Adobe announces new tablet apps and cloud service

Adobe is preparing to launch a suite of mobile graphics tools, including a tablet photo editor called Adobe Photoshop Touch. The company will also offer a cloud storage service for synchronizing content between devices.

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[migs]

"toool" seems excessive, first to post!

 

[Ge0ph]

I wonder if they can patent that?

 

[Francis Kuntz]

We can see that Adobe doesn' like Apple anymore.

Android first, despite they are selling almost no tablet and that software on Android have high level of piracy ahaha.

Good Luck Adobe.

 

[AdamJS]

Everyone keeps using "cloud" where "internet" or "their servers" would suffice.

 

[clutterbox]

Can't you pretty easily do what TypeKit does on your own server without paying Adobe anything?

 

[dlux]

It will also have social features...

Well yes, of course it will. It's only a matter of time before toilet paper gets social features, at this rate.

(And I definitely think they should use Carrot Top to market this thing!)

 

[deet]

So ... Adobe takes an app they already have, adds a stripped-down version of another app they already have, then bundles it together with half a dozen other apps of marginal utility... let's see... all that's missing from this formula is about 600 GB of help files and a $1500 price tag.

 

[odcchaz]

Everyone keeps using "cloud" where "internet" or "their servers" would suffice.

That cause "cloud" is a cute and cuddly word that doesn't have 3 decades of jargon, reputation, and elitism under its belt. Companies can now can say "It's easy working in the cloud" or "your data is safe in the cloud," and consumers hold onto that like a warm blanket.

As for Adobe's offering, I'm not impressed. They should have had this out two years ago, and with bluetooth tie-ins for CS users with real computers. Day one of iPad I said "I want a touch controller for PS" And it took third parties to bring it. Adobe are a big group of winers that worry more about growth than actually creating anything new and useful. I hope Google eventually buys them an releases all their IP to the public domain.

 

[epimethee]

Can't you pretty easily do what TypeKit does on your own server without paying Adobe anything?

Basically, yes, but most quality fonts aren't licensed for hosting on your server.

Typekit also takes care of rendering on different platforms etc.

 

[Shannara]

We can see that Adobe doesn' like Apple anymore.

Android first, despite they are selling almost no tablet and that software on Android have high level of piracy ahaha.

Good Luck Adobe.

Or the review process takes longer? you know, a million other things could be possible. But we do not know at this point.

With that said, if Adobe is dumb enough to not have the same price for both the Android and the iOS version of the product ...

Good Luck Adobe.

 

[ManxStef]

"HTML5 @font-face feature and sIFR"

That's a poor and incorrect description of what Typekit does. They serve fonts via a CDN using @font-face, yes, but it's nothing to do with HTML5: it was first specified in CSS2 and is actually supported as far back as IE4 (yes, IE!).

sIFR (Scalable Inman Flash Replacement) is a mechanism for serving up fonts using Flash, it has nothing to do with Typekit.

 

[SinclairZX81]

"More accessible to mainstream users..."

Groan... More bad work I have to try and fix. Seriously, the world needs to get over the idea that everyone is an artist inside, just waiting for their creative energies to be released in a cloud of multi-hued butterflies.

At first I looked at this with interest. Hey, maybe a tablet-enabled Creative Suite. Nope, just another set of totally gimped "consumer toys" for making doodles and putting mustaches on your best friend's photo.

Disappointing, Adobe. Very disappointing.

The only thing here of any real interest is Typekit. That could be something really nice for *finally* making the web type-aware.

 

[Walt French]

We can see that Adobe doesn' like Apple anymore.

Android first, despite they are selling almost no tablet and that software on Android have high level of piracy ahaha.

Good Luck Adobe.

Or the review process takes longer? you know, a million other things could be possible. But we do not know at this point.

With that said, if Adobe is dumb enough to not have the same price for both the Android and the iOS version of the product ...

Good Luck Adobe.

I wonder if there's a payback for Androids' and even nVidia's long-suffering “support” for Flash. The Tegra 2 supposedly has hardware units to accelerate Flash — units that might go unused for other graphic approaches — and the ROI for nVidia must be pretty miserable, given how few Xooms and other devices got sold.

Review Process delays? Predicted to be several months? You can be sure that Adobe would not want to make that claim, lest they be called out as trolling against a supposed partner.

This could easily be the other side of the coin of the Flash brouhaha. Not that Adobe would want to look so petty, given Microsoft and others' very (ahem) “modest” support for it.

 

[odcchaz]

We can see that Adobe doesn' like Apple anymore.

Android first, despite they are selling almost no tablet and that software on Android have high level of piracy ahaha.

Good Luck Adobe.

Or the review process takes longer? you know, a million other things could be possible. But we do not know at this point.

With that said, if Adobe is dumb enough to not have the same price for both the Android and the iOS version of the product ...

Good Luck Adobe.

There's a very good chance these apps are built on AIR, which means they'll have to totally redesign them for iOS.

 

[MatthewFabb]

Can't you pretty easily do what TypeKit does on your own server without paying Adobe anything?

Basically, yes, but most quality fonts aren't licensed for hosting on your server.

