Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Photoshop for iPad hands-on: an exclusive look”.
Adobe has finally announced a real Photoshop app for the iPad. That’S coming some time. In 2019., We got to try out an early beta version of that and what we saw was pretty promising.. It’S not an exact copy of the desktop app, but its biggest selling point is that it uses real PSD. Files.
Adobe has actually created these new cloud PSD files. That will let you work seamlessly across all your devices and automatically syncs any edits you make to the cloud.. So if you’re retouching a photo on the desktop and you need to adjust some stuff on the go, you can open up that same PSD file in your iPad and continue working on it.. But here’s what happens when you first open up Photoshop.. You have all your cloud documents here and I’m just gon na open up this file made by our illustrator Alex Castro.
On the left. Here you have all the tools that you may be used to seeing in Photoshop., There’s brush gradients, eraser everything you’re used to seeing., And here on the right. You have your layers panel, which is collapsible. Giving you more space to work. And what’s really cool about Photoshop is that you can have as many layers as you want., Compared to some other apps that might limit how many layers you can have or make you buy more. There’S really no limit here.. So keep in mind, this isn’t the finished product.
So a lot of the features like Text or Crop have interface elements here, but just don’t work right, now. And there’s other features like Timeline which aren’t included here at all, so we’re assuming it won’t be in the first version when it launches, which is kind of Unfortunate for animators, who are the ones who could really benefit from a mobile device for such a labor-intensive process.. So we’re gon na try to use the functions that are available and see how far we can get with that., Based on the tools they’ve prioritized on having in this first build. Adobe’S focus for Photoshop on iPad is mainly for compositing., So I’m gon na take a photo of Carly Rae Jepsen and make it look like she’s holding a sword..
I’M gon na go ahead and import some photos and this version of Photoshop can let you import photos from iCloud Drive, Google Drive and Dropbox. I’m going to go to my Camera. Roll and open up this photo of Carly. And then I’m gon na.
Add the picture of the sword.. I can resize the sword and rotate it and bring that closer to her. So it looks like she’s holding it.
I’m going to just erase it, and this might take a while. ( chuckles ). I don’t need to be too precise as long as we get the idea. To undo, you can tap with two fingers. Almost there..
This is gon na look so good., And now I’m gon na adjust the opacity of the sword. So we can look through and see the part of the hand where she’s actually holding it and then I’m gon na erase that. And there you have it. Carly Rae Jepsen, holding a sword., I’m mostly an illustrator.
So, while Photoshop’s missing from the App Store, I found alternative apps like Procreate and CLIP STUDIO. That work for me. Same goes for the photographers designers and motion graphics, artists on The Verge’s art department, who each found their own preferred apps to work on.. But we’ve asked them to take a look at the new Photoshop to give their thoughts and whether they can see themselves using the app..
What’S going on, It’s Alex Castro from The Verge., I’m an illustrator and designer. Hi, my name’s Michelle and I do photo retouching. Hi. I’M Will I’m the design director for The Verge.. I was able to test out the new Photoshop program on the iPad.. It was actually really fun’cause. I got to leave my desk and work on photos which normally I don’t get to do.. I have to stand at my desk or sit at my desk and work, but this time I actually got to pick up this iPad go to the couch sit down and I got to edit, which is really fun and really exciting., Say you’re kind of tracing, something Or you’re drawing you can just rotate it.. So if I’m outlining something, if I wan na get really close, it’s just nice to be able to turn and color in.. I think we’ve all grown up coloring on paper.
So we doing something like this is kind of just instinctual., As somebody coming from a desktop environment using it professionally, every single day, coming to a touch-based UI for Photoshop is really confusing. On the computer. I have a lot of the keystrokes, the keystrokes, that I’ve memorized, and here I don’t have a keystroke.. I didn’t have a keyboard to use, and so I had to click around to try and figure out.
How do I invert a mask. And for a retoucher who gets lots of images a day? Time is of the essence., So it does have this modifier button that allows you to toggle between, say, pink, brush and eraser.. So let’s say your in the pink brush and you’re coloring in Andrew’s hair, and you went too far over you can just press, it says erase and I can just erase.. One thing I did notice was my hand got a little bit sore using this pen.. The Wacom pen that I use is a little bit more cushioned molds, to my hand a little bit better, but I felt my fingers and my palm getting a little bit sore with how I had to grip this pen.. I can see this being very useful in the future, once Adobe adds in a lot of their features that nobody else can get.
Typekit integration, Creative Cloud integration and the mere fact that you can open up Photoshop files natively on the iPad is huge.. So I currently use Adobe, Sketch and Adobe Draw, and one of the benefits of that is that I can save these files as PSD and they upload right to Creative Cloud, which is kind of like a Google Docs for Adobe.. Once it’s uploaded. I can just go to my desktop open that folder and jump right into PSD automatically..
What’S gon na be nice, is I’m gon na be able to work the other way that I can save something on the desktop, save it to the Creative Cloud, and then I can open it up in the app itself. Something you can’t do right now.. As for pricing, it’s gon na be included as part of the Creative Cloud bundle. So if you already pay a subscription for Photoshop and you’ve already invested in an iPad Pro great., If not, there might be a one-time fee for the app, maybe another monthly fee. We don’t know yet., And what does this mean for other Creative Cloud apps? Does this mean that Illustrator and After Effects could be coming to the iPad someday Adobe says it’s definitely something it’s considering in the future..
So that’s our first look at Photoshop for the iPad. Coming in 2019., It’s definitely not gon na replace your entire desktop, but it’s gon na be a really great extension of your workflow. Speaking of workflow.
You can go check out our newest episode of Workflow, in which you can learn how to make an animated GIF in Photoshop, which you actually can’t do on the iPad’cause. It’S not there. Yet.
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