Apple picker Adobe accidentally released it to the App Store over the weekend Photoshop Touch for iPad 2. Originally, the new photo editing tool was not supposed to be released until Monday. However, the company from Mountain View reacted quickly, took down the application and re-released it only today. Adobe describes Photoshop Touch as a tool that lets you quickly combine images, apply professional effects and share creations with friends…
Photoshop Touch will run only on the iPad 2 and will cost $10. The application supports the basic and one of the most used features of desktop Photoshop - layers (Layers). With simple gestures, it is possible to switch between layers, combine multiple images, edit them and apply professional effects. There are also advanced tools for selection and editing.
Nový Scribble Selection Tool, which was created exclusively for tablets, makes it easy to extract objects by simply marking what you want to keep and what you want to remove. With technology refine edge fine objects, such as hair, etc., which are otherwise difficult to mark, will also be smoothly selected. Photoshop Touch will also offer a brand new service Creative Cloud, through which you can synchronize your documents between iPad and computer for a fee.
You can then share your creations on Facebook or via email. There is also the option to import images from Facebook, Google search engine and albums in iPad.
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Adobe on your YouTube channel also posted several videos.
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Editor's note
I'm kind of scared that I'll have to pay Adobe to get my data on my computer. (Couldn't this really be solved via iTunes?)
I'm really curious how this modified version of Photoshop will work on iPads in real life conditions. I am primarily interested in the speed of the program's response when processing more data-intensive operations (normally effect filters), selection and masking options. I understand Adobe's drive to dominate image processing on all major operating systems. It is still too early to judge, but I wonder if this program will be usable in practice, what will the data compatibility be like, how will it deal with the text layer, for example? The maximum specified resolution of 1600×1600 pix can be used for editing smaller images, the professional probably prefers to sit down at his computer.
If it works with a maximum of 1600×1600 pixels, I think it could work just fine. It also depends on the dpi.
Then I can't imagine a real work use, but I'll probably buy it anyway.
I'm using it on an Android tablet, it's pretty good, but it will probably be somewhat limited on the iPad just because of working with files
why should it be limited due to working with files? You simply select the photo you want to edit from the gallery and edit it..
The only limitation I see is the resolution. That's the only thing keeping me from buying.
It works surprisingly quickly on Android (even the effects are ready quickly). But of course it's a toy. Perhaps no one thought for a moment that it could at least in some way replace the desktop version.
Franto, it doesn't matter what DPI it is. Pixels matter. An image with a resolution of 1600×1600 pix is the same at both 72 DPI and 300 DPI. DPI is dot per inch - which means how many dots are printed per inch, and it follows that the higher the DPI, the smaller the resulting printed image will be with the same pixels.
So I expected that it would at least replace the desktop version in some way. The resolution of 1600×1600 pixels is less than 3Mpx, so it is unusable today. If it processed photos regardless of resolution and had a few basic functions, it wouldn't just be a toy, but it could also be used to edit photos that end up on Facebook or Picasa.
But yeah, pretty good. It will find use for me. I just don't understand why, unlike other iOS programs, Czech diacritics cannot be used when labeling and saving files created by this program.
I usually buy all the crap, but I'll give this one a second thought. I will probably only buy it if I upgrade the iPad 2 to an iPad 3 and if Adobe makes an "HD version" for the iPad 3 with a limitation to, say, the more usable 3200 x 3200 (I'm guessing that such an HD version will be a separate application for more money).
As it is on the table now, it seems to me like an overpriced toy for roughly ten minutes of playing around with friends (= completely useless in practice).
I wonder if editing the .ai file will work, especially the text. I need to edit some posters
Photoshop Touch is used for editing bitmap images. It is definitely not the right program for editing texts and *.ai files. But maybe sometime in the future Adobe will prepare Illustrator Touch.
What? 1600×1600?! So I'd rather stick with the great Photoforge2. Poor people with Android.
Pity-toy.
You could also have provided an alternative in the article. Photoforge2 also works with layers and on the iPad1 it can handle 15MPx with a size of around 10MB and I haven't tried more. Otherwise, it can do up to 20MPx.
It is still being improved and I would bet that with the next iPad Photoforge3 will be with more features. Photoshop Touch also looks ugly against it, and besides, Photoforge2 is much cheaper.
I agree with JKr, photoforge2 is definitely better than what adobe introduced. I also use Filterstorm, but it doesn't do layers :-). It would be necessary to clone a proper one from several software.