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Photoshop for iPad Gains Content-Aware Fill, Remove Background, and More

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Adobe today announced new features for Photoshop for iPad, including Content-Aware Fill, Remove Background, and Select Subject Portrait, all features that continue to bring the iPad app more in line with the desktop version of Photoshop.

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Content-Aware Fill is designed to allow users to take any selection and use AI to fill the contents based on the surrounding image, and it is a quick way to get rid of distracting elements in the background of a photo.

The Remove Background tool is designed to be a one-click option for removing the background from an image non-destructively, and Select Subject Portrait lets users select the people in an image and refine details like wisps of hair and edges of clothes. Other new Photoshop for iPad features include a font browser and auto-tone, color, and contrast.

Along with an update to Photoshop for iPad, Adobe is also updating its Fresco drawing and painting app with a Liquify for distorting images, Magic Wand for selecting a colored area, and new Accessibility features.

Adobe Photoshop for iPad and Adobe Fresco can be downloaded from the App Store. Photoshop for iPad is available for $9.99 per month as part of Adobe's Photography plan, and Fresco is also priced at $9.99 per month.

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I love the Photoshop and Fresco updates but I wish they would give us a Premiere for iPad since apple isn't going to give us a Final Cut..
 
Always nice to see updates - although those are far from the most essential tools missing from photoshop on ipad. Last time I looked it was about 30% there.
 
4743913 said:
which is 30% more than Final Cut or Logic Pro. :D
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Yeah, but I can (and do) work professionally in fcpx, as long as I don't need collaboration - there's really only so much you need for editing video - can't do the same in photoshop on ipad.
 
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Fantastic to see content aware fill. Photoshop on the iPad along with another upcoming app is letting me import RAWs from my Z9, process, fully edit, and then export or publish my photos with little to nothing lacking from their desktop counterparts. I could see myself wanting a bigger iPad in the future for photo work instead of a desktop, especially now that I can reliably process 5K images on the thing as well as I could on my Mac Studio.
 
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Definitely nice to see these updates, but I still prefer using PS on my MBP over my iPad. I have really enjoyed LR in terms of editing my RAW files, especially with the Apple Pencil. But I once I'm done with my LR edits, I'll wait until I'm on my MBP to finalize my edits in PS.
 
IamTimCook said:
But, but, it’s iPadOS that’s keeping the iPad from being professional, right? /s
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I don't use Photoshop but use Affinity Photo on my iPad Pro 11. It's nice with pencil but what kills the whole experience is still the lack of a real file system in iPadOS.
I'm also not sure why my Samsung T7 is so much slower on an iPad than my Mac Mini.
 
I cant get use to having to use Cloud Services only to retrieve a file or save a file.

At Least on the Samsung Tablet you have a file system.
 
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InuNacho said:
... but what kills the whole experience is still the lack of a real file system in iPadOS.
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Not sure what is missing from FILES. USB-C on my iPad and iPadOS 15 really seemed to fix any issues I had with the "file system". And having DropBox, OneDrive, shared/SMB, iCloud and local storage all in one place. I can zip, unzip, share and manage most of a file's properties. Having multiple FILES windows open, copy/paste, drag and drop between apps and computers, the update has been a dream.
 
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Are there any downsides in trying this app. out? Does it convert the photo files to something Apple Photos can handle if you quit it. Does it preserve the Apple Photo Library? Does it make duplicates so you end up with two libraries taking up a lot of space?
 
Genuine question... have people who use Photoshop and their equivalents on Ipad found it to be worth the experience? Seems like the tradeoff is you get a much more compact device, typically with better battery life, and all the niceties of the iOS App Store, but in return it takes more steps to do the usual things you would normally on a lap/desktop, no mouse, and a solid file system?
 
ruka.snow said:
Fantastic to see content aware fill. Photoshop on the iPad along with another upcoming app is letting me import RAWs from my Z9, process, fully edit, and then export or publish my photos with little to nothing lacking from their desktop counterparts. I could see myself wanting a bigger iPad in the future for photo work instead of a desktop, especially now that I can reliably process 5K images on the thing as well as I could on my Mac Studio.
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Which other upcoming app?

InuNacho said:
t what kills the whole experience is still the lack of a real file system in iPadOS.
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Do people really need to come to every single iPad thread and beat the same dead horse?
 
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cupcakes2000 said:
Do people really need to come to every single iPad thread and beat the same dead horse?
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Uhmm, yes? TBF, we've beaten plenty of other dead horses before :\

DotCom2 said:
Subscriptions = $5 here, $10 there, $20 here...pretty soon you're talking REAL money! No thanks!
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I don't like subscriptions as much as the next person, but in life, you can only get so far without them. I myself have gotten into streaming services, but when my trials and annual subs are over, I'll cut down to one or 2 major ones per year, along with Curiosity Stream (which is only $20 per year, but alone not enough since it's exclusively documentaries), and rotate through them as needed (truly, I don't need 8 of them at once :\).

I cut back in other ways like eating out, gym membership (wasn't really using it), etc. That said, I do monitor what subs I have, and keep it to something manageable (e.g. less than $50 a month)
 
I have mixed feelings about subscriptions. When it's software that I use everyday it's a no brainer. I get daily value from it and don't mind a monthly fee (e.g. MS Office 365).

When it is software that I use only occasionally, it's much much more painful. There are applications that I don't use everyday, or even every week or every month. Subscriptions for those don't make a lot of sense because I feel ripped off in a month where I had access and didn't use it. Same applies for my Netflix sub. because there are months when I just don't have time to watch.

I know it's possible to activate/deactivate, but these are often difficult to do and, frankly, I sometimes forget and feel ripped off for wasting money on something I didn't use. There's no 'subscribe' for 1-month option for when I need to use it on and off.

I suppose I would be less reluctant to subscribe to something if these things had an 'auto cancel' where if I stopped using something they stopped billing, with a simple 'click to resume subscription' button that appeared the next time I used it. Alas - none of them do that either...
 
DotCom2 said:
Subscriptions = $5 here, $10 there, $20 here...pretty soon you're talking REAL money! No thanks!
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I paid for my adobe by canceling Disney, Netflix, and LinkedIn Learning. When a sub is born, at least two must die. thats how I control my subscription population.
 
calstanford said:
Slowest software development I have ever seen. It feels like we are going Photoshop 1.0->2.0->3.0... to 2022 in realtime again
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I am sure we can blame apple for the limitations placed on devs. The amount of iOS ridiculousness Adobe has to work around is probably massive..
 
4743913 said:
I do not like subscriptions but the Adobe subscription gives the most value for the $ out of any that I am aware of except maybe Drafts.
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Agree. Took me awhile to get on board with a Lightroom subscription. But having been on it a year now, I'm pleased with the excellent and frequent feature upgrades and support.
 
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