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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 dvfjsdhgfv »

heavymark wrote: post #49
coderkd10 wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

ex-Adobe engineer here - don't be disappointed, I think they'll do it soon. I was working in the acrobat team till last month, and we were working on porting the Acrobat Reader to the web. When I left it was in the internal beta stage with minor UX tweaking work left. It is expected to be release very soon. I think similar efforts may be (or will soon be) ongoing in other teams as well.

Interesting. Pretty great that Adobe didn't require a non disclosure of that type of information for a set time after leaving the company like most. Bravo for Adobe for allowing their ex employees freedom to talk about what they are working on.

What kind of advantage would this kind of information give to competition? If anything, it shows they're serious about the product, trying new strategies and so on.

Re: Adobe will bring the full Photoshop to the iPad

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Post by ktpsns »

raverbashing wrote: post #57
kgraves wrote: post #29

Well that's disappointing :(, I would have expected the full Photoshop experience to be ported to the web instead, not in Apple's locked garden. Sigh.

Browsers don't have the power or the speed to run the most demanding loads that Photoshop require (especially without using more memory than needed) At some point you really need to manipulate image data (from/to disk) in weird ways that's just not possible in a browser Try opening a .jpg file that's bigger than available memory in PS and see how that goes (harder now as memory is not so constrained) as opposed to ot…

This is not even true in the classical JavaScript world. A 10 year old tiling image viewer (think of any map viewer) proves the opposite.

Given we have WebAssembly and friends nowadays, you can think of the browser as a X86 VM host if you whish, with similar limitations (= no relevant limitations for running PS).

Re: Adobe will bring the full Photoshop to the iPad

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Post by scarface74 »

eropple wrote: post #32
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.

My Photoshop workflow depends on its ability to act as a plugin host for third party workflow tools and to integrate with the rest of a professional toolchain. So, for me, Photoshop functionally remains a PC/Mac application. (This applies to most applications ported to iOS or even the Web with such fanfare -- I still use Office plugins here and there...)

Apple is introducing some advanced automation features with iOS 12 that may go a long way toward making that easier.

Re: Adobe will bring the full Photoshop to the iPad

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Post by dvfjsdhgfv »

heavymark wrote: post #44
Tomte wrote: post #16

Affinity Photo on the iPad made quite a splash and was Apple's software of the year in some category. I guess it showed Adobe that there is real money to be made. And Affinity Designer for iPad has just been released.

I imagine it's less about money to be made but rather about fearing money to lose. Affinity offering a more and more well rounded solution with their Photoshop, Illustrator and now upcoming Indesign competitor, most of which are already on iPad today. With a Lightroom competitor in the works, I imagine Adobe is worried people will leave them completely for Affinity because of some customer's hatred of the subscriptio…

I will leave Lightroom and and InDesign the moment Affinity releases their equivalents. No, I don't care about hundreds of existing LR presets, I'll do everything to free myself from Adobe's arrogant lock-in.

Re: Adobe will bring the full Photoshop to the iPad

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Post by philliphaydon »

seba_dos1 wrote: post #39
cecja wrote: post #24

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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.

Exactly. From gf's experience, doing her many-layers/high-resolution work even in older Photoshop versions on RAM lower than 16GB is a nightmare. At 16GB it barely starts to be usable. We're working on a 2D game. Some years ago, when PCs had lower amounts of RAM, games didn't even had to include full HD assets. These days you may even target 4K. While you're at such resolution already, you may even go a bit further a…

Built my flat mate a new computer last year for photoshop work. His files are huge. Full spec iMac at the time lagged like there’s no tomorrow. After building new pc and putting 64gb of ram, allocate enough to photoshop and opened up a 1gb psd which used to take over a minute to load. Was loaded in a few seconds and buttery smooth. Photoshop loves a good ssd and ram.

Re: Adobe will bring the full Photoshop to the iPad

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Post by cecja »

matthewmacleod wrote: post #56
cecja wrote: post #40

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It is a pretty clear cut we are talking about 16bit images not 8bit. When my workstation with 64gb ram is coughing an ipad will die under the load. Just don't call it PRO.

Honestly I think your definition of "pro" is far too narrow to be useful. It's plainly obvious that not every professional user requires support for multi-gigabyte image files. I've never even used a workstation with 64GB of memory, despite being a professional Photoshop user for a long time. Just a bit of a silly thing to complain about, really.

Yeah, I am looking forward to clients who want the "open" data files can't open them on their ipad."But it runs full photoshop now clearly you did something wrong."

Re: Adobe will bring the full Photoshop to the iPad

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Post by unicornporn »

melling wrote: post #46
emsy wrote: post #27

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).

Personally, I’m imagining a future where you don’t need a USB drive to move files between devices. Dropbox, Creative Cloud, Universal AirDrop. I would like the touchscreen paradigm to be expanded. Pencil, force touch, and perhaps something like Kinect/Soli: https://atap.google.com/soli/

> Personally, I’m imagining a future where you don’t need a USB drive to move files between devices. Dropbox, Creative Cloud, Universal AirDrop.

Isn't that the paradigm we're currently in? Local file management is terrible on iOS. For professional photography (one the markets that Photoshop targets) cloud storage is not up to the task. The raw files from my work camera are 85MB each. I average about 1500 shots per shoot. That's a lot of time waiting for files to upload.

Personally I'm imagining a future where my files are not in the hands of the surveillance capitalists.

Re: Adobe will bring the full Photoshop to the iPad

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Post by mb_72 »

seba_dos1 wrote: post #31
gallerdude wrote: post #11

Hopefully, this means we’ve reached some critical mass of Mac apps moving over. Because the iPad is the future of computing, much the same way the GUI superseded text interfaces.

After some initial craze in the first years, I rarely even see an iPad (or any other tablet) in the wild anymore. Smartphones getting bigger seem to have already replaced them.

iPads are used a lot by myself and musicians I know; there are a lot of cheap apps that cover virtual synths, drum machines, song learning, DJing, even full DAWs. They are amazing machines that 'just work' for many musical situations.
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