Adobe Bringing Full Version of Photoshop CC to iPad in 2019

[MadDawg2020]

At its annual Adobe Max conference, Adobe announced plans to bring a complete version of Photoshop to the iPad in 2019.

Photoshop CC for iPad will feature a revamped interface designed specifically for a touch experience, but it will bring the power and functionality people are accustomed to on the desktop.

Photoshop users will be able to open and edit native PSD files right on the iPad using standard Photoshop image editing tools, including support for layers. Photoshop on iPad will look similar to Photoshop on the desktop, with all of the same toolbar options.

The iPad version of the app will allow projects started on the iPad to be transitioned seamlessly to the desktop and vice versa. According to Adobe, Photoshop for iPad uses the same code base as its desktop counterpart with no compromises on power, performance, or editing results.

At Max, Adobe also unveiled Project Gemini, a new cross-platform drawing app that's coming to the iPad in 2019. Project Gemini is designed to simplify drawing and painting workflows with simple cross-device support.

The new app combines raster, vector, and dynamic brushes into one single experience that's ideal for drawing, and content created using Project Gemini will sync to Photoshop.

Project Gemini will be available first on iPad but Adobe plans to expand it to other devices in the future. Additional information on Photoshop CC for iPad and Project Gemini is available from Adobe's website.

Article Link: Adobe Bringing Full Version of Photoshop CC to iPad in 2019

Great!!! so now my iPad can have an entire screen filled with dozens of menu bars, controls and tools and look just like the pile of puke that Adobe makes for their desktop apps! That way on my 12” iPad Pro, I can have a postage stamp sized window to actually see my work!

I wonder if the will port over all the same system hogging resources that grind my 2018 MBP to a halt when opening a RAW file!

 

[ignatius345]

Great!!! so now my iPad can have an entire screen filled with dozens of menu bars, controls and tools and look just like the pile of puke that Adobe makes for their desktop apps! That way on my 12” iPad Pro, I can have a postage stamp sized window to actually see my work!

I wonder if the will port over all the same system hogging resources that grind my 2018 MBP to a halt when opening a RAW file!

Just as likely, my 27-inch iMac will have a gigantic screen filled with "touch-friendly" elements that don't belong on a Mac at all because iOS and desktop versions will have a bull**** "unified" interface.

 

[lec0rsaire]

A good move after getting schooled by Serif on iPad. Unfortunately, everything will no doubt be linked to the Adobe cloud and like Lightroom CC mobile, it’ll be half impossible to move things from one device to another without using it.

Schooled? What do you expect? Photoshop has always been a professional grade product with a $700 license. Are you saying they should sell it for $50? Does Autodesk do this with Autocad? Does anyone sell their pro grade video editing software for $50? What about 3ds max?

Of course it is expensive but for good reason. There are no compromises. It is not missing anything and it is meant for professionals, not amateurs and hobbyists. Everyone has had a copy at one point or another since it is probably the most pirated software of all time regardless of OS but that doesn’t mean we are entitled to cheap Adobe stuff. And it was the piracy that forced them to go to a subscription model with stronger activation checks.

As for Affinity and Pixelmator, if they could charge $10-20/month for their product they would. I think it’s great that we have a choice of alternatives for the most common tasks but Affinity is no PS and it never will be. It is the gold standard just like Pro Tools is for music and Avid is for film.

Remember Adobe created this from scratch. Two brothers wrote the original PS and they deserve to be compensated for all of the work and improvements that have been made in the past 3 decades.

 

[ViviUO]

Photoshop is a bag of **** codewise considering how many UI inconsistencies and issues it has. Adobe Gripes on Tumblr is a good read if you want to see some crazy stuff that should not be a thing in expensive professional apps. So with that background I don't have very high hopes for Photoshop on the iPad if it uses the same codebase.

You know UX and code are two very different paradigms, right?

 

[zm15]

Is anyone using Mojave that's upgraded to these October 2018 Adobe apps? Curious if they're compatible without a spate of bugs. - Sorry posted in wrong thread...

 

[Release]

Schooled? What do you expect? Photoshop has always been a professional grade product with a $700 license. Are you saying they should sell it for $50? Does Autodesk do this with Autocad? Does anyone sell their pro grade video editing software for $50? What about 3ds max?

Of course it is expensive but for good reason. There are no compromises. It is not missing anything and it is meant for professionals, not amateurs and hobbyists. Everyone has had a copy at one point or another since it is probably the most pirated software of all time regardless of OS but that doesn’t mean we are entitled to cheap Adobe stuff. And it was the piracy that forced them to go to a subscription model with stronger activation checks.

