“Adobe Systems Inc., the maker of popular digital design programs for creatives, is planning to launch the full version of its Photoshop app for Apple Inc.’s iPad as part of a new strategy to make its products compatible across multiple devices and boost subscription sales,” Mark Gurman and Nico Grant report for Bloomberg. “The software developer is planning to unveil the new app at its annual MAX creative conference in October, according to people with knowledge of the plan. The app is slated to hit the market in 2019, said the people, who asked not to be identified discussing private product plans.”
“Adobe’s main suite of media-editing products is known as Creative Cloud — a subscription service that gives users access to apps including Photoshop, Premiere and Illustrator on Mac and Windows computers, and companion mobile apps such as Photoshop Mix on the iPhone and iPad. The current Creative Cloud apps are based on aging architectures with different underpinnings for each device,” Gurman and Grant report. “The new versions of the apps will allow users to run full versions of the programs on Apple’s iPad and continue edits on different devices, the people said. ”
“Adobe’s chief product officer of Creative Cloud Scott Belsky confirmed the company was working on a new cross-platform iteration of Photoshop and other applications, but declined to specify the timing of their launches,” Gurman and Grant report. “Adobe’s customers, particularly in media and entertainment, are increasingly working on tablets rather than desktop computers, and have asked the company for the capability to make “edits on the fly” to their creative projects, Belsky said.”
“Running Photoshop and other professional Adobe apps on the iPad would be an endorsement for the device, which first went on sale about eight years ago,” Gurman and Grant report. “Apple co-founder Steve Jobs presented the iPad with a vision that it could ultimately replace laptop computers for many people. But over the past few years, iPad sales growth has slowed. Recently released Pro models have re-ignited interest in the category, and a combination of the new hardware and professional software could help Apple further achieve that initial goal… Newer versions of the iPad Pro are now powerful enough to support Adobe’s apps, Belsky said.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Ouch time for the likes of Affinity Photo and Pixelmator, but very good news indeed for Apple’s iPad Pro!
As we wrote last August, “Since its inception, iPad has always been the future of personal computing for the masses, it just really needed what iOS 11 will soon deliver to fulfill its promise!”
For the vast majority of current Mac users and PC sufferers, Apple’s iPad truly could be their next personal computer, thanks to iOS 11.
As our own SteveJack remarked seconds after Apple’s Craig Federighi unveiled iOS 11’s new features (namely, Multi-Touch Drag and Drop, the new Dock, and the Files app):
Finally, the promise of iPad is realized. – SteveJack, MacDailyNews, June 5, 2017
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Listen, we want new MacBooks. We’re Mac users. We love Macs. We’ll be getting them (to replace our beloved 11-inch MacBook Airs). But, we won’t need them on the road anymore as soon as iOS 11 is loaded onto our new iPad Pros.
In fact, the new MacBooks might be the last Mac notebooks we ever buy. About that, of course, we’ll be a little sad, but we believe that the iPad is the portable Mac of the future. And, as Mac users, we like to push forward. As always, we have no respect for the status quo. — MacDailyNews, June 21, 2017
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What’s more natural than dragging and dropping with your finger? It’s certainly more natural than doing so with a mouse. With iOS 11, many people’s biggest conundrum for their next road machines went from MacBook vs. MacBook Pro to 10.5-inch iPad Pro vs. 12.9-inch iPad Pro. — MacDailyNews, June 9, 2017
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We find that there are many older users longing to make iPad work like a laptop, because that’s what they know.
Take a look at a twelve-year-old who’s only really ever used an iPad for personal computing. It’s an eyeopener. It’s like looking into the future.
The answer isn’t to try to make the iPad into a MacBook. The answer is to provide all the tools possible in iOS for developers to make robust apps that can take advantage of the multi-touch paradigm. — MacDailyNews, May 16, 2017
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Yes and Adobe will make Photoshop available on the iPad Pro discounted for only $369 a month!
Interesting, but a lot of aspects of Photoshop would be very, very difficult to utilize without the precision input of a mouse, and if you add one to an iPad, you pretty much have a computer.
The iPad is a computer, but it’s not a personal computer. Personal computers are curated and managed by their owners. That’s what makes them personal.
That’s why the iPad Pro has a Pencil. It can do the fine work.
Precision input of a mouse? Drawing with a mouse is tantamount to drawing with a bar of soap. If you need help with your laces just ask.
“Drawing with a mouse is tantamount to drawing with a bar of soap.”
No! It is obvious you have never used a mouse to draw …
Two words!
Lee Brimelow!
The legend!
Photoshop and Lightroom CC are $10 a month with a subscription and well worth the money for those who need it and are intelligent enough to use it. For the burger flippin’ crowd such as yourself just stick to your coloring books and crayons and let the adults handle things.
Your attitude and tone sounds like that of a burger-flipper. Weak.
I’ve really been wanting a full version of lightroom on the iPad. Edits with the apple pencil would be great!
The current Creative Cloud apps are based on aging architectures with different underpinnings for each device…
That should be Adobe’s motto.
Pixelmator and Affinity Photo do about 75-90% of what PS can and for a lot less money over the long haul… and probably provide more than what most users actually use, as well.
220 dollars or more a year forever to Adobe…No.
My often expressed dream of working on the same image with both divices intrinsically linked with the Mac screen zoomed out while you work zoomed in tight on the iPad with your fingers or pen more organically just got a big step closer. Best of both worlds creating the ground work in the traditional manner with mouse and maths then moving to that subtle detailing that can bring an image to life with the iPad. Working together there would be nothing to touch the possibilities and far better than a compromise ‘combined device’ experience.