Comments on: Demo: Adobe Nav for iPad for Photoshop CS5

By: nick g

nick g — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:11:08 +0000

there is actually a controller out there (like a video game controller) that you can easily program to work with almost any program. I have one to work with Digital Photo Profession. I have one key programmed to be alt-1, another to be alt-2 and two for forward and back. this is my editing tool. i’m sure that it would work for this as well.

By: Olivier

Olivier — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 13:44:10 +0000

+1
if it work on Iphone with its more than 300dpi screen or ipad 3(HD screen ???) !!
A 100% filter preview windows on the iphone !
So one can preview sharpen for print at 300dpi
Great feature it would be

By: Olivier

Olivier — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 13:38:59 +0000

I love the images view part. The tools part looks still very simple and i will go one using my keyboard.

I can see a wonderfull potential for my training job!
BUT
What i would really love would be the ability to connect several computers at the same time , sending one pic from my pad to all of them in one operation.
I am doing Photoshop training and it would be a great tool to send pics to a whole room of students (customers) computers for exercising (demonstrating), as well i would be able to show/see every pictures of every computers from the room direct from my Pad by sweeping with three fingers for exemple passing from one computers to another! would be amazing to me.
Great tool for training/demonstrating

Not even thinking of replacing the word “room” by the world “Internet” for remote training/demonstrating with an easy routing solution provided by Adobe…!!

Think production, great for your present! Think education, even better for your future !
Thanks for listening

By: David

David — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 06:31:50 +0000

Buttons/Keys are what keyboards do best. Instead of trying to replicate the keyboard’s functions, I’d rather see stuff that the keyboard can’t do as easily, such as sliders, or some multi-touch functions (finger puppet warp! hahahaha…)
Of course, these are the kind of things that might not work as well with whatever interface developers get to Photoshop.

By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 02:49:47 +0000

Is Adobe Nav implemented in Adobe AIR and recompiled as an iPad app? If not, please comment on why? I think it’s a great concept, and I certainly hope Adobe eat their own dog food and write the app in Actionscript.

[Unfortunately at the time this app started development, Apple was still disallowing apps written using ActionScript, AIR, and similar technologies. Had it been done using AIR, Nav could be running right away on Android. --J.]

By: imajez

imajez — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 17:48:56 +0000

Open documents is something I recall asking for in Mini bridge in last cycle. As that would be an ideal way of navigating multiple open files and you wouldn’t an expensive tablet to do so either.
Though obviously being able to do so on a tablet gives other options as mentioned in video.

By: imajez

imajez — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 17:45:07 +0000

Most tools shortcuts are first letter of tool’s name.Though there are some inevitable overlaps, for example the moVe tool uses the sound of the v in the name instead and the eyedropper uses the i for eye, so to speak.
The j for spot removal tool is one I admittedly fail to remember, but then as I so very rarely use it, that’s not that surprising.

By: imajez

imajez — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 17:35:31 +0000

Personally I find choosing a tool by clicking a single key anything but confusing. And very importantly, you get tactile feedback with a physical keyboard which means you can use it without looking at it. And an iPad will quickly get cluttered if you wan to replace all the huge variety of functionality a keyboard is currently used for.
Replacing a £20 item with a £500 item doesn’t exactly make much sense to me either.
As an adjunct to a keyboard, pen and mouse a tablet may add a few tricks that may be of real benefit to some people. I’d like to be able to use it as somewhere to put panels when using a laptop for example. The toolbar tweaking is of almost zero importance to me as I so very rarely use it, all because I use the simple keyboard shortcuts. ;-p

By: Anthony

Anthony — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 15:55:52 +0000

Can’t you do that with e.g. the Logitech mouse app for iPhone?

By: Robert Green Photography

Robert Green Photography — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 12:13:18 +0000

Wow, this SDK should mean that Lightroom can be very closely integrated with Photoshop. So I guess you will be able to get hold ALL the tools within Photoshop and apply them from within Lightroom? So the start of pixel manipulation from within Lightroom. It is very exciting to see where this will take us!

By: scamper

scamper — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 22:18:16 +0000

Adobe is really taking the high road here, and we all benefit. The spate of tools they’re previewing for use with the iPad is just the beginning, and it really does assure me that Adobe’s dev teams are as innovative as they’ve ever been.

That said, I suppose I should take my gripes about Adobe’s Air development elsewhere — Photoshop’s UI reeks of “port,” and I can’t even double-click a window’s toolbar to send it to the dock. Cross-platform development is a scourge. (Oops, I didn’t take my gripes elsewhere after all!)

By: Jeremy Chone

Jeremy Chone — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 19:52:44 +0000

I did not know about Adobe Nav until now, but this is very inspiring. Rather to use tablet to replace PC, using it to extend it is just genius. However, i cannot find Adobe Nav in the app store? Did I miss something? [The app isn't released yet, but it will be soon. Glad you like what you've seen so far. --J.]

By: Bryan O'Neil Hughes

Bryan O'Neil Hughes — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 10:46:30 +0000

Hi Andrew, Yes! The SDK permits (and the Nav app enables) sending imagery both to and from Photoshop – as you mention, many possibilities here!

At this time we operate over a password-protected, LOCAL, wi-fi connection. Your suggestion for a broader, “headless” support of Photoshop is heard though – thank you.

-Bryan O’Neil Hughes

By: François Sechet

François Sechet — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 09:24:49 +0000

I’m not sure using an app to change the tool used is very useful, although some might see it as a specialized keyboard. I probably wouln’t use it.
As for using an app to directly do stuff to the picture à la Wacom Cintiq, no thanks.

BUT: what no one has raised until now (at least I haven’t seen it commented anywhere, and being in China, I can’t see the video either) is the possibility to see a full screen view of the layers (and add some), like for example see a full ipad screen view for fine tuning a levels adjustment, or get the separate RGB channels of a curves layer on the same screen and change it with your finger, or easily access the layer styles… NOW THAT would change my life in photoshop.

By: Stève

Stève — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 08:22:30 +0000

Making interface friendly and usefull is part of the programmer work, not of the user. When i saw “Ipad” and “Photoshop CS5″, i’ve found it pretty exciting ! I imagined myself retouching picture in my sofa or or creating website template in the subway… But here, it’s just a useless remote control ? Hoping for improvement !