That is, it’d be sticking a serious, productivity-oriented tool into a lean-back consumption context. Building a desktop-style editor was like building a great home office… on the beach. Working on Photoshop Touch, I struggled to discern an audience that wants “real” power/complexity on mobile devices. I’m eager to try it, and I wish these folks well-but I’m skeptical about it finding a large audience. Affinity Photo for iPad offers an incredibly fast, powerful and immersive experience whether you are at home, in the studio or on the move. Built from exactly the same back-end as our award-winning desktop version, and fully optimised to harness the full power of the iPad’s hardware and touch capabilities. On Monday Serif introduced Affinity Photo for iPad, offering desktop-level photo editing for $20.ĭeveloped without compromise, Affinity Photo for iPad is the first full blown, truly professional photo editing tool to make its way onto the Apple tablet. The more interesting question is, will anyone care? Years later, I think (or at least hope) Adobe might be taking this plunge across their imaging tools. Instead our mobile play (Photoshop Touch) remained built on top of a mid-90’s platform for banner ads (Flash!), which was almost whimsically insane. It would run beautifully on mobile hardware & scale up to desktops.

Shivering in the former East Germany back in 2011, I tried-and painfully failed-to get Adobe to invest in a fresh, modern, from-the-ground-up imaging pipeline for Photoshop.

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