Adobe Photoshop comes to the iPad with "Photoshop Touch"

After much hype and a false start over the weekend, Adobe have finally released Photoshop Touch for the iPad (iPad 2 only).

As Adobe say, the app lets you "transform images with core Adobe® Photoshop® features", and these feature include:

• Use popular Photoshop features designed for the tablet such as layers, selection tools, adjustments, and filters to create mind-blowing images.
• Use your iPad camera to fill an area on a layer with the unique camera fill feature.
• Select part of an image to extract by scribbling with the Scribble Selection tool. With Refine Edge, use your fingertip to capture even hard-to-select image elements, like hair, with ease.
• Search and acquire images with the integrated Google Image Search.
• Share images on Facebook and view comments right within the app.
• Browse an inspirational gallery for the styles and results you'd like to achieve. Then follow step-by-step tutorials to easily learn techniques the pros use for great-looking results.
• Use AirPrint for wireless printing of Photoshop Touch projects.
• Upload projects to Adobe Creative Cloud* and open layered files from Adobe Photoshop Touch in Photoshop CS5.
• Maximum image resolution: 1600 x 1600 pixels

Whilst Adobe Photoshop Touch may let you combine images and apply professional looking effects, it's the apps poor maximum resolution, combined with a price tag of £6.99/$9.99/€7.79 that will stop me, and I'm sure many others from buying this app. That said, if Adobe up the resolution, then I may be tempted, but until then, I'll be sticking with Snapseed, that can easily process at least 12 megapixel images on an iPad 2 (lower on an iPad 1).

App Store Link: Adobe Photoshop Touch; Price: £6.99/$9.99/€7.79

Please note: Adobe Photoshop Touch requires an iPad 2 and iOS 5, and will NOT run on the first generation iPad.

Comments

[Miege]

Adobe--not just Photoshop--is king in the desktop world, but is irrelevant in the mobile world.

[Gordon Fraser]

agreed....they aren't even trying...it's pathtic

[Giovan]

Limitation of 1600x1600 from Adobe is something seriously not expected. Laminar can easily stack up 8 images each 10 MP without any problems....... Photoforge handles high res images well.. You name it and the app would handle it well.....
Photoshop for iPad is a big welcome...but its still far from being my to go app....

[Me]

The 1600x1600 resolution limit means I won't be buying this :(

[aaronv2]

1600 limit, and the lack of layer modes like soft light or vivid light. how am i meant to dodge and burn now? its sad that they seem to want to make money instead of implementing features that for the price a professional photographer expects.

I am sticking with Filterstorm... for now.

[Sarah]

This post is more an ad for another Adobe product rather than about iphoneography.

[Editor]

Hi Sarah, I deemed the app as being newsworthy, hence the post. Sorry if you thought of it as an ad for an Adobe product.

[PositivePauly]

Well I had some iTunes cards so I downloaded it. Short version: out of context (i.e. what other apps already provide), it's decent if you ignore the 1600x1600 & iPad 2 limitations, but it's 2 years behind Filterstorm at becoming the de facto "Photoshop" for serious photo editing.

Long version's on my blog:

Photoshop Touch: Mini Review & First Thoughts  http://paulmphotography.com/WPblog/?p=688

[Gordon Fraser]

I fail to see how it's an add for an adobe product.....it tells it like it is....it's got an average set of features a poor output and is overpriced......If that's an advert I'd be shooting the marketing company.

[maria]

“Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes.” “It is better to admit them quickly, and keep on betting for your other innovations.” by Steve Jobs – Apple Social Network

[Design826]

I have just about every other photo editing app, but at $10 and a size limitation of 1600x1600 I have no desire to get this one. Adobe is so out of touch, pun intended, with the mobile market.