Adobe Photoshop Express Comes To iPad

John Brownlee (6:21 am PDT, Aug 13 2010)

Adobe Photoshop Express Comes To iPad

If you’re a photo editing professional, the news that Photoshop has finally come to the iPad will probably produce some swelling of ebullience within your breast, but you’d best be served by tamping your enthusiasm down: it is not the finger-controlled Photoshop for iPad that you’ve been dreaming of.

Rather, all we’re looking at here is an updated binary of the old Adobe Photoshop.com Mobile app for the iPhone and iPod Touch, bringing native iPad support to the mix. That app will allow you to do some cropping and rotating and color adjustment on your photographs, but not much more than that.

If that’s all you want from an iPad photo-editing app, fantastic: Photoshop.com Mobile is absolutely free. I just wish we’d seen a more meaty update to indulge my desire for more substantial couch-side putzing about.

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4 comments »

  • TheBrew

    I just wish they’d stick to using the iOS UI elements, but hey, what else is new?

    They actually spend time on NOT using the elements users will feel at home with. Incredibly bad concept.

    Actually a perfect example of how a cross-platform compile of a Flash app would look.

    Please, Apple, buy Adobe, fire the guy with the bad ideas, pull the plug on Flash and make a couple of brilliant programmers do a great HTML5 authoring tool. Maybe Fridays could be UI day?. ..just a thought.

  • omegaone37

    I downloaded this new version… fired it up… it promptly quit and started up Photogene! This happens every time I start up PS Express. Seems to be a POS program.

  • kit

    When I fire it up it also quits and launches mobileoffice. So what’s going on??

  • http://www.fuzzypig.com Fuzzypig

    Whoa, whoa. You don’t have to be a professional snapper to use Adobe photo editing kit. I do a hell of a lot of photgraphy in my spare time ( getting through about 6-700 shots a week on average. I use fully paid up copy of Photoshop to edit all my shots, but I am still very much just a keen amateur snapper.

    Just ‘cos you have huge bag of kit and a nice DSLR, doesn’t make you pro. This attitude is getting a lot of photographers picked on by over-zealous private security guards and local law enforcement the world over.

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