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Adobe Preparing to Launch Six New Creativity Apps for Tablets
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Errm, well me and plenty of my colleagues who actually work in the media. If the Tab version of PS has IPTC caption functionality I'll be ditching my iPad 2 for it.
stunning
i hereby ban the overused term "stunning" in PR releases.
every time i see that word, i stop to think "really?! is it REALLY stunning?" which automatically puts me in a skeptical mood about the release i am reading.
a succinct quote from a thesaurus notation:
Stunning is probably the most overused synonym for very good, especially in movie ads and book blurbs. When was the last time you went to a movie and saw a performance that actually stunned youi.e., rendered you unconscious or semiconscious? Use of the word in this context has become not only an empty cliché but also annoyingly counterintuitive: wouldn't you be more likely to feel stunned by something bad than by something good?
i hereby ban the overused term "stunning" in PR releases.
every time i see that word, i stop to think "really?! is it REALLY stunning?" which automatically puts me in a skeptical mood about the release i am reading.
a succinct quote from a thesaurus notation:
Stunning is probably the most overused synonym for very good, especially in movie ads and book blurbs. When was the last time you went to a movie and saw a performance that actually stunned youi.e., rendered you unconscious or semiconscious? Use of the word in this context has become not only an empty cliché but also annoyingly counterintuitive: wouldn't you be more likely to feel stunned by something bad than by something good?
The Apps need iPad 3.
They need iPad 3 ? ROFL.
The iPad 2 is faster and more powerful than any android tablet out there now.
I suspect this is Adobe's rather poor attempt to influence the tablet market, since Apple continues to pretty much own it. But it's a dangerous game, since a lot of people (on all desktop platforms) see Adobe as more of a necessary evil than anything else - Adobe's risking ceding the tablet market to whatever up-and-comer might jump in to fill the void (assuming the void actually exists... I'm not convinced of that though).
True. I love iPad for freehand image work (even Photoshop, via DisplaPad appa poor mans Cintiq!). But pro image work often requires more than just natural sketchingit requires pixel precision at times. Contantly zooming isnt a great workaround. Mouse/trackpad and touchscreen both have their own strengths.
But there IS a very good solution, which I hope some iPad imaging app will use: allow a trackpad mode where your finger on the glass indirectly controls a desktop-styly cursor. This is NOT the best way to interact with a tablet in most cases. But it would give you the best of both words if you could enable desktop-style mousing when you need it.
Some games use this style of control, and when I use VNC (iTeleport) to control my Mac remotely from iPad, I do this too. The devil is in the details: a good configurable pointer speed with a good acceleration curve. But when its done right, its very precise. Just give us a simple toggle for editing in this mode. (And dont make us use that cursor for the menus, UI! They should remain conventional touch controls.)
It's gonna be a while and many generations of tablets and apps before any serious photographer will be using a tablet for serious work.
Also very funny Adobe is releasing the PS for Android first. What a joke.
Also very funny Adobe is releasing the PS for Android first. What a joke.
By the way, I really like Adobe Ideas. Not the weird quirky UI necessarily (it's "OK") but the way your strokes are all vectors, which you can export directly to an emailed PDF that will print (or import into Photoshop) with terrific sharpness and unlimited resolution. No special companion app needed to “re-paint” at higher res (like Brushes). Just send a PDF to anyone! And auto-capturing color palettes with the camera works surprisingly well—not that I really need that, but it’s cool.
The vector format also allows super-small detail on a big canvas—so I use it as a massive Scrabble score pad
Adobe Ideas and Procreate would be my two must-have paint programs. (And Procreate has Photoshop-style layers complete with compositing modes, if you can’t wait for Adobe’s app.)
The vector format also allows super-small detail on a big canvas—so I use it as a massive Scrabble score pad
Adobe Ideas and Procreate would be my two must-have paint programs. (And Procreate has Photoshop-style layers complete with compositing modes, if you can’t wait for Adobe’s app.)
I'd be incredibly happy if they released a decent version of Adobe Acrobat for iOS that allowed adding signatures, adjusting security and other standard PDF editing
instead we get all the random pointless apps that nobody will ever want to use on a tablet any time soon
Photoshop being the exception but i assume any real photo editing will be done on a PC still
instead we get all the random pointless apps that nobody will ever want to use on a tablet any time soon
Photoshop being the exception but i assume any real photo editing will be done on a PC still
Yes. Must be a reason why they are delaying it though. Adobe already has a ton of apps on the iPhone and iPad.
Ya know, I was thinking the same thing. Sign of the state of the relationship between Apple and Adobe...?
The biggest gap for photographers using iPad is Lightroom-like photo management apps. iPad's built-in Photos app is laughably simple at best (iOS 5 included) and while there are several 3rd party apps, I have yet to see one that can (1) import RAW and JPG images, (2) tag, geocode (from geocache), and rate, (3) basic image processing, (4) sync against popular Mac photo management apps such as Photoshop Lightroom, Aperture, and iPhoto, and (5) share against popular photo sharing services or upload to one's own hosting service.
When and if Adobe makes such app (Lightroom for iPad), or Apple for that matter, I'd buy it in an instant.
When and if Adobe makes such app (Lightroom for iPad), or Apple for that matter, I'd buy it in an instant.
these stunning new apps bring professional-level creativity to millions of tablet users.
Professional? Yeah right. Like I'm going to edit 20mb RAW files on an underpowered iPad. LOL!
If the marketers put enough lipstick on this thing somebody's bound to claim they've finally dumped their Mac/PC.
Professional? Yeah right. Like I'm going to edit 20mb RAW files on an underpowered iPad. LOL!
If the marketers put enough lipstick on this thing somebody's bound to claim they've finally dumped their Mac/PC.
I can't shake the feeling that this little announcement has more to do with politics and posturing than actually selling Apps.
Lets not lose sight of the fact that Adobe already has some pretty good Apps already for sale in the iPad App Store. Lets also not lose sight of the fact that are already dozens of high-quality vector drawing and image editing and creating Apps already available for the iPad.
So, from a practical standpoint I think is really more about Adobe making a statement to Apple RE: support for Flash, etc. - than it is Adobe really thinking the Android-tablet market was the way to make a lot of money in the Tablet world.
Lets not lose sight of the fact that Adobe already has some pretty good Apps already for sale in the iPad App Store. Lets also not lose sight of the fact that are already dozens of high-quality vector drawing and image editing and creating Apps already available for the iPad.
So, from a practical standpoint I think is really more about Adobe making a statement to Apple RE: support for Flash, etc. - than it is Adobe really thinking the Android-tablet market was the way to make a lot of money in the Tablet world.