As for Affinity and Pixelmator, if they could charge $10-20/month for their product they would. I think it’s great that we have a choice of alternatives for the most common tasks but Affinity is no PS and it never will be. It is the gold standard just like Pro Tools is for music and Avid is for film.

Remember Adobe created this from scratch. Two brothers wrote the original PS and they deserve to be compensated for all of the work and improvements that have been made in the past 3 decades.

THANK YOU! I'm really curious to know how many people who bash the Adobe subscription actually use the apps to make a living. I use it professionally at my full-time job and have a subscription at home for my freelance business.

 

[ignatius345]

THANK YOU! I'm really curious to know how many people who bash the Adobe subscription actually use the apps to make a living. I use it professionally at my full-time job and have a subscription at home for my freelance business.

Same here. I'm not crazy about the subscription software rental model either, but it does make my freelance life quite easy since I'm always updated to the latest version of each app and I can count on people I collaborate with to as well. I still shudder at the old days when I'd have to save things into different versions of InDesign -- or Quark before that -- because my prepress guy or whoever else didn't have the same version.

If I was just using this for personal stuff, though (and wasn't subsidizing the yearly Adobe fee with freelance work) I have a feeling I'd be looking hard at the Affinity suite right now.

 

[5aga]

So it can run fine on an iPad but drags my mac to a crawl

 

[cfurlin]

No thanks. Affinity Photo is far superior and I don’t need to spend $53 a month for the “privilege” of using 20+ Adobe apps, with only four being of any use to me.

Affinity Photo, Designer, and the soon to be released Publisher (which I’m beta-testing) easily take the place of Photoshop, Illustrator, and In-Design.

Screw you Adobe and your subscription model. Can’t wait for my sub agreement to end.

 

[BWhaler]

Great news for the iPad.

Affinity will be fine. Many pros, like myself, prefer the simplicity and pricing.

NOW, we just need Outlook to be full-featured.

 

[MrJeffreyGee]

That's cool, but hopefully it won't take up a third of the storage.

 

[Wash08]

THANK YOU! I'm really curious to know how many people who bash the Adobe subscription actually use the apps to make a living. I use it professionally at my full-time job and have a subscription at home for my freelance business.

i did, I used CC to make a living, it got to a point where I could not stand it any more, first started with the classic low price then it when up for the subscription, I paid because i could not find any alternative, I tried some of open source stuff not robust enough.

I came across Affinity Designer by complete accident, I had no idea it existed, once I use it I was hook, it was like I having my beloved Macromedia Freehand back…I could not wait to ditch Adobe I even paid an earlier termination feed just to dump them..

Now I make my living with Designer, Photo and with the new publisher (InDesign Killer) I have no need to go back, also rumor is that they are working on a LR version and something like AF.

 

[ignatius345]

i did, I used CC to make a living, it got to a point where I could not stand it any more, first started with the classic low price then it when up for the subscription, I paid because i could not find any alternative, I tried some of open source stuff not robust enough.

I came across Affinity Designer by complete accident, I had no idea it existed, once I use it I was hook, it was like I having my beloved Macromedia Freehand back…I could not wait to ditch Adobe I even paid an earlier termination feed just to dump them..

Now I make my living with Designer, Photo and with the new publisher (InDesign Killer) I have no need to go back, also rumor is that they are working on a LR version and something like AF.

This is all great, until you have to send files to a client who uses adobe CC. If your workflow is such that you don’t have to do this, then hats off to you. For a lot of the rest of us, though, it’s going to be Adobe until something else hits critical mass.

 

[Wash08]

This is all great, until you have to send files to a client who uses adobe CC. If your workflow is such that you don’t have to do this, then hats off to you. For a lot of the rest of us, though, it’s going to be Adobe until something else hits critical mass.

Yes I’m lucky, I use mostly press ready PDFs and I must say Affinity does a better job on making PDFs than adobe, also export as eps which works better.

 

[Icaras]

Next step Final Cut Pro X on the iPad Pro please!

And Logic Pro X as well please!

 

[Fortimir]

If Adobe hadn't switched to a subscription model, my wife would love this for her iPad Pro. As it is, she still just uses CS6 on her Mac.

The "Photography Suite" Creative Cloud plan is $9.99/mo and it includes Photoshop, Lightroom, Bridge, and mobile variants and syncing. Really a fantastic deal to get all that software, the cloud integration, and always having the most up-to-date versions.

Obviously if you need other apps, the value proposition might get tossed out the window. But for photographers it's a hell of a deal.

 

[sracer]

Photoshop is a bag of **** codewise considering how many UI inconsistencies and issues it has. Adobe Gripes on Tumblr is a good read if you want to see some crazy stuff that should not be a thing in expensive professional apps. So with that background I don't have very high hopes for Photoshop on the iPad if it uses the same codebase.

