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Adobe To Launch Photoshop for iPad in Strategy Shift (bloomberg.com)
Adobe, the maker of popular digital design programs for creatives, is planning to launch the full version of its Photoshop app for Apple's iPad as part of a new strategy to make its products compatible across multiple devices and boost subscription sales. From a report: The software developer is planning to unveil the new app at its annual MAX creative conference in October, according to people with knowledge of the plan. The app is slated to hit the market in 2019. Engineering delays could still alter that timeline.
San Jose, California-based Adobe has been on a multiyear journey to modernize its dominant creative media software. The company shifted all of its apps to the cloud in 2012, launching a new subscription-based business model that's on track to more than double sales through the end of this fiscal year and sent the stock soaring more than 700 percent. Recently, Adobe has also begun pitching its products to hobbyists, who prefer working on mobile devices rather than PCs. Still, the company has yet to transition full versions of its best-known apps to smaller screens.
San Jose, California-based Adobe has been on a multiyear journey to modernize its dominant creative media software. The company shifted all of its apps to the cloud in 2012, launching a new subscription-based business model that's on track to more than double sales through the end of this fiscal year and sent the stock soaring more than 700 percent. Recently, Adobe has also begun pitching its products to hobbyists, who prefer working on mobile devices rather than PCs. Still, the company has yet to transition full versions of its best-known apps to smaller screens.
Adobe PS for iPad is going to have to really go a LOOONG way to beat the current Affinity Photo for iPad Pro .
It is full functioning, one time license fee (like $14 right now), and they do periodic updates, no extra charge.
The performance is amazing, I've been lately really stretching it to do things like 11 full RAW images from my 5D3, for panos....and I did about 18 RAW image focus stacking.....and Affinity on iPad Pro handled it.
PS is really going to have to redo their engine....Affinity on desktop is often faster, so I would think they're really gonna have to redo PS if they try to put it on a tablet.
Adobe is really going to be playing catch up on this one, IMHO.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
That's what the Apple Pencil is for....using that combined with and iPad Pro, works quite well, no perceptible lag, high res screen...its quite easy to work on.
You also have combination with finger presses and gestures to simulate keyboard shortcuts and the like.
Affinity Designer was just released the other day for iPad.....here's a good demo of it (skip to about 1:13 to get past the early chatty part.
There's others:
Affinity Photo for iPad
Vectornator
Procreate
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
And yes, indeed, GIMP is a viable alternative.
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No, Adobe has not shifted their applications to The Cloud. The applications run right there on a local CPU and GPU, like any other desktop application. (Go ahead and turn off your wifi and check: the software still runs just the same.) I know, I know: the word "cloud" is right there in the name of the product, but keep in mind that "Photoshop" does not actually include a store, and "Illustrator" doesn't actually draw for you. The difference between "Adobe Creative Suite" and "Adobe Creative Cloud" is a licensing model, not a computing model.
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