Adobe's much anticipated Photoshop Touch for iPad has hit the App Store. With Photoshop Touch you'll be able to use many of the popular Photoshop features such as layers, selection tools, adjustments, and filters to create impressive images. You can also you the iPad's camera to fill in layers with the camera fill feature.

One of the features demoed by Adobe back in October was the Scribble Selection tool which allows you extract part of your image by simply drawing over the the desired area. Combined with Refine Edge, you can even select fine details like hair.

Other features include Facebook integration that allows you to view comments from within the apps, inspiration galleries, and AirPrint support. The maximum image resolution is 1600 x 1600 pixels. It's important to note that Photoshop Touch requires an iPad 2 and iOS 5.

There are a ton of tutorials built right in to get you started. If you pick this one up, please be sure you share your images in the iMore Photography forum!

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Marshall Bock has posted a set of iPhone 4S and iPhone 4 Photoshop templates on his blog. They include:

• Both 4 and 4S models
• Both black and white body colors
• Portrait, landscape, and angled orientations
• Every combination of the preceding bullet points
• Rendering that matches Apple’s product images as closely as possible
• Created at high res scale for Retina Display
• Made entirely of vectors and layer styles for scaling up
• Full alignment to a 2px grid for pixel precision at 50% scale
• Screen images as Smart Objects for inserting your own screenshots
• Clean, organized, color-coded, well-named groups and layers

Handy asset for both developers and designers.

Source: Marshall Bock via @flyosity

Adobe, today, announced the development of Photoshop Touch, a very robust photo editing app for iPad, and Creative Cloud, a cloud service for storing and syncing Adobe project files.

Photoshop Touch looks incredible. Adobe shared a quick demo of it in action (see video below) and, boy, am I impressed. One of its features is the Scribble Selection Tool which makes selecting parts of your image a breeze: just make two separate traces for the inside and outside of your border, and boom, Photoshop Touch automagically selects the border that you want.

This is just the beginning for Photoshop Touch. In the initial release, we’ve laid the foundation – a core set of Photoshop capabilities designed for a tablet such as layers, selection tools, adjustments, and effects. However, we don’t want Photoshop Touch to just be a subset of our desktop imaging features. We’re exploring new ways to be creative and taking advantage of the unique characteristics of a tablet device. The Camera Fill feature does just that, feeding a live stream from your device’s camera right into an active layer or selection.

Adobe also introduced the following five new apps:

• Adobe Collage helps creatives capture and refine ideas and concepts by allowing them to combine inspirational images, drawings, text and Creative Suite files into modern, conceptual mood boards.
• Adobe Debut allows creative professionals to present designs to clients and stakeholders virtually anywhere, opening tablet-compatible versions of Creative Suite files for convenient and beautiful viewing on the tablet.
• Adobe Ideas is an easy-to-master, vector-based tool for drawing, using either a stylus or a finger.
• Adobe Kuler makes it easy to generate color themes that can inspire any design project.
• Adobe Proto enables the development of interactive wireframes and prototypes for websites and mobile apps on a tablet using gestures and a touch-based interface.

In addition to these six new apps, Adobe also announced Adobe Creative Cloud, which will serve as a hub for viewing, sharing and syncing files and include 20GB of storage.

However, Adobe's goal is to develop Creative Cloud into so much more. They plan to give access to the portfolio of Adobe Creative Suite tools as well as the six Adobe Touch Apps, provide a method of delivering interactive publications on tablets, and create a community of sharing and connecting.

Adobe® Creative Cloud is a major new initiative that radically redefines the content creation process. Adobe Creative Cloud will become the focal point for creativity, where millions can access desktop and tablet applications, use essential creative services, and share their best work.

Each of the six new apps will be available on the iPad in early 2012 for $9.99. The "highly attractive price" for Adobe Creative Cloud will be announced in November.

Check out the video of Photoshop Touch in action below.

Source: Adobe, photoshop.com blog

Marc Edwards of Bjango, and co-host of our Iterate podcast, has put up some pro tips and tricks on exporting iPhone, iPad, and other UI elements from Photoshop.

It’s probably the least interesting part of designing software, usually entailing hours of grinding. Saving images to multiple scales — as required by iOS and other platforms — adds complication to the process. However, there are ways to streamline or automate exporting.

Check out Marc's article, linked below, so you can get your pixel perfect apps and web sites out of Photoshop and into the hands of users.

[Bjango]

Photoshop Elements users may want to check out Learn Adobe Photoshops Elements 9 Quickly And Easily for the iPhone and iPad. It's packed with 9 hours of 3-5 minute video tutorials that teach how to best edit your photos.

Tired of slogging away manually making alterations to photos? Finding very little respite in turning a generic picture into art? Experienced instructor Jerron Smith narrates you through easy-to-learn tutorials in the use of Photoshop Elements 9. With personal touches and humor, you will start with the basics – the welcome screen, and progress through setting up watch lists, editing your photos, correcting red eye, and much more. Jerron Smith walks you through, focusing on each facet of the program.

