
- ADOBE REVEL FOR IPHONE ANDROID
- ADOBE REVEL FOR IPHONE PROFESSIONAL
ADOBE REVEL FOR IPHONE ANDROID
Although platform parity was Adobe’s goal for the Touch Apps, making the same products available on iOS and Android, some apps began on Android and never made it to iOS, and vice versa, while the oldest Touch App, Adobe Ideas, which enjoyed two years on Android and only arrived on iPad and iPhone in 2012, has been discontinued for the Android platform but remains for the moment on iOS. In the Adobe Touch Apps product line are the apps that were terminated as well as two that were not.
Photoshop Express (iOS and Android), a client for ’s online image retouching tools. Adobe Nav, Photoshop’s Tools panel (sort of) on the iPad so that changing tools live in the desktop edition of Photoshop means a tap on the iPad instead of a click on the actual Tools panel. Adobe Revel (formerly Adobe Carousel), a subscription-based ($5.99 per month) photo viewer and organizer that automatically syncs images between an iPad and a Mac. Adobe Eazel, an actual finger-painting tool that transmits artwork instantly in Photoshop. Adobe Color Lava, which lets you mix and save Photoshop color swatches by finger-painting. Whether these are still usable with Photoshop CS6 I don’t know I haven’t found a reason to try, and the App Store descriptions only reference CS5. Then there are the Photoshop companions, iOS mobile apps that, while they may have some utility apart from Photoshop itself, are built specifically to augment the use of Photoshop CS5 on the desktop. Some, like Adobe Content Viewer, Adobe Reader, and Adobe Edge Inspect are merely viewing or proofing tools for other Adobe technologies and desktop-based products. Before we get into the actual replacements, however, we need to define exactly which apps we’re talking about.Īdobe makes a number of apps and technologies for mobile devices in a few product lines. The good news is that nearly all the functionality of the Adobe Touch Apps-those discontinued as well as those still alive-can be found in other mobile apps. Instead, we want to help the consumers of Adobe Touch Apps, those designers (and Adobe partners) who, with arms raised and open, stare exasperatedly in the direction of Adobe HQ asking: now what? What’s Dead? What’s Alive? What Did The Apps Do? Public and private talks continue, circling around two overarching points: the fact of the Adobe Touch Apps being terminated after so short a time on the market and the more serious issue of the lack of communication from Adobe regarding the Touch Apps EOL.Ĭ will leave it to Adobe and its community of partners to figure out the second point. Adobe publicly responded (sort of) in an addendum to the original blog post, social media exploded into discourse, and other Adobe partners and evangelists blogged (and podcasted) in support of the points raised in my letter and subsequent discussions. The only notice Adobe gave about the termination, or “End of Life” (“EOL”), of the Touch Apps was a short post to the Creative Cloud Team’s blog, again, on December 20th, the Friday before Christmas and the last day of work before all of Adobe shut down for its two-week holiday break.Īlmost no one knew about the EOL of the Touch Apps because of the manner of the announcement until yours truly wrote “ An Open Letter to Adobe about the Premature End of Adobe Touch Apps.” That letter broke the news to the general creative community and sparked a critical discussion among Adobe customers, Adobe partners, and internally to Adobe as well.
On December 20th Adobe Proto, Adobe Collage, Adobe Debut, and the Android versions of Adobe Ideas and Adobe Kuler (there never was an iOS version of Kuler), were silently removed from the iOS App Store and the Google Play App Store, as well as from the applications list on, the site from which Creative Cloud subscribers learn about and access their Adobe products. The announcement was whispered in a corner after most of us had gone home. If you haven’t heard about it until now, well, that’s no surprise.
ADOBE REVEL FOR IPHONE PROFESSIONAL
Over the holidays Adobe quietly killed the majority of mobile creative professional products in its Adobe Touch Apps line. Adobe’s Touch Apps Are Dead? Why Didn’t I Hear About This?