I see the theoretical appeal to full Photoshop on the iPad but in the practical sense, it is not a good idea.

The iPad is touch-centric. Because of that it is not possible to have the dense menu and toolbar structures of a desktop mouse-driven application on the iPad. People here criticize the Microsoft Surface Pro (rightfully so, and I'm one of them) because desktop apps on a tablet don't make for a great user experience.

But take a desktop app and put it on an iPad? These very same people are cheering the news.

Taking this (making desktop apps available on the iPad) to its logical conclusion, we'll end up with a worse-than Surface Pro user experience because due to the limitations of iOS it will be without support for a mouse/trackpad, universally accessible file system, or peripherals.

 

[Wash08]

I see the theoretical appeal to full Photoshop on the iPad but in the practical sense, it is not a good idea.

The iPad is touch-centric. Because of that it is not possible to have the dense menu and toolbar structures of a desktop mouse-driven application on the iPad. People here criticize the Microsoft Surface Pro (rightfully so, and I'm one of them) because desktop apps on a tablet don't make for a great user experience.

But take a desktop app and put it on an iPad? These very same people are cheering the news.

Taking this (making desktop apps available on the iPad) to its logical conclusion, we'll end up with a worse-than Surface Pro user experience because due to the limitations of iOS it will be without support for a mouse/trackpad, universally accessible file system, or peripherals.

You should give Affinity Photo/Designer a spin for the ipad or desktop, it will change your mind about it, Serif made ipad version a joy to use, it really showcase what can be done with the ipad, this is the reason why Adobe is doing PS on ipad, competition is good...

 

[sracer]

You should give Affinity Photo/Designer a spin for the ipad or desktop, it will change your mind about it, Serif made ipad version a joy to use, it really showcase what can be done with the ipad, this is the reason why Adobe is doing PS on ipad, competition is good...

I DO have Affinity Designer... it helped form my opinion.

 

[Brammy]

The iPad is touch-centric. Because of that it is not possible to have the dense menu and toolbar structures of a desktop mouse-driven application on the iPad. People here criticize the Microsoft Surface Pro (rightfully so, and I'm one of them) because desktop apps on a tablet don't make for a great user experience.

I think Photoshop's natural element is with a stylus and tablet. A lot of heavy Photoshop users use a Wacom tablet.

 

[Wash08]

I DO have Affinity Designer... it helped form my opinion. View attachment 795458

fair...I personally I always had issues with Adobe UX

 

[ignatius345]

I see the theoretical appeal to full Photoshop on the iPad but in the practical sense, it is not a good idea.

The iPad is touch-centric. Because of that it is not possible to have the dense menu and toolbar structures of a desktop mouse-driven application on the iPad. People here criticize the Microsoft Surface Pro (rightfully so, and I'm one of them) because desktop apps on a tablet don't make for a great user experience.

But take a desktop app and put it on an iPad? These very same people are cheering the news.

Taking this (making desktop apps available on the iPad) to its logical conclusion, we'll end up with a worse-than Surface Pro user experience because due to the limitations of iOS it will be without support for a mouse/trackpad, universally accessible file system, or peripherals.

To be fair, I don't believe the UI in Photoshop for iOS is going to be anything like Photoshop for MacOS. They're claiming it's going to have the same tools but with a different, touch-optimized interface. If they actually maintain two truly separate versions (and don't dumb down the Mac version the way, say, Apple did with Pages and Keynote), I'll be very happy to see it.

 

[guzhogi]

And Logic Pro X as well please!

Actually, ALL of Apple's production apps (eg Logic Pro X, Final Cut, Xcode, etc.). Considering how powerful iPads are becoming, we should see more production apps, not just consumption apps.

I DO have Affinity Designer... it helped form my opinion.

Yay for informed opinions! They're quite rare nowadays.

 

[VPrime]

This is great news. Definitely need more "Serious" apps on the iPad. We've been tyring to push the iPad capabilities since the iPad 1, making it possible to develop real apps on the iPad (with hyperPad - www.hyperpad.com).

The last few generations of iPad have really allowed us to bring desktop class creation on iPad.

 

[gnomeisland]

Will the iPad version be as slow and bloated as the desktop version?

The good news is that I don't think it can be. The A series processors are fast but RAM constrained. It may share some code but it is going to force some refinements.

I think the best thing about this announcement is that it really promotes the idea of iOS as a professional tool. Apple has been saying the for a while, and the hardware is capable, but the apps are still limited (or don't have the marketing/name clout that Adobe & Photoshop have). Just the idea of Photoshop on the iPad is a huge step forward for the platform.