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Adobe Considers Possibilities for iPhone and iPad Integration With Photoshop
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I was a happy camper using PS3 on a 68030 Mac II and 8Mb of RAM. At under $100 PS was useful and affordable. Not any more, it's bloated and priced only for professionals.
Did you try it?
Did you try the free trial of Adobe Photoshop Elements 9?
http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshopel/
Did you try the free trial of Adobe Photoshop Elements 9?
http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshopel/
Awesome...
I recall suggesting something like this early on (i.e. using the ipad as a "tablet" type of extension to the desktop) and being told that it could never compete on any level with wacom tablets b/c the ipad lacks pressure sensitivity.
Has this changed or were the original detractors incorrect?
I recall suggesting something like this early on (i.e. using the ipad as a "tablet" type of extension to the desktop) and being told that it could never compete on any level with wacom tablets b/c the ipad lacks pressure sensitivity.
Has this changed or were the original detractors incorrect?
Now this I like! I can imagine getting a lot of use out of this if I had an iPad, and I already use a Wacom Intuos. Being able to left-handed select tools could speed things up a little as well as making the canvas seem a lot more natural by removing distractions.
I recall thinking PS 3.0.4 was too slow on my Centris 650 (68040 25Mhz) with 32MB RAM. Though I was just in High School then and expected filters to be instant.
i smiled when thinking about adobe software for the first time in 10 years after reading that.
A Wacom stylus would help considerably. I'm biased, however -- if you check my signature, you'll see that I still own a proper tablet PC. Most graphic designers just use a Wacom Intuos tablet. It has the advantage of not covering your drawing with your hand or fingers. It's also much more precise, and you can use it with a large 27" or 30" screen. LCD tablet combos are usually small, they get very hot to the hand after even a short period of use, and you can actually see the reflection of the ceiling lights on the device.
Give me Photoshop, a stylus, and a good note taking application similar to Microsoft OneNote, and I'll buy an iPad immediately.
Give me Photoshop, a stylus, and a good note taking application similar to Microsoft OneNote, and I'll buy an iPad immediately.
PS is not bloated, it caters to a lot more types of work is all. I think its great how you can easily streamline it to any given task.
If you want PS3 features (and then some) there are many cheap alternatives, Pixelmator etc.. But to say PS:CS5 isnt useful is crazy talk IMO. It does so much more than it used to.
I'd like to see it work as a tablet for input. That'd save me some money down the line probably.
I think this is awesome. Not only for Photoshop, but for all sorts of pro-level apps. I've imagined different touch-screen interfaces for aspects of video editing that could be pretty cool. Of course they wouldn't appeal to everybody, but pro apps have all sorts of options because everybody has a different working preference.
Also, do people even read the article, or just look at the pretty pictures? This forum is full of people talking about Photoshop being ported to iPad!
Also, do people even read the article, or just look at the pretty pictures? This forum is full of people talking about Photoshop being ported to iPad!
looks cool
Actually looks like a cool idea, moving all those controls off to another screen would free up room for the main document you're working on. Good for Apple as well, since some may want to buy an iPad just to serve as the control panel
Actually looks like a cool idea, moving all those controls off to another screen would free up room for the main document you're working on. Good for Apple as well, since some may want to buy an iPad just to serve as the control panel
I wish Adobe would just MAKE Photoshop Lite for the iPad. It doesn't have to be something ginormously amazing--just a simple graphics/color/text working program without all the crazy crap to convert and scan and print and do a billion effects, etc. Just pare it down for some portable production that can transfer to a bigger machine for the full treatment. SHEESH, Adopey.
Yes, we do read the articles...well, we:me.
This should have been news in January. It's a great thing! If the iPad could be used as some kind of external extension-monitor-control-something for the desktops, It'd be instant awesome.
Yes, we do read the articles...well, we:me.
This should have been news in January. It's a great thing! If the iPad could be used as some kind of external extension-monitor-control-something for the desktops, It'd be instant awesome.
What I see is a revision of their attempted pen tablet / screen UI integration that was done with the, display integrated WACOM tablets a few years ago. The display tablet works as an additional monitor in the Windows / Mac scheme.
In this scheme, the tools you want on your tablet, you drag there and where you want to do your retouching, you put that window there. Some used the tablet for pen-based image manipulation with the mouse-based tool settings. Others used it the other way around.
While they say "new code" I am sure they are going to keep the internal Adobe UI object library and inherit them into Cocoa objects. C++ / Objective-C integration is hairy but the coding elites at Adobe probably has it running already.
