The app offers a complete suite of retouching tools including dodge, burn, clone, blemish, patch and red eye tools plus super accurate selections and a comprehensive range of non-destructive adjustments such as Levels, Curves, Black and White, White Balance, HSL, Shadows and Highlights. Billed as the first fully-featured, truly professional photo editing tool to arrive on Apple’s tablet, Affinity Photo for iPad is tailored to harness the power of the iPad’s hardware and touch capabilities.

Even though I couldn’t export in AI format, I was still able to continue working on existing Adobe Illustrator files when using the app, then export the changes in EPS or SVG format.Serif has released an iPad version of Affinity Photo. I was also pleasantly surprised at the app's ability to import AI files. The list includes everything from EPS files and Print Ready PDFs, to PNGs and JPGs, plus the capability to export individual layers and slices. Advanced import and export capabiltiesĪnother highlight was the extensive range of export options on offer, which Serif claims are the most advanced you can have for an iPad app. Selecting type was a little fiddly with the touch screen controls, which sometimes misses off the first and last letters, but this was only a minor annoyance and probably the only time I felt that a keyboard would make things easier. For more custom lettering work, you can convert fonts to outlines or add guidelines to create lettering from scratch.

You can import your own fonts, add text to paths and fine-tune the kerning and tracking. The app comes complete with a good range of typography options to fully customise your letteringĪffinity Designer for iPad comes with a good range of typography options.

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