![]() ![]() ![]() Photoshop Touch ups the ante by a large, clackety stack of chips. Touching up photos on the iPad has largely been limited to basic exposure adjustment, fake vintaging, and seeing what you'd look like fat. But if you prefer minute control to messy expression, you might find that Photoshop Touch's array of tools for adjusting color, opacity and gradient make it the best tool for you after all. Custom brush support is cursory, it's tough to get anything resembling natural media, and of course the limitations of the iPad itself make subtle use of line weight and organic transparency nearly impossible. On one hand, Photoshop Touch isn't the most versatile illustration tool on the iPad. Until the hardware evolves, an actual Mac paired with some sort of Wacom tablet will snort derisively at iPad image editing.Įven so, can a professional make good use of Photoshop Touch? Let's look at what the VIPs with MBAs like to call "use cases." ![]() The iPad simply isn't designed for pixel-level editing and pressure-sensitive drawing. The whole interface is as clever as origami and almost as pretty. There are a number of tutorials packed in to get you started, but you can get pretty far poking around the well-chosen icons and seeing what happens. ![]() And, if you want an unobstructed view of your work, each panel retracts with a touch. The right panel displays your layers, and the top of the screen is everything else, from cut and copy to fill and stroke. The left panel, conveniently under the left thumb of right-handers, gives you access to your tools and their settings. Three menu panels function like an Advent calendar of image editing, revealing new delights behind each icon. So how do all these options fit into the limited space of the iPad? Masterfully. From color levels to blend modes, the app feels like a Greatest Hits compilation of Photoshop's most useful features. It's frankly startling how much functionality Adobe has stuffed into this app. Warps, fills, and everybody's favorite workhorse, the noble drop shadow? Done, done and done. Beyond the basics – brushes, erasers, brightness and contrast adjustment, layers, so on and so forth – you get a generous portion of the gimcracks and geegaws that have kept graphic designers from ending it all since the late '80s. It doesn't have all the features of the desktop version, but hey, it's only 10 bucks.įrom color levels to blend modes, the app feels like a Greatest Hits compilation of Photoshop's most useful features.What does 10 bucks' worth of Photoshop get you? All sorts of fun. Thankfully, Photoshop Touch, which Android users have had for a while now, is more worthy of the Photoshop name than its anemic little Express brother. Sure, there's the low-impact – and admittedly free – Photoshop Express, but it is to real Photoshop as non-alcoholic beer is to uncut heroin. One of the reasons: Up until recently it hasn't had Photoshop. The iPad, for all its aesthetic curves and brilliantly clear screen, has generally lacked verve as an image editing platform. ![]()
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