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Full-fledged Photoshop tablet for PCs?

Although it only complements the PC program for the time being, Photoshop users can benefit greatly from the novelty.

Adobe's graphic editing program is very popular with both professionals and hobby artists. So much so that this great app has also been made available for PDAs. Unfortunately, the app, which runs as Photoshop Express, can only do basic things with our photos. This may change with the advent of tablets (e.g. iPad, Galaxy Tab).

I always say that I will ignore other factors now - I will buy a tablet if I can work with it fully with Photoshop. Such a solution would throw a lot at the convenience and functionality.

In addition to me and others, Adobe has also seen the opportunity in these tools, the huge touch screens are great for drawing and painting, plus the interface is quite large. The answer to the question in the title is not clear. Nor does the new alternative to Adobe MAX introduced in 2010 offer full-featured Photoshop, but rather a co-application that uses the tablet as a quasi-whiteboard and communicates with the PS on our computer, and we can track changes on our monitor as well.

Full-featured Photoshop tablet for PCs
Mixing colors by hand, like on a real palette.

Full-featured Photoshop tablet for PCs
One of the new features in PS CS5 is Content Aware Fill, which also works as a standalone application.

In addition, the tablet can work together as a dual-monitor, freeing up space on the computer screen, for example by displaying toolbars on the tablet PC. Convenient, because if e.g. the colors are selected on the tablet, you don’t have to move the mouse from where you were just working on the image. Here is a short video that demonstrates what the two machines can do with Photoshop.

I wonder if there are other things that can be done using tablet PCs in the PS, such as making freehand selections. That would be very useful, you can only work more accurately with your own hand than with a mouse.

I often wonder what is really what could make tablets so indispensable. Of course, it depends on the user, but so far I personally haven’t really felt that the larger display is good for anything other than convenience. Fortunately, however, there are a series of apps that refute this, and this Photoshop decipherment is also a +1 argument in the pan of the scales that symbolize the usefulness of devices like the iPad and Galaxy Tab.

Source: phoneArena / PDA Fan Club

Full-featured Photoshop tablet for PCs

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