Adobe Ideas app shows up for iPad

[macduke]

Here is some really exciting news! The first Adobe app for iPad, and its free! This is meant to be a companion app to Photoshop and Illustrator. Screenshot and Features:

Link: http://itunes.apple.com/app/adobe-ideas-1-0-for-ipad/id364617858?mt=8

Adobe Ideas is your digital sketchbook, letting you capture and explore ideas anywhere you go. Adobe Ideas is an ideal companion for the professional design applications from Adobe, including Adobe Illustrator® and Adobe Photoshop® software.

Sketch design concepts while sitting in a cafe, or capture and store color themes while browsing through the photos on your phone. Any time you need to explore creative ideas, Adobe Ideas is there with you.

Features:
• Simple vector-based drawing tools
• Zoom control without jaggies or big pixels
• Variable-size brushes using multitouch control
• Vector eraser
• Huge virtual canvas
• Automatic creation of harmonized color themes from your photos or images
• Ability to email ideas as PDF files for editing in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop or for viewing with any PDF viewer
• Gallery-style organizer to quickly scroll through your ideas and color themes
• Separate drawing and photo layers
• Easy creation of multiple versions of design concepts
• 50-level undo

 

[midcloud]

Makes the iPad look like a Wacom Cintiq. Hopefully there will be a nice way of incorporating a pen/stylus. I dont think drawing with fingers can be very accurate...

 

[lotusindigo]

I'm surprised, to say the least. Apparently Adobe doesn't hate Apple enough to ignore its sales potential. On the downside: this may indicate that Apple has no intention of releasing an iPad app that's closer to the full-featured version of Photoshop.

It doesn't mention anything about simulated pressure sensitivity, which is what makes me so excited about Sketchbook Pro. And I think the drawing included confirms the lack of this feature.

 

[Alchematron]

Cool and free

I hope they come out with a Photoshop Lite

 

[macduke]

Makes the iPad look like a Wacom Cintiq. Hopefully there will be a nice way of incorporating a pen/stylus. I dont think drawing with fingers can be very accurate...

Right now there is only the Pogo Sketch stylus. On a Wacom, I believe the actual pressure sensitivity is in the pen itself. This could be easily accomplished on the iPad via bluetooth and a battery powered capacitive touch pen (ok maybe not so easy?). Each drawing app would have to incorporate some sort of API or open source code that could be built by the pen maker. Pop the code into the app and activate the pen feature by pairing it.

Nice.

 

[lotusindigo]

Just realized the app was free. For that I'll try it without hesitation.

Here's a thread where we were discussing possibilities for a pressure sensitive bluetooth stylus for iPad: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/885083/