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Adobe also confirmed that another key creative industry tool, Adobe Illustrator, will ship for the Apple tablet in 2020.

The do-anything iPad Introducing the apps, Simon Longbottom, Adobe vice president for Creative Cloud Services Strategy, confirmed the company will continue to improve these products, aiming to deliver something like feature parity across all its supported platforms.

Thats significant, but its probably equally important to note that Photoshop for iPad is compatible with any iOS 13 iPad which means you can use it on older iPad minis.

Sure, Photoshop remains a key industry tool, but it now faces stiff competition from the likes of Affinity Photo and Pixelmator.

All the same, backwards compatibility and previous investments in building creative assets using the companys tools mean most of the worlds largest graphics-related companies still need Photoshop, if only to take a look at PSD files.

That they can now create new assets with these tools will help Adobe retain relevance in competitive age.

Adobe Photoshop on iPad is available to all Creative Cloud customers subscribed to Photoshop, or as a fee-based app at the App Store.

Compatible with Apple Pencil, the company says its reimagined app brings the precision and versatility of the desktop experience to the tablet.

The iPad is a connected product, so it lets you work with the same documents across all your devices, and provides access to all Adobes cloud-based products including stock mages and fonts.

The implication is clear: The raft of iPad enhancements Apple introduced in iPad OS had already moved the platform forward as a productivity device.

Adobes decision to make two of the worlds most veteran creative apps available as apps for those systems serves to drive the point home: The iPad is a viable PC replacement.

You can sign up to a beta version of Illustrator on iPad here and evaluate for yourself whether this is the case.

Going with the flow: AR and AI Adobe Aero is also interesting.

The company is quite clearly climbing aboard the Augmented Reality (AR) wagon with the release that Longbottom promises will let you build AR experiences with no coding skills.

The app essentially allows you to create layered PSD files, combining various imaging assets (and Adobes own libraries of creative assets) to build AR experiences using graphics tools rather than needing to code.

Adobe is also exploring the use of machine intelligence in its creative apps: The introduction of its all-new Photoshop Camera app combines some of the features of Photoshop within an app that allows users to apply industry-standard imaging effects when taking a photo.

Adobe has also put more AI inside the desktop version of Photoshop in the form of Sensei AI.

Whats up next The direction of travel for Adobe is clear enough: The company has looked at the evolution of mobile devices and recognizes that its solutions must shift with that tide particularly now that high-end mobile devices (well, Apples at any rate) are powerful enough to run complex applications.

For Apple, the fact that two of the worlds most important apps, (I can recall devoting entire magazines to these creative solutions back in the day), now run on an iPad is a testament to its multi-year effort to ensure its mobile devices carry the kind of punch such high-end solutions need.

Theres a way to go, of course, but the validation of the late CEO Steve Jobs claim that PCs will become trucks rings loud and clear.

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