Comments on: Love for Photoshop Touch

By: haleonearth

haleonearth — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 05:32:38 +0000

Agreed, the truth often does reside in the middle, and is typically anything but simplistic.

For Mac users, Adobe has been one of the most frustrating companies to depend on over the past ten years. But I believe you (and others) are doing their damnedest.

Thanks for giving Apple users a voice at Adobe.

By: Greg Wostrel

Greg Wostrel — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:09:35 +0000

haleonearth, that’s a valid point. Adobe is touting its tools for giving the ability to deploy to multiple devices all at once. Now, I realize that for a complex app its more complicated than that, but I wasn’t the one to make the claim.
:-)
On another note, its easy to get all Adobe bashing happy but I think the truth is somewhere in the middle. The handful of Adobe people I have met all use and love Apple products and seem to have a desire to just make great stuff.
There is probably some unfortunate corporate BS going on at some level. Always is…

By: haleonearth

haleonearth — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 23:39:12 +0000

Relax, this is Adobe’s typical M.O. Over the past 10 years their behavior has illustrated that they see Apple users as second class citizens. The reasoning was that Adobe was pandering to Microsoft’s dominance. But this latest round of silliness seems to disrupt that theory. Maybe Jobs was right and Adobe as a whole (not John as a person) has become a lazy a**hole. Apparently Adobe refused to help Jobs by updating their apps promptly to Mac OS X, making Premiere, etc.

If we’re to believe Adobe’s great “write once & compile for any mobile device” spiel, and without any forthcoming explanation from Adobe, what are people supposed to think?

By: Brad

Brad — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 22:01:51 +0000

It’s more than strange to come out with the Android version with so long a lag before the iPad. I know you said since iOS is on the roadmap, we shouldn’t read anything into this, but it just doesn’t make sense unless Adobe is using this to try to create a market for Android tablets. I can see stuttering and lag in the demo videos of Adobe Android apps, which to me work as a proof of why not to by an Android tablet.

By: Tsuken

Tsuken — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 10:20:26 +0000

I totally agree with Armand about the image size thing: a 1600×1600 maximum makes this a useless product in my view. The serious tools in photoshop touch only really make sense if they can be applied to decent-size images.

Filterstorm can do it. Photoforge can do it. Seriously, Adobe can’t?

By: Armand

Armand — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 10:10:23 +0000

PS Touch is a really nice product, I wish you could edit larger images though. It still feels like a toy.

You know what would rock? Lightroom for tablets, even if at low resolution (since the editing is non-destructive and saved in XMP, the edits on the tablet could be reapplied in the “desktop” lightroom.

By: Elliot

Elliot — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:32:03 +0000

good reviews.. so adobe can raise the price and fuk the customers with idiotic upgrade policys.

make it work only on android 3 and charge when android 4 devices are release…

then charge again when android 5 is released.
you only have to change a bit or two and can rob the customers blind!!

By: Quentin

Quentin — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 18:03:27 +0000

how much longer are us iOS users going to be left out in the cold? [I believe the officially communicated date is that we're targeting "early 2012" (not tremendously specific, I know). --J.] Photoshop touch was what I had hoped Adobe Carousel would be, as opposed to the instagram type product it turned out to be.