The incredible effort to bring Photoshop to the iPad
unlocked a lot of innovation at Adobe
and prompted the question:
What other creative endeavors can we transform
on a touch surface?
And that got us thinking about an activity
that underlies everything we do as creative people.
For most of you,
it's probably what initially kindled
your love for creativity.
I'm talking about drawing.
From the earliest cave paintings
40,000 years ago, to the Renaissance,
to back-of-the-napkin sketches,
or a new app today,
drawing and painting are two of the most fundamental means
of human expression and connection.
Complex illustrations, full-length films, websites,
even experiences in new mediums like AR
start out with a drawing.
And drawing and painting have been a part
of Adobe tools for decades.
Photoshop has had brushes since its first release,
and drawing and painting are still among
the most common activities in Photoshop.
But we believe that drawing and painting deserve
a specialized digital tool
that brings the field to a whole new level.
And that's why we're excited to preview Project Gemini,
our new dedicated drawing and painting application
for the iPad.
When we set out to build that tool,
we asked ourselves,
"Who is the right person to help create
an amazing drawing and painting application?"
And we were lucky enough to bring on someone
who has created more than 1,600 digital brushes,
brushes that have been downloaded
more than a million times.
His name is Kyle Webster.
You may know him as the brain behind Kyle's brushes
and he is a core part of the team
building Project Gemini.
Please welcome Kyle Webster
and our design leader for Creative Cloud,
someone who I've worked with for many years,
Eric Snowden, to show you Project Gemini.
Eric and Kyle.
(applause)
Great, thank you, Scott.
So, we're really excited to share Project Gemini
with all of you for the first time today.
So, like Scott just said,
Gemini is a dedicated painting and drawing application
that takes Adobe's decades of experience
across multiple tools in this field
and brings it into a single application
that is powerful enough for professionals
but easy enough for anyone to pick up and start using.
So, I'm gonna launch Project Gemini,
and this should look really familiar
to what you just saw in the Photoshop demo,
because Gemini can actually open up
Photoshop documents as well.
So that's what I'm gonna do,
I'm gonna open up this PSD inside of Gemini,
and this is something that we started on the desktop
and we're bringing onto the iPad
to continue working.
All of my layers come in full fidelity.
And so this should look pretty familiar
to the other apps we've shown, but there's a couple
of really important differences in Gemini.
We've really thought specifically about
workflows for illustrators.
And the first thing hopefully you'll notice
in the upper left-hand corner
is we have three different brush icons,
and Kyle's gonna show off some of those capabilities
in just a minute,
but we've really rethought all of the things
that illustrators do hundreds of times a day
like selecting brushes and selecting colors.
So I want to draw on this image here,
I'm gonna add some additional leaves.
And so I'm gonna tap to select a brush,
to open my menu, tap again to select leaves,
tap again to open my color panel,
and I select a really bright color,
tap to dismiss, and then I start drawing,
so there's actually a lot of tapping,
and especially if you're switching brushes
and colors hundreds of times a day,
that becomes really, really tedious.
So, in Gemini, you can actually pull the panels off
and dock them out on the screen to keep them open.
You can dock them to the left-hand side.
I can even open up multiple panels at the same time,
close my layers.
I've got a ton of control
over how I lay out the application.
I can make it work the way I need it to work.
So, my preferred way of drawing, actually,
is a little bit more minimal.
I love Gemini's fullscreen mode.
So when I go into fullscreen mode,
all of the tools just get out of my way.
I've got a very minimal UI where I've got a tool switcher,
a touch modifier just like in Photoshop,
and I've got my layers on the right-hand side.
So I'm going to find this leaf, I think, at the bottom here,
and I want to make it a little bit larger.
It's just too small for this composition.
So, I select the leaf, I tap and my toolbar expands,
I select my scale tool, scale it up, click Done.
So I'm actually doing real work within fullscreen modes.
In a lot of other applications, you're having to jump
in and out of fullscreen mode to switch tools.
It can be really tedious if you're drawing all day long.
The last thing I want to show
is I'm gonna erase some of these leaves.
I went a little bit crazy with this Photoshop brush here,
and I have leaves sort of spilling
over the edge of the vase.
In order to do that, I long-press here,
I can select a different brush,
and then, if I hold down my touch modifier,
it turns into the eraser just like Photoshop,
I can start erasing.
