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Adobe Releases Photoshop App for iPhone

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Adobe today announced the launch of a new Photoshop app for the iPhone, which is designed to allow creators to edit and make content while on the go. The app includes core Photoshop tools that have been tweaked for mobile devices.

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The iPhone app supports layering, masking, and blending for creating unique designs, with AI tools also built in. The Tap Select tool allows for quick removal, recoloring, or replacement of parts of an image, and the Spot Healing Brush can eliminate distractions from images.

Adobe Firefly-powered capabilities include Generative Fill and Generative Expand to add new elements to designs and photo edits, plus there is integration with Adobe Stock assets, Adobe Lightroom, and other Adobe apps and services.

Along with the Photoshop app for iPhone, Adobe is expanding its web-based Photoshop experience for a new Photoshop Mobile and Web plan. Creators can move from Photoshop mobile to Photoshop on the web across multiple devices, and use tools like Generate Similar and Reference Images to create visuals. Photoshop on the web also supports selection tools like Magic Wand, a Remove Tool for eliminating unwanted objects, and much more.

The Photoshop Mobile and Web plan offers combined iPhone, iPad, and web features for $7.99 per month or $69.99 per year, but there is a free version of the app as well. All paid Photoshop plans already include access to Photoshop on the web, and will also include access to Photoshop on mobile devices. Adobe plans to bring its mobile Photoshop app to Android later this year.

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The Photoshop Mobile and Web plan offers combined iPhone, iPad, and web features for $7.99 per month or $69.99 per year, but there is a free version of the app as well.
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To be clear, the app is free to download, but you can’t use it unless you have a subscription. At least I think that used to be the case, maybe they changed it.

Edit: Ok, you can do a couple things without paying, but the app is crippled if you don’t. Even one of the few free features “spot heal” says “this tool is free for a limited time”.
 
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xgman said:
link takes me to ipad only version?
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abatabia said:
Link is iPad only.
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The app has been updated a few minutes ago. It’s now a universal app that’s compatible with iPhone and iPad.

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‎Adobe Photoshop

‎Ready to use Photoshop on the iPad? If you have a qualifying subscription, just log in with your Adobe ID. If you don’t, try it with a 30-day free trial. Photoshop on the iPad opens the same files as Photoshop on your desktop (macOS or Windows) using cloud technology, so you can stay in sync...
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CalMin said:
Cool but why? Is using a phone for serious photo editing practical. Perhaps I’m just getting old but I prefer canvases for serious work.
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Of course people do serious work, they have iPhone PROs! If anything they should be doing all their photo work on the iPhone Pro to really use all that power.

In all seriousness though, I agree, not sure who would be sitting and trying to do any real photoshop work on a phone. I have a subscription so could use this but have zero interest in even attempting to work in photoshop on my phone.
 
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dannyyankou said:
To be clear, the app is free to download, but you can’t use it unless you have a subscription. At least I think that used to be the case, maybe they changed it.

Edit: Ok, you can do a couple things without paying, but the app is crippled if you don’t. Even one of the few free features “spot heal” says “this tool is free for a limited time”.
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Well done doing the editor's work on this one. Should have been in the article in the first place.

Thanks for sharing!
 
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I got Adobe Photoshop 1.3 on 3.5" floppies in 1990. Over time, their ever increasing upgrade prices led them to the subscription model. The prior"owned" versions eventually timed out due to changes in the operating systems.

Their greed was never satiated and the costs continue to increase to the point that only professionals can write it off as an expense. To Adobe's chagrin, there are many competitors where one pays a modest price and "BINGO" you use it and even get updates for long periods of time with no additional costs.

Remember Pagemaker? The competitors came out with even better products and Aldus is gone.

There are too many excellent options out there in the Photo editing and media production world that are affordable for the casual user that could never expend the funding necessary to use Adobe's products.
 
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