Integration between the app and an Apple Pencil allowed for efficient retouching, erasing, and duplicating of objects. In an early preview of the software, Adobe demoed manipulating a heavy, multi-layer PSD file on an iPad Pro with ease, effortlessly applying effects and making edits in real time. Adobe says the capabilities of modern tablets and phones are what enabled them to untether Photoshop’s full power from the desktop. Photoshop Express, Sketch, Mix, and Fix each offered limited functionality bound by previous performance ceilings of mobile hardware. In earlier Creative Cloud mobile products, Adobe focused on bringing specific features of Photoshop to iOS users. Today at 2018’s Adobe MAX conference in Los Angeles, Adobe is answering the requests of the creative community by previewing what it calls real Photoshop CC for iPad. In the years since, competitors have released their own products hoping to fill the void, but can’t offer true integration with Creative Cloud that existing Photoshop customer have come to expect.

A full, desktop-class version of Photoshop on iOS has been one of the most hotly anticipated creative apps for designers and artists since the original iPad’s introduction in 2010.

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