While Affinity is a full blow photoshop replacement, doing bulk edits on a series of images is difficult. The main editing issues with the iPad Pro come in mass editing. The editing issues are smaller, but still present, the managing photos issue is the real problem. These can be broken into editing and managing photos. Unfortunately, there are some huge issues that come up with trying to do pro editing on the iPad. The new USB 3 lightning SD card reader really speeds up downloading photos, and of course, it’s so portable and can make great use of the Apple pencil for fine detail editing with minimal lag. Affinity Photo (the real photoshop replacement on iOS).Pixelmator (with the promise of Pixelmator Pro).VSCO (which can bulk edit images and copy and paste settings).There are some very simple and more powerful editing tools that have some great features. Sure it’s no iMac Pro (or even iMac) but it is powerful enough to edit photos. The iPad Pro is a powerful machine and can handle RAW files.

Many of the technical limitations have disappeared now. Let’s start with the highlights of the iPad for editing photos now. Overtime, some of these limitations have gone but there are still real issues editing photos (professionally or semi professionally) on the iPad Pro. These included things like not being able to edit RAW files as well as limited apps functionality to edit images. However, there were limitations that meant editing on a Mac was essential. I even enjoyed using the iPad for editing photos with apps like snapseed which made me feel more connected to my images as I poked and prodded them with my finger. At first I was really keen on just reading tablets and the iPad but I soon found it useful for more and more of my work. My iPad was the device that got me into the Apple world after using a HP tablet. I’ve been a big iPad advocate for a long time.

Snapseed on ipad