O’Neil Hughes suggests that even if you think of Photoshop on iPad as being for compositing and retouching, “those are very, very deep buckets”.ĭan Grabham is the former associate editor at Pocket-lint working across features, news and reviews and has extensive experience writing about computing, mobile and internet topics. We're actively developing for both, and we have good stuff on both, but they're definitely different ways of approaching them.įresco is intentionally very different from Photoshop, but with full-fat Photoshop also due on the iPad imminently, Adobe has a job on its hands to explain to users what the purposes of its different apps are. 'You really, you really see the difference in the approach between those two companies, right? One is, one company says we bifurcated the operating system, and one is optimised for touch and portability. But when you start entering this world of touch and precise input, there's always going to be trade-offs. But you also have a device that is a bit of a Swiss Army knife, you know, it's trying to do a lot of different things.

“ you’ve got Photoshop right there, you have the full, Creative Cloud desktop apps right there. We asked O’Neil Hughes about the opportunities presented by devices like Microsoft Surface versus the iPad.

But those people who haven't moved over from analogue workflows, those are the ones that I'm the most excited about.' “Not just all the folks who've been, you know, sort of daring enough to explore these workflows on the desktop. O’Neil Hughes says Adobe is excited about who the app will appeal to. But we've never had a focused drawing and painting application', he said. 'We've had Photoshop that was largely raster with a little bit of vector, We've had Illustrator, which was largely vector with a little bit of raster. At its heart Fresco is the best of Sketch and Draw with a whole bunch of pro-grade integrations.' And it's taken us a couple of years to get here. “But once we saw what the hardware was capable of, and once we saw the input device, we immediately started thinking a lot bigger. But what’s different this time? “They were designed for a world where the iPad didn't have a stylus, and didn't have nearly as much power,” says O’Neil Hughes. It also helps that Adobe has experimented with other apps for the iPad like Adobe Ideas.

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