Adobe Systems Incorporated has announced the immediate availability of the Adobe Photoshop Touch apps, Adobe Color Lava, Adobe Eazel and Adobe Nav, or Apple iPad in the Apple App Store. These three apps from Adobe were developed using the Photoshop Touch Software Development Kit (SDK) to demonstrate the potential for new interaction between Photoshop and tablet devices.
Adobe Color Lava for Photoshop, Adobe Eazel for Photoshop and Adobe Nav for Photoshop represent somewhat of a breakthrough for tablets, providing them with the ability to enhance the interface paradigms of desktop applications. These applications take advantage of the iPad’s touch screen for a truly immersive, tactile, on-the-go experience, and expand upon inroads made by Adobe in the mobile and tablet market initiated with Photoshop Express, Adobe Ideas and Adobe Connect Mobile.
Adobe Color Lava ($4.99) allows users to use their fingertips to mix colors on the iPad, creating custom color swatches and themes to transfer back into Photoshop.
Adobe Eazel ($2.99) takes advantage of cutting-edge painting technology by letting digital artists create rich realistic paintings with their fingertips, and introduces a new kind of interaction between “wet” and “dry” paints. These paintings can then be sent directly to Photoshop CS5 for compositing or for taking the artwork further. Photoshop will up-res the image for professional quality output.
Adobe Nav ($1.99) improves workflow efficiency by letting users select and control Photoshop tools using the iPad as the input surface, customize the toolbar, browse and zoom in on up to 200 open Photoshop files, or easily create new files.
Adobe Photoshop Touch Software Development Kit (SDK) enables developers to build tablet applications that interact with Photoshop from Android, BlackBerry PlayBook and iOS devices. More information and a trial download is available at the Adobe Photoshop Developer Center.
“The Photoshop Touch SDK makes development possible on numerous devices, including iOS, Android and BlackBerry PlayBook,” John Loiacono, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Digital Media Solutions told MacDirectory. “Utilizing the SDK, developers will have wide access to Photoshop functionality with the freedom to innovate and create new apps or add capabilities to existing ones. Adobe has already engaged with a number of developers to incorporate tablets and other devices into creative workflows that empower Photoshop users in new and groundbreaking ways.”
Current Photoshop CS5 owners can download a free update to enable this new interaction between Photoshop and tablet devices.
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