paulfromaustralia Posted May 24, 2018 Share Posted May 24, 2018 Hello. I have Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer for the PC. Awesome programs. I am interested in purchasing Affinity Photo for the Ipad. I have an Ipad Pro 512 Gig, latest update. I will have images that are at least 9000 X 9000 pixels, which may have four layers or more. Will Affinity Photo for the Ipad manage these files? What would be the largest size in pixels that my Ipad Pro can manage? Many thanks for your assistance and I look forward to hearing from you soon. Seeya. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Gabe Posted May 24, 2018 Staff Share Posted May 24, 2018 Hi paul, It's hard to say yes or no as it really depends on the files and layers you're working on. Live filters, for example, will have a great impact on performance. More, it's not that it will not handle it, it's about how fast or slow it will handle it. Some operations will take longer than others. Also, bear in mind that you're gonna be working on an 80Mp image on a mobile device, and you will not have the same response as the desktop. You're basically limited by the hardware, not by the software itself. Thanks, Gabe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted May 24, 2018 Share Posted May 24, 2018 1 minute ago, GabrielM said: You're basically limited by the hardware, not by the software itself. Are you saying there’s no theoretical maximum (unlike Serif’s legacy applications, which are limited to 64 megapixels)? 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...
Staff Gabe Posted May 24, 2018 Staff Share Posted May 24, 2018 You are limited to 256000 x 256000 ( 65.5 Gigapixels) . I doubt somebody will ever come anywhere near that on the iPad. Alfred 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted May 24, 2018 Share Posted May 24, 2018 13 hours ago, GabrielM said: You are limited to 256000 x 256000 ( 65.5 Gigapixels) . I doubt somebody will ever come anywhere near that on the iPad. So what happens if you have (for example) a 32GB iPad? Is the limit lower? Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Gabe Posted May 25, 2018 Staff Share Posted May 25, 2018 @R C-R, that's the size in pixels, not size in Gb/Mb/Kb. So you will not have a lower limit regardless of the internal storage space. Oval and R C-R 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted May 25, 2018 Share Posted May 25, 2018 At a colour depth of 24 bits per pixel, each pixel takes up 3 bytes of memory. So an uncompressed 10 GPix image would take up almost all of the available storage on a 32 GB iPad, and a 64 GPix image would probably be too big even if very heavily compressed. R C-R 1 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...
R C-R Posted May 25, 2018 Share Posted May 25, 2018 1 hour ago, αℓƒяє∂ said: At a colour depth of 24 bits per pixel, each pixel takes up 3 bytes of memory. So an uncompressed 10 GPix image would take up almost all of the available storage on a 32 GB iPad, and a 64 GPix image would probably be too big even if very heavily compressed. That is what I was thinking, too. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oval Posted May 25, 2018 Share Posted May 25, 2018 17 hours ago, R C-R said: So what happens if you have (for example) a 32GB iPad? Affinity Photo for iPad will automatically order a larger one? Alfred, R C-R and bananayoshimoto 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DM1 Posted May 26, 2018 Share Posted May 26, 2018 I would think the limit would be determined by the CPU's 4GB ram in iPad Pro? Storage (512GB) is not the issue, it’s whether AP on iPad has enough ram to work with an image that size. Does AP utilise memory swapping? I don't think it does. Quote M1 IPad Air 10.9/256GB lpadOS 17.1.1 Apple Pencil (2nd gen). Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Affinity Design 1.10.5 Affinity Publisher 2, Affinity Designer 2, Affinity Photo 2 and betas. Official Online iPad Help documents (multi-lingual) here: https://affinity.https://affinity.help/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted May 26, 2018 Share Posted May 26, 2018 1 hour ago, DM1 said: Does AP utilise memory swapping? I don't think it does. I am almost certain that it does. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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