Don’t give us 30 apps that each do one thing. It’s time to take iOS seriously as a pro tool and do what you do best. In fact, nobody has thought as deeply and as vividly as you have over the past few years about how to reinvent drawing. I think it’s cool that you are deeply thinking about how we can work differently using a touch interface. They feel like big experiments, big ideas. The art that your programs are so good at helping me create. I just want to hit my deadline and make something that doesn’t suck. I’m just worried that might be lost on most of us. Maybe there are people at Adobe challenging the way we work because they want their apps to shake up how art is made, not just provide another platform on which to make it. Experimentation slows you down, makes you reflect, rethink your way of doing things. Most creative professionals look to your tools to help them improve their efficiency, to speed them up. And unlike Photoshop Sketch, those apps have features I’ve come to expect from drawing apps, like layers. I’m more likely to reach for something like ProCreate or Inkpad for my work because those apps feel more natural, less gimmicky. I can export to your desktop programs and kinda do that but the workflow I’ve had for years is all mixed up now. What if I want to work on the go, maybe start some artwork that I can finish later on my Mac or Surface. Also, occasionally the helicopter drops you off on the roof of the store which is just awkward. I have nothing against helicopters, it’s just not what I expected. How do I review something like this? It’s like using Uber to to get a ride to the grocery store and then getting picked up by a helicopter. It leaves people like me who use and review these apps in a weird place. You’ve made a vector app from a parallel universe. There are no anchor points, no pen tool, no way to edit a line or shape once you’ve drawn them. It’s so experimental that core elements you would expect all vector apps to have are non existent here. The app that bears Illustrator’s name, Illustrator Draw, is a quirky little drawing app that looks at every tool as an opportunity to rethink how we create art on a tablet. Illustrator Draw is a quirky little drawing app that looks at every tool as an opportunity to rethink how we create art on a tablet.īut there is nothing from Adobe that is anything like Illustrator. You need a vector art app? There is Inkpad or Graphic. They all mimic the painting tools we’ve grown accustomed to in Photoshop. If you want a painting app you have Procreate or Inspire Pro. Looking around the app store there are dozens of traditional drawing apps made by new upstart developers. After you guys bought Macromedia a decade ago you kinda stagnated for a while there. Where is just a mobile version of Photoshop? There are 4 apps with the word Photoshop in them, but none of them look like the Photoshop I know and love. Oh my gosh, you guys this is kinda a mess. There is an app for publishing stories - Adobe Slate An app for creating color palettes - Adobe Color CC An app for signing documents - Adobe eSign Manager DC An app for making custom brushes - Adobe Brush CC Another app for signing documents - Adobe Fill & Sign DC What if you just want to manage your photos? You’ve got Adobe Revel, Adobe LiveCycle Mobile ES and Adobe Lightroom for mobile. You need photo editing? There are 3 apps for that: Adobe Photoshop Fix, Adobe Photoshop Mix and Adobe Photoshop Express. There is Adobe Voice that lets you record your voice and add simple animation and photos. There is Adobe Shape CC that lets you take photos and then convert them to vector shapes. There are 2 apps for creating portfolios and posting them to Behance: Adobe Portfolio and Creative Portfolio. That’s a lot of apps, We probably need a short refresher. There are 4 apps with the word Photoshop in them, but none of them look like the Photoshop I know and love. Right now you have 31 mobile apps listed on your site, and that’s not counting older retired apps like Adobe Line and Adobe Ideas. I see there are apps called Photoshop and Illustrator for the iPad. I can sketch, color, ink, vector up my artwork and then get it press or web ready all on one device and often times just using one or two programs: Photoshop and Illustrator. I’ve been working on a Surface Pro the last year or so. I’ve been thinking a lot about workflow on the iPad. I was pretty happy with the way everything was working on the desktop, so I was good to go. I’ve seen the tweets and videos for your mobile apps for years, but I never stopped to pay attention. It will be a while longer before the fancy pencil arrives so I figured I would check out your iPad apps.Ĭonfession Time. I got my iPad Pro - the tablet that’s roughly the size of an antelope - Last week.
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