Sense pressure in the stylus itself (albeit still a fat point of some kind) and send the info to the app via Bluetooth.
A little hardware, and some SDK tweaks from Apple, and it could become possible!
The fine-point precision of Wacom will still have its place, definitely—it’s totally different technology. But an iPad + apps + stylus is super cheap and portable compared to a Wacom Cintiq (even assuming the full computer and its apps are already paid for). I use my iPad that way sometimes for Photoshop, just using the iPad as a second display (using DisplayPad or the like). Directly painting where you’re looking is a great feeling! And I can drag the window back and forth between the iPad for drawing and the larger/faster computer screen for other tasks.
Agreed—I want to see more high-feature apps like GarageBand and some of the vector apps out there now. Not trying to duplicate a pro tool (computers are still great for that) but with sufficient power to do a lot of pro tasks on the go. We’ll see how this one turns out.
Right now, Procreate is my Photoshop alternative I keep coming back to on iPad. More for painting than for editing, but it does have Photoshop-style layer compositing and transparency masking, giving a lot of power considering it’s probably the easiest-to-use paint app I have.
Adobe "prematurely" launched this app and priced it at $9.99
My guess is they made an error and will re-launch the app on Monday priced at $199.99 -- anyone want to take bets on this?
By the way, I have the desktop (Mac OS X) full-box version of Adobe Photoshop 5, and it was $599.99, so yes, I can say they don't exactly "give away" their software for cheap...especially Photoshop.
I have done very few photo editing on the iPad. Can anyone with experience tell tell me if it felt awkward using the lasso tool(if this tool is even offered on the iPad) to cut out backgrounds?
this is pretty good news. seems like major players are starting to take the iPad very seriously.
"Photogene is a great companion to the camera connection kit. It supports various RAW formats. Photogene can open up for editing very large files and supports an export resolution of up to 8 MP (21 MP on iPad 2)."
This Adobe product? Max 1600x1600 = 2.5 MP.
I must be missing something. Adobe can't be that far under spec'd. Can they?
Maybe someone at Adobe got wind of a more capable Aperture app coming on March 7th and decided to get PSTouch in the store to get as many sales as possible before then....
1600x1600 max ?? Renders the app all but useless for me....
I wouldn't buy the iPad version even for $9.99. It looks gimmicky. I have been spoilt with the desktop version for too long to go down the iPad app path.
Why wouldn't the launch of a major software product for the iPad be news?
By the way, I have the desktop (Mac OS X) full-box version of Adobe Photoshop 5, and it was $599.99, so yes, I can say they don't exactly "give away" their software for cheap...especially Photoshop.
Why not release this with the iPad 3? This doesn't make sense.
Adobe "prematurely" launched this app and priced it at $9.99
My guess is they made an error and will re-launch the app on Monday priced at $199.99 -- anyone want to take bets on this?
By the way, I have the desktop (Mac OS X) full-box version of Adobe Photoshop 5, and it was $599.99, so yes, I can say they don't exactly "give away" their software for cheap...especially Photoshop.
Agreed.1600x1600 max ?? Renders the app all but useless for me....
I suspect it's the amount of RAM. iPad 2's 512MB is already pretty tight for this kind of app and iPad 1's 256MB is probably just too little to make the app run smooth without crashing.
This app was launched on the Android market January 27th.
By the way, I have the desktop (Mac OS X) full-box version of Adobe Photoshop 5, and it was $599.99, so yes, I can say they don't exactly "give away" their software for cheap...especially Photoshop.
If I want to use my own pictures, do I have to buy their cloud service or go through iPhoto/Itunes to transfer them to the tablet? This is unpractical, and while I prefer iPads to Android tablets, if I had to do anything more than web surfing and application download, I would be using an android tablet.
To be fair Photoshop 5.5 did have a hard drive to frequently cache to. They can't really do that on the iPad due to the limited write cycles of flash memory.PowerPC-based Macintosh computer
Mac OS 7.6 or later
64 MB RAM
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Guess what? These are requirements for the Photoshop 5.5.
Why would they not support the original iPad then ? Laziness and greed. Plain and simple.
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how people tend to forget fast!
Do you realize that all the most complicated images in the 90's have been edited by PowerMacs sporting no more than 64 MB of Ram? And they were higher resolution than 1600*1200.
To be fair Photoshop 5.5 did have a hard drive to frequently cache to. They can't really do that on the iPad due to the limited write cycles of flash memory.
I suspect it's the amount of RAM. iPad 2's 512MB is already pretty tight for this kind of app and iPad 1's 256MB is probably just too little to make the app run smooth without crashing.
how the flip do you accidentally launch something rofl. Oh dear Adobe.. You never cease to amaze.
There's an option in iTunes Connect "Automatically release when approved" I'm guessing that's what happened here.
PowerPC-based Macintosh computer
Mac OS 7.6 or later
64 MB RAM
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Guess what? These are requirements for the Photoshop 5.5.
Why would they not support the original iPad then ? Laziness and greed. Plain and simple.
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how people tend to forget fast!
Do you realize that all the most complicated images in the 90's have been edited by PowerMacs sporting no more than 64 MB of Ram? And they were higher resolution than 1600*1200.