It just all depends on what you want to do. And for just goofing around sketching, Zen Brush 3 is rather nice.

Procreate, Clip Studio (for a yearly subscription), and Artstudio Pro are my top picks in that order for drawing and painting on iOS. It has a lot of features and does a lot of things Photoshop for desktop does, but it wasn't for me.Īffinity is NOT, however, a good painting or drawing program on the iPad, IMO. So if you buy Affinity, you gotta commit to learning it. I'm an old dog who's been working in Photoshop since 1995 (pre layers!), and learning new tricks was hard, so I bit the bullet, got the PS subscription (and subsequently the whole Cloud) so I've given up doing any kind of photo-manipulating on the iPad and do all my Photoshopping and Vector Illustrating on my PC. I don't like the way you have to switch schemas (or whatever Affinity calls it) to do different tasks, and it was taking me forever to learn. However, there's a tremendous learning curve to it. For the iPad, Affinity is definitely the superior product over the version of Photoshop Adobe came out with a couple years ago. I got Affinity a while ago before Photoshop was a full product on iOS. With a huge toolset specifically engineered for creative and photography professionals, it has everything you need to edit and retouch images, create full-blown, multi-layered compositions or beautiful raster paintings, and so much more.I own both Affinity and the full Adobe Cloud subscription. I have been using the desktop version of AP for a few years to edit my motorsports photography combined with a graphics tablet. More on Affinity Photo:įaster, smoother and more powerful than ever, Affinity Photo continues to push the boundaries of professional photo editing software. Not to mention a plethora of rare price drops via the App Store in this morning’s roundup including Paprika Recipe Manager 3, ABBYY Business Card Reader Pro, Cloud Outliner Pro, Cross DJ Pro, and much more. IOS/Mac: Affinity official workbooks now 30% offĪnd while we are on the subject, we are also tracking one of the best prices ever on Parallels Desktop 17. IOS/Mac: Affinity content add-on packs now 30% off IOS Universal: Affinity Designer: $10 (Reg. Read about those over at 9to5Mac, then head below for all of the price drops. The Affinity price drops were already going to be among, if not, the best Black Friday image manipulation app deals this year and we just saw a serious update hit this summer with major performance boosts and more. You’ll find all of the official Affinity Black Friday deals available direct on its home page as well as Apple’s app stores, all of which are neatly organized below.

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