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Adobe will bring the full Photoshop to the iPad

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Re: Adobe will bring the full Photoshop to the iPad

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Post by megaman22 »

esturk wrote: post #9

I wonder if people will drop Photoshop from their list of deficiencies when the topic Tablet vs. PC comes up. Often, some people bring up the lack of productivity tools like PS, X_Cad, writing and building code etc.

I don't think I understand how one could possibly use Photoshop effectively with such imprecise and limited input options as touch. I don't think I'd be able to do it on a surface the size of an IPad with a good stylus, let alone my grubby sausage fingers. Especially without keyboard shortcuts to reduce the amount of clicking around to select different tools and navigate.

Re: Adobe will bring the full Photoshop to the iPad

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Post by mark_l_watson »

I am not a customer for this but I see the value. An iPad Pro is easier for me to always have available, I feel it is less intrusive on my life than always having an open laptop handy.

My must have iPad apps to be somewhat independent of a laptop are: OmniGraffle for producing diagrams, Prompt for SSH shells, Microsoft Office 365 apps for dealing with material from other people, TextTastic and Working Copy for github, etc.

My use of a laptop with external monitor is really limited to doing software development.

For creative types, tablets with apps like Photoshop should help cut the cord to being tied to a full blown computer.

Microsoft Whiteboard was announced today, and I like the idea. I think Apple needs to step up and provide similar group collaborative tools. Apple does a great job of smooth workflow between iPhone/iPad/MacBook but they have opportunities for improvement in collaborative tooling.

Re: Adobe will bring the full Photoshop to the iPad

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Post by revision17 »

megaman22 wrote: post #21
esturk wrote: post #9

I wonder if people will drop Photoshop from their list of deficiencies when the topic Tablet vs. PC comes up. Often, some people bring up the lack of productivity tools like PS, X_Cad, writing and building code etc.

I don't think I understand how one could possibly use Photoshop effectively with such imprecise and limited input options as touch. I don't think I'd be able to do it on a surface the size of an IPad with a good stylus, let alone my grubby sausage fingers. Especially without keyboard shortcuts to reduce the amount of clicking around to select different tools and navigate.

The apple pencil is pretty good. As of the most recent generation of iPads, all current iPads support it too (not just the iPad Pros, as was the case in the past).

Re: Adobe will bring the full Photoshop to the iPad

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Post by cecja »

matthewmacleod wrote: post #12
cecja wrote: post #4

That's 100% marketing talk. There will be no native running "full" Photoshop. Maybe it will be cloud hosted like on chromebooks but porting the behemoth that photoshop is is not gonna happen.

I'm not sure why that'd be the case. I don't doubt that Photoshop on a desktop machine will usually perform better. But the latest iPad Pro models have six-core 2.3GHz processors and 4GB of RAM. It was only a few years ago that were were doing pro photography work with machines of that specification. The challenges are definitely going to be building a productive and useful UI using the iPad's input constraints. This…

This is not a pro tool. It is called PRO like Windows 10 PRO there is no way an ipad can handle pro resolution (10k+). The input methods available right now are not fit to do pro work.

Re: Adobe will bring the full Photoshop to the iPad

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Post by miohtama »

fareesh wrote: post #20

I wonder what the battery life will be like for a full Photoshop session with a decent number of layers and filters being rendered in real-time while editing a reasonably large photograph.

You can already run heavy games on iOS devices that tax the system even worse (audio, network). So based on this it should be couple of hours minimum.

Re: Adobe will bring the full Photoshop to the iPad

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Post by cecja »

kristiandupont wrote: post #7
cecja wrote: post #4

That's 100% marketing talk. There will be no native running "full" Photoshop. Maybe it will be cloud hosted like on chromebooks but porting the behemoth that photoshop is is not gonna happen.

Why not?

Because ipads are not beefy enough to work in pro environments.

Re: Adobe will bring the full Photoshop to the iPad

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Post by emsy »

I'm an iOS user. But frankly, iOS sucks for this kind of work. I tried. Copy pasting is slow, file handling is unnecesserily clunky (just give me a file browser Apple). And exporting always needs some kind of workaround because I can't just pop in USB drives (which my wife's Surface Pro gladly accepts).
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