Umm.. Ive been a no Adobe Affinity convert for over a year now.
(And a Affinity user for years before that, just one who was also subbed to Adobe for PS/Lightroom and did most illu work in PS still)I realise you weren't asking me, but as another artist, I barely use my Cintiq anymore - and I was a huge Wacom fan for ~15 years. The iPad/Procreate combination is so good for sketching/painting I do so many more complete pieces there.. And Luna Display works very, very well at making the iPad into a Cintiq-like tablet for the Mac, for occasions where that might be needed. Only reason I keep my Cintiq is because its a nice 2nd display and makes my workstation more productive on the few occasions I actually have to sit at it now.
Umm.. Ive been a no Adobe Affinity convert for over a year now.
That's exactly the competition I was talking about. I question whether Adobe would have taken this approach at all if it wasn't for Affinity and Procreate totally wiping the floor with them in this space. Full Photoshop for iPad would still be good for industry people who are locked into PS, and there are a LOT of those people, for better or worse. (I can see why practically - Affinity Photo still doesn't save text layers (etc) which can be edited in PS.
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I realise you weren't asking me, but as another artist, I barely use my Cintiq anymore - and I was a huge Wacom fan for ~15 years. The iPad/Procreate combination is so good for sketching/painting I do so many more complete pieces there.. And Luna Display works very, very well at making the iPad into a Cintiq-like tablet for the Mac, for occasions where that might be needed. Only reason I keep my Cintiq is because its a nice 2nd display and makes my workstation more productive on the few occasions I actually have to sit at it now.
Unlike some I absolutely do not under any circumstances want MacOS on the iPad, I'd like to see devs continuing to develop to its strengths and continue in its own unique way. If you use iCloud Drive file management is really simple, the advantages people imagine they'd have from MacOS wouldn't be advantages to many users.
The Apple Pencil is the best stylus type thing I've ever used. By far. Once you get it set to your liking, the tilt/pressure is so damn pleasant to work with and much more natural than everything else.
Your pet portraits are lovely! Have you seen this (70 page, haha!) thread? https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/share-your-drawings-with-ipad-pro-apple-pencil.1938898/ - its neat seeing people of all different levels and their choices of apps etc.
No problem! I see what you mean about the two system workflow now, that makes a lot of sense! I'm not totally sure how they'd cope with a complex file of that size yet, but I have hit some limitations on my old iPad.
If you wait for Adobe's new apps then it'll potentially make your workflow a lot simpler - it should (according to them!) also cope with giant files, and you wouldn't have to relearn anything, leaving procreate as a fun sketchbook type thing on the side.
That's very helpful information. I never get that crucial info from reviews which are mostly written by non-artists.No problem! I see what you mean about the two system workflow now, that makes a lot of sense! I'm not totally sure how they'd cope with a complex file of that size yet, but I have hit some limitations on my old iPad.
Procreate has a hard layer limit based on the amount of RAM your iPad has, so huge canvases limit the number of layers. If I make a 18"x18" canvas at 300dpi on mine I only get 2 layers. Ouch. But I have the first 9.7" iPad Pro with only 2GB RAM.
Affinity Photo on the other hand seems not care much whatever you throw at it. I was working on an A2 sized (16x23") 300DPI poster with 15ish layers without issue. If you're already married to PS I'd probably wait. Although Affinity allows you to do the iCloud Drive passing a file between the two platforms in a really nice way - its file system is proprietary. If you save out as PSD the text layers & layer effects etc get rasterised. So you might end up getting stuck inside Affinity's suite instead! (in my case that's not a problem but for a lot of people it would be a nightmare)
EXACTLY. It is so pathetic and sad to see Apple make ever-so-slight incremental updates now, when they should be making major leaps every year like in the late years of Steve Jobs, and the worst part is that they keep increasing the price, segmenting the product lineups, and recycling ancient tech that should have been obsolete ages ago (like non-laminated display in iPad)
