Features

System, performance and compatibility:

• For iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air (2, 3, 4 & 5), iPad (2017 onwards), iPad Mini (5 & 6)
• iPadOS 15 or later
• Optimized for:
  • Grand Central Dispatch (GCD)
  • Core Graphics
  • Metal
  • 64-bit engine
  • Apple Pencil
  • Retina display
  • Smart/Magic keyboard
• Portrait and Landscape display modes
• 16-bits per channel editing
• End-to-end EXIF preservation

Raw development:

• Apple Core Image RAW engine
• Exposure, Colour enhancement and White Balance control
• Dedicated Metadata, Lens, Details (noise), and Tones panels
• Solid and gradient overlays via Overlays panel for restricting adjustments
• Support for the latest cameras
• Split view with syncing
• "In-Persona" rotation of raw images
• Show clipped highlights, shadows, and tones

Colour:

• Colour formats: RGB (8/16 bit), Greyscale (8/16), CMYK (8), and LAB (16)
• Colour models: HSL, RGB, Greyscale, CMYK, LAB
• Colour Picker Tool (colour mode aware, colour averaging, layer selection)
• Colour Replacement Brush
• Paint Mixer Brush
• Gradient Tool (Linear, Elliptical, Radial, Conical, Bitmap)
• Professional colour support
• PANTONE® colour support
• ICC colour profiling
• Global and spot colour support
• Overprinting

Solid photo-editing tools:

• Sizing and transforming:
  • Resize images and canvas
  • Rotate canvas
  • Cropping and straightening
  • Crop to original/custom ratios, absolute dimensions or print sizes
  • Crop grids (Thirds, Spirals, or Diagonals)
  • Flip
  • Mesh Warp filter
  • Non-destructive perspective filter
  • Liquify tools in dedicated Persona workspace
  • Live projections (equirectangular and perspective)
  • Pixel art resizing
• Channels:
  • View and isolate colour channels
  • Work on channels for document, layer, adjustment, filter, selection or mask
  • Save pixel selections as spare channels
  • Isolate and edit spare channels as layers
  • Duplicate spare channel for backup
• HDR:
  • HDR Merging to 32-bit images
  • Unique Persona for advanced tone mapping
  • OpenEXR and Radiance import and export
• Panoramas with intelligent and accurate stitching
• Live projections (equirectangular and perspective)
• Stacking (including raw images):
  • For noise reduction
  • For exposure merging
  • For moving object removal
  • Auto-alignment
  • Non-destructive behaviour
• Focus merging with source cloning (including raw images)
• Assets for storing layer content
• Layers:
  • Drag-and-drop layers
  • Non-destructive adjustment layers with previews
  • Non-destructive live filter layers with 'live' before/after split views
  • Apply adjustments, filters and blend modes at the stack, layer, group, selection or object level
  • Fill layers
  • Linking layers
  • Pattern layers
  • High-quality layer effects
  • Clipping within layers
  • Blend modes
  • Blend ranges (linear and non-linear) and blend gamma control
  • Per-layer hierarchical antialiasing
  • Lock child layer positions
  • Soloing of layers for focused editing
  • Layer masks (brush-based and gradient)
• Selection tools:
  • Smart Selection Brush Tool
  • Freehand Selection Tool with Freehand and Magnetic modes
  • Shaped selections
  • Flood Selection Tool
  • Select by sampled colour
  • Select Shadows/Midtones/Highlights
  • Select Reds/Greens/Blues
  • Select fully transparent, semi-transparent, fully opaque
  • Refine selections to capture fine detail
  • Store and save selections
  • Edit selections as layers
• Image control:
  • Comprehensive metadata editing with IPTC Core 1.2 support; read metadata from XMP sidecar file
• Image information:
  • Place images as dedicated layers
  • Resampling: Nearest Neighbour, Bilinear, Bicubic and Lanczos 3 pixel scaling
• Painting:
  • Multi-category Brushes panel
  • Undo Brush with 'paintback' to history step
  • Import/export brushes, including ABR file import
  • Create custom brushes (including image-based brushes)
  • Create image brushes from any pixel selection
  • Assign tools to brushes selectively
  • Multi-controller support with brush dynamics
  • Pressure sensitivity (for Apple Pencil)
  • Velocity sensitivity
  • Customisable controller ramps
  • Wet Edges support with customisable ramps
  • Stroke stabilisation for smooth strokes
  • Brush symmetry (up to 32-way) and optional brush mirroring
  • Brushes remember previously used stroke settings
  • Reset modified brushes back to brush default
  • Save current brush stroke as new brush directly
  • Move any custom brush to any category
• Retouching:
  • Red-eye removal
  • Inpainting for object removal
  • Clone Brush/Healing Brush
  • Blemish Removal/Patching
  • Dodge and Burn brushes
  • Sharpen, Blur, and Median brushes
  • Frequency separation
• Macros and batch processing:
  • Playback pre-recorded macros
  • Import recorded macro libraries from desktop version, including Force macro pack
  • Batch processing (for file conversion)

