Adobe Photoshop Is Now Available For iPad, Illustrator For iPad Coming Soon

Adobe has officially launched Adobe Photoshop on iPad, while also previewing Adobe Illustrator on iPad and the all-new Photoshop Camera. Photoshop for iPad is free (There is a 30-day free trial to try out the app. After that, it requires a $9.99 per month subscription) and is available at the Apple App Store.

Adobe Photoshop on iPad brings core compositing and retouching workflows to the tablet. It features full PSD interoperability, a touch-based UI, cloud document access and the power to work on real world, multi-layered creations. Developed specifically for tablets, Photoshop on iPad is an intuitive, more accessible entry point to Photoshop for new users as well as a great companion app for professional creators.

Adobe also previewed the upcoming version of Illustrator for iPad. Designed with a more intuitive interface, the iPad update will make it possible for users to work with the same documents across devices and have access to Adobe Stock, Adobe Fonts and all Creative Cloud Libraries. 

The app is supported on the following iPad models with iPadOS 13 installed:

• iPad Pro (Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi and Cellular)
• iPad Pro (12.9-inch) and 2nd generation
• iPad Pro (10.5-inch)
• iPad Pro (9.7-inch)
• iPad 5th Generation and above
• iPad Mini 4 and above
• iPad Air 2 and above

Adobe Bringing The Desktop Version Of Photoshop To The iPad In 2019

During Adobe MAX, Adobe Adobe previewed new iPad versions of Adobe Photoshop CC and Project Gemini, a drawing app. Both are due in 2019.

According to Scott Belsky, chief product officer and executive vice president, Creative Cloud, Adobe, the former is redesigned for a modern touch experience, Photoshop CC on iPad will let users open and edit native PSD files using Photoshop’s image-editing tools and will feature the familiar Photoshop layers panel. 

With Photoshop CC across devices, coming first to iPad in 2019, you will be able to start your work on an iPad and seamlessly roundtrip all of your edits with Photoshop CC on the desktop via Creative Cloud, Belsky says.

Project Gemini is a new app designed to accelerate drawing and painting workflows across devices, Project Gemini, coming first to iPad in 2019, combines raster, vector and new dynamic brushes into a single app experience built for drawing. Beksly says Project Gemini enables artists to use and sync their favorite Photoshop brushes and works seamlessly with Photoshop CC.

Adobe also announced major updates to Creative Cloud applications including Photoshop CC, Lightroom CC, Illustrator CC, InDesign CC, Premiere Pro CC and Adobe XD. The company also introduced Adobe Premiere Rush CC, a video editing app for social media creators.

Adobe Will Stop Distributing Flash In 2020

Adobe has announced that it will stop developing and and distributing Flash Player at the end of 2020 because “open standards like HTML5, WebGL and WebAssembly have matured over the past several years, most now provide many of the capabilities and functionalities that plugins pioneered and have become a viable alternative for content on the web.” Adobe says the impending end of Flash is also due to collaboration with its “technology partners,” including Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla.