Adobe announced rebooting of its iOS app lineup, and the addition of unique features to its desktop software for Microsoft's Surface Pro 3 tablet!
The new iOS app includes, for the first time, an iOS video editing app, which is AdobePremiere Clip; an easy, touch-centric version of the Premiere video editing software found on the desktop. Some Clip features are trimming video and audio files, and adding text, transitions and filters.
Monday at Adobe's Annual Max Developer Conference in Los Angeles, brought two entirely new features: Brush and Shape. Brush lets users make custom digital brushes based on outlines found in pictures. For example, you can take a picture of a tree, and turn that into a brush that repeats the tree over and over again. While Shape take high-contrast photos and turns them into images that can be inserted into Illustrator apps.
Regarding Color, formerly known as Kuler, it automatically creates color palettes out of photographs for those who want to use a specific color they've spotted in nature in Adobe's apps.
Adobe also renamed apps to better relate them to their desktop-based parents.
The vector-focused Line and the pixel-focused Sketch-released earlier this year with the Ink and Slide iPad pen and ruler set-became Illustrator Line and Photoshop Sketch. Adobe Ideas was renamed as Illustrator Draw, because the tool for turning drawings into vector images pairs well with Illustrator.
Being Apple's iOS as the center of attention, Adobe showed off its Windows side, too. Microsoft's new CEO, Satya Nadella, made an appearance on stage, and demonstrated the new touch-centric features for Microsoft's Surface Pro 3.
Easy to hit larger menu buttons and on-screen icons are some new appearances to see on tablet modes of desktop apps, Premiere Pro, Photoshop and Illustrator. Adobe Illustrator features a new Illustrator Touch Workspace on Windows 8 devices, such as the Microsoft Surface, for those who want to draw with a touchscreen.
Those who wants to use the Surface Pro 3′s stylus, Adobe spokesman Scott Morris said that every Adobe desktop app will better track the Surface pen so that "the line you intended to draw is the line you intended to draw." Though the touch updates, including the Illustrator Touch Workspace, were built with Surface Pro 3 in mind, but Morris added that they should work with most Windows 8 tablets and touchscreen laptops.
For iOS, Adobe at last, tied all of its apps to their desktop counterparts via the Creative Cloud service. Therefore, users who start a project on a smartphone or tablet can transfer it over to their computer to finish the job with more advanced tools.
The new Windows features and all of the new iOS apps are available now, free for download, but for those who want to be able to sync their work between their iPhones, iPads and the desktop, a Creative Cloud subscription is required.
