With curves, one can adjust points throughout an image’s tonal range, enhancing the tools applied to photos like non-destructive dodge and burn, etc. Another useful photo-modification tool adopted to mobile use is Curves Adjustments. Other recently added features include the auto-activation of Adobe Fonts on PSD files opened in the iPad app to be conveniently edited on the go. Select Subject is a well-executed feature for mobile Photoshop and an immersive help in preparing artifacts for digital documentation.

Taking a high-resolution photograph of an artifact is entirely possible with Apple’s latest iPad Pros and with Adobe’s Object Select tool one can now isolate and move a fragment to an artificial template with the touch of a few buttons. We’ve found it especially useful for cleaning up fragment photos on the go. This is a feature that works well enough to be adopted for digital work at the monuments. Most of these changes were intended to refine the selection of certain elements of a photograph, a natural desire on a touch-first device, such as the iPad! With Object Select (which is the equivalent of desktop Photoshop’s Select Subject tool) one can now select a specific area on the canvas for Adobe’s Ai to automatically find and highlight the object within that area. Nonetheless, over the course of the past twelve months, there have been a gradual number of updates initiated for the software, mostly plugging in photography-oriented features already available on desktop. Although Adobe never intended to replicate the desktop equivalent of their software on mobile devices, we found their first iteration a bit too “bare bones” to be really useful for digital documentation. So, before we turn towards Illustrator for iPad, let’s have a look at last year’s newcomers, Photoshop and Fresco, and see how much they have evolved over the past year.įor obvious reasons, adopting such a complex software as Photoshop to the iPad was not an easy task. It’s been a while since we last gave you a status report on Adobe’s creative suit adapted to mobile devices.

Illustrator on the iPad (Image source: Adobe)

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