Adobe Photoshop for iPad Gaining Support for RAW Images

[sfwalter]

I shoot branded content for a living lol

ipads are for consumption only. The OS is a joke.

Sadly its taken me way too long to realize this. The iPad seems like a photographers dream’s machine for in field editing. I have kept saying to myself, next year iPad OS will give us pro level workflow features. Sadly I’ve been saying this for atleast 3 years.

For example, why do most apps still want to “import” my files into their own spaces even though they can locate my files with the Files app. I would think editing the files from the source location would be easy, sadly that doesn’t seem to be the case.

Another example is why after all these years do I have to use some 3rd party app which hacks fonts into a some special profile just to use my fonts I own.

I love the iPad for Youtube, Netflix, General sketching, Social media, etc. You know mostly content consumption. The iPad is a powerful piece of kit but sadly its hobbled by an OS that barely gets any useful features year over year.

Now a days I travel with a 13” M1 MacBook Pro and a iPad Mini. It seems to hit the sweet spot for me.

 

[cupcakes2000]

Sadly its taken me way too long to realize this. The iPad seems like a photographers dream’s machine for in field editing. I have kept saying to myself, next year iPad OS will give us pro level workflow features. Sadly I’ve been saying this for atleast 3 years.

For example, why do most apps still want to “import” my files into their own spaces even though they can locate my files with the Files app. I would think editing the files from the source location would be easy, sadly that doesn’t seem to be the case.

Another example is why after all these years do I have to use some 3rd party app which hacks fonts into a some special profile just to use my fonts I own.

I love the iPad for Youtube, Netflix, General sketching, Social media, etc. You know mostly content consumption. The iPad is a powerful piece of kit but sadly its hobbled by an OS that barely gets any useful features year over year.

Now a days I travel with a 13” M1 MacBook Pro and a iPad Mini. It seems to hit the sweet spot for me.

1 - It’s barely been an OS for three years.

2 - Talk to the Dev? iPadOS allows it, so how is it an OS issue?

3 - It’s not a ‘hack’, it’s how the OS works. Its not the same way of working as MacOS or a traditional OS. It’s app based. It’s part of the fundamental design.

I and many many many others have adjusted to this OS for their professional workflows, and whilst all will admit it needs to have extra features, its a 3 yo OS…. Not an OS thats based around the way things have worked for 40+ year old OS.

As is always the case in this never ending debate, if you dont want to move to the iPad way of working, then it’s not for you, and that’s why you can buy Macs, and windows or Linux machines.

Whinging endlessly about supposed limitations about iPadOS, including many posts such as this that attribute problems to the OS when they’re nothing to do with the OS, is getting very boring.

 

[svish]

Did not know that RAW was not supported. At least the support for RAW is added now.

 

[poematik13]

Now a days I travel with a 13” M1 MacBook Pro and a iPad Mini. It seems to hit the sweet spot for me.

I use a 16” MBP on 10.15.7 and I see no reason to ever upgrade. Does everything as good as it can with little friction and no compatibility issues (unlike big sur and above). Also have an ipad mini 6 LTE for consumption and travel, the most “productivity” it can do in my workflow is viewing files from dropbox, drawing storyboards with pencil, signing documents and replying to emails