Supporting vector design tools and concepts:

• Precise Pen Tool
• Intuitive Move Tool (moves, scales and transforms)
• Customisable nudge distances
• Node Tool for fine tuning vectors
• Customisable geometric shapes
• Boolean geometry operations
• Add noise to solid/gradient fills
• Styles presets with import/export
• Artistic and frame text via Text panel
• Text on a path
• Advanced typography (ligatures)
• Convert shapes and text to fully editable curves
• Save and synchronise defaults

User interface:

• Persona task-orientated workspaces
• Modifier-driven Command Controller for Affinity desktop power
• Quick Menu for more options (three-finger swipe down)
• Compact mode for narrower Layers and Brushes panels
• Context toolbars offering tool-specific options

Design Aids:

• Rotate canvas
• Intuitive panning
• Powerful snapping control
• Dynamic snapping guides for precise alignment
• Ruler and column guides
• Pixel-accurate alignment for web graphics and website mockups
• Automatic alignment grid
• Fluid document History <2048 steps
• Snapshots to 'freeze frame' stages in your design progress
• Save history with document (multi-session)
• Keyboard modifiers for on-the-fly tool changes
• Many modifiers available using Smart keyboard (selected iPad Pro models)
• Customise Smart keyboard shortcuts
• Assistant for controlling user settings for:
  • layer rasterisation behaviour
  • layer masking control
  • brush tool sharing
  • RAW development

Interoperability/peripherals:

• Open Affinity Photo 2 files (macOS/Win)
• Open Affinity Designer files (macOS/Win)
• Embedded Photoshop PSD Smart Objects retain editability
• Open Affinity template files (.aftemplate)
• Access cloud storage (iCloud, Dropbox, Google drive) and local storage
• In-app account management
• Content link of Affinity Store purchases
• Mouse, trackpad and Magic Keyboard support
• External screen support

Document control, Import, Export and Printing

• Affinity Designer 1/2, Affinity Photo 1/2, Affinity Publisher 1/2 file placement
• High-quality Adobe® Photoshop® PSD import and export
• Adobe Illustrator (.ai) import and place
• PDF import
• PDF import/export improvements (from v1.10)
• Place images (PNG, JPG, GIF, TIFF, SVG, EPS, EXR, HDR)
• SVG import and export, including Inkscape extended SVG support
• Stock panel for free and royalty-free image resources
• Export layers, groups and pages to PNG, JPEG, TIFF, GIF, EPS, SVG, PDF and PSD, OpenEXR, Radiance HDR
• Preserve layers in exported TIFF images
• Export image regions as drawn slices, or as layers, groups or whole page.
• Export to retina sizes (2x) and 3x
• Set export areas and file formats during or after designing
• Export document or current selection(s) to many raster image formats, PSD, PDF, EPS and more
• Export as template
• Web-ready PDFs (Acrobat) with presets
• Professional hi-res PDF/X printing (CMYK) with presets
• AirPrint printing