After a bit of a false start over the weekend, Adobe has officially pulled the trigger on Photoshop Touch, the long-awaited, full-featured tablet image editor first introduced on Android which allows for traditional features such as layers, selection tools, adjustments and filters.
Adobe Systems Incorporated is using this week’s Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, Spain to unveil Photoshop Touch, a $9.99 app for the iPad 2 which builds upon the company’s initial wave of tablet apps to allow full-featured Photoshop image editing based purely on touch.
“Photoshop Touch gives users the ability to combine multiple photos into layered images, make essential edits and apply professional effects to create beautiful artwork, touch up photos, paint, lay out ideas and much more,” the company’s press release touts. “The Scribble Selection Tool allows users to easily extract objects in an image by simply scribbling on what to keep, and then what to remove. With Refine Edge technology from Photoshop, even hard-to-select areas with soft edges are easily captured when making selections. Photoshop Touch helps users quickly find images and share creations through integration with Facebook and Google Image Search.”
The app got a bit of a false start on Saturday night when it popped up in a few international App Store locations, only to be yanked until Monday. Adobe Photoshop Touch is part of six touchscreen apps the company is rolling out, including Adobe Collage (for moodboards), Adobe Debut (for presentations), Adobe Ideas (for sketching), Adobe Kuler (for exploring color themes) and Adobe Proto, for website and mobile app prototyping.
Adobe Photoshop Touch is available now from the App Store for a reasonable $9.99, but you’ll need the latest and great hardware and software in order to run it -- the app only works with the iPad 2 running iOS 5 or later.
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