Affinity Photo 2 for iPad at Mac App Store analyse

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The next generation of the iPad App of the Year, Affinity Photo 2 for iPad is a genuine desktop-grade, professional photo editing app. Wielding tons of incredible new features, hundreds of enhancements, and a completely redesigned UI, it has everything you need to edit and retouch images, create multi-layered compositions, beautiful raster paintings and so much more, wherever you are.

OPTIMIZED FOR IPAD
• Fully redeveloped UI, tool, and button icons for a more familiar, touch-focused experience
• 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 allows for seamless file management, storage, and sharing
• External display support with separate configuration options

POWERFUL NEW TOOLS & FUNCTIONALITY
• Non-destructive RAW development of linked/embedded RAW images
• Non-destructive Live Mesh Warp filter
• 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

PERFORMANCE & POWER
• Massive image support (100+ Megapixels)
• Pan and zoom at maximum refresh rate
• Open, edit and save Photoshop® PSD 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
• 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

PROFESSIONAL IMAGE PROCESSING
• Open RAW and in a dedicated 16-bit development workspace
• Adjust exposure, blackpoint, clarity, vibrance, white balance, shadows, highlights and much more
• 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 makes selections simple, even down to strands of hair
• Dodge, burn, clone, patch, blemish, red eye and advanced inpainting for retouching
• 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
• Swipeable split or mirrored screen always available for before and after views
• Choose to apply effects non-destructively with live effect layers, enabling you to erase away or mask effects after they’ve been applied
• Path text capabilities
• Path text capabilities

Latest version Affinity Photo 2 for iPad: 2.2.0

Always evolving, always improving – Affinity Photo 2.2 includes many new features, fixes, and improvements. Here’s what’s new in the award-winning app’s latest free update:

• OCIO v2 config file support added
• Additional keyboard shortcuts for pixel brush tools, including:
-Shift + number key changes flow percentage
-Shift + square brackets now changes hardness in 10% increments
-Number key in Paint Mixer and Smudge Brush now adjusts strength percentage
• Guides can now be changed to any color
• Long press tool shortcuts – holding onto any tool shortcut will now just put you in that tool temporarily until you release, at which point you will return to your previous tool
• Decimal place accuracy preferences
• ‘Prefer to keep selection’ preference

Apps Changes History:

• 6 months ago: New App Version 2.1.1 ☛ 2.2.0