ADOBE RELEASES PHOTOSHOP COMPANION APPS FOR APPLE’S IPAD
by horacioduek - 10.05.2011 / Design News • Web
Adobe’s three Photoshop CS5 companion applications for iPad — Adobe Ezel, Nav and Color Lava — are now available for purchase on the App Store. Adobe’s new Creative Suite 5.5 was released last week with iPad support for Photoshop, but users have not yet been able to take advantage of that functionality. That changed on Tuesday, Adobe’s applications became available on the App Store. The Photoshop Touch SDK and new scripting engine allow Android, BlackBerry Tablet OS and iOS applications to drive an interact with Photoshop on the desktop. While other platforms are supported, the first Photoshop Touch Software Development Kit products are only available for Apple’s iPad.
This is good news! When the iPad came out, I have to admit I was tempted, but I held off buying one because I just didn’t see the point. It’s either an over-sized iPod or an iPhone that can’t call. As such, it never really gave any added benefits to what someone could get for a much lesser price tag.
Now that Photoshop has, to a degree, been made for iPad’s and more work can be done on them, they have become a far more useful device and tool to have. However, I still don’t think they have enough of an added benefit to anyone’s lives to be worth having over a computer or iPod depending on what you want to do. Sure, as shown in the video, you can sync up what you’re doing on your iPad to the computer, however it’s still an added length to go to when you could just do the work on the computer in the first place.
The day when they become the replacement to the computer, or certainly much more capable, is the day when I will sit up and pay more attention to them, and it’ll be then and only then when I purchase one.