Productive on the tablet: Photoshop comes to the iPad
of David Haydl 
on July 17, 2018, 19:17 pm | Write a comment
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In my opinion, now is exactly the right time to introduce such software for the iPad. According to Apple, the iPad Pro with iOS 11 and above should be a perfect replacement for your laptop. But what do I do if I can't use my usual software? Another reason why now is the right time for Photoshop on the iPad is that you can now interact with the software even better with the Apple Pencil. In addition, proyou fit, especially with Photoshop, strongly from the performance that the iPads can offer you.
The Pro models of the iPad have been around for three years now. The devices are supposed to replace your laptop. But decent software like Photoshop has never existed. Until now.
Many will now say that Photoshop is already in the App Store. That's true, at least in part. Because this is just Photoshop Express, a heavily trimmed version of the actual software. So she was for professional purposes quite useless, which is why a fully-fledged version of Photoshop for the iPad is now in the starting blocks.
Release may not be until next year
According to Scott Belsky, Chief Product Officer for Creative Cloud at Adobe, Photoshop for the iPad is part of the company's multi-platform strategy. However, it may be a long time before the finished app lands in the iPad App Store. This is because it takes time to adapt a full-fledged and fairly complex software to the iPad. Adobe also wants to enable synchronized working on all devices, which is not something that can be done off the cuff.
It is therefore assumed that Photoshop on the iPad will not be able to be used on the iPad until 2019 at the earliest. The presentation for this should take place in October this year at Adobe's annual MAX conference.
According to Belsky, the app should then be accessible to all customers as quickly as possible. It is not known whether the apparent time pressure is due to the growing competition from the Affinity Photo app. You also have to keep in mind that delays are always possible.
You can already use Photoshop on the iPad today
However, there is a workaround on how you can use the full version of Photoshop on your iPad today. For this you need a Mac or a MacBook and software that allows the screen content to be mirrored on an iPad. Duet Display and Astropad are particularly well-known here because they also support input with an Apple Pencil
Disadvantage of the whole thing: You always have to have your MacBook with you everywhere. There would be a full-fledged version of the photo editorprogram directly on the iPad much more practical.