Adobe Photoshop Touch Comes To Android
Adobe sent out a rather large press release yesterday evening complete with six new tablet apps to kick start Adobe Creative Cloud. Available soon as standalone apps, Adobe Touch Apps are essential components of Adobe Creative Cloud, a major new company initiative also announced today. Adobe Creative Cloud will become a worldwide hub for creativity, where millions can access desktop and tablet applications, find essential creative services, and share their best work. Files created via Adobe Touch Apps can be shared, viewed across devices or transferred into Adobe Creative Suite software for further refinement – key features of Adobe’s vision for the Creative Cloud. With stylus capabilities expected to become a key feature on some next generation tablets, Adobe Touch Apps are designed to work with both finger and stylus input.
We’re really excited about the launch of Adobe Photoshop Touch for the Android platform. It lets you quickly combine images, apply professional effects, share the results with friends and family through social networking sites like Facebook, and more — all from the convenience of your Android device. This app offers a range of selection and editing tools, along with processing effects for images up to 1600 x 1600 pixels. In addition, it also supports layers that are retained if you move to the desktop version of Photoshop. There is also close integration with Facebook and Google (including a color and copyright-aware search option) for finding images to edit.
What Are Adobe Up To?
One thing’s for certain they are trying to keep ahead or at least within the game, check out this summary of announcements:
Adobe’s Creative Cloud – Adobe Creative Cloud is a major new initiative from Adobe, which redefines the content creation process taking advantage of the power of cloud technology. It is expected to become the focal point for creativity helping millions access desktop and tablet applications, essential creative services, and share their best work.
Adobe Touch Apps – Redefining creative software, Adobe Touch Apps is a family of six intuitive touch screen applications, designed for tablets and Apple iPad that enable anyone to explore ideas and present their creativity anytime, anywhere.
Adobe Digital Publishing Suite, Single Edition – intended to bring tablet publishing to a broader audience, Adobe® Digital Publishing Suite, Single Edition offers an affordable and flexible workflow for designers to publish a single-issue application for sale or distribution through the Apple App Store. Without writing a single line of code, designers can now use their existing skills to create an iPad application, saving on development costs and allowing them to maintain complete creative control.
Adobe Advances Entertainment Apps for TVs
Samsung, LG and TiVo have become the latest partners to bring Adobe Flash based applications via Adobe AIR to connected televisions and digital home devices. Content partners are now able to take advantage of AIR to deliver console-quality gaming, premium video and sophisticated, data-driven applications across televisions, Blu-Ray players and set-top boxes.
Adobe Announces Agreement To Acquire Nitobi, Creator Of PhoneGap
Adobe has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Nitobi, the creator of PhoneGap and PhoneGap Build. As an open source development tool for building fast, easy, cross-platform mobile applications with HTML5 and JavaScript, PhoneGap will become an integral part of Adobe’s HTML5 tooling and Web standards strategy.
Adobe Acquires Web Typography Innovator Typekit
Adobe has acquired Web font innovator, Typekit. Available as a subscription-based cloud service, Typekit’s vast font library gives designers and developers creative license to deliver beautiful type that enhances the Web experience.
Adobe and WoodWing Accelerate Publishing on Tablets With Adobe’s Industry-Leading Digital Publishing Suite
WoodWing Software will both integrate and resell Adobe Digital Publishing Suite – enabling publishers and businesses worldwide to successfully transition to digital publishing for tablet devices.
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter is a British photography journalist, editor, curator, and the founder of *TheAppWhisperer.com*, one of the world’s leading platforms dedicated to mobile photography and art. Since its launch in 2009, TheAppWhisperer has become an international hub for artists of all levels to discover, learn, exhibit, and engage with contemporary photographic practice.Built on principles of inclusivity, accessibility, and artistic excellence, Joanne has spent almost two decades championing mobile photography as a serious artistic medium. Through interviews, critical essays, exhibitions, competitions, and education, she has helped shape and document the evolution of mobile art on a global scale.Her work has taken her internationally, lecturing on photography and mobile art at institutions and events including the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea, alongside appearances in the UK and Europe. She has served as a juror for international photography and mobile art awards across Portugal, Canada, the United States, South Korea, Italy, and the UK.Joanne is also the founder of *TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com*, one of the first online galleries dedicated exclusively to collectible mobile art, connecting artists with collectors across Europe, the United States, and Asia.Before founding TheAppWhisperer, Joanne worked extensively in print journalism and photographic publishing, including roles at a paparazzi photo agency and as deputy editor of a leading photography magazine. Her freelance journalism, criticism, and commentary have been published widely in both the UK and the US, with bylines in *The Times*, *The Sunday Times*, *The Guardian*, *Popular Photography*, *NikonPro*, *DPReview*, *Which?*, *Vogue Italia*, *LensCulture*, the *BBC*, and more recently, the *Financial Times*, where her published letters on photography continue to contribute to wider conversations around the medium.Alongside her editorial and curatorial work, Joanne’s own photographic practice has been exhibited internationally across the UK, Europe, South Korea, and the United States. Her work increasingly explores themes of grief, loss, death, memory, and the body.Her current research interests centre on grief, death, and poverty, with forthcoming postgraduate study leading towards doctoral research in these areas.Joanne is currently developing new long-form writing and photographic projects and is available for commissions, editorial projects, speaking engagements, and collaborations.Contact: joannetheappwhisperer@gmail.com)
