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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.

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  1. Re:iPad is missing a few features... by cre1mer · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    In Adobe CS5 Extended edition, video editing is comprehensive and efficient with a broad compatibility of video file formats such as MOV, AVI and MPEG-4 formats and easy workflow. Using simple combinations of keys video layers can easily be modified, with other features such as adding text and creating animations using single images.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Photoshop#Video_editing

    Here's an Adobe video on video editing in Photoshop.

    https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/how-to/video-editing.html

    My Black Friday @ Apple Park Visitor Center was put together in Photoshop because an update to Movavi Editor FUBAR'd the program just hours before I released the video.

    In my recent video, I use graphical overlays created in Photoshop. For static overlay with a transparent background, I export as a PNG file. For video overlay with a chroma (green) background, I export as an MP4 file.

    When rendering video from Photoshop, it does take a while on my AMD FX-8300 (8-core) processor. Photoshop doesn't use Nvidia GPU for faster rendering.