As a professional designer and retoucher for more than two decades, I don't get how anyone can do either on a laptop, let alone an iPad. I need a 27" iMac. But that's just me. More power to them. 
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Adobe to Launch Full Version of Photoshop for iPad, Expected in 2019
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Affinity Photo is the first who is pretty much there. Plus its starting to have a nice size community users. I wouldn't say Photoshop on the iPad is too late, but definitely needs to be more than a port of Photoshop for the iPad. Affinity Photo embraces the touch interface. Hopefully Photoshop for the iPad will too.
That's going to be what the eGPU boxes are for if you want more.
Apple doesn't eff with NVidia anymore after the GPU debacle (Louis Rossman complains about them all of the time) in their late 2000s-early 2010s models of MacBook Pros. They've walked away from them, it's over. It will be on nVidia to create better drivers for their cards if they want the business of Apple customers (evidently they don't).
Great news for Apple and the iPad ecosystem
Great news for Pros who require Photoshop in their workflow and toolchain
Affinity will be fine as long as they keep innovating and keep prices fair. (Adobe will overcharge)
Let’s hope Apple gives us a big iOS update next year with better 1st party apps to make the iPad a real laptop replacement. It’s getting close, but more to do...
Great news for Pros who require Photoshop in their workflow and toolchain
Affinity will be fine as long as they keep innovating and keep prices fair. (Adobe will overcharge)
Let’s hope Apple gives us a big iOS update next year with better 1st party apps to make the iPad a real laptop replacement. It’s getting close, but more to do...
In all fairness a microwave in 2018 has more processing power than a IIci so thats not saying much but we get the point. Haha
BTW if no one has menitioned,
Affinity is on sale right now!
Affinity is on sale right now!
it's gonna take Adobe a whole TON of smart and user friendly ideas to make Photoshop useful on an iPad to the same degree that ProCreate has. With the rate Adobe add features and fixes long time bugs, I highly doubt they will manage to keep phase with the competition. I suspect it will be a badly optimized program with very limited features and the other iPad art programs will excel in speeds Adobe can't handle.
Adobe is a too bloated company with too little care for their programs, they live on their near Monopoly.
This coming from someone who actually likes Photoshop, illustrator and AE and use it every day
Adobe is a too bloated company with too little care for their programs, they live on their near Monopoly.
This coming from someone who actually likes Photoshop, illustrator and AE and use it every day
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I was just thinking about this when Affinity Designer came out. Affinity is going to eat Adobe's lunch if they don't keep up in the iPad space.
Photoshop and Illustrator have become second nature to me over the many years I've used them. I'm no fan of the subscription pricing though I begrudgingly pay it. However, I use my Mac less and less, doing the majority of my work on a 12.9" iPad Pro with Pencil. I've been thinking of dropping Photoshop and Illustrator in favour of an alternative and that alternative just showed up.
Full Photoshop for iOS is a start but Illustrator has to come soon after, otherwise professionals will just start using other apps. Once they're used to those new tools, they're not going to switch back and Adobe will have lost the market.
Photoshop and Illustrator have become second nature to me over the many years I've used them. I'm no fan of the subscription pricing though I begrudgingly pay it. However, I use my Mac less and less, doing the majority of my work on a 12.9" iPad Pro with Pencil. I've been thinking of dropping Photoshop and Illustrator in favour of an alternative and that alternative just showed up.
Full Photoshop for iOS is a start but Illustrator has to come soon after, otherwise professionals will just start using other apps. Once they're used to those new tools, they're not going to switch back and Adobe will have lost the market.
Desktop and iOS!
[doublepost=1531515300][/doublepost]This is good news. I'm happy whenever a "pro" app comes to the iPad.
But I'm even happier that Affinity has released its iOS version of Designer and has a beta for its Publisher app in the pipeline. I'm impressed with their products and their support (62 video tutorials for their new iOS Designer!) and as @sfwalter noted, they have a growing community of users in their forums.
It’s not going to be web-based, whatever you mean by that. It will be a local, native app, that uses cloud storage options.
You don't even need a 2018 microwave. Just use an old 2014 Galaxy Gear Live watch to emulate a Macintosh II at beyond full speed.
http://blog.gsmarena.com/samsung-gear-live-booting-apple-macintosh-ii-os-like-boss/
Considering I use photoshop a lot to make book covers for my business, I've always stuck to having my 5K iMac. This would allow me to have an iPad pro and a MacBook air (or whatever the new version that comes out) and still work on covers on trips which would be a total blessing. I'm all for it.
Did not realise Mac versions were on sale too. I’m no artist but I bought Photo a while ago for iOS and got Designer in the sale. Off to buy both for macOS.
I love my iPad, but it's the ergonomics that get me. Same reason why I don't use my laptop as a laptop much, either. I am more comfortable with my big keyboard and my 27" monitor.
I used to be an Adobe guy but I’ve been using Affinity more and am liking what I see. I especially like the back and forth with the iPad. The one thing that I don’t think I’ll stop using anytime soon is Lightroom. I wish Affinity would work on that in addition to their forthcoming publishing app. It would be nice to be able to have it sync with Dropbox, iCloud or whatever so I don’t have to pay for Creative Cloud storage that is redundant.
Finally, a true way to use the iPad as a drawing tablet for photo retouching. Fingers crossed the work is actually done on the iPad and not some sort of resource sharing with a Mac.
Define "real work". If you think that professional designers working in offices are going to switch from their 24+ inch monitors to iPads you will be disappointed. People posting to Instagram may use it for applying a filter or two but then this could be done easier in the Instagram itself.
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This is the worst news Windows and Intel could ever hope for. Major full apps going to the iPad and ARM. The iPad tops the Mac in sales 2 to 1 making it certainly viable for Adobe. If a Mac is too expensive for you but you still need full Adobe apps, you won't have to turn to a cheap Windows PC like the new Surface Go because it's likely that rig would have a problem running it in the first place.
People who run full Adobe apps can afford PCs. Using these apps on iPad (or any mobile device) is torture that one would only subject himself if he had to do something while traveling (even then laptop is a better option).
Apple sells as many iPads as Dell sells computers. I’m quite sure there will be far more people “suffering” with Adobe apps on iPads than Dells at some point lol.
People buy iPads to run PhotoShop? Do they have some other use? Is it possible that people will be using Dell for Adobe and iPads for Instagram?
Absolutely.
But will more people use full adobe apps with the Apple Pencil once on the App Store? Absolutely.
Will Windows PC’s go the way of Kodak and Xerox? That’s also likely as well.