Photoshop Remote for iOS
It's always nice to wake up to news that you've been waiting on for a while. This morning Adobe officially announced the Adobe Photoshop Touch SDK, which gives developers the ability to directly communicate with and script Photoshop (currently only available in pre-release beta). While the SDK is not perfect and still needs to grow, the fact that Adobe is investing in this functionality in their flagship products makes me, as an iOS developer, smile. I am very excited about this and future developments from Adobe.
After seeing the announcement, I decided to throw together a little video of an app I've been working on. Granted, it's not the same quality as Adobe's announcement video but give me a break, I recorded it at 2:00 am and found it very difficult to record a video from my iPhone of my iPad while trying to control Photoshop on two different computers.... :)
Photoshop Remote is a heads-up-display for all of the Photoshop CS 5.5 installations on your local network. The dashboard gives you a live thumbnail of each connected client while giving you the ability to perform global actions on all connected clients like saving open images to your iPad photo