“Adobe has a new Photoshop app for mobile out today,” Darrell Etherington reports for TechCrunch. “The app, called Photoshop Mix, is an iPad exclusive at launch, and it aims to fill a gap between the company’s existing products by providing users with some unique editing functions aimed at making sharing-friendly remixed images quickly and easily.”
“Basically, Mix is based entirely around the concept of creating simple two-layer compositions that use stacked images to produce interesting results you won’t normally get from one picture with filters applied,” Etherington writes. “The key to all the magic is Adobe’s new intelligent selection tool, which makes it easy to highlight just parts of the image, which you can then either cut out from the background (or foreground), or apply filters and edits to separate selections from the rest of the pic.”
Etherington writes, “Adobe has made this as user friendly as possible, and the ability to selectively apply filters to just parts of an image makes it a great resource for people who like sharing their images on image-focused social networks, such as Instagram. ”
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“While free, and available via the App Store — in contrast to most of Adobe’s other new apps, which are usually only available from the Creative Cloud site — it still requires at least a free Creative Cloud subscription,” Lori Grunin writes for CNET. “The coolest new features of the app, powered by the company’s new software development kit (the Creative SDK), are only available on a trial basis, however: as a splash screen warns you, “Upright, Shake Reduction and Content-Aware Fill are premium features. They are free for a limited time.” There’s no indication as to what that means exactly — in-app purchase or paid Creative Cloud sub. I’m waiting to hear back from Adobe on that.”
“Adobe says Photoshop Touch will remain available because it has a different set of tools: they’re far more powerful in most ways, including support for text and highlight/midtone/shadow adjustments,” Grunin writes. “Mix’s capabilities are both more basic and more sophisticated than Touch’s… While it doesn’t deliver professional-quality masking, cut out does a pretty good job. And you can always tweak it in Photoshop.”
Grunin writes, “Photoshop Mix feels like a version 1.0 product — albeit a very slick one — and is mostly worth trying for the curiosity factor.”
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