![]() They may be right, but I’m willing to show my support to a piece of software that makes itself more affordable, and is still growing. Someone out there, somewhere, may argue that this does not offer the options and tools that they need to replace Illustrator. While Designer’s toolset is its own, it does enough to keep itself familiar to those who only have experience with Illustrator or Freehand (and I’m sorry for anyone who ever had to use Freehand). After playing around with a free trial (available here), I found that it’s similar enough to Illustrator to give most of us a more affordable alternative. It enables users to create vector graphics much like they do in Adobe’s software. This is Serif’s answer to Adobe Illustrator. It’s just something I enjoy, or use for graphics as needed. Every so often, I will put together a simple design, or play with some photos. Still, I occasionally miss graphic design. It’s okay, because I found something I really like doing. That would have been fine, but I didn’t exactly have the money or the experience to get a job to make a living. I enjoyed it, but it was pretty hard to find a job without moving far from my little hometown. This is proof of the importance of mobile in our photo world.Long ago, long before I was a blogger or an IT guy, I was a graphic designer. Īll of this was divulged as Serif visited Apple’s WWDC this week, and we are all urged to stay tuned for more details. This will be the first application to truly allow you to leave the computer at home, and fully edit your images on the road, on the fly. Basically (and directly), they’re saying that using this on an iPad Pro is equivalent to the performance you’ll get on Affinity Photo on a 12-core Mac Pro. What this means is on a mobile device you’ll now have the ability to stitch panoramas, do focus stacking, portrait retouching, color grading, have full layer support, and so on.Īffinity is claiming there will be full bi-directional handoff between the mobile app and the desktop version, allowing for 16-bit sRGB manipulation and smooth 60fps panning and zooming, and full 32-bit HDR editing. You’ll see quickly that it is feature-rich with things like layers, stitching, healing brushes and liquifying tools, and so much more. This statement means a lot and suggests a lot.įor one, if you haven’t used Affinity Photo before, you should give it a try, as they have their free trial still available – though the purchase price is a flat $49 USD. So what is it? Affinity Photo is coming to iPad, and before you roll your eyes, allow me a moment to explain why this is so significant, and to do that it must be said right off the bat that what Affinity is promising is the FULL featured desktop application, available on mobile. Granted, it’s currently only for Apple systems, but a Windows version is in the pipeline.Īll that said, their latest news could very well be bigger, and certainly speaks volumes about where our industry and tech is actually going – if you listen close. It’s proven to be versatile, fast, stable, and all encompassing – a disruptive piece if there ever was one in our field. But with Affinity Photo, Serif has managed to make true converts all within about a year, and even managed to be the Apple Mac Store App of The Year for 2015. Serif has entered upon this whole arena an underdog, but of a Russell Crowe in Gladiator-esque way to date, Serif produces the only real Photoshop alternative in Affinity Photo.Īffinity Photo sort of emerged from the ashes of the Affinity Designer, an intuitive and discount version of Illustrator.
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