For all designers and casual picture tweakers here is something you all can enjoy, Adobe is ready with their Photoshop App for iPad. The app brings lots and lots of features to iPad, helping you getting the work done while on the run. I am yet to get acquainted with all cool stuff in the app, so listing down all the features courtesy Adobe.
Features of App :
• Use popular Photoshop features designed for the tablet such as layers, selection tools, adjustments, and filters to create mind-blowing images.
• Use your iPad camera to fill an area on a layer with the unique camera fill feature.
• Select part of an image to extract by scribbling with the Scribble Selection tool. With Refine Edge, use your fingertip to capture even hard-to-select image elements, like hair, with ease.
• Search and acquire images with the integrated Google Image Search.
• Share images on Facebook and view comments right within the app.
• Browse an inspirational gallery for the styles and results you’d like to achieve. Then follow step-by-step tutorials to easily learn techniques the pros use for great-looking results.
• Use AirPrint for wireless printing of Photoshop Touch projects.
• Upload projects to Adobe Creative Cloud* and open layered files from Adobe Photoshop Touch in Photoshop CS5.
• Maximum image resolution: 1600 x 1600 pixels
Adobe Photoshop app can be yours for $9.99, download it from the iTunes Store Link and let some creativity begin.
Close on the heels of Adobe announcing the tablet SDK for Photoshop, the apps utilizing that feature set is already popping up. The first one seems to be from Shawn Welch who posted a video of his sample iPad app :
Photoshop Remote is a heads-up-display for all of the Photoshop CS 5.5 installations on your local network. The dashboard gives you a live thumbnail of each connected client while giving you the ability to perform global actions on all connected clients like saving open images to your iPad photo library, opening the same image on all connected computers, or sending a message to all connected computers. When you drill down to an individual screen, you have even more functionality such as tool selection, color selection, filters, adjustment layers, and more.
The app is also scheduled to release in May. This is just the beginning thanks to Adobe, they have couple of apps releasing in May as well.
Adobe has just announced a new SDK for photoshop for the development of Interactive Tablet Apps that Communicate Directly with Photoshop CS5. The apps are not out yet but they will be in early May this year. Pretty good news for all the designers looking for some good companion photoshop apps on their iPad.
Following are some details about the new apps :
With Adobe Color Lava, you can use your fingertips to mix colors on your iPad and create custom swatches and five-swatch themes. Instantly access them in Photoshop CS5—all you need is a network connection between your iPad and computer. Or use the app wherever inspiration strikes, and then bring your colors into Photoshop CS5 when you’re connected. Share colors via email, too.
With Adobe Nav and a network connection between your iPad and computer, you can customize the Photoshop CS5 toolbar on iPad to easily access the tools you use most. Browse, reorder, view, and zoom in on up to 200 open Photoshop documents on iPad. Tap a document on iPad to make it the active document in Photoshop CS5. Disconnect from the network and use iPad to easily share files in person with others.
With Adobe Eazel, you can use your iPad and your fingertips to paint beautiful works of art. Paint across your entire iPad screen, and easily access the tools you need. Send your artwork directly to Photoshop CS5 from any location—all you need is a network connection between your iPad and computer. Or do all your painting in the app, and share via email.
More updates as they come out.
Adobe is working towards brining their ultimate Photoshop product(full fledged) to iPad for all you designers out there. Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch shared few thoughts last week at Adobe’s Max conference, on how they see iPad and Photoshop coming together. They are working/thinking on two strategies, first is a full blown independent Photoshop app for iPad and second is having the iPad as companion device attached to your computer.
Now, I am not a designer so can’t comment on what the hardcore photoshop users would like to have. But I think, they should have both the products in the market or lets say combine the funtionality into one app. So, you can use the photoshop on iPad with all the bells and whistles, but when connected to your computer it gives you option to choose the iPad as a companion through app. Would update when more news comes out on this, for the time being we do have a photoshop express app available on app store.
Detailed article with some more details at cnet.com.
Mobile Ads on iPhone OS are indeed a big thing. Currently the only company to rule in that space is Admob, they have a serious dominance over the ads being displayed in the iPhone, iPad Apps. But now they will not be alone in this game, Adobe is collaborating with Greystripe to bring Flash ads to iPad and iPhone by converting them to HTML 5 .
The leading independent mobile advertising network, Greystripe, announced today they are collaborating with Adobe to provide rich media, interactive ad solutions across Android, iPhone, iPad and the mobile web.
Greystripe will offer its technology to deliver Flash authored ads as HTML5 to mobile devices that do not support Flash Player (such as the iPhone and iPad); these ads will be supported in both applications and on the mobile web. Greystripe’s new technology for Apple’s Safari web browser will allow real-time transcoding of Flash authored creative work to HTML5. For Flash enabled devices, tablets, and smartphones like the Nexus One with Android OS 2.2, Flash authored ads will be easily delivered through Greystripe’s ad network, which consists of over 2,500 mobile applications across iPhone, iPad, Android and Java.
Now since the release of this news I have been reading some comments from users saying, its horrible, ads are bad and I wont buy any thing with ads. I for one support this initiative because this helps the app developers to make money out of their hard work. There are countless free apps on iTunes Store which are being downloaded by people from around the world. How will the developer behind the app will make a living/money without getting anything from something he/she spent so much time building. But I also support the concern about ads sometimes being obtrusive and ruining the whole experience of the app. Adobe and Greystripe need to take care of this, if they want to make this popular and attract developers. I hope they know and understand they will be competing against Apple own advertising platform iAds.
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