desktop machines, and in some cases faster. But tablets are optimised for battery life, not performance. nope. an ipad pro is faster than most laptops. When you quickly browse through hundreds of images, open RAWs for editing trying out different settings, use panorama software to stitch images - that all drains the battery quite a lot. nope. ipads get over 10 hours on battery when pushed hard and longer if the cpu is running on the efficiency cores (e.g., browsing images). that's *better* battery life than most laptops, even when the laptop is doing mundane tasks (i.e., minimal battery drain). it's also *extremely* likely that any photo editing would be done while plugged in and *not* on a battery, regardless of tablet or laptop, so it doesn't make one bit of difference what the battery life is. By the way, RAM also matters. 10 or more GB are very helpful in my case, but I don't think there are tablets with that much RAM, are there? ram doesn't matter anywhere near as much as you think it does, particularly for ipads (and iphones for that matter). in real world use scenarios, ipads do exceptionally well, and in some cases, faster than desktop systems. The battery gives me 10 hours of portability which slips easily into a camera bag, and provides me with all the function I need on the road, and then some, all with less weight and bulk than even a notebook PC. But there is no need to lug around the tablet the whole day, while you are taking pictures, right? Just leave it in the hotel, or why would you want to carry it around? lug??? an ipad weighs 1 pound and fits in a jacket pocket. an ipad mini weighs less and can fit in all but the smallest pockets. why *wouldn't* you want to carry it around? Instead of the tablet you can bring along another lens, a flash or piece of photo equipment, which improves your photo capture capability in the field. a lens is bulkier and likely heavier than an ipad, and serves an entirely different purpose. bring both. |
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