Adobe Photoshop CS5 integrates Tablets

By siliconindia   |   Tuesday, 12 April 2011, 00:38 IST
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India: Software firm abode announced the Photoshop Touch Software Development Kit (SDK). It invited developers worldwide to create mobile and tablet applications that interact with Adobe Photoshop CS5. This interactive experience of touch devices with the power and precision of Photoshop can now be experienced by everyone. It has also updated its Creative Suite 5.5 product set putting it much deeper into the heart of smartphone and tablet development with improved Flash authoring and HTML5. Adobe has developed three initial Photoshop CS5 companion apps for Apple iPad using the touch SDK that is Adobe Color Lava for Photoshop, Adobe Eazel for Photoshop and Adobe Nav for Photoshop. The apps are designed to enable users to create custom color swatches, paint and drive popular Photoshop tools from tablet devices. Photoshop SDK Encourages Creative Development. Adobe has developed three initial Photoshop Touch apps: Adobe Color Lava, Adobe Eazel and Adobe Nav. Adobe Color Lava, allows creative professionals to use their fingertips to mix colors on the iPad creating custom color swatches and themes to transfer back into Photoshop. Adobe Eazel takes advantage of cutting-edge painting technology and Adobe Nav increases workflow efficiency by letting users select and control Photoshop tools using the iPad as the input surface. The first applications available are for the Apple iPad and the iOS, the Photoshop Touch SDK makes development possible on other devices, including Android and BlackBerry PlayBook. Utilizing the Touch SDK, developers will have wide access to Photoshop functionality with the freedom to innovate and create new apps or add capabilities to existing ones. Developers can access the free Adobe Photoshop Touch SDK for Windows and Mac OS platforms on the Adobe Application Manager. Current Photoshop CS5 customers can experience the value of the connection to devices by downloading and installing via the Adobe Application Manager, beginning May 3, 2011.