Adobe Photoshop Touch For Mobile Review

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The Adobe Photoshop Touch Mobile app allows you to edit your images on the move as well as transfer them via Adobe Creative Cloud so you can further edit them on your tablet or home computer. It is available for £2.99 from the iTunes Store.

Adobe Photoshop Touch For Mobile Features

• Layers, selection tools, adjustments and filters
• Apply precise tone and colour adjustments to your entire composition, a particular layer, or a select area
• Painting effects, filter brushes and more
• Add graphical text. Apply strokes, add drop shadows, fades and more
• Camera Fill
• Combine images together using the Scribble Selection tool and Refine Edge feature
• Start a project on your iPhone or iPod Touch and finish it on your iPad or Photoshop, projects are automatically synced between your devices
• Free membership to Creative Cloud with 2GB of cloud storage
• Work on high-resolution images while maintaining the highest image quality, images up to 12 megapixels are supported

Adobe Photoshop Touch For Mobile Performance

To use the Creative Cloud service you need to register on the Adobe website. Once you have done so you can log on using your smartphone. If you have the tablet version of the app, you can also log on there, meaning you can share your images between devices. If you have Adobe Photoshop CS5.1 or later you can also share your images on your computer.

Once you've set up the Creative Cloud you are then able to import photos from their, as well as from your camera roll. When you've loaded an image there is a menu bar along the top and bottom of the screen.


The first option on the top is all about selections, this allows you to cut, copy, past and much more. The second option is adjustments, you can turn your image black and white or change the saturation, brightness, contrast and adjust levels and curves. The third option is fx filters which are separated into four categories with nice different effects in each: basic, stylize, artistic and photo. The fourth option, represented with an & symbol, allows you to crop, change image size, rotate etc. The fifth options is undo, a redo button appears underneath if you do undo.

The first option along the bottom has a number of options such as the clone stamp tool, various selection tools etc. The middle section here has options depending on which tool you've selected from the bottom left options. The last option on the bottom is layers.

The two images below were provided by Adobe as an example of how you can use layers, scribble selection and refine edge to cut the hatter from the studio shot and place him into the warehouse screen. The final shot has been created ourselves using the instructions provided. If you're an experienced Photoshop user you'll find this easy.

		(Above) Warehouse (Left) Hatter
Merged Hatter And Warehouse

Below are examples of some of the various effects available.

Adobe Photoshop Touch For Mobile Sample Photos

Adobe Photoshop Touch For Mobile Verdict

The Adobe Photoshop Touch for Mobile app is the first photo editing app you should have for your smartphone, particularly if you are an experienced Photoshop use. If you're a novice, you'll still get your monies worth from the app and you'll also learn some of the Photoshop basics on the way. It might not be the kind of app you'll use on all your pictures taken on your smartphone, but you can save your DSLR images and edit them while on the move, a great way to kill time!

The Adobe Photoshop Touch For Mobile is simply the best photo editing app available for smartphones.

Adobe Photoshop Touch For Mobile Pros

Allows image editing normally only possible on a desktop computer
Feature packed
Extremely good value for money
2Gb of space on the Creative Cloud for image storage
Works on images up to 12 megapixels

Adobe Photoshop Touch For Mobile Cons

Tricky for beginners to get to grips with

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The Adobe Photoshop Touch For Mobile app is available from the iTunes Store for £2.99. For more information please visit the Adobe website.