Darkroom for iPad

Faster. Easier. More Powerful.

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Faster. Easier. More Powerful.

1 follower

Darkroom for iPad brings the same hyper-fast, powerful, and delightful editing experience to the big screen with an all-new, fully-responsive interface rebuilt from the ground up to be optimized for whatever device you use.

Launch tags:

iPad•Photography

Launch Team

@marty

Poolsuite

Okay this makes me want to buy an iPad Pro... Congrats team 🔥

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6yr ago

Majd Taby

Darkroom for iPad

Maker

@marty It's really remarkable how good the latest iPad Pros feel. The even bezel makes them completely orientation-less which changes how you use it

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6yr ago

Yury Molodtsov

@marty Works totally fine on a cheap 9.7 as well.

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6yr ago

Jason Cotterell

Nizo

Congratulations @jtaby @jasperhauser the product looks phenomenal! Exciting to see a such an incredibly well thought out end to end photographic workflow. You guys are crushing it. Love to ask, what were the biggest design and technical challenges – delivering a responsive design to both iPhone and iPad form factors?

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6yr ago

Majd Taby

Darkroom for iPad

Maker

@jasperhauser @imagemechanics Hi Jason! Congrats again on the launch of Nizo! The hardest part was that our existing UI layer was not responsive-friendly at all. We had to start from scratch, figure out how Darkroom should look in all the different sizes and orientations (we found Apple's fixed compact/regular size classes insufficient for our design), and then building out Darkroom 4 from a set of empty views, ensuring all the little behaviors that we've added through the years work, ensuring that everything is stable, etc. What was particularly tricky was that as we were working through the iPad update, we were updating the main app (iPad was over a year in the making), and constantly managing two active branches was quite challenging.

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6yr ago

Jason Cotterell

Nizo

@jasperhauser @jtaby Thanks Majd! Remarkable work, it's really exciting seeing Darkroom continue to develop into a cohesive creative tool for the modern creative! Congrats again to the Darkroom team, and hope you have the chance for a well-deserved breather over the holidays. :)

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6yr ago

Jasper Hauser

hear, hear!

Maker

@imagemechanics the big difference in design between the iphone and iPad UI's is that for the iPhone it assumes one handed operation. That's why our tool at the bottom with reach of your thumb is so easy and intuitive. For the iPad how ever things are a tad different. The iPad how ever is either held or operated by two hands. In either case putting the controls on the left/right sided made sure you where never need to have your hand block your view. So it's tad extreme, as we don't top/bottom control where we technically could. But ergonomically it seemed very nice to keep the center as clean as we could.

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6yr ago