{"id":16554,"date":"2010-08-17T06:46:54","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T13:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/?p=2614"},"modified":"2010-08-17T06:46:54","modified_gmt":"2010-08-17T13:46:54","slug":"tablet-companions-to-photoshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/17\/tablet-companions-to-photoshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Tablet companions to Photoshop?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In playing with Photoshop Express for iPad, Jesus Diaz from Gizmodo <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5612528\/photoshop-express-for-ipad-quick-review-avoid\">observed<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I got a craving for something very simple, which I hope Adobe can make (and which will be extremely useful for me and other desktop Photoshop users): Release an application to convert the iPad into a Photoshop control surface. I will love to display this application while I&#8217;m working on the image and quickly use it to apply filters and transforms. Or just access many of the Photoshop tool palettes, adopted to touchscreen use.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Photoshop-control apps such as\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobileairmouse.com\/photokeys\/\">Photokeys<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/appshopper.com\/utilities\/keypad-for-photoshop-for-ipad\">Keypad<\/a>, and perhaps others already exist &amp; have for some time. \u00a0Do you use them? \u00a0I haven&#8217;t encountered anyone who&#8217;s mentioned using them, but that doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s not happening. \u00a0How widespread is this desire?<\/p>\n<p>Other companion ideas that spring readily to mind:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Using multitouch input from a tablet to drive Liquify (for pinching, rotating, etc.)<\/li>\n<li>Using multitouch to mix paints together, a la a real artist&#8217;s palette, then send the results to Photoshop (i.e. what gets mixed on the tablet is streamed into your PS brush)<\/li>\n<li>Using a tool like <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.adobe.com\/technologies\/configurator\/\">Configurator<\/a> to assemble custom layouts of tools, buttons, interactive tutorials, etc. that would run on a tablet and drive desktop Photoshop<\/li>\n<li>Other?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Your feedback and ideas would be most welcome.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks,<br \/>J.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In playing with Photoshop Express for iPad, Jesus Diaz from Gizmodo observed: I got a craving for something very simple, which I hope Adobe can make (and which will be extremely useful for me and other desktop Photoshop users): Release an application to convert the iPad into a Photoshop control surface. I will love to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[51,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16554"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}