Adobe is reportedly planning to bring its flagship Photoshop app to the iPad. The company is currently going through a multi-year strategy-shift which involves transitioning its desktop apps to a cross-platform architecture. This will allow the firm to make full-version of its desktop apps available across mobile devices, without compromising the desktop experience.
Photoshop will be the first app to get a full version on the iPad, followed by Illustrator. Adobe is currently developing a full version of Photoshop on the iPad, and the company plans to introduce it at its MAX conference in October. A public release won’t happen until 2019, though.
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“My aspiration is to get these on the market as soon as possible. There’s a lot required to take a product as sophisticated and powerful as Photoshop and make that work on a modern device like the iPad. We need to bring our products into this cloud-first collaborative era,” said Adobe’s chief product officer of Creative Cloud.
Adobe’s next-gen applications will also bring the ability to make edits on the fly. Creatives apparently want to be able to make edits on the fly on Adobe applications across all their machines, and being able to sync their projects across all their devices will be quite helpful.
The firm won’t completely replace the existing Photoshop app on the desktop with the “modern” version. These modern apps will have mobile-friendly interfaces and will be delivered alongside the existing desktop versions of Photoshop at first. Once they mature and are competent of replacing Photoshop on the desktop, Adobe could end-up replacing the full desktop Photoshop app with the modern, cross-platform version.
For Apple, Adobe launching a full version of Photoshop on the iPad is a huge breakthrough. For years, Microsoft’s Surface devices — especially the Surface Pro — undercut iPads like the iPad Pro by being able to run full versions of Adobe’s Creative Cloud apps. With the launch of Photoshop on iPad, that could soon change, and Apple’s iPad could be the one with more powerful Creative Cloud apps in a few years time.
skane2600
<blockquote><a href="#291394"><em>In reply to lpaso:</em></a></blockquote><p>I'm skeptical of your claim, but in any case, the market share that matters is WP vs ALL smartphones not just iPhones. I could easily imagine that in poorer countries cheap Android phones might dominate the market.</p><p><br></p><p>Besides, unless we believe Microsoft management are idiots, we know that they wouldn't give up or demphasize a product that was making a sustainable profit.</p>
PeterC
<blockquote><a href="#291384"><em>In reply to lpaso:</em></a></blockquote><p>At this risk of sounding like "Captain Picky Pants", MS have invested a lot, a heck of a lot. It just hasn't worked out as they and their users would have liked/hoped. For a wide variety of reasons spanning people, their ego's, poor strategy, poor implementation etc etc. Its how it is. How that changes isn't easy, although a total consumer crisis of confidence in Google/Android or apple/iOS might go some way to opening the door wide enough for a mobile OS change – possible but unlikely at the moment.</p><p><br></p><p>MS will undoubtedly return to mobile in a variety of ways apart from their iOS and android apps dev work. Just don't expect a smartphone device. I feel sure by 2019/20 there will be a plethora of surface devices that fold, dock, flip (hopefully not flop) and pack huge power to get the job done, some might answer calls! if anybody actually still calls one another then of course.</p>
PeterC
<blockquote><a href="#291412"><em>In reply to curtisspendlove:</em></a></blockquote><p>yes I reckon so too, I suspect they will look to see how many *new buyers* come on board versus existing surface/office customers adding to their equipment list. Thats the pool of marketable first buyers for any andromeda type device, IMO.</p>
skane2600
<blockquote><a href="#291384"><em>In reply to lpaso:</em></a></blockquote><p>What?? MS almost screwed the pooch trying to invest in mobile devices. They'd most likely be in a stronger position today if they had ignored it.</p>
skane2600
<blockquote><a href="#291446"><em>In reply to lvthunder:</em></a></blockquote><p>Such sweeping generalizations. Obviously more development is required for iOS and Android to catch up to what already exists on Windows. Some changes in those OS's will probably have to happen first to get there. If they ever reach that level of coverage I'd expect development on those OS's will slow except for trivial or mobile-specific apps.</p>
skane2600
<p>Did I miss the quote from an Adobe official explicitly stating "we are going to bring full Photoshop to the iPad"? I don't think the word "full" can be assumed.</p>
Bats
<p>This is a GAME CHANGER! </p><p><br></p><p>This releases graphic designers and photo editors from their dependency on Windows and further advances the desktop into the sunset. </p><p><br></p><p>I don't believe what Meddhi said when he stated, "<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">For years, Microsoft’s Surface devices — especially the Surface Pro — undercut iPads like the iPad Pro by being able to run full versions of Adobe’s Creative Cloud apps." To be honest, I don't know serious graphic design professional who uses Surface devices to do their work. The UI buttons are too small. With Adobe changing the UI, that makes much more sense to do. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">When Photoshop gets to Android or ChromeOS, Windows would even be more in trouble. </span></p>
dontbe evil
<blockquote><a href="#292040"><em>In reply to Bats:</em></a></blockquote><p>I will wait…seated…</p>
dontbe evil
<p>ROTFL</p>