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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.
How much money do we have to give to Adobe for a Linux version?
I can't imagine using Photoshop without a keyboard and mouse, or not being able to access my files from my file server. Video rendering on the iPad will probably suck donkey balls.
Goodbye, Slashdot!
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Affinity Photo for iPad is an incredible app and cost $19.99, once.
https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/photo/ipad/
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*spits tea everywhere*
I'm not a graphic artist, but isn't editing photos a lot like CAD, you need precise input?
How can you remove wrinkles from your older girlfriend's pictures with a giant finger mashing on a 7 inch screen?
You can't... you'll have to dump her and date a college student instead.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
The biggest gripe is the cancellation terms of the subscription - it's absolutely assholish and literally cons you out of more money when you simply want to cancel it there and then
That company, with that strategy can simply FOAD.
The artist with the correct tactile fingertips guides the software into placing the masks. The really advanced software also places the mask in the best position once prompted by a set of fingers over a part of the image.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Adobe is an evil company. You should not spend a penny on them.
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.........
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They haven't done anything new or innovative in decades, and moving to subscriptions is absolutely TERRIBLE for their users -- now you can never buy their bloated software, just rent it, forever. That company seriously needs to die in a fire.
And yes, indeed, GIMP is a viable alternative.
Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...
Nice I suppose but as long as they require a subscription for the product I'm not interested.
Wonder if this is at all driven by the glacial pace of Apple's (pro) Mac hardware upgrade cycle? I think its been frustrating many pros.
How much would that be on an iPad? I mean, is that price reasonable? The desktop version is still awful expensive ; ok the soft delivers, but seriously there are amazing pieces of software from Apple which price went down crazy a few years ago ( or even free ).
Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...
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.
True. Unfortunately Apple treats the Apple Pencil as an afterthought instead of an important usability device. Very little software really takes full advantage of it. There still isn't a quality note taking application (yes I've looked). Annotate documents? Don't make me laugh. They basically treat it as a toy for the 3 artists who actually do art on an iPad. It doesn't work well with any serious productivity applications nor does that seem likely to change. Plus the design of the Apple Pencil sucks. Round so it rolls off tables and there is no thought given to storage when not in use. There is no slot to put the thing in on the device itself. Plus it doesn't work across Apple's product line. I should be able to use it on every iPad, iPhone and Mac but Apple can't be bothered.
You also have combination with finger presses and gestures to simulate keyboard shortcuts and the like.
Ugh.. KMN. More arbitrary combinations of movements to memorize. No thanks.
I can't imagine using Photoshop without a keyboard and mouse
I can. Innumerable tasks are easier with a stylus than a kb/mouse. Anything where fine motor skills are required tends to be easier, particularly drawing or writing or editing. There are exceptions in both directions of course but you're probably just used to doing things a certain way and haven't explored the alternatives.
or not being able to access my files from my file server.
It's doable and it's basically a requirement for any sort of professional work flow.
Video rendering on the iPad will probably suck donkey balls.
Strange comment since people take and edit videos on an iPad all the time. Horse for courses of course and obviously it's not the right tool for every job but I could see it being very practical for a lot of use cases.
I don't think an iPad has the same performance of my PC for rendering videos longer than a short clip.
It probably doesn't but so what? You also can't use your big desktop PC in a coffee shop or on a photo shoot in the field. Professional photographers actually have a need to be able to do work away from the home office routinely. Not every job you do is going to be rendering Toy Story 12. There are plenty of video tasks where an iPad is more than sufficient. A sports photographer in the field needs to be able to edit and post pictures and short videos quickly and they aren't going to carry around a PC with a huge video card and a giant monitor.
An iPad might not be useful to YOU for Photoshop work but that doesn't mean it isn't useful to an awful lot of other people.
FTS:
I'm somehow pretty sure that their subscription-only model isn't going to have as strong of an appeal among hobbyists as Adobe might hope.
While I certainly can't discount the possibility that there are probably a few die-hard adobe fans out there that would do this, it certainly wouldn't be the norm. I would put at being about as common, I think, as someone who likes to cook as a hobby going and renting a professional kitchen whenever they do.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
Maybe if they would cut the shit with the damned monthly subscription price and go back to a real pricing model that is sustainable for people who have slow-income parts of the year, perhaps they'd be doing better.
It wasn't your point that got you modded down. If you had said instead: "Oh man, you Linux fans are being burned big time. Even toy tablets get full Photoshop and you guys are still stuck with GIMP." then you probably would not have been modded down.
But calling Linux fans "Linturds" and "pariahs" (which means outcast) and calling GIMP "Duh Gimp" makes you a troll.
I"m not sure it would be even viable to use on a phone tho....? Too little real estate IMHO on a phone, and you'd not use it on a desktop, so to me, make sense tablet only.
For a lot of applications sure, but if it isn't enabled to work on the iPhone how will we ever know? Nobody will design software for it if the hardware isn't available. Right now it isn't even possible to try.
I've just now been looking into note taking with iPad pro and apple pencil....these look promising:
I've been keeping an eye on this for a long time. Been disappointed to date but I guess I'm the eternal optimist.
From what I see on YouTube reviews, both of these seem quite powerful, you can have hand written text transformed to type, you can insert pictures, videos, sound, some allow you to record say a lecture and the audio is timed out to the writing and stuff you do on the note...etc.
They keep trying to do the handwriting conversion thing and I think that is largely a waste of time. If I want to have a typeface I'll bust out a keyboard - there are bigger fish to fry. That said having the software do some OCR on the notes and make it searchable is clearly useful. Inserting pictures and video is nice but a second or third order consideration. First they have to make it a better version of a piece of paper + a filing cabinet. What matters most is the the workflow around actually writing, saving, editing and sharing documents and nobody seems to have nailed this bit yet. The file formats matter. Being able to print documents matters. Being able to incorporate your notes into other applications (like word or photoshop) matters. Being able to organize your notes in an efficient and rational manner matters. Most important is that the interface has to be amazingly seamless and easy to use. Remember it has to be better than paper + a filing cabinet. I realize it's not the easiest problem to solve but I'm not even sure anyone is really thinking of it in the right context.
Ah No! GIMP is good at many things, but as substitute for PS in a photography workflow, not even close.
I gladly give Adobe $9.99 each month to use Lightroom and Photoshop.
And yes, indeed, GIMP is a viable alternative.
You've either never used GIMP or never used Photoshop. ... Or never used either.
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.
http://alternatives.rzero.com/
Sounds like Adobe is jumping early into the game of going unified for their codebase for IOS and OSX. https://www.theverge.com/2018/...
You are all a bunch of idots.