Wetterhoun

I have a X-Rite ColorMunki Display to calibrate my screens. It even has support for iPad/iPhone, so I calibrated my iPad Pro 12.9" Mk.I with it and my iPhone 7 too. I can use an app called ColorTRUE to view my photos in real color on my iPad/iPhone. X-Rite says that other apps can be made to use the ColorTRUE profiles, so they will show true colors. As a photographer on the go, I often don't bring my heavy laptop with me with the calibrated screen and I rely on my iPad Pro 12.9" Mk.1 (which by the way has a terrible calibrated screen out of the factory). I edit a photo in Affinity Photo for iPad, export it and then check the real colors in the ColorTRUE app. Then go back to Affinity Photo and adjust colors, white balance, etc. if I need to. This is very cumbersome. If Affinity Photo for iPad could use the ColorTRUE Profile of my iPad, this cumbersome work around would not exist and I could use my iPad for more color critical photo work more easily. Are there plans for Affinity Photo for iPad to use ColorTRUE profiles? If not, are you willing to think about it? This would really make Affinity Photo for iPad justify the Pro in iPad Pro IMHO!

Great work in this thread, Brian!

I decided to do some nighttime photographing in my hometown with my iPhone7 and my tripod. I used the NightCap Pro app for these shots. The dark exposure (2) was shot at ISO100, f/1.8, 25s to protect the highlights and the bright exposure (1) was shot at ISO1000, f/1.8, 25s. I believe the iPhone 7 can only take long exposures of about 3s, so what this app basically does is stacking several photos for noise reduction and ISO controls the brightness of the photo. Nevertheless I was pretty amazed by what is possible with current smartphone cameras! I blended the dark and the bright exposure in Affinity Photo for iPad to bring some details in the highlights, especially for the windows on the right of the image. Then some color correcting, white balance, etc. and some dodging and burning. I wanted a warm image, because I am thinking of using this photo as a Christmas postcards for my family and friends - so I still need to do some lettering... Anyways, it was fun to do and I learned a lot about Affinity Photo for iPad and my iPhone 7... Best regards, Wetterhoun

...And another stunningly beatiful piece of art! Wow!

Absolutely stunning work, mate! Big thumbs up!

Thanks!

I love stargazing with my binos. These shot are very detailed. Great job!

Thinking back about the great paintings of Rothenburg o/d Tauber in the local museum, I got inspired and made my own "painting" of Rothenburg o/d Tauber with Affinity Photo for iPad. I have blended two photos, the one with the bush and the stars was shot with my Canon 80D and the Sigma 18-35mm f/1.8 a couple of weeks ago, not far from where I live. The one with the prison tower of Rothenburg (Der Strafturm) I had shot during an overcast day with my iPhone7, when I was visting this awesome medieval town in Germany last summer. Because the light was rather flat, I knew it was a good photo to do some blending with. This was a great opportunity for me to learn a lot of things about blending with Affinity Photo on my iPad Pro. Love this app! Best regards, Wetterhoun

Affinity Photo is no Lightroom replacement. Affinity Photo is more like a PhotoShop with Camera RAW competitor. You could do it as I have done. Use Rawtherapee as a replacement for Lightroom and Affinity Photo as a replacement of PhotoShop. You could also use Darktable instead of Rawtherapee.

Yep. In PhotoShop you NEED Luminosity Masks, because "blend if" is rather limited in PS. In Affinity Photo "blend if" is way more advanced, thanks to the way you can manipulate the blend graphs for the blend ranges and the underlying layer. In AP you can have several peaks in a blend graph if you want it, i.e. a peak in the middle of the highlights, the middle of the midtones and the middle of the shadows. In PS you that’s not possible with "blend if". In PS you can only have one peak (if you would think of it as a graph in PS) with "blend if", i.e. in the highlights or midtones or shadows. I have not needed LM in AP so far for my photos, although I blend most of my images because of the high dynamic range I most often shoot in. The AP "blend if" has worked for me so far. IMHO PS LM are too cumbersome to use and over-complicated and it takes way too much time to do it well. Then again, I am no Jimmy McIntyre or Greg Benz either. I love to blend my images, but I want it fast and simple. AP does that for me. PS LM not as fast and simple. But I am not against having LM in AP. The more room for creativity the better.

As a work around, I use the free PhotoFast One app to copy Awesome news! :) As a workaround I use the free PhotoFast One app to copy RAW photos from my Photo Library to my iCloud drive, without the need for WiFi or 4g. You can also do this with the Readdle Document app, but that one does not preview your RAW photos. The PhotoFast One (PFO) app does previews of the most common RAW photo formats. You can even flag, tag, comment, favorite your photos in the PFO app, which is quite handy.

Thanks for the work around! :) Let's hope they fix this fast.

Well, I'll hope they fix it very, very soon. Preferably before the summer holidays, or i'll be hauling my old and heavy laptop with me this summer... If it doen't die first... I was totally flabbergasted and disappointed that this was not in the initial release. Like a Ferrari that is only allowed to drive 50km/h on a race track... Nevertheless, good to hear it is coming!

I hope we don't have to wait for fall to be honest... It is already possible to open raw photos from the Photos app in snapseed and Lightroom. I hope it gets high priority, because that means I can leave the Adobe prison and not replace my old laptop. I could use my iPad Pro for photo editing alone because of this great app!

Thank! Good to hear that.

Yep. Affinity not opening RAW files from the Photo Library on my iPad Pro has made this app almost useless for me. It is now like a Ferrari that is only allowed to drive 50 km/h on a race track... This awesome app would do all that I need! ...If it wasn't for this. Now I still have to bring and use my laptop to transfer the RAW photos to the cloud via WiFi/4g if I wanted them to edit on my iPad. I go to places that have no WiFi or 4g... It would be great that I can dump my RAW photos on my iPad Pro via the SD to lightning adapter and edit them in Affinity. That way I can leave my heavy laptop at home when I am out and about, and do all my editing in Affinity Photo on the iPad Pro. Come on you guys! You got gold in your hands here! Free me from the Adobe prison and my heavy laptop. :)

I bought an iPad Pro for cartoon drawing, but most importantly photo editing on the go. I have been trying to push Adobe into making an iPad (Pro) version of PhotoShop CC since the iPad Pro came out. The hardware is absolutely fast enough, but they do not seem to listen. ...And then I discovered your app this morning! Instant buy! WOW! Thanks for this magnificent app! Impressed. You proof it is possible to run Pro level photo editing software, with a great and easy to use user interface, on the iPad (Pro). This app has only one single, but VERY BIG CON for me. You can't import RAW photos from the Photo Library. I can only import Photos on my iPad from my SDcard into the Photo Library. If Affinity Photo could import RAW photos from the iPads Photo Library, I can use my iPad as only photo editing hardware, even when I am out and about and when there is no WiFi or 4G around. It can be done! Lightroom Mobile and Snapseed are proof it is possible to do this. If you make this possible, you'll make this great app LEGENDARY. ...And you release me from the Adobe prison! That's it. Now I'll go back to learning all the ins and outs of this app... See you later.