Adobe plans to bring the full version of Photoshop to the iPad next year

[Arthur]

I hope Adobe are working on a Chrome OS version of Photoshop too (like they are doing with Project Rush)!

 

Sources: Bloomberg (via Ars Technica, The Verge)

 

Adobe is working on a full version of the popular photo-editing program Photoshop for Apple's iPad, according to a Bloomberg report. Sources claim the software company plans to announce the new app at its annual MAX conference this October, with the app's launch scheduled for sometime in 2019.

 

The new app would reportedly allow users to run a full version of Photoshop on an iPad and continue edits on another device like a desktop PC. Scott Belsky, Adobe's Creative Cloud product head, told Bloomberg that the company is working on "cross-platform iteration of Photoshop and other applications," but he declined to provide a timeline for their release.

“My aspiration is to get these on the market as soon as possible,” Belsky said. “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.”

 

While the news of these plans will be exciting for Photoshop diehards, it's not surprising. Adobe has been working on modernizing its software for years—the company switched to a cloud-based subscription system for all of its programs, including Photoshop, back in 2012. Since then, Adobe has also come out with numerous apps that make some of the most beloved and useful features of its programs accessible on mobile devices: Photoshop Mix for creating multilayered images, Photoshop Sketch for drawing, Photoshop Express for basic photo editing, and more.

 

But those programs only harness small parts of Photoshop CC's full power when used on a PC. The forthcoming program would presumably allow users to do everything possible in Photoshop on a desktop on their iPad. It's also probable that, unlike the most existing Photoshop-branded apps, the full Photoshop on iPad will be tied to a Creative Cloud subscription

[Arthur]

Adobe’s finally bringing Photoshop to the iPad in 2019, and it’s introducing a new cloud PSD file format that’ll let you work on the same file across multiple devices with Creative Cloud. We got to test an early version of the app and our art department had a lot to say about it.

 

 

[psydii]

It is somewhat dependant on some unique features of a modern iPad. It will be some years before chrome books come with a genuinely comparable CPU/GPU and high def touch. Quiet excited by this. There was a chap at Bett a couple of years ago who alluded to this tight integration piece being fundamental to their future edu /tablet offering, and was very interested in roadblocks (e.g. the cost of creative cloud vs the traditional k-12 licence)