Written By: Artika Shah
American computer software company Adobe System has introduced six new applications for Andriod tablets and the iPad. Of all the new iPad applications, each one is a new cloud-based initiative called the Adobe Creative Cloud. The six Adobe touch applications are Adobe Photoshop Touch, Adobe Collage, Adobe Debut, Adobe Ideas, Adobe Kuler and Adobe Proto.
Professional level of creativity
These striking applications bring a certain kind of professional creativity to millions of tablet users. They address many areas of the creative process such as the image editing, ideation, sketching, mood boards, website and mobile application prototyping and presenting finished work. They are headlined by Adobe Photoshop Touch, a ground breaking application that brings the renowned creative and image-editing power of Photoshop to tablet devices for the first time.
Chief technology officer of Adobe, Mr. Kevin Lynch says, “Adobe Touch Apps deliver high-impact creative expression to anyone who has a tablet. With Adobe imaging magic coming to tablet devices, the new applications such as Photoshop Touch will open up your mind about the potential of the touch interface for creativity and demonstrate that tablets are an essential part of anyone’s creative arsenal.”
The six iPad applications
Let’s have a quick run-down of each of the new iPad applications:
Adobe Photoshop Touch
Adobe Photoshop Touch lets the users transform images with core photoshop features in application custom-built for tablets. With simple finger gestures, the users can combine multiple photos into layered images, make popular edits and apply professional effects. The Adobe Photoshop Touch application helps users quickly find images, view comments through integration with Facebook and Google search and also share creations. By using the synching capabilities that are a component of Adobe creative cloud, the files can be opened in Adobe Photoshop.
Adobe Collage
This application lets the users capture and collect creative images, drawings, and texts and creative suite files into modern, conceptual mood boards. Adobe Collage features a customizable pen which allows for four different types of drawings along with the aptitude to import photos, add text and apply color themes. With Adobe’s new cloud-synching tool, the users can open up these files in Photoshop and do what they will with them.
Adobe Debut
Adobe Debut allows users to present designs to clients and stakeholders virtually at all places. It quickly opens tablet-compatible versions of creative suite files for convenient and beautiful viewing on the tablet including the photoshop layers and illustrators art boards. The feedback is gathered using a markup pen tool to add notes and drawings on top of the work.
Adobe Ideas
This application is an easy-to-master, vector-based tool for drawing. By using a stylus or finger, the strokes appear smooth at any zoom level. Starting with a blank canvas, the users can choose color themes, and pull in tablet-compatible image files that can be controlled at separate layers. The finished results are easily accessed in Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop.
Adobe Kuler
Adobe Kuler application makes it easy to generate color themes that can inspire any design project. The color can be discovered and explored with hundreds of thousands of Kuler themes already available through the creative community. The social engagement in the community is enhanced by rating and commenting on themes, which can be exported as color swatches for Adobe Creative Suite projects.
Adobe Proto
Adobe Proto allows the development of interactive wireframes and prototypes for websites and mobile applications on a tablet. The finished product can be exported in HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The ideas are shared and communicated with teams and clients using a touch-based interface.
Pricing & availability of iPad
The iPad applications will make its debut in early 2012 and will be priced at $9.99. The access to the file viewing, sharing and transfer functionality of Adobe Creative Cloud is included in the price of each Adobe Touch application.
Adobe Touch applications are vital components of Adobe Creative Cloud. Post availability of these applications for ipad in 2012, Adobe Creative Cloud will become a wide-reaching hub for inventiveness, where millions can access desktop and tablet applications, find essential creative services and share their best work.
