Adobe discontinues Photoshop Touch, offers video glimpse of future replacement tech [u]
Adobe on Thursday announced plans to discontinue Photoshop Touch, its advanced photo editor for iPad and Android tablets, while offering brief hints about where a successor or successors might go.
While the app is still available on the iOS App Store and Google Play, Adobe said that it will remove Touch on May 28. The app will continue to work as long as it's downloaded and installed, but no more updates will be produced, and it will no longer be for sale.
The company is however working on one or more replacement apps. In a new demonstration video, prototype software is capable of loading and editing a 50-megapixel image on an iPad at speeds comparable to a desktop computer. The video also shows off options like selective object removal, color swapping, and image warping.
More general editing functions should include things like vignettes, dodging and burning, and exposure, contrast, and saturation control. Adobe told AppleInsider, however, that no one app will replace Touch.
CNet reported that unlike the $10 Touch, upcoming software should be free, but demand a Creative Cloud subscription to sync files with Photoshop CC on the desktop, or the rest of the CC suite.
While the app is still available on the iOS App Store and Google Play, Adobe said that it will remove Touch on May 28. The app will continue to work as long as it's downloaded and installed, but no more updates will be produced, and it will no longer be for sale.
The company is however working on one or more replacement apps. In a new demonstration video, prototype software is capable of loading and editing a 50-megapixel image on an iPad at speeds comparable to a desktop computer. The video also shows off options like selective object removal, color swapping, and image warping.
More general editing functions should include things like vignettes, dodging and burning, and exposure, contrast, and saturation control. Adobe told AppleInsider, however, that no one app will replace Touch.
CNet reported that unlike the $10 Touch, upcoming software should be free, but demand a Creative Cloud subscription to sync files with Photoshop CC on the desktop, or the rest of the CC suite.
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They're workin' it. But .. do we really believe it will edit a 50MP file on the pad the same as the computer? We do not. Woof.
It all depends upon the iPad the file and the editing to be done. If they are making use of the GPU then there is a good possibility that the app is indeed fast.
As a member, I'd like to make one suggestion. Give us an app and interface that lets us share snippets of text between apps and across platforms as easily as we can share images. In fact, build that snippet sharing into all the apps, iOS, Android, Mac and Windows. An advertising slogan created on one could be shared with all of them with no risk of a typo. And it'd spare us the burden of typing and retyping that text.
It is really sad that these companies are tying software to services we don't want and especially don't want to pay for.
Oh stop it. A Mac and Adobe CC is basically a license to print money.
Oh stop it. A Mac and Adobe CC is basically a license to print money.
I've got Macs and not one piece of Adobe trash on them. Leaves a smile on my face when I sleep at night.
I've got Macs and not one piece of Adobe trash on them. Leaves a smile on my face when I sleep at night.
Same here
That Adobe Draw is a joke.
And I thought it was a very nice app. (Not the kind of thing you'd use instead of a laptop, but great in a pinch when you have no laptop. And great as a companion to other iPad art apps--for art/drawing you'd never dream of doing on a bulky laptop.)
Pixelmator and Procreate to the rescue!
(I feel bad for Android users: it was a nice app, and they have slim pickings for an alternative!)
The more Adobe tries to corral me into paying them every month for life, the more I dig in my heels.
Echoing the NRA and actor Charlton Heston, "I'll give you that $50, Adobe, when you take it from my cold, dead hands."
Do serious photoshop professionals choose tablets over desktops?
If they're competent and productive, they have both, and don't make a huge fuss over paying for what they use, as the tools enable them to make so much more than that.
With the iPad it's back to school.
Perhaps for a lot of young programmers they're not even familiar with the level of optimisation required to make things really smooth, since they've probably grown up with over powered beasts.
Photoshop touch was pretty lame in my opinion. The new touch is looking promising
Perhaps Apple is working with Adobe to bring out a new version of Photoshop for the new tablet. For me personally, I would need to be able to edit 30-50 Mpix images and jump back and forth with desktop Photoshop with no loss of layer information and no loss of quality.
When Adobe went with CC and subscription, what they lost were non-professionals like me who used Photoshop for personal stuff. I don't think they really are interested in that segment.
Professionals who earn a living using using Adobe products will continue to use CC, either paid for by the employer, or paid for by themselves, if they are self-employed.
I'm just glad Pixelmator is there to pick up the slack for people like me, though I do wish they had more filter options.
This is as it should be. As a professional CC subscriber now for years, I'm glad Abode, like many other software companies, is finding that this business model allows them to separate the wheat from the chaff, while being freed to concentrate more on its paying customers.
This is as it should be. As a professional CC subscriber now for years, I'm glad Abode, like many other software companies, is finding that this business model allows them to separate the wheat from the chaff, while being freed to concentrate more on its paying customers.
Well, to be fair, I did pay for my Photoshop installs before CC.
Now you go on and 'give' yourself a great day -keep positive