Affinity photo on iPad for scrapping?

I have it, and have been starting to use it more; I even bought the Windows version of it because I would like to replace PSE on my Surface tablet and possibly on my desktop. I've completed one layout so far, and there are a couple of others that I've started in Affinity and finished in PSE.

I would use it more, except that since Project Life added the options for no drop shadows and text anywhere, I've been using that more often. I like Affinity better, but I'm still learning how to use it and Project Life goes quicker with a significantly smaller learning curve. For some reason (probably that I only work with it for about an hour, once or twice a week) it seems to be taking me a very long time to figure out a solid workflow in Affinity.

Here's the one that was all in Affinity Photo:



I haven't figured out photo cropping yet, so the photos are from a template in the Rhonna Collage app. That's really the only thing keeping me from using Affinity all of the time.

There is a Facebook group: Project Life to Affinity with some video tutorials and *a lot* of people with answers! (There is also a group for all apps, Project Life and Beyond, and one for Project Life only, Simply Project Life. I'm sure there are more, but these are the three I belong to, and I think there are many of the same people in all of them. I started with the Affinity group.)

 

I've got all the Serif software that came before they made Affinity. I'm considering upgrading to Affinity for my birthday in the summer. It's supposed to incorporate the functionality of all the old packages from desktop publishing, drawing, scrapbooking, photo editing etc.

 

I haven't used it Amanda, but I just had to pop in and say it's good to see you around here!

 

How can you scrap on such a small screen?!
Granted, I haven't used any tablets so I'm not experienced with them. But I did, briefly, try scrapping on a 15" laptop and I hated it. Ended up hooking it up to a full sized monitor for scrapping.

I could see making very simple layouts with it. Is it easy to add journaling and see it well while you're typing? I currently journal with the DayOne app, but I'm not totally happy with the extremely limited way photos are included.

 

@michelepixels

I use a 10.5" iPad Pro, which I think is a great size for scrapping. I also have a 13" Surface Pro (Windows) tablet that I bought for scrapbooing and that screen was too small for PSE. (Not impossible to work on, but it definitely works better on a larger screen.)

Pinch-and-zoom makes it very easy to enlarge a section to see how it looks and it is quicker to do than to manipulate a scroll wheel or to use a mouse or keyboard command to zoom. I also have a portable bluetooth keyboard that I use for extensive journaling. (I could use it all of the time, but I often don't bother to take it out of my bag unless I'm doing a lot of typing; it's a little trickier to balance a keyboard with the tablet on my lap than to just manage the tablet by itself.)

I have seen some very complicated layouts made in Affinity; I scrap in a simpler style myself, although I know it is possible to do some very complex things with it.

 

We're homeschoolers too! From the start. My kids are 11, 14, and 17 now, though. I remember when they were young and I stayed up past their bedtime so I could fit in scrapping and Me Time in general. That was mostly before I got a laptop and well before I got my iMac in 2011.

The way you two are describing the ease of navigating by touching the iPad screen sounds like how I use the Magic Trackpad with my iMac. I love it. I think I can imagine scrapping on a sizable tablet someday, if I ever get one.

 

totally agree - my pc died and now stuck on a 15 inch laptop - its awful screen is so tiny to scrap

how do you hook up ot monitor - doesnt laptop screen get in way.

 

A special cable connected the laptop to the monitor and there was a setting to adjust in the computer, telling it there are now two displays. Sorry I don't know more specifics; I bet you can ask in a computer store and they'll point you in the right direction. Here's how it looked when I did this in 2010.

 

Never heard of it before! I love it!
Thanks for sharing!

 

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i kissed bart

 

I've used it since last summer I think. I scrap on my iPad 2. I've never used photoshop so being on my iPad is all I know. If you take a look in my gallery allmost all of MOC6 was done with Affinity Photo.

There is a FB group called App Scrappers - Project Life to Affinity with a bunch of us that use it.

 

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