Hasta La Ideas

Yesterday Adobe announced their forthcoming Photoshop Touch Software Development Kit, which will be bundled with their Creative Suite 5.5. The PTSDK (unfortunate acronym, those first four letters) will let users go back and forth, Photoshop-wise, between their tablet and main computer. The possibilities are intriguing; using an iPad as a palette window and large trackpad sounds kind of neat, but the idea of being able to manipulate photos by hand, touching them directly, sounds extremely cool.

While we’re waiting for the PTSDK and CS 5.5, feast your eyes on this recent Adobe demo of Photoshop—real Photoshop, not that Express nonsense—on an iPad. Check out the wicked layers trick that happens around 1:06.

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