So it's finally here this is Adobe Photoshop for the iPad
the full version! So it's been over a year since we did our original video
about that and it seems to take forever for Adobe to release this app but it's
out today now it's not officially launched but I do have the direct
download link on the app store if you want to see that check out the
description below and I'll put that link in there I've been using this now for
about three hours it seems pretty good and I'll give you a bit of an overview
of it in a second so I think we should just jump into and
have a look what's new in Photoshop for the iPad okay so let's open up Photoshop
on the iPad so it loads up very fast it's a very similar homescreen to the
desktop version you can suggest new features here to Adobe you can see your
recent files there's also a learn section which is quite good it teaches
you how to use the new version of Photoshop for iPad and I'd recommend
doing that because a lot of the gestures and tools are a little bit different to
the desktop version so I'm going to do that this evening before I do the full
review but let's jump into it so you can import an open from files from your
camera roll if you've got Dropbox or Google Drive enabled you can also import
from that so I'm gonna open up let's see I'm gonna open up from the files app I'm
going to open up a thumbnail example that we've worked on for a recent video
this was our final cut pro 10 masking tutorial and you can see here it's
opened up the Photoshop file with all the layers which is really really good
and I was playing around with this earlier there's a few extra layers that
shouldn't be there but essentially everything works as it should so let's
say I want to adjust the text here I can select that you can see here that this
font isn't installed but we can change that font to another one let's just
change that
and then we're gonna make that bold you can adjust the size the color as you
would expect let's take that bet there we go
you even have hex codes and everything you would expect from a normal Photoshop
you can do a color picker so let's say we want to pick it and make it a gray
color you can do that so that's pretty good but let's go through some of the
tools here on the Left it's gonna click done there so on the left here you have
your selection tool so if you want to select an icon you can move that around
or a object within a layout that works fine
you have the transform tool and a few different options for the transform tool
which is pretty cool so if you need to move or rotate an
image you can see there in the corner we're doing that we have the quick
selection and marquee tools they all work so you can draw around they create
a selection you can deselect it you can mask it erase it invert it all the
things you would expect from the desktop version of this so we're gonna do you
select that you have the paintbrush tool and if you hold that down you get
options for loads of different paint brushes there so if we create let's
create a new layer let's just just paint on top of that so it's clicked a red
color so you can see there that works as you would expect
I left the Apple pencil at home but I'll be doing a full test with the Apple
pencil a bit later on you've got the eraser tool as you would
expect you've got the paintbrush tool and a
gradient tool let's give that a test let's create a new layer there we go
works fast it doesn't seem to be any slow down here it does seem to be
working very very quickly which is good let's just hide that you've got a
Healing Brush tool which seems to work obviously this isn't the best image to
use to be honest there's not not great deal of things here but let's just say
let's let's get down to this beach layer let's
try and get rid of say like so you've got a duplicate and flatten to edit
let's do that so let's get rid of these little dots here in the sand there we go
and we can see that that works pretty well so I'll do it a full test when we
when we have there some better images here but you can see you've got some of
the tools that that come from the desktop and they seem to be working very
fast very fluid and working pretty well you've got text tools and you've got
whole selection of fonts as you may know already you can import fonts from the
Adobe iOS apps as well so that all worked pretty well let's click done on
there you can import images from your camera roll from your camera you can I
drop at all and the color selection tool on the right hand side here you have
your layers you've got effects and things like that
one thing I have noticed though let's say you know we've imported this photo
here and normally in Photoshop you would use it to edit your photos you may want
to increase or decrease the brightness or contrast at the moment that don't
doesn't seem to be a way to actually add any effects like that you can see down
here when you go to effects it says this feature isn't yet supported on this
device so that is a little bit disappointing that if you've got photos
you can't adjust the brightness the contrast the saturation it really seems
to be at the moment just a companion app to the desktop version if you want to
move things around or if you want to do some sort of minor adjustments it does
say it's coming so hopefully within a week or so we may see that feature added
and of course we'll look at that in the full review but overall you know from a
quick view here from a quick look it seems to be working very fluidly it's
very fast there's no crashes export features if you look here there aren't a
great deal of publishing in export tools but you can export in PNG in jpg in PSD
and in a tiff and you can change the quality of the size there at the moment
as well it's worth pointing out there's no CMYK there's
the RGB so really you can only use this for for soft web and video you can't
really use this yet for for print media so if you're designing flyers or
leaflets you may want to stick to the desktop version at this moment in time
so what do you think of Photoshop for the iPad do you think it's any good was
it worth the wait and more importantly if you have downloaded it are you gonna
start using the iPad version maybe instead of the MacBook Pro version if
you're out and about on the go let me know in the comment section below I'd
love to hear from you and if you want to see our full review they make sure you
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