• AirPlay enabled allowing you to view your videos on your television.
• Includes working files you can download to your computer and use in AutoCAD 2011 as you watch the training on your iPad - freeing up your monitor space for the software.
• 114 individual tutorial videos broken into comprehensive chapters and movies - 9 hours total.
• Go through each video or skip around; you're in complete control.
• 1X, 2X and 4X speeds allow you to learn at your own pace.
• Resume play lets you stop your training at anytime; pick up where you left off and minimize time-loss due to video skimming.
• Streaming video - allows you to keep your iPad hard drive free for your own media and data.

Learn Adobe Photoshops Elements 9 Quickly And Easily is available on the iPhone and iPad for $9.99.

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Welcome to Iterate, our new, design-centric podcast focused on user interface, user experience, and iconography from conception to realization. In our debut episode, Marc, Seth, and Rene talk Notification Center in iOS 5, webOS cards and stacks, Photoshop 5.5 and SDK, linen textures, justified text, and talk with Anton and Dmitry of SoftFacade. Loop until done.

Iterations

• iOS 5 beta 2 changes Notification Center
• webOS cards and stacks
• Photoshop 5.5 and the PhotoShop SDK
• Quartz Composer
• Is linen the new brushed metal?
• Justified vs. ragged right

Interrogation

• Anton and Dmitry of SoftFacade.
• For more of their work, check out http://dribbble.com/softfacade

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• Marc Edwards (@marcedwards) of Bjango
• Seth Clifford (@sethclifford) of Nickelfish
• Rene Ritchie (@reneritchie) of TiPb.com

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If you're one of the best-of-the-best-of-the-best in mobile design for Android, BlackBerry, iOS, webOS, or Windows Phone, we'd love to get you on the show, or if you've found a drop-dead gorgeous app on any platform and really want us to talk about it, contact us and let us know.

Adobe has finally released their iPad companion apps for Photoshop. The three apps, which TiPb spoke with Adobe about last month, are Adobe Color Lava, Adobe Eazel and Adobe Nav. The three apps have been developed using the recently released Adobe Photoshop Touch Software Development Kit (SDK) to demonstrate how interaction between Photoshop and tablet devices can work.

“Tablet devices are destined to become part of creative workflows and these companion Photoshop applications are just the first indications of the creativity we can expect from Adobe and our developer community. With our Touch SDK, we are going to see some astonishing new ways to keep Photoshop at the heart of the creative process no matter what the device – desktop computer, Android tablet, BlackBerry PlayBook or iOS device.”

Adobe Color Lava Allows creatives to use their fingertips to mix colors on the iPad. Creating custom color swatches and themes to transfer back into Photoshop. [$2.99 – iTunes Link]

Adobe Eazel Allows digital artists to create rich realistic paintings with their fingertips, and introduces a new kind of interaction between “wet” and “dry” paints. These paintings can then be sent directly to Photoshop CS5 for compositing or for taking the artwork further. [$4.99 – iTunes Link]

Adobe Nav Iincreases workflow efficiency by letting users select and control Photoshop tools using the iPad as the input surface, customize the toolbar, browse and zoom in on up to 200 open Photoshop files, or easily create new files. [$1.99 – iTunes Link]

If any of our readers pick these apps up, let us know in the comments if you find them helpful!

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During the Photoshop World 2011 keynote, Adobe showed off a version of its popular PC and Mac application, Photoshop -- running on an iPad. This is a totally different version to the Photoshop Express app which is already available. The new Photoshop app was given a short demo, which showed off the use of layers and a few other new features

There was no mention of when this app will be released or if it will be iPad only (or iPad 2 only due to the power needed to run it) but we will keep you in the loop as soon as we hear. If you want to catch a short video of the app in action, head over to Photography Bay.

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Every day, TiPb gets flooded with announcements for new and updated iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad apps and games. So every day we pick just a few of the most interesting, the most notable, and simply the most awesome to share with you!

• Instagallery: View Instagram photos on your iPad! Includes the ability to like and comment on photos as well as follow new users. [$1.99 - iTunes link}

• Remote: Control iTunes and Apple TV! Now allows you to toggle iTunes' visualizer and brings the addition of a "skip back" button when playing video. [Free - iTunes link]

• Adobe Photoshop Express: New camera pack available as in-app purchase to reduce noise, set a self timer, and auto review. Also now has full Retina Display and multitasking support. [Free, with in-app purchase - iTunes link]

• Smurfs' Village: Now with a Vanity Smurf Hut with Vanity Smurf's Photo Studio. Smurfs will also now site on benches, logs, and stools.

• FX Photo Studio HD (Give away and sale!): With 181 total effects and filters, the possibilities are endless when it comes to editing your photos. [$0.99 - iTunes link]

The good folks at MacPhun LLC are generously provided promo codes for FX Photo Studio HD to give away to you, our awesome! Just leave comment tell us why you would like FX Photo Studio HD on your iPad for a chance to win!

