It also integrates with Google image search and Facebook for easy importing and sharing of images.ĭavid Wadhwani, the SVP of Adobe’s Digital Media Business Unit says that “Photoshop Touch combines the magic of Photoshop and its core features with the convenience of a tablet, bringing image-editing power to the fingertips of millions of people.”īrian Yap, creative director at advertising agency Boxing Clever says that “Adobe Photoshop Touch offers a huge convenience factor and boasts cool Photoshop features tailored for the iPad,” adding, “nearly all of the features I imagined being in Photoshop Touch are there, including the depth in layers, the extraction tools, and fade tool.”Īdobe Photoshop Touch is available today in the App Store for $9.99 and requires both iOS 5 and an iPad 2. You can combine multiple photos into layered images, perform simple edits, extract objects from images using the Scribble Selection Tool, select with a deft touch using Refine Edge and all of the basics like painting, touching up and layer arrangement.
This is definitely not a tablet version of the full Photoshop you know, but it does have a lot of the same tricks.
It’s a pretty sweet effect, you can see it in the video below. Fix flaws and retouch images with the healing brush and watch your pixels automatically blend to match. Learn more on our blog Retouching Use spot healing and the clone stamp to remove unwanted elements in a few clicks. One of those is the camera fill effect, with which you can use a flashlight to effectively ‘re-light’ a scene. Photoshop on the iPad brings you key features for retouching, compositing, and more and it’s getting better all the time. Some of them mimic the functions of Photoshop, but some of them use the tablet’s capabilities to expand on what you can do in interesting ways. The app has a ton of features that take advantage of the touch screen, sensors and even camera in the iPad 2. Because of the hardware requirements of the app, it’s only going to work on second generation versions of the tablet.
Releasing Photoshop Touch on Android tablets first, before the iPad was an interesting move for Adobe, but whatever the reason, it’s on the iPad 2 now and it runs $9.99 on the App Store.