So I can draw, I can erase, I can draw and erase
just by holding down one finger.
Just a really simple way to work within Gemini.
So, once I'm happy with this, if I want to save this,
all I have to do is close out of the document.
Everything in Gemini is stored
in Creative Cloud automatically.
And so once that's saved, I can go over to my desktop,
so I've got my Mac here,
and I have the exact same file over on the Mac,
I've got all of my layers in tact,
I've got all of the same brushes.
Again, a full fidelity file.
So Gemini has true round-tripping
back and forth with Photoshop, so you can use them together,
which is really amazing.
So, that's a lot of workflow stuff
that's very specific to illustrators,
and actually none of that really matters
if Gemini doesn't have the best marks,
so I'm gonna ask Kyle to show off
some of the new brushing capabilities
inside Project Gemini.
Great, thank you, Eric.
Okay, so, friends, there is such a rich ecosystem
built around the power of the Photoshop brush engine.
In fact, there are more Photoshop brushes
floating out there in the world
than any other kind of digital brush,
and it's because they're just so fun to use.
And I'm gonna use one of my favorites right now
here in Gemini to start painting
a little spatter background for an illustration.
You can see that the colors and the textures
are changing subtly as I tap the screen
and that's only possible with a Photoshop brush
thanks to Color Dynamics.
I'm gonna select a little pink here,
add a little bit more color, look how fun that is,
and then I think I'll use a little bit of purple,
there we go, lovely, lovely.
As much as I love Photoshop brushes
and I can talk about them all day and all night,
when I want precision, when I want crisp,
clean line art, I reach for a Vector brush, and guess what?
In Gemini, I can just select a Vector brush
and start drawing.
You have Vector brushes and Raster brushes
playing together in the same app.
So, when I start to draw with a Vector brush,
Gemini intelligently instantly creates
a separate layer for my Vector Art,
and because it's Vector Art,
if I want to scale it up a little bit,
rotate it, there we go,
there's no pixelization
because it's infinitely scalable.
So I'm gonna draw a little happy face here,
and if I want to later take this line art
that I've created here in Gemini
and port it over to Illustrator and do a little bit more work,
I can, of course, do that.
I'll bounce back to a Photoshop brush here,
and Gemini says, "Oh, you're using a Photoshop brush!
No problem, I'll pop you back
to the most recently used Raster layer,"
and that's exactly what it does,
so I don't have to think about layer management there.
No problemo.
Now we've even thought about tools
that you've been using for years and years
and rethought how they work.
For example, the lasso tool, one of my favorites.
I'll zoom in here and I'll start to make a selection
around the edge of her face,
and then I'm gonna lift up the stylus,
say hello to everybody and wave,
and lo and behold, I have not lost my selection.
I can just keep drawing it whenever I'm ready.
Isn't that nice?
Yes.
(applause)
And I love the polygonal lasso tool,
but I don't like having to switch back and forth,
so once again, I can lift up my stylus
and all I have to do is tap on the screen,
and anywhere I tap, I am instantly creating
a straight edge selection
as part of that entire selection, beautiful.
So this is the lasso tool
we've all been dreaming of, right?
Now, if I want to invert my selection,
because I want to paint on the left side of her face
and make sure I don't paint on her face,
you'll see that at the very bottom of the screen,
all of the most commonly used actions
immediately appear.
So I can invert, then I can select
that same lovely spatter brush,
I think I'll use a little bit of blue here,
and I'll just paint here outside the face.
No worries.
And just to unify my color palette,
I'll use a bit more of that pink,
there we go, and in a matter of just a couple of minutes,
we have an illustration that was created
with Photoshop brushes and Vector brushes
playing harmoniously in the same drawing environment.
That's wonderful.
Yes, I'm happy, too.
(applause)
But we have completely rethought brushes
and brush behavior altogether with Gemini,
and I'm gonna show you what I mean.
Very excited about this.
We have a completely new category of brushes
you'll notice up here in Gemini,
and that is the live brushes.
And I'll start with the oil paints.
Yes, I said oils.
Now, since we're in Los Angeles
and the weather is beautiful and warm
and you could eat ice cream
pretty much any time of the year,
let's paint a little ice cream.