Any other big apps or game releases or updates today? If you pick any of these up, let us know what you think!

Update: Congrats to MAGNUS, Rob, RisingPixels, and Bryan Clark for winning FX Photo Studio HD promo codes!

If you guys hadn't already heard about our wallpaper contest we have going in our forums, mosey on over and check it out! I've been picking one person every week or so (depending on the amount of entries we get) to win $20 from TiPb. You'll also get some TiPb main page glory with your wallpaper on it for everyone to see.

This week's winner is iPheuria with his awesome wallpaper you see above. Congrats, we'll be contacting you about claiming your $20 prize!

Remember guys, we're looking for original works, not just photos. Something that's really going to looks awesome as an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch background. So head on over to our Official TiPb Wallpaper contest thread in our forums and post it up!

We are keeping the ball rolling on the TiPb Wallpaper Contest we've got going on in our forums, and we're ready to announce our second winner -- jphoman. If you jump over to the contest thread, he's got several versions of these awesome wallpapers posted in many different colors.

As always, if you guys have original works that look great on iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad - post them in our wallpaper contest thread for your chance to win $20 and land your image on the main page of TiPb!

Remember that TiPb iPhone and iPad wallpaper contest we had going in our forums? We didn't forget about it, but I don't think we made it exactly clear what we were looking for either. So to kick things off (again), we've picked our first winner, the forum member who submitted the beautiful wallpaper they made above.

Think you can make a killer wallpaper? Jump over to our thread and submit your iPad or iPhone wallpaper for your chance to win. We'll be picking a winner every week. Each winner will have their wallpaper put on the front page of TiPb as well as receive $20.

Remember: we are looking for original works, not photos. It can be based on your own photo but it has to be made into a real, great looking wallpaper. Textures, abstract patterns, stripes, plaid - whatever you think will really make an iPhone or iPad background stand out. You'll need to create these though, not just find one online.

And now for our first winner, CoffeeFaith - for their awesome iPad/iPhone creation you see above. Great job!  He's got it posted in all iDevice formats over in our forums, so check it out!

If you guys think you've got some awesome creations, once again hop on over to our Wallpaper Contest Thread!

Adobe has announced that their CS5 suite, the latest version of their industry leading content creation tools like Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign, will be launching April 12 (with availability likely to follow at a point that is later).

The big news for iPhone developers is that Flash CS5, as previously reported, will allow ahead-of-time-compiling that should allow for easy (or easier) porting of Flash apps to the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.

So, if you prefer developing in Flash rather than Xcode and don't mind the lack of interface builder tools, you can stay in Flash and spit out iPhone binaries. (Just please -- please -- make them awesome).

Though not specifically iPhone related, Adobe is providing some sneak previews of other CS5 apps, including one I still don't -- nay, can't -- believe is real: content aware fill for Photoshop (embedded below, but watch it on as big a screen as you can.)

Now if they were to add this to an iPad version of a PhotoShop.com app...

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I will admit I am not the biggest fan of Photoshop but I am into all of these compositing apps in the App Store and this new application, Juxtaposer, [iTunes link] is one you can really have some fun with, especially if you like taking pictures of your friends and family and making them look ridiculous.

Along with all of that fun comes ease of use as well:

First, load in any two pictures - perhaps one of your dad, and one of your dog. Next, use your finger to erase around your dog's head. Quickly zoom in and out or move around using two finger pinching gestures. To cut out your dog's head exactly, first zoom out and make a rough outline, then zoom in, and erase or un-erase with pixel-accuracy. Switch to move mode and use two fingers to move, re-size and rotate your dog's head into place over dad's. It's easy, intuitive and fun, and you'll have a great new Dog-Dad in about a minute.

The app will run you $2.99 but for that price you are getting the best compositing application in the App Store. Period.

[Via TUAW]

Got a hankering to make an spot-on iPhone looking WebApp? Wanna mock-up an App Store application interface of your very own? Thanks to the hyper-generosity of teehan+lax, now you can!

Over the past few months we’ve had to create a few iPhone mock ups for presentations. The problem we’ve encountered is the lack of resources to help us design something efficiently. Up until now we’ve used a nice PSD from 320480.com but we still found ourselves having to build out additional assets or heavily modifying bitmap based buttons and widgets.

Since we know we’ll be doing more of this, we created our own Photoshop file that has a fairly comprehensive library of assets – all fully editable.

The 5MB download is available directly from their site, so if you want it, go get it!

(via TUAW)

Those Nike+ Pictures we reported a few days back? There's some rumblings that they may be fake. Yes, Apple and Nike are still in cahoots and plan on releasing Nike+ for the iPhone, but the pictures floating around the web are not a production of Apple or Nike but rather some enterprising photoshop expert.

Who knows when we'll get some solid info on Nike+ for iPhone. Hopefully, Apple and Nike are working on creating a great program that includes some of the features we saw in the screenshots like the ability to map out a running route. There currently is no timetable for Nike+ to be released on the iPhone.

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