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Adobe Shows Off Photoshop for iPad With Layer Support

norrismantooth said:
Does anyone else think this is a desperate attempt by Adobe to stay in the tablet game? ...
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mmmm... no, only you.

Why is it that every Adobe story on MR prompts the inevitable "Look how desperate Adobe is..." comment?

Why would you NOT be happy they're taking the iPad seriously, and building a useful* app for it?

*useful to the casual Photoshop user, rather than the professional, who needs the control only a mouse offers
 
Good to see some more development on this. I guess a lot of the large software makers are largely feeling their way at the moment but we could get some amazing products in the next few years.
 
If Adobe priced this for $29.99 on the App Store I would buy it as a companion tool to PS CS5. But I don't think I would be using my fingers to work... I would incorporate a POGO Stylus.

What would be cool is if you could tap your left index finger and then the POGO to enable a "right click" for options.

I would be even more interested in an Illustrator for the iPad!

What I still want though is to be able to shoot tethered to an iPad. Has anyone heard of an app that will allow me to instantly see what I just shot with a tethered DSLR?
 
This is awesome. So far, my reason for not buying into the iPad hype is because I can't use photoshop on the iPad - nor many other productivity applications. This changes things a bit… hope it'll come out soon!
 
What was the image size? If you're wanting to get a leg up in the field for some real Photoshop work back at the office, you'll be using some big files. Especially if you start adding Layers. I doubt that these were very high rez. With 512MB ram, this is would a terrible real-world print application. Others have said this would be nice to play around with or to show off the iPad, but that's about all. I suppose you could do low-rez composites for a client, but I'd rather do that with a 15-17-inch MBP. You have a big screen, Photoshop CS5, plug in a stylus, 8GB RAM ---> that's a comp tool. IPad...? Not so much.
 
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This isn't supposed to happen

The iPad isn't a "serious" computer. It's just a toy.
 
We will we be getting the full Adobe experience with this, such as having to re-install the OS each time an upgrade or patch is released?

;)
 
HiRez said:
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You post an article about the iPad with video that can't be viewed on an iPad? Thanks.
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i love your sig dude....."go outside, the graphics are amazing"....i quietly chuckle everytime i read that. :D
 
this app would be amazing if it got camera raw and it's a killer for photographers.

for painting... hope apple would consider making stylus pen work? in ipad3??

again, amazing demo. it's awesome to have a mini photoshop on the ipad.
 
handsome pete said:
Very cool. Though I still can't see something like this reaching its full potential without a pressure sensitive stylus.
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I disagree. There are plenty of people working with PS using just a mouse, which isn't pressure sensitive. Remember in the keynote demo of Garage Band, it was mentioned that Apple accomplished touch-sensitivity when you play an instrument by utilizing the accelerometer. I assume it could be the same for an imaging program.
 
Winni said:
Which is kind of hard on such a restricted and limited platform. There would be more useful software for the iPad if it ran a 'real' operating system like Mac OS X -- meaning full file system access and not being tied into ONE App Store with arbitrary rules for what a program is allowed to do.
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Curious. Do you pronounce your name WHINEY? :D
 
As a Graphic Designer, when the iPad was announced, this was the first thing I wanted to see. But after experiencing the iPad for over a year, along with a desktop, I don't think this way of working with Photoshop will prove to be beneficial. Lightroom, probably more so.

Just keep it as a Photoshop Express and push the photo adjustment features. Messing with layers, blending modes and brushes I think should remain as features for a desktop for designing.

Lastly, this demo reminds me of JuxtaPoser, a quick two layer masking app.
 
jayducharme said:
I disagree. There are plenty of people working with PS using just a mouse, which isn't pressure sensitive. Remember in the keynote demo of Garage Band, it was mentioned that Apple accomplished touch-sensitivity when you play an instrument by utilizing the accelerometer. I assume it could be the same for an imaging program.
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I use the mouse almost exclusively with my photoshop work and only use the pen when I need it. But this version of photoshop will be running on a tablet with a touch interface. The allure behind that is not using a mouse, but rather a stylus/pen/finger. And unless you can get the precision of a pressure sensitive device, then I don't think it would mature much further than a hobbyist's tool.

