Adobe 'all-in' on Photoshop for iPad despite missing features, Illustrator for iPad report...
A report on Monday confirms Adobe's ambitions for Photoshop CC for iPad, saying the company is "all-in" on what is billed as a "real" version of Photoshop tailored for tablet use. Separate rumblings claim the firm is readying an iteration of Illustrator for iPad slated to launch in 2020.

Citing sources familiar with Adobe's plans, Daring Fireball's John Gruber reports the company is taking the Photoshop CC for iPad effort seriously ahead of an expected release this fall.
"They view it as a serious, top-shelf project for creative professionals," Gruber writes. "The team of engineers working on it has grown significantly from a year ago, and they have plans to add features iteratively on an aggressive schedule."
The comments come on the heels of a Bloomberg report last week that claimed beta testers were left wanting more from the hotly anticipated creative app. Part of the issue, according to testers, is a dearth of desktop features which seemingly runs counter to Adobe's claims that the app will be a "real" version of Photoshop built for a touch-based user interface.
As noted by Gruber, the problem appears to be a misunderstanding of what Adobe is promising. When the company announced Photoshop for iPad last October, it said the app is "real Photoshop" insofar as it shares a code base with its desktop counterpart. Consumers, testers and apparently media outlets like Bloomberg took that to mean Photoshop for iPad would boast a complete complement of features. It will not, at least not at launch.
Scott Belsky, chief product officer of Adobe Creative Cloud, explained the limited feature set in a statement last week.
"Launching every single feature that was accumulated over 25 years on the iPad on day one would not best serve our customers and the needs they have," Belsky said, adding that Adobe plans to make additions in the future. "I want to say it's the best product in the world for specific workflows and not have to apologize that it's not full because that's not what the customer needs."
As customers await official word on a Photoshop for iPad release date, Bloomberg on Monday reports Adobe is moving forward with plans to expand Creative Cloud's presence on iOS and is developing an iPad version of drawing tool Illustrator.
According to sources, the app will be previewed at Photoshop's Max conference next month. Whether Illustrator for iPad will follow in the footsteps of Photoshop for iPad and utilize a "real" desktop-class engine remains unclear. Features are also unknown, though it can be presumed Adobe is working in support for Apple Pencil.
After developing a litany of bite-sized mobile apps, Adobe appears ready to take on the decidedly monumental task of delivering "real" versions of its most popular software to users of iPad and other portable slates. The company continues to develop mobile-first offerings alongside those efforts, the most recent being digital painting and drawing app Adobe Fresco.

Citing sources familiar with Adobe's plans, Daring Fireball's John Gruber reports the company is taking the Photoshop CC for iPad effort seriously ahead of an expected release this fall.
"They view it as a serious, top-shelf project for creative professionals," Gruber writes. "The team of engineers working on it has grown significantly from a year ago, and they have plans to add features iteratively on an aggressive schedule."
The comments come on the heels of a Bloomberg report last week that claimed beta testers were left wanting more from the hotly anticipated creative app. Part of the issue, according to testers, is a dearth of desktop features which seemingly runs counter to Adobe's claims that the app will be a "real" version of Photoshop built for a touch-based user interface.
As noted by Gruber, the problem appears to be a misunderstanding of what Adobe is promising. When the company announced Photoshop for iPad last October, it said the app is "real Photoshop" insofar as it shares a code base with its desktop counterpart. Consumers, testers and apparently media outlets like Bloomberg took that to mean Photoshop for iPad would boast a complete complement of features. It will not, at least not at launch.
Scott Belsky, chief product officer of Adobe Creative Cloud, explained the limited feature set in a statement last week.
"Launching every single feature that was accumulated over 25 years on the iPad on day one would not best serve our customers and the needs they have," Belsky said, adding that Adobe plans to make additions in the future. "I want to say it's the best product in the world for specific workflows and not have to apologize that it's not full because that's not what the customer needs."
As customers await official word on a Photoshop for iPad release date, Bloomberg on Monday reports Adobe is moving forward with plans to expand Creative Cloud's presence on iOS and is developing an iPad version of drawing tool Illustrator.
According to sources, the app will be previewed at Photoshop's Max conference next month. Whether Illustrator for iPad will follow in the footsteps of Photoshop for iPad and utilize a "real" desktop-class engine remains unclear. Features are also unknown, though it can be presumed Adobe is working in support for Apple Pencil.
After developing a litany of bite-sized mobile apps, Adobe appears ready to take on the decidedly monumental task of delivering "real" versions of its most popular software to users of iPad and other portable slates. The company continues to develop mobile-first offerings alongside those efforts, the most recent being digital painting and drawing app Adobe Fresco.
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Adobe also knew that it’s better for them to keep up the hype train and then at the end tell their customers that they weren’t the ones that promised what journalists said they were promising.
not only was Affinity 1/10th the price, it saved me spending $5,000AUD for a new laptop i didn’t even need.
I am keen to get their Illustrator replacement when a job arises.
This is actually what concerns me about PS for iPadOS. It shares the same code base ?!?! that just means slow clunky rubbish is being ported.
let’s take an arbitrary version of you for example (i don’t know what you really use PS for).
Are you a statistical scientist using Photoshop to apply transformations across visual data sets? probably not, but such professionals do use photoshop this way and the full blown version can do this out of the box.
Are you a person who designs folder droplets for batch processing 1000s of images with complex macros? probably not, but the full blown version can do this out of the box.
Are you a person who for some deranged reason is heavily invested in photoshop as a cel animation platform instead of using the many excellent and affordable software studios available and used by professional animators all over the world? maybe you are and full blown photoshop can do that out of the box
and less likely is that you, no matter who you are uses photoshop in a full blown way because simply put the amount of individuals who do or even at a stretch even could is exactly zero.
that said if you are a visual data analyst who uses photoshop to apply complex mathematical formulas across folders of 1000s of images for clients interested in determining stress patterns in populations - well hey, iPad Photoshop probably will lack that feature on day 1 or even day 1000.
go flip a table
filters, pen tool, custom paintbrush libraries, RAW editing, and more...
Unbloat your software, streamline your UI, streamline your shortcuts, and put together a sensible suite that solves specific roles. Adobe’s apps are so fragmented, what’s their vision?
One thing that shows how out of tune they are with their users is Adobe’s push towards using their cloud drive. It’s getting to a point where I have to go through 4 clicks just to get to the finder. Our company does not allow us to use the Adobe cloud for good reasons.
like i said, such people don’t even know what photoshop can do, or its full feature set, they just think they are “full blown” users.
pretty much the same as google docs users who think it offers the same functionality as desktop MS Word because all they do is centre text, change font size and use bullets.