Now, I'm just gonna start painting,
and I'm using very light pressure.
And you can see that the canvas texture
is coming through as I paint,
and that's really beautiful.
Let me zoom in a little bit. Right?
But I can actually decide
that I want to paint with super thick paint,
so I'll just crank the thickness all the way up to 100,
and now watch what happens.
Look at this ooey, gooey paint.
Look at that!
It remains wet for as long as I want it to,
it's totally active,
and I can paint with this kind of oil paint
for as long as my heart desires,
I can create layers with it,
and watch what happens when I mix some color.
I'll use some purple here in the bottom right.
Ooh.
It picks up some of the pink that's already there,
it blends it in.
How fun is that?
(applause)
And I think I'll add a little highlight up here
and I can just smudge it all in there.
Look at that, so fun, oh, it's so fun.
All right, I'm gonna get stuck
playing with this for way too long,
but let's continue painting our ice cream cone.
I'll zoom out a little bit,
we'll add a little smudgy bit down there,
add a little highlight just across,
and, again, we're in a digital environment.
I don't have to just paint on the same layer.
I'll just create a layer underneath it
to paint my cone.
Can't do that in real life.
There's a cone, I can blend in some orange.
Ooh, look at that.
And then I'll just size my brush way down,
and watch this, I'm gonna carve right into it
to make my waffle cone.
And see it pull some of that color with it?
So fun, let me zoom in so you can see that.
Look at this!
It's bananas.
Now, that's really fun
and, yes, I could do that all day as well,
but we didn't stop with oil paints,
because everybody loves watercolor.
So, let me show you what we did with our watercolors.
Maybe you are watching the old LBs
and you don't want to have an ice cream,
maybe you'd rather have a pear.
So let me paint a little pear for you
with our new watercolors, watch this.
I'm gonna grab some yellow,
and as I start to paint,
the color actually blends and flows
directly into the areas that are wet, look at this.
This is real live watercolor.
Now I'm gonna grab some orange
and you'll see how the color
pulls into where I've already painted
and flows naturally.
I can control exactly how much water
I have on my brush at any time
with this handy-dandy slider right here.
We'll add some green right here on the right,
finish out that shape.
Look how pretty that is.
Can you all see that moving?
It's moving in real time.
So much fun.
Thank you, and let's put a little stem in there.
You can see the paint just kind of--
ooh, that's beautiful.
And then I'll pull that stem out
and then you can watch it just flow in there.
And one of my favorite things to do with real watercolors
is to just use water.
Don't bother with the pigment at all.
So I'm just gonna suck out all the color of that brush
and now it's just pure water,
and watch what happens when I drag the brush
just along the bottom here,
and when it makes contact with the pear,
look at that.
All that paint just goes flowing
into whatever area of the paper is wet.
So you can do wet into wet painting
just like real watercolor.
And that is really fun.
And here's something you can't do in the real world.
I think I'll add a highlight by just erasing!
Ta-da!
So, let's just look at all these options.
We have, in Gemini, three different
incredibly powerful categories of brushes.
We have Photoshop brushes,
we have infinitely scalable, precise Vector brushes,
and now we have groundbreaking,
incredible natural media emulation brushes
with our new live brushes.
This makes Gemini a world-class tool
for illustrators everywhere,
and I can't wait to see what you all make with it.
Thank you.
(applause)
So, thank you, Eric and Kyle,
two amazing artists at work, huh?
One more round of applause for that.
I could have just watched that forever.
(applause)
And I feel like the paints look gooey.
Like, if you actually touch the iPad,
your hands would get wet.
It's just an extraordinary technology
to see come to life.
So, to summarize Project Gemini,
it brings together true, freehand Vector
and Raster illustration.
The live brushes recreate watercolor
and oil-based painting in an amazingly lifelike way.
You'll be able to use
all of your favorite Photoshop brushes
synced through Creative Cloud.
Project Gemini will come to iOS next year,
and while Gemini is powerful enough
for creative professionals,
we also think its versatility and just plain fun
will spark a renewed interest in drawing and painting.
So Photoshop and Project Gemini
kick off a new era as Creative Cloud
becomes available on multiple devices and platforms,
including Windows, iOS, and Android,
to liberate your creativity.
That's really what we mean by liberate your creativity.