Affinity has started porting to iOs (video below is about 1 year old) and they took me by surprise when talking about performance. The last thing I want to talk about from this interview (though there is more, including a demo) is Affinity Photo’s port into iPad (and iPad Pro in specific). On the other hand, if you are a photography-oriented user, Affinity plans to showcase a pretty complete bundle. That does mean that if you are a user of the entire Adobe CC suite, Affinity will not have a full solution for you. One thing that is NOT in the plans yet is video, so no Premiere or After Effects. If looking are a more distance plans, an Aperture or a Lightroom software is being looked at and we would love to see what the team has in mind. The other interesting plans are to add a third product similar to In-Design to allow desktop publishing completing a full photo-editing/vector-editing/desktop-publishing trio. Linux, sadly, is not in the current roadmap.

Starting with Windows and going into iPads next (some more on that later). We chatted a bit about future plans, and did learn that Affinity are going to add a few platforms to their stack. Whatever was implemented, however, was almost pixel-exact to the Mac version. We saw a working demo, but it was only at the starting stages of windows implementation. But I guess that it is different when developing graphics software where so much goes into display.Īshley also told DIYP that Designer will roll out first and Photo will be the next in line. As a past developer of multi platform software, we always kept the GUI and MMI a very, VERY think layer. Talking about Affinity Photo and windows we learned that the GUI part of Affinity is about 20% of development, the remaining 80% are the features, things like the text engine, layers engine, filters and so on. We are now looking at a significantly more mature piece of software and while not being 100% full photoshop compatible, it offers some interesting features of its own and for many, many photographers and designers it will be enough.

First thing that really stood up to me when talking to Ashley is how far Affinity Photo has come from when they started out about a year ago.

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