Redrawing the Cover Image, Take 2

Here’s another version of the cover page. I started to redo this page in Affinity Photo for iPad and ended up using Photoshop. Although it’s cool to be able to edit images on the iPad, I’m a lot, lot, lot more efficient on the big desktop with my Wacom tablet. Even if I were fluent on the iPad, the desktop workflow is smoother and more efficient. For example, on the iPad something as simple as making a selection and deleting it takes 4 or 5 clicks to change from edit mode to select mode then back to edit mode to click a menu to delete. To make it seem more powerful and friendly, Affinity calls these modes “personas.” and the contextual menus are called “studios.” I’m not charmed by the marketing bullshit.

Of course, the real advantage of the iPad is that it’s portable and you can work anywhere, no matter how clunky the software is. Perhaps my gripes will vanish once I’m more accustomed to the subtleties of editing on the iPad.

The revised image, which may be revised again.