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Adobe on Thursday announced plans to discontinue Photoshop Touch, its advanced photo editor for iPad and Android tablets, while offering brief hints about where a successor or successors might go.
While the app is still available on the iOS App Store and Google Play, Adobe said that it will remove Touch on May 28. The app will continue to work as long as it's downloaded and installed, but no more updates will be produced, and it will no longer be for sale.
The company is however working on one or more replacement apps. In a new demonstration video, prototype software is capable of loading and editing a 50-megapixel image on an iPad at speeds comparable to a desktop computer. The video also shows off options like selective object removal, color swapping, and image warping.
More general editing functions should include things like vignettes, dodging and burning, and exposure, contrast, and saturation control. Adobe told AppleInsider, however, that no one app will replace Touch.
CNet reported that unlike the $10 Touch, upcoming software should be free, but demand a Creative Cloud subscription to sync files with Photoshop CC on the desktop, or the rest of the CC suite.
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They're workin' it. But .. do we really believe it will edit a 50MP file on the pad the same as the computer? We do not. Woof.
It is really sad that these companies are tying software to services we don't want and especially don't want to pay for.
[quote name="DogCowabunga" url="/t/186372/adobe-discontinues-photoshop-touch-offers-video-glimpse-of-future-replacement-app#post_2725911"]They're workin' it. But .. do we really believe it will edit a 50MP file on the pad the same as the computer? We do not. Woof. [/quote] It all depends upon the iPad the file and the editing to be done. If they are making use of the GPU then there is a good possibility that the app is indeed fast.
As a Creative Cloud member, let me say that I am quite impressed with Adobe's marvelous iOS team. They're making CC an even greater delight to use and the synching between tablet and desktop is great. Draft on a tablet. Refine on a desktop. I love it. As a member, I'd like to make one suggestion. Give us an app and interface that lets us share snippets of text between apps and across platforms as easily as we can share images. In fact, build that snippet sharing into all the apps, iOS, Android, Mac and Windows. An advertising slogan created on one could be shared with all of them with no risk of a typo. And it'd spare us the burden of typing and retyping that text.
It is really sad that these companies are tying software to services we don't want and especially don't want to pay for.
Oh stop it. A Mac and Adobe CC is basically a license to print money.