Hey Adobe, you want my opinion about it? Re-write that bloated P.O.S. from scratch an then move on to how to put Photoshop on a screen that's just 3".
Stylus!
I love using my hands/fingers to manipulate everything on touch screens like the phone and ipad, however, I am also a product of the old school method of art via a pencil. I would love to see Apple make a viable, fine tipped stylus that works on the iPad so that we have that option. I've never done much art using a pen that is as fat and round as my finger. Plus the rest of my hand tends to get in the way to the point where I have to lean to the side just to see what I'm actually drawing with the tip of my finger. A bit annoying....
I love using my hands/fingers to manipulate everything on touch screens like the phone and ipad, however, I am also a product of the old school method of art via a pencil. I would love to see Apple make a viable, fine tipped stylus that works on the iPad so that we have that option. I've never done much art using a pen that is as fat and round as my finger. Plus the rest of my hand tends to get in the way to the point where I have to lean to the side just to see what I'm actually drawing with the tip of my finger. A bit annoying....
Finally Adobe is getting it.
That IO devices can be used as tools for Creative Suite.
Imagine taken a picture with an iPhone and having the picture showing up in PhotoShop instantly.
Or being able to use an IO device to store tools.
There are so many possibilities.
That IO devices can be used as tools for Creative Suite.
Imagine taken a picture with an iPhone and having the picture showing up in PhotoShop instantly.
Or being able to use an IO device to store tools.
There are so many possibilities.
If the iPhone/iPad is to be used just a secondary screen for photoshop, albeit touch, I just don't see myself to let go the mouse/keyboard to input on the iPhone/iPad and than grabbing the mouse/keyboard to edit the image, again and again and again. Very inefficient compared to a regular second monitor. Unless iPhone/iPad could be used for a very simple customizable control surface to be used with one finger of the left hand without the need to look at the touch screen, for example for adjusting brush size (horizontal motion) and opacity (vertical motion). Taking advantage of gestures will be also interesting, for example sweeping the surface with two fingers to move through tabbed documents, or using pinch to zoom the document. We already have a small gesture vocabulary, let put ALL of it in use, this could be promising.
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Cool idea, too bad Adobe will charge out the ass as always. Sure, companies can afford Photoshop but individuals can't.
Thats why Photoshop is one of the most pirated applications. They need to create a non-crippled version for home users and sell it for less. Just say its not for comercial use. Of course small business would ignore it, but large companies that have to be license compliant would have to buy the commercial version.
Oh well, it will still be pirated by those who jailbreak.
Thats why Photoshop is one of the most pirated applications. They need to create a non-crippled version for home users and sell it for less. Just say its not for comercial use. Of course small business would ignore it, but large companies that have to be license compliant would have to buy the commercial version.
Oh well, it will still be pirated by those who jailbreak.
Now if they can only straighten out the mess they've made with CS5....
I just discovered the other day that PHOTOshop is no longer able to scan PHOTOS. For CS5, Adobe has dropped TWAIN support. It was supported in CS4, but only with a hidden plug-in that had to be manually installed. Now there's no plug-in at all. Images have to be scanned separately and then imported. For a top-of-the-line imaging program, I find Adobe's decision to be inexplicable and absurd.
Sounds cool. A touch screen control surface for your palettes and panels to be used in conjunction with you pen tablet and your keyboard.
It would be like keyboard shortcuts gone wild!
Dunno about you guys but I sometimes find it a real pain to bother going to a menu with the pen.
This way you could working full screen and use your fingers on either the keyboard or the control surface.
I almost can't think of anything better!
It would be like keyboard shortcuts gone wild!
Dunno about you guys but I sometimes find it a real pain to bother going to a menu with the pen.
This way you could working full screen and use your fingers on either the keyboard or the control surface.
I almost can't think of anything better!
That would be great for colour mixing in Painter as well.
Imagine using your finger to smear and mix the colour you want on your Ipad and sampling that and painting on your large monitor again. Even colour grading for video might be nice if you used the whole area of the Ipad.......maybe still a little small for colour grading yet.
This is looking positive for the future.
Imagine using your finger to smear and mix the colour you want on your Ipad and sampling that and painting on your large monitor again. Even colour grading for video might be nice if you used the whole area of the Ipad.......maybe still a little small for colour grading yet.
This is looking positive for the future.
This is great news
I've dreamed of a tablet device which would allow color mixing long before the iPad. This is a strong indication that Adobe gets it. I can't wait. Hope the price is reasonable and works with previous versions.
I've dreamed of a tablet device which would allow color mixing long before the iPad. This is a strong indication that Adobe gets it. I can't wait. Hope the price is reasonable and works with previous versions.