Adobe Touch Apps

On October 3, 2011 — At the technology MAX 2011 conference the Adobe Systems Incorporated company announced a release of the Adobe Touch Apps applications. Six intuitive applications using touch technologies are created for tablets based on Android and the Apple iPad device: using Adobe Touch Apps anyone can create and experiment with the ideas anywhere and when necessary. The applications relying on technologies of a packet Adobe Creative Suite allow millions of owners of tablets to create content of professional quality. Applications mention the most different parts of creative process: editing images, work with the ideas, sketches, stylistic compilations of images (mood board), creation of prototypes of websites and mobile applications and also the presentation of the finished works. The leader in the line of "tablet" applications is Adobe Photoshop Touch, revolutionary software thanks to which legendary tools to creation and editing images become for the first time available to users of tablets.

Adobe Touch Apps which will also be available in the form of separate applications soon are the most important components of the revolutionary service Adobe Creative Cloud announced by the company today. Adobe Creative Cloud will become the world creative center: millions of users will be able to get access to computer and tablet applications, to use services, necessary for creation of content, and also to share the best works with others. The files created using the Adobe Touch Apps applications can be browsed on different devices, to transfer to others or to edit in Adobe Creative Suite: these are key functions which Adobe puts in Creative Cloud service. Considering that some tablet devices of the next generation will use the stylus for data entry, the Adobe Touch Apps applications are created so that to distinguish also input using contacts, and using the stylus.

"Adobe Touch Apps is represented by huge opportunities of self-expression to any owner of the tablet — Kevin Lynch, the technical director of Adobe says. "The magic of Adobe comes to mobile devices: new applications as, for example, Photoshop Touch, open improbable opportunities of the touch interface in the creative environment and demonstrate that the tablet — the necessary device in a creative arsenal".

Tablets firmly enter everyday life of people, and the new family of the Adobe Touch Apps applications helps users to be engaged in creative work with the help of mobile devices — out of the computer or the notebook.

The list of applications of Adobe Touch Apps includes:

• Adobe Photoshop Touch is the application created especially for tablets and allowing to apply the key Photoshop functions. Using simple gestures users can integrate images, work with layers, edit pictures and apply professional effects. The exclusive Scribble Selection Tool tool allows to separate easily the necessary objects in the image from unnecessary — just write that it is necessary to leave, and on what can be deleted. The technology of automatic clipping "Refine Edge" familiar to users of Adobe Photoshop allows to select easily even difficult sections of the image with indistinct edges — for example, hair. Besides, the application allows to find quickly the necessary images, to share the created images with others and to browse comments thanks to integration with Facebook and search of Google. Using opportunities of synchronization of Adobe Creative Cloud service the created files can be opened and edited in Adobe Photoshop.
• Adobe Collage is an opportunity for work with the ideas and concepts: inspiring images, drawings, the text and the Creative Suite files using Adobe Collage can be integrated in conceptual compilation (mood board). Possibilities of the application include import of images, four types of the cursor for drawing, adding of the text and application of color subjects. The volume of compilation is not limited: with adding of new elements the size of a canvas becomes more. Files can be transferred for further work on them to Photoshop or to share them with others.
• Adobe Debut allows to present works to clients and other interested persons practically anywhere. Using the Adobe Debut application it is possible to open quickly and with convenience to browse versions of the Creative Suite files, compatible to tablets. The application will also recognize layers of Photoshop and the mounting Illustrator areas. Comments and changes in the form of text marks and drawings can be added using the drawing mode in the course of viewing works.
• Adobe Ideas is the simple and vector tool easy in use for drawing. Using touch input or the stylus the application allows to draw accurate, soft lines. Users can select color scheme of future drawing and import the additional images available to tablet devices, as separate layers. Results of work can be browsed and edited in Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop.
• Adobe Kuler allows to create impressive color schemes which will decorate any design project. The application represents ample opportunities for work with color, and hundreds of thousands of ready-made solutions are available to Kuler thanks to creative community. The received color subjects can put down marks, to comment on them and also to export as a palette for the Adobe Creative Suite projects.
• Adobe Proto is the application using which it is possible to create easily interactive prototypes of websites and mobile applications on the tablet. Using a touch control it is easy to share the ideas with clients and colleagues. Gestures allow to outline quickly a design concept, to create structure of the website or to show interactivity. The received result can be exported to standard formats — HTML, CSS and JavaScript, to browse independently and to show others in any of popular browsers, thus, having accelerated a work approval process.

Continue by Adobe Touch Apps a series of solutions of Adobe for mobile devices begun with Adobe Carousel start — the only solution allowing to get access to library of photos of the user from the tablet, the smartphone or the computer without problems connected with storage of files or manual synchronization. Enjoy photos where you now, and edit images using powerful technology of the photocorrection applied in the product Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.

Prices and availability

The Adobe Touch Apps applications will be available to devices based on Android in November, 2011. Adobe is going to make the declaration of availability of applications on iOS at the beginning of 2012. The Adobe Ideas application is already available to iPad. Parts of price policy of Adobe Creative Cloud and enhanced capabilities of service — applications, services and tools for communication — will be announced in November, 2011. Specify more detailed information on availability, the prices and distribution of a product in Russia on the official site of Adobe to the address www.adobe.ru.