INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Adobe currently has three dozens apps in the App Store
But one app is still missing
According to a report from Bloomberg, the company could be working on a full-fledged version of Photoshop for the iPad
And it makes sense for a ton of reasons.
First, it clear that the iPad has become powerful enough to run complicated image editing software
Just two days ago, Serif launched Affinity Designer for the iPad, an Adobe Illustrator competitor
You can also look at benchmarks to find out that the iPad Pro is now more powerful than most mid-range laptops.
Second, now that you can
effortlessly sync your files and projects across multiple devices, many people work using multiple devices
It been true for many years if you&re just working on a Microsoft Word file on your work computer and your personal laptop for instance
Maybe you use Dropbox or OneDrive to stay on the same page
But it also true with huge media libraries now.
A few years ago, people looked at their devices based on contexts
Maybe you had a work laptop, a couch-computing iPad, a big desktop computer for games, etc
But this is a thing of the past now that you can literally work from all your devices.
And when it comes to Photoshop, the Apple Pencil and
touch screen makes the iPad a particularly useful device
Maybe you need a big screen to look at a photo, but maybe you want to use the Apple Pencil to interact with the photo.
Bringing Photoshop to
the iPad could let you seamlessly work on the same file across multiple devices, switching back and forth between those two devices
Illustrators could really use this kind of flexibility and ditch their Wacom tablet.
You might remember that Apple has put together a Pro
Workflow Team for the same reason
You could imagine launching Final Cut Pro X or Logic Pro X on an iMac and on an iPad to interact with a project in different ways
Apple may not be working on Macs with a touchscreen, but it clear that there will be ways to interact with a creative project using your
finger or the Apple Pencil.
Finally, bringing Photoshop to the iPad makes sense on a business model perspective
Now that Adobe has shifted to a subscription model, the company needs to increase stickiness as much as possible
If you end up spending more time in Adobe apps because your favorite app is on all platforms, you&ll keep paying for Creative Cloud every
month.
This project will be an engineering achievement
But this isn&t the first time Adobe is developing a single app for multiple platforms.
TIL the new Lightroom CC is almost entirely built
in Lua, running the same codebase on iOS, Mac, Windows Android using Adobe's new UI system design language
Seems significant…
— Steve Troughton-Smith (@stroughtonsmith) July 13, 2018
Bloomberg says that we might hear more from Photoshop for
iPad at the Adobe Max conference in October
Adobe chief product officer of Creative Cloud Scott Belsky confirmed that the company was working on releasing these new versions as quickly
