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The Full Photoshop CC Is Coming To the iPad In 2019 (arstechnica.com)
The "real version" of Photoshop is coming to the iPad next year, complete with a user interface similar to the desktop application and all the main tools. Ars Technica reports: Photoshop for iPad has a user interface structured similarly to the desktop application. It is immediately familiar to users of the application but tuned for touch screens, with larger targets and adaptations for the tablet as well as gestures to streamline workflows. Both touch and pencil input are supported. The interface is somewhat simpler than the desktop version, and although the same Photoshop code is running under the hood to ensure there's no loss of fidelity, not every feature will be available in the mobile version. The first release will contain the main tools while Adobe plans to add more in the future. Cloud syncing is a key element of Photoshop on iPad. Edits made on the iPad will be synchronized transparently with the desktop -- no conversions or import/export process to go through. Using a feature not available in the iPad version should then be as simple as hitting save and then opening the file on the desktop, picking up where you left off. Adobe is also reportedly building a tablet painting app called Project Gemini, which "simulates real brushes, paints, and materials as well as the interactions between them," reports Ars. "It combines raster graphics, vector drawing, and the Photoshop engine into a single application designed for artwork and illustration."
Glad to see this option for iPad users, although I have been very happy with Affinity Photo (great photoshop replacement) and Designer (great illustrator replacement so far). Maybe these aren't as feature rich as Adobe, but a one time purhcase of $30 each has made my life a lot easier.
You can easily complain about CC (I do) without fabricating things like cost.
I pay $10/month (not $99) and that includes 100GB of storage along with access to the photographic apps (photography plan).
Even for the Full CC suite of apps PLUS Adobe Stock, you are only talking $83/month.
Of course, to me that storage seems so laughably small I would only use it for projects I would then move out of the adobe cloud again. But it's not $100/month as you are absurdly claiming.
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Given the context of the story I'm curious, which are the free and open source graphics editors that are available on iPad? Do they offer the same sort of seamless mechanism of being able to edit on one device (say your iPad when you're on the go) and then continue editing on another (at your home or office)?
I don't know of any good free image editors (I'm sure there are probably some), but the thing is even the REALLY good professional editors on the iPad are only like $15 or so (like Affinity Photo). They have every feature from the desktop app as far as I know, including CMYK stuff a lot of other advanced things.
As of now any graphics editor on the iPad could have a pretty good workflow moving between iPad and computer, using iCloud Drive. I can place an image in iCloud Drive, edit that directly on the IPad and it will sync back to the computer pretty rapidly and vice/versa (Apple may have problems with some other services at times but iCloud document syncing has worked really well for me, even with very large files like large 16 or 32 bit TIFF files).
The main thing to consider with that workflow is that the iOS application writer has to put a little more work into supporting editing in place - not much, but there are a few things they have to do so not every app may support exactly that workflow. But there's no reason any graphics editor on the iPad cannot easy move between iPad and desktop now.
Photoshop will have its own syncing store, which I am highly dubious about but it could be good - I've not tried using it at all yet even though I have a CC subscription and could technically access it.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Quite a few artists work on tablets. Most of the ones I know use a Surface, but some use an iPad with other drawing apps.
The advantage of a tablet is that they can hold it any which way, in any comfortable position to draw in. They use the versions with a proper stylus, with thousands of levels of pressure sensitivity.
They get basically the same functionality as a Wacom Cintiq at lower total cost, and it's much more portable.
Learning how to spell losing. That is better!
*gasp* You said the 'W' word!
Wacom is still the industry standard for this type of stuff. And I think Apple is going to try and close the gap.
Start off with an iPad version to get the kinks out. Then go full steam ahead and come out with a line of touch screen monitors to directly compete with Wacom.
Several years ago an Apple patent was released for a touch screen monitor. And the design made it so you could slide your iPad into the back of the monitor for recharging and syncing.
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