Miltrin Posted August 11, 2017 Share Posted August 11, 2017 Hello, excuse my English is translated I bought the iPad App from Affinity Photo. My iPad is iPad Pro 12 inch first version. And I also bought Affinity Designer for Windows. So far I have managed to do what I have needed using techniques learned about photoshop and illustrator, and I am constantly learning with the magnificent Affinity tutorials. My question is? Do I need to purchase the desktop version of Affinity Photo for Windows, or can I do exactly the same from the iOS version? I read that they have the same backend and have been built with the same needs. Can I combine Affinity Designer for Windows and Affinity Photo for iPad to have a good graphic design ecosystem? I hope I can respond from a technical and professional point of view and not with the intention of selling your product. I am sure and aware that to this day is the best option to leave behind our old friend of Adobe. Greetings to all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff DWright Posted August 11, 2017 Staff Share Posted August 11, 2017 You can edit your photos on the iOS version without having the desktop version of Photo, there are some differences between the iPad and desktop mainly being the iPad uses the Apple RAW studio to import RAW files and there is no macro support but the core photo editing is the same. You can open your Designer .afdesign files with the iOS Photo and you can also open the .afphoto file created on the iPad with Designer Miltrin 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miltrin Posted August 11, 2017 Author Share Posted August 11, 2017 Hello DWright, I truly appreciate your response, it has been right for me. Being only these differences, I think I can work with both applications without needing "for now" the desktop version of Photo. And more if I can work between both to complement my designs. I think it is a very powerful software with a constant development. I congratulate the whole affinity team and hope to continue this way. Regards! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miltrin Posted August 29, 2017 Author Share Posted August 29, 2017 Hello again, I'll tell you what happened to me. In the end I bought Designer for OS X and Photo for iOS. From Photo I can open ". afdesign" without problems but from Designer I can't open ". afphoto", I'll pass you the error that comes out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Alfred Posted September 1, 2017 Share Posted September 1, 2017 Affinity Photo for iPad is at version 1.6, but the 1.6 retail versions of Designer and Photo on Mac and Windows haven't been released yet. The 1.5 versions cannot open files saved from the 1.6 versions, so in order to open your files on your OS X machine you would need to install the customer beta of Designer 1.6 alongside the purchased version. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miltrin Posted September 1, 2017 Author Share Posted September 1, 2017 Hi Alfred, thank you for your response. Okay, I get why I can't read the file. However, as a person in love with this new design ecosystem "AD and AF", they should always work together in stable versions. Whether under development or not, both versions must communicate with each other, and for advanced users and developers there are beta versions. It's just my opinion and I'm still just as happy to discover Affinity. Alfred 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted September 1, 2017 Staff Share Posted September 1, 2017 Hi Miltrin, We always try to keep feature parity between the retail apps when possible, but due to some constraints during dev/launch of the iPad version they are not currently synced. Everything should get back on track as soon as we launch the desktop versions (1.6). Miltrin 1 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miltrin Posted September 1, 2017 Author Share Posted September 1, 2017 Hi MEB. Thank you for your answer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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