Comments on: Adobe plans to launch Photoshop Touch on iPad

By: Matti

Matti — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 01:15:00 +0000

Many designers/photographers (who’re notoriously Apple-centric to begin with) already own iPads and use them for presentation purposes. Having Photoshop on one gives them the ability to make quick edits when out seeing clients or on-location. Performance should be at least on-par with the Android versions. The only thing going against iOS is its lack of robust user-controllable file management.

If rumors about the next iPad having an ultra high-resolution “retina”
display and the processing power to push that many pixels are true, than
I think it’s a no brainer move on Adobe’s part, since (mentioned above) many in the graphic-arts sector tend to gravitate towards Apple products (in their defence, they were Apple patrons before the hipsters and iSheep cam on-board).

Personally, I believe Adobe are just testing the waters currently. I suspect that in a few years time, once tablet SOCs have sufficient processing power, they (along with others like Corel) will be looking to release their own “Creative Suite” branded tablets, possibly with accurately calibrated large displays and support for Wacom stylus-pens/brushes.

By: Matti

Matti — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 01:15:00 +0000

By: kenn213

kenn213 — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 00:34:00 +0000

This is interesting, and hopefully Adobe finds a good way to pull this off. That being said I really don’t see this catching on over a laptop/desktop with a pen tablet. Any professional designer knows that a finger is nowhere near precise enough to edit photos except for the most basic of tasks.