Typekit also takes care of rendering on different platforms etc.

Some free fonts this is allowed but yeah for a very larger number of fonts this would be illegal without using a service like TypeKit.

 

[MatthewFabb]

Adobe have put out iPad controllers for Photoshop and included an SDK for 3rd parties to make their own controllers as well. Those 3rd party tools that you mention likely use Adobe's SDK. Not exactly day 1, but it was announced in less than a year after the iPad had been out.

Adobe still haven't released controllers for the rest of the Creative Suite, as I guess they said they wanted to see the response from customers before investing more. However we migth see more tablet controllers for the rest of the Creative Suit and an expanded SDK with CS6.

 

[Eldorito]

It will also have social features...

Well yes, of course it will. It's only a matter of time before toilet paper gets social features, at this rate.

(And I definitely think they should use Carrot Top to market this thing!)

Facebook will be the company to finally provide us with the three seashells, with "robrob spent 8 minutes taking a dump" added to my life stream.

On the other hand, I am glad that Adobe isn't introducing their own tablet and is instead sticking with what they know. I just read "Adobe announces new tablet" and groaned (before finishing the sentence) and are sticking with what they know. Tablets always have been a perfect tool for artists, I can't wait for the first Android based tablet with a touchscreen aimed at artists to start competing with the overpriced Cintiq, tools like this will help.

 

[StilesCrisis]

There's a very good chance these apps are built on AIR, which means they'll have to totally redesign them for iOS.

Not any more; those restrictions have been lifted (for months now).

Now, you could argue that they should redesign them if they are AIR-based, but that's another can of worms...

 

[oluseyi]

Android first...[?]

Or the review process takes longer? you know, a million other things could be possible.

If you're thinking of releasing a product for multiple platforms and one has a variable-length review period and you have no prior launch date commitments, wouldn't you just hold back release until the product was ready on all platforms - assuming review is the sole bottleneck? You have total control over when your app is released to the Market and App Store, respectively, on both Android and iOS.

It's far more likely that Adobe simply hasn't invested as much in development of the iOS version. At least I hope so, because otherwise that's a huge indictment of Adobe's product management.

 

[Sublimaze]

I'm sure that in typical Adobe fashion the apps will just randomly stop working someday and require an act of congress to reactivate them, even though full price was paid. For more information Google "license no longer active Photoshop", thanks Adobe, great product, you're the Windows of graphic design and photography, good thing it's not overly-expensive, oh wait, it is! Well I guess you got your money, tablet apps by Adobe?? Be afraid...very afraid!!

Signed

Satisfied Customer

 

[Shannara]

Android first...[?]

Or the review process takes longer? you know, a million other things could be possible.

If you're thinking of releasing a product for multiple platforms and one has a variable-length review period and you have no prior launch date commitments, wouldn't you just hold back release until the product was ready on all platforms - assuming review is the sole bottleneck? You have total control over when your app is released to the Market and App Store, respectively, on both Android and iOS.

It's far more likely that Adobe simply hasn't invested as much in development of the iOS version. At least I hope so, because otherwise that's a huge indictment of Adobe's product management.

^^^^^^ Many times this!!

 

[darkwolf777]

The Proto app is interesting at least. Most wire framing apps are either static, or more expensive for the ones that do interactivity. Photoshop Touch has some nice features IF they work as demo'd. For $10 if anyone is really expecting all the features of $600 Photoshop distilled down into a touch friendly app... you're off your rocker. This is basically expanding upon Photoshop Express, adding layers, and some more direct functionality rather than just a few presets and adjustment sliders. The demo showed some nice extracting for compositing images, but I couldn't make out if the edits were destructive to the layer, or if there was the ability to work with layer masks. Also... hello shaky hands!

Other than that, a big meh:

I already have Ideas... though I see it's $6 on the app store now, not $10 like it used to be, so I might upgrade it for the layers.

Kuler is a $10 app version of the free website... awesome?

Collage... why? Other apps do the same for less.

CS Presenter... again, why? And ditto above.

 

[dlux]

Facebook will be the company to finally provide us with the three seashells...

When that happens you'll find me cussing at ATMs for some fresh bumwipe.

 

[zonk3r]

Adobe also announced new versions of Flash and AIR today too. Flash 11 is the first version to fully support 64bit.

 

[wanorris]

As for Adobe's offering, I'm not impressed. They should have had this out two years ago, and with bluetooth tie-ins for CS users with real computers.

Why exactly should they have made a suite of iPad/Android tablet applications available half a year before the iPad was even released?

Overreact much?

 

[wanorris]

Here's what I really want to know: can they deliver a suite of best-of-both-worlds apps for Win 8 Metro tablets?

 

[Walt French]

Adobe also announced new versions of Flash and AIR today too. Flash 11 is the first version to fully support 64bit.

Yeah, cuz as we heard earlier from Lynch, Adobe is now “Mobile First!” And practically EVERY mobile device is 64-bit, with the power/need to run 3D graphics.

Seriously, who takes their roadmaps etc seriously?

 

[dobrien75]

As a software developer that works with Adobe Livecycle, I'm getting a kick out of these replies.