“Project Rigel is designed and built in a way that serves
the needs of professionals familiar with retouching tools on the desktop, but
more so for people not familiar with Photoshop tools like content-aware fill or
spot healing. It democratizes them and makes them easier to use”
Adobe's Senior Product
Manager for Digital Imaging, Manu Anand in an interview with CNET News about
Project Rigel, their Photoshop for Tablets and smartphones
Adobe Photoshop on smartphones and Tablets is far from dead.
Come October 2015 at the Max
Conference, just in time for Christmas, Adobe plans to unveil a new
Photoshop app as reported in the article “Adobe
aims to bring Photoshop to mobile masses with upcoming app”, published
August 26, 2015 by Stephen Shankland, CNET News.
This Photoshop app is for editing photos on Apple's iPhones
and iPads with and Android devices being thrown into the mix a lot later. As a
lover of Photoshop myself, especially for making book covers as explained in my
MICO Wars blog article entitled
“How
to remove Image Backgrounds to make an e-book cover”, I use Photoshop as well
as other free photo and image editing tools on a daily basis for my blog.
Project Rigel is a follow on to Adobe Creative Cloud
launched back in September 2014 in partnership with Google as explained in my blog article
entitled “Google
and Adobe launch Adobe Photoshop Streaming Edition - Adobe Creative Cloud pips
Chromebooks to Graphics Design students on the Move”.
Back then, Adobe Creative Cloud was launched to basically
stream Adobe's suite of products to Chromebook users, so that they too could use
Adobe’s creative suite of products! Adobe's Project Rigel is the same thing but
for smartphone and Tablet toting professionals graphic editors!
Adobe's Project Rigel is free with a paid subscription of US$10
a month that gives you Photoshop and Lightroom, with US$50 giving you access to
Adobe’s entire Creative suite of software that requires a yearly commitment.
Adobe's aim is to improve upon the failure of Adobe Touch,
an earlier attempt at a Smartphone app as noted in “Adobe
discontinues Photoshop Touch, previews its next generation”, published May
21, 2015 by Lori Grunin, CNET News, and make
photo editing an easy transition from one device to the next.
Interestingly too, you're not tied to Adobe Creative Cloud,
as you can pull your material from any source, be it Dropbox, Google Drive or
elsewhere. More interestingly, Adobe is joining the Social Media crowd as your
finished work can be posted immediately to social media, iOS's camera roll and
even Adobe's Lightroom tool for photo editing and cataloging.
So what's changed with the interface that'll make you shell
out US$10 per month just to edit photos when free photo editing apps are
available?
US$10 Project
Rigel is Adobe Photoshop for smartphones and Tablets - Pocket sized
Subscription to Professional Editing
Dubbed Project Rigel, the product is free and is made with more
touch friendly, intuitive interface to simplify the otherwise complex interface
that is Photoshop.
There is a menu of editing tools at the bottom of the screen
and a floating control bar tool adjustment on the left of the screen. Thanks to
the presence of front facing cameras, it even sports face recognition
technology that Photoshop for PC lacks, allowing you to change facial features
on the fly.
That facial-recognition tool will eventually be coming to
the PC version of Photoshop and is compatible with the Liquefy tool on the
Photoshop for PC.
The menu bar at the bottom has some options familiar to
Photoshop users:
1.
Cop
2.
Adjust
3.
Liquify
4.
Heal
5.
Smooth
6.
Light
7.
Color
8.
Paint
9.
Defocus
10. Vignette
Tapping on each reveals a submenu of other choices that
makes working in the tiny space that much easier.
Photoshop on
Tablets and Smartphones – Stylus is needed to do Great work
But most important to such a small workspace is the ability
to zoom in for finer detail, which is very important for doing graphics work on
a confined space like a smartphone or tablet.
Each edit you make becomes its own editing layer within the
Photoshop file (the PSD file format), making changes reversible once you jump
around a PC for greater control. As part of making that transition easier from
non-Photoshop inductees, a lot of the custom terms have been changed e.g.
“dodge” and “burn” become lighten and darken.
The floating menu on the left helps you adjust tooltips and
brushes, which is really your finger or stylus if you're using a Samsung Galaxy
Note 4 as noted in my Geezam blog article
entitled “Samsung
Galaxy Note 4 is a flatteringly fabulous Phablet with an improved S Pen”.
Still, I'd recommend that you make your own Stylus if you
really want to accomplish great editing masterpieces in Photoshop as explained
in my Geezam blog article entitled “How
to make a Stylus for your Apple iPad or Capacitive-Touch Device”.
US$10 a month for Photoshop and Lightroom is beginning to
sound like a steal, albeit the subscription model does need a little work. For
the Professional, this is a great tool to have in December 2015 on hand to work
on your next great ad campaign.
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