I'm not sure if the accelerometer method would work to get such precise results. At least it didn't seem so when I read about how they got it to work. Touch sensitivity for playing a musical instrument is a bit different than drawing/painting/etc. I could be wrong though.
 
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Toys can't run Photoshop.... Did I cover the haters?
 
Eh, so so demo. Still not convincing that this would be useful for hard core photoshop users. It may be tough with big fat fingers to do some detailed stuff.(?) Glad to see they are working on it.
 
Of course you can view Flash vids on the iPad

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You post an article about the iPad with video that can't be viewed on an iPad? Thanks.
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Of course it can! There's an app for that: get the Skyfire app.
 
thatisme said:
It's cool, but totally pointless other than being used as a tech demo.

I fully expect that the control will not be fine enough on the layers / brushes, etc to be acceptable for commercial or even personal use. It's hard enough to select and erase layer parts when using a WACOM tablet on a PC or Mac... Now we do the same thing with fingerpaint precision....
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There are already quite a few VERY good paint/editing apps on iOS that support layers. And quite a few people doing amazing, precise freehand work. Zoom helps! And touching your work directly removes a creative barrier. Compared to looking one place and moving your hand someplace else (Wacom or mouse; although people adapt well to those too).

Desktops/laptops won’t go away, but the iPad is ALREADY being used for serious production, and that will only grow as multitasking (the new gestures) and file management/sharing (wireless and painless?) catch up. iOS is still young!

The way I look at the iPad for serious creative work is that current apps typically offer 1/4 of the full power of a desktop app... and most of us only use 1/20 of that power anyway! So find the app that has the tools you need... or find several apps! And what makes up for that limited power? Much greater ease and convenience. You’ll still use your desktop Photoshop (etc.) as well, but an iPad in the production mix can be a great tool. (And an iPad plus a ton of great creative apps costs less than many single desktop programs!)

My tiny-screen iPhone already had a role in my creative production work. That will only grow (literally) with a bigger screen!

I’d love to see more offerings from Adobe. (I actually really like Adobe Ideas on iPhone. It’s a vector program of sorts with a paint program UI. Images zoom sharply to any size when exported as PDF.)
 
Well finally we might actually see decent image editing on the iPad. I can't imagine this being anywhere as great as Photoshop on a real computer anytime soon, but the iPad should be able to run something like Photoshop 7 or CS without any problems thanks to the CPU power and RAM it has. If they just made it touch sensitive somehow, or added stylus or external tablet support somehow, that would be awesome.

I doubt there really is the need for a totally rewritten app here, as it will lack 99% of the good features in Photoshop (Liquify, robust Type tool, Curves, etc...).
 
Winni said:
Which is kind of hard on such a restricted and limited platform. There would be more useful software for the iPad if it ran a 'real' operating system like Mac OS X -- meaning full file system access and not being tied into ONE App Store with arbitrary rules for what a program is allowed to do.
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The iOS architecture of firewalling file system access for each application makes huge sense: it eliminates the means by which malware can attack the data of other programs. Apple could relax those rules at some point; the greatest speculation I hear is that there will be a DMZ where files could be moved from one app to another. This is a far better strategy than having a promiscuous operating system and try to add the protection afterwards.

What exact app store rules do you think are arbitrary, Winni?
 
*LTD* said:
This isn't supposed to happen

The iPad isn't a "serious" computer. It's just a toy.
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I'm guessing this is sarcasm.

It is a toy. You can't seriously think that professionals are going to depend on Photoshop for iPad and throw away their computer can you? That's like throwing away your computer because GarageBand is also available on the iPad, and attempting to produce an album on an iPad. Impossible.

No matter what Steve says, it is a toy! I think it is brilliant you can do these things on such a simple product for the average user, but they are nothing more than for... the average user.
 
roadbloc said:
I'm guessing this is sarcasm.

It is a toy. You can't seriously think that professionals are going to depend on Photoshop for iPad and throw away their computer can you? That's like throwing away your computer because GarageBand is also available on the iPad, and attempting to produce an album on an iPad. Impossible.

No matter what Steve says, it is a toy! I think it is brilliant you can do these things on such a simple product for the average user, but they are nothing more than for... the average user.
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I don't think anyone is saying they should, but what if you need to make a quick edit or touch up right before or even while meeting with a client.
 
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