AppleInsider Staff
Adobe on Wednesday officially released the latest iteration of its mobile Photoshop software, Photoshop Touch for Phone, bringing powerful image editing to the iPhone and iPod touch.
Photoshop Touch for Phone is surprisingly full-featured for an app built to take on small format screens like the iPhone, boasting niceties users of the desktop version have become accustomed to, including layers, adjustment tools and filters.
From the release notes:
- Improve your photos using classic Photoshop features to bring out the best in your photography. Apply precise tone and color adjustments to your entire composition, a particular layer, or a select area.
- Create something other-worldly using painting effects, filter brushes, and so much more. With Photoshop Touch, the creative possibilities are endless.
- Make your images pop with graphical text. Apply strokes, add drop shadows and fades, and more.
- Take advantage of your device’s camera to fill an area on a layer with the unique Camera Fill feature.
- Quickly combine images together. Select part of an image to extract just by scribbling with the Scribble Selection tool. With the Refine Edge feature, use your fingertip to easily capture hard-to-select image elements, like hair.
- Work on high-resolution images while maintaining the highest image quality. Images up to 12 megapixels are supported.
Buyers will also get access to Adobe Creative Cloud, which allows users to sync projects and switch between Photoshop mobile and desktop versions. The membership includes 2GB of Creative Cloud storage
Along with the image editing feature set and Creative Cloud integration, users can easily share their work with friends through via Facebook and Twitter, as well as the usual "save to camera roll" iOS compatibility.
The iOS version of the app weighs in at 32.2MB and requires iOS 6 running on an iPhone 5, iPhone 4S or fifth-generation iPod touch. Adobe Photoshop Touch for Phone is available now in the App Store for $4.99.
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You can't create on an iDevice. It can only consume. It's just a toy¡
Hmmmmm... Maybe someone can answe this. I have headshots that need touching up. Minor manipulation. Is this program robust enough to do a professional touch up that I could use? I'm sick of paying 20$ a pop to have some minor touch ups done lol.
You can't create on an iDevice. It can only consume. It's just a toy¡
I'm truly surprised they didn't have something like this out sooner. It's not that an idevice is ideal for content creation. It's the ability to mark things or make changes on a device that you carry everywhere. That in itself is extremely powerful. In terms of Adobe in general, I've been disappointed with them for years. They keep adding features that half work. They didn't add LUT support until CS6, and it still lacks native support for 16 bit half float formats. They still open as 32, which of course takes 2 million years to save. The background save function is nice. I no longer go get coffee while waiting for files to save, but these things were ignored for years. If I got a 1-2GB file cluttered with smart objects saved at a higher bit depth, it could take minutes to decompress and open due to a bloated file and single threaded process used to open it.
Hmmmmm...
Maybe someone can answe this. I have headshots that need touching up. Minor manipulation. Is this program robust enough to do a professional touch up that I could use?
I'm sick of paying 20$ a pop to have some minor touch ups done lol.
Even Gimp could do that on your notebook or desktop, and it's free. It's not as smooth as PS, but you could do that. It's not like anyplace offering the stuff for $20 a pop is turning out the best work anyway. Anyone could replace that. Also yeah this program could probably do the same thing. Just don't overdo it, and no one will know.
Originally Posted by AppleInsider
Adobe on Wednesday officially released the latest iteration of its mobile Photoshop software, Photoshop Touch for Phone, bringing powerful image editing to the iPhone and iPod touch.
Photoshop Touch for Phone is surprisingly full-featured for an app built to take on small format screens like the iPhone, boasting niceties users of the desktop version have become accustomed to, including layers, adjustment tools and filters.
But... it's not a computer, how is that possible.
You can't create on an iDevice. It can only consume. It's just a toy¡
Such was my reaction and no doubt, that of many here.
I already have bought the Snapseed and iPhoto App for iPad/iPhone. If Adobe would have made this an universal App, I would have even paid $9.99 for the iPad App for the rare occasions where PhotoShop would come in handy.
But you can hardly do serious photo retouching on an iPhone, so this iPhone app should be a "bonus" for buying the iPad app instead of spending another $4.99...
So I would suggest to get the free universal Snapseed App for good and quick retouching on the road and maybe add the universal iPhoto app for $4.99 instead of forking that money over to Adobe under the current pricing scheme...