Affinity Photo: A Powerful and User-Friendly Image Editing App
One thing that you'll notice right off the bat about Infinity Photo is that it features a desktop-class interface, but what's really impressive about Affinity Photo is that it's able to pack this feature set into a very easy-to-use approachable package. In other words, it doesn't feel overly cluttered with options and settings that sort of just get out of the way while you're working, but you know that they're there and you know that you can quickly access them whether it be a setting or a particular toggle or some other option. You know that it's just a few taps away at most.
This approachability is what really makes Affinity Photo shine because it's easy to use but extremely deep at the same time. The app includes an interactive introduction that guides you through some of the key features, and there are also 12 tutorials that you can step through to learn everything from opening and saving to selection refinement to tone mapping. These tutorials are baked right into the app itself, so you don't have to go out to a web page or go to YouTube to learn about the app - they're all right there within the app, taught in the best way possible with video.
In addition to these tutorials, there are also tooltip pop-ups that you can access by pressing on the little question mark in the bottom-right corner. When you do this, you'll instantly see overlays that help you identify the app's tools and sets, which will clue you in as to what each particular tool does. When you switch over to different personas (more on personas later), you'll see different tooltips that correspond to those personas.
Affinity Photo includes five personas: the photo persona, the selection persona, the brush studio persona, the color studio persona, and the paint studio persona. Personas are basically how to say this - they allow you to switch between different types of working environments, and when you do, you'll notice that the available options change, you'll notice that the menus change to correspond to the persona that you've selected. If you're editing or manipulating a photo, you want the photo persona; if you're performing selection-based actions, you want the selection persona.
The right-hand side of the screen features what Serif is calling Studios - these Studios can be pinned to the screen so that when you're interacting with your image, they stay on the screen. A Studio is basically any tool that's geared towards editing an image. For example, you have a Layers studio which allows you to adjust layers; you have a Color studio which allows you to adjust colors; and you have a Brushes studio which allows you to change brushes.
Each of these Studios has its own list of options and settings that sort of just get out of the way while you're working, but you know that they're there and you know that you can quickly access them. You can scroll through those lists vertically or horizontally, depending on your needs. For example, if you want to add some effects or edit some text, you can view the histogram and the various metadata associated with your image; adjust the channels; even transform just like this.
One feature that's sure to impress a lot of people is the smart content removal feature called in Painting. This allows you to draw on the screen with your in-painting brush, removing items from the image just like this - pretty impressive. And finally, Affinity Photo is available now for only $20 (it was revealed at Note when it was first announced and will go back up to its original price of $30 very soon).
"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enaffinity photo is an amazing photo editing app for the iPad is a professional application that features tons of power user features one of the knocks against the iPad pro is the so-called lack of professional grade apps but with the release of affinity photo a very robust professional photo editing app hopefully that will change the perception about what an iPad app can actually be because this app I'm telling you is ridiculously deep and it is basically a desktop Calibur app running on an iPad and one thing that you're going to notice right off the bat is that it features a desktop class interface but what's really impressive about infinity photo is that it's able to pull this off able to pack in all these features into a very easy to use approachable package in other words it doesn't feel overly cluttered the options and settings sort of just get out of the way while you're working but you know that they're there and you know that you can quickly access them whether it be a setting or a particular toggle or some other option you know that it's just a few taps away at most and that's what really makes this app shine because it's easy to use but extremely deep at the same time now another thing that you will appreciate about affinity photo is that it doesn't just leave you out on an island stranded trying to figure out how to use it the developer surf included an interactive introduction that guides you through some of the key features there's also a list of tutorials twelve tutorials that you can step through everything from opening and saving to selection refinement to tone mapping it's all here in these easy to follow tutorials and these tutorials are baked right into the app itself so you don't have to go out to a web page or go to youtube to learn about the app you have all the instructions right within the app itself and it's taught in the best way possible video so you can digest what you've been taught and then quickly turn around and apply what you've been taught right there with an affinity photo now along with those handy tutorials there's also tooltip pop-ups that you can access by pressing on the little question mark in the bottom right hand corner so when you do that you'll instantly see overlays that help you identify the apps Prime a tool sets you can go in and see exactly what each particular tool is named which will clue you in as to what the tool does then when you switch over to different personas you'll see different tooltips that correspond to those personas so if I switch to the selection persona you can see selection based tool tips speaking of personas affinity photo includes five of them the first one of course is the photo persona and personas are basically how should I say this basically allow you to switch between different types of working environments and when you do you'll notice that the available options change you'll notice that the menus change to correspond to the persona that you've selected so if you're editing or manipulating a photo you want the photo persona but if you're performing that selection based action you want the selection persona and so on on the right-hand side of the screen you'll find what serif is calling Studios these Studios can be pinned to the screen so that when you're interacting with your image they stay on the screen now a studio is basically any tool that's geared towards eating image editing so for instance you have your lair studio which allows you to adjust layers you have your color studio which allows you to adjust colors you have your brushes Studio which allows you to obviously change brushes and as you can see there it's super deep because you can go