Creative Cloud Desktop App Updatesīeyond the mobile announcements, it was a huge day for Adobe’s Creative Cloud desktop apps, from Photoshop and Illustrator to Muse and InDesign to After Effects and all their other top tier products. “Rendering painting, getting into fine details: it was kind of a nightmare.” For his dragon illustration, Cady-Lee used Sketch - the more limited of the two programs, but the one designed for drawing - and he ultimately had to push its limits to get the amount of detail that he wanted. “It was a real fight to use that stylus on a level of sketching,” Cady-Lee says. The pen’s pressure levels and the speed at which it can draw are also a bit too basic to do any serious work. “These are all finicky, nitpicky things,” he says, “but they all add up to the fact that this isn’t a very powerful tool.” There’s no painting tool, for instance, and erasing is an all-or-nothing deal, so you can’t smudge something like you might on a real canvas. He called Sketch - the app meant for drawing - “more of a novelty than a tool.” And as for the entire package? “With Adobe behind it,” he says, “I would have expected it to be more powerful.”Ĭady-Lee found that the tools do a good job of reproducing their real-world counterparts, but he says that the number of tools and the options present for each of them are too limited. His results are really impressive, but Cady-Lee isn’t taken with the tools or apps. In particular, they got illustrator Devon Candy-Lee to give the tools a go and his input really gives the review a great touch, revealing the limitations of the product and software. The Verge has a thorough review of the Ink and Slide, as well as how they fit in with the new iPad apps. Its a $199.99 package, made in partnership with Adonit, that contains a stylus (‘Ink’) and ruler (‘slide’) for use on tablets - specifically Adobe’s iPad apps. Adobe Ink and Slide HardwareĪdobe previously announced the Ink and Slide, but officially released the product yesterday. And you can feel okay about picking up a little more than you intended to on your first pass – switching to “Remove” from “Add” lets you easily edit out parts you didn’t mean to pick up after the fact. It’s not perfect, but it’s as close as you can possibly get when you’re not using fine detailed instruments like a Wacom tablet or a high-DPI mouse. Meanwhile, over at TechCrunch, Darrell Etherington took a look at Photoshop Mix and shared his experience with the app.īased on my usage, the method Adobe has created for selecting areas of an image to separate is unmatched on touch-based devices in terms of ease of use and accuracy. If you’re curious to learn more about Adobe’s new Line and Sketch apps, a great review of them by Serenity Caldwell is available at Macworld. It does so with a wide array of guides (called Trace Packs and Stamp Packs) that you can enlarge, resize, and twist on your canvas. At its heart, the app is designed to help you easily draft and draw shapes, lines, and other geometrical objects. While Sketch is a solid program in its own right, Line is an outright masterwork from Adobe: an easy-to-use app with incredible power behind it. So long as they’re driving more subscriptions, Adobe benefits regardless.Īdobe launched three new, free, mobile apps for the iPad Adobe Line for precision drawing and drafting, Adobe Sketch for free-form drawing (with interesting community features), Photoshop Mix which has been designed to do precise compositing and masking. Updates were also made to their recently launched Lightroom for iPhone and Adobe Voice (intended to create animated videos on an iPad). Rather, with access to Creative Cloud’s millions of pre-qualified customers of creative tools, they could compete against Adobe’s marquee apps on a feature-by-feature basis. Khoi Vinh has a great take on all of Adobe’s announcements that you should really read, but I think his comments on the Creative Cloud SDK are particularly great.Ī properly implemented third-party developer ecosystem could mean that the next Photoshop or Illustrator competitor won’t have to fight against the full might of Adobe in order to gain mass acceptance. You can read more about the SDK on Adobe’s website and request access to the private beta. This SDK will allow third party developers to do everything from incorporate their apps with Adobe’s Creative Cloud storage component, enable compatibility with Photoshop documents (.PSD), support Adobe’s new Ink and Slide hardware, publish directly to Behance and a whole lot more. Time will tell, but perhaps the most significant announcement in the long-term will be Adobe’s announcement of a Creative Cloud SDK.
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