![]() Usually, holding down the Option key while resizing a square, for instance, will cause the square to stay in place, and grow out from its center point. But you can’t hold the ⌥ key to pin a resize action to its center. You can ⌘D to deselect, for example, or ⇧⌘I to invert a selection, or use the bracket keys to resize a brush. Like the rest of the app, not all shortcuts are present, but the important ones are here. At least the developers had time to put in some jokes. I used to work as a designer, and these shortcuts are still baked into my fingers and brain. Watch any experienced photoshopper at work, and their left hand is as active as the right, pressing key combos like a pianist plays chords. ![]() This is one of the most essential parts of Photoshop for serious users. What Photoshop does have is keyboard shortcuts. In contrast, Photoshop for iPad always does what you want or expect. Finger taps don’t select what they should select, and so on. Many otherwise-great apps fall down when it comes to simple interactions. ![]() Double-tap and long-press do exactly what you’d expect, and it all feels natural. It is at once 100% touch-friendly, but also brings the familiarity of the decades-old desktop UI. The layers palette is also the showcase for Photoshop’s iPad UI, which is terrific. You can add and edit layer masks, hide and show layers, and use blend modes. The in-app tutorial focuses on the layers palette, and for good reason. In this initial version, you get a basic tool panel on the left side - brushes, a selection tool, a decent healing tool, and so on - and a layers panel on the right. You can use it with a finger or an Apple Pencil, and - where appropriate - all the tools support the pressure sensitivity and other advanced features of Apple’s stylus. Filters (or filter, singular - you get Gaussian Blur and that’s it) are instant, and the UI is lag-free. Right off the bat, Photoshop for iPad feels really responsive. And there’s a new UI innovation, called the Touch Shortcut, that should be in every app. It’s easy to use, and yet most of the basics are there. Still, this app is so basic that - if you want to actually get any work done - you should grab something like Affinity Photo instead.īut as an example of an iPad app, Photoshop is stellar. We learned earlier this month that Photoshop for iOS would offer a cut-down feature set compared to the full desktop version. You will also feel immediately frustrated, because the app does almost nothing. If you’re familiar with Photoshop on the Mac or PC, then you will feel immediately at home. With that out of the way, how is it? Extremely limited, but very promising. You have to sign up for a $10 monthly subscription, even just to test it out, but there’s a one-month free trial included in the sub. 30% of tablets sold last quarter were iPads Photo: Charlie Sorrel/Cult of MacĪdobe’s Photoshop is now available in the App Store, ready for you to try.
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