both vertically and horizontally scrolling through those lists of brushes you have your adjustments same same navigation principles apply here and so on so you can just go through all those lists of studios and find the one that you need for your particular application for instance if you want to add some effects or edit some text you can view the histogram and the various metadata associated with your image adjust the channels you can even transform just like this so if I want to flip I can do that if I want to rotate I can do that right there on the fly and everything responds instantly know sort of lag involved here it is a very very well-done app as far as interacting with interface adjusting the image and having the app overall promptly respond to your commands now I could literally talk about affinity photo all day long but I just want to touch on one feature that I think a lot of people are obviously going to like something that was shown off at note when this app was revealed and that is a smart content removal feature that affinity photo calls in painting so basically what you can do here is you can draw on the screen with your in painting brush like this and remove items from the image just like this pretty impressive no and that really is folks the tip of the iceberg as far as affinity photo is concerned right now this app is on sale for only 20 bucks you better act fast because it goes back up to its original price I think at 30 dollars very soon so I just wanted this video to be sort of an introduction to affinity photo we'll be back with more in-depth tutorials and more in-depth details on the things you can do with this app what about you have you already purchased affinity photo or do you plan on doing so let me know down below in the comment section this is Jeff with nine-to-five Mackaffinity photo is an amazing photo editing app for the iPad is a professional application that features tons of power user features one of the knocks against the iPad pro is the so-called lack of professional grade apps but with the release of affinity photo a very robust professional photo editing app hopefully that will change the perception about what an iPad app can actually be because this app I'm telling you is ridiculously deep and it is basically a desktop Calibur app running on an iPad and one thing that you're going to notice right off the bat is that it features a desktop class interface but what's really impressive about infinity photo is that it's able to pull this off able to pack in all these features into a very easy to use approachable package in other words it doesn't feel overly cluttered the options and settings sort of just get out of the way while you're working but you know that they're there and you know that you can quickly access them whether it be a setting or a particular toggle or some other option you know that it's just a few taps away at most and that's what really makes this app shine because it's easy to use but extremely deep at the same time now another thing that you will appreciate about affinity photo is that it doesn't just leave you out on an island stranded trying to figure out how to use it the developer surf included an interactive introduction that guides you through some of the key features there's also a list of tutorials twelve tutorials that you can step through everything from opening and saving to selection refinement to tone mapping it's all here in these easy to follow tutorials and these tutorials are baked right into the app itself so you don't have to go out to a web page or go to youtube to learn about the app you have all the instructions right within the app itself and it's taught in the best way possible video so you can digest what you've been taught and then quickly turn around and apply what you've been taught right there with an affinity photo now along with those handy tutorials there's also tooltip pop-ups that you can access by pressing on the little question mark in the bottom right hand corner so when you do that you'll instantly see overlays that help you identify the apps Prime a tool sets you can go in and see exactly what each particular tool is named which will clue you in as to what the tool does then when you switch over to different personas you'll see different tooltips that correspond to those personas so if I switch to the selection persona you can see selection based tool tips speaking of personas affinity photo includes five of them the first one of course is the photo persona and personas are basically how should I say this basically allow you to switch between different types of working environments and when you do you'll notice that the available options change you'll notice that the menus change to correspond to the persona that you've selected so if you're editing or manipulating a photo you want the photo persona but if you're performing that selection based action you want the selection persona and so on on the right-hand side of the screen you'll find what serif is calling Studios these Studios can be pinned to the screen so that when you're interacting with your image they stay on the screen now a studio is basically any tool that's geared towards eating image editing so for instance you have your lair studio which allows you to adjust layers you have your color studio which allows you to adjust colors you have your brushes Studio which allows you to obviously change brushes and as you can see there it's super deep because you can go both vertically and horizontally scrolling through those lists of brushes you have your adjustments same same navigation principles apply here and so on so you can just go through all those lists of studios and find the one that you need for your particular application for instance if you want to add some effects or edit some text you can view the histogram and the various metadata associated with your image adjust the channels you can even transform just like this so if I want to flip I can do that if I want to rotate I can do that right there on the fly and everything responds instantly know sort of lag involved here it is a very very well-done app as far as interacting with interface adjusting the image and having the app overall promptly respond to your commands now I could literally talk about affinity photo all day long but I just want to touch on one feature that I think a lot of people are obviously going to like something that was shown off at note when this app was revealed and that is a smart content removal feature that affinity photo calls in painting so basically what you can do here is you can draw on the screen with your in painting brush like this and remove items from the image just like this pretty impressive no and that really is folks the tip of the iceberg as far as affinity photo is concerned right now this app is on sale for only 20 bucks you better act fast because it goes back up to its original price I think at 30 dollars very soon so I just wanted this video to be sort of an introduction to affinity photo we'll be back with more in-depth tutorials and more in-depth details on the things you can do with this app what about you have you already purchased affinity photo or do you plan on doing so let me know down below in the comment section this is Jeff with nine-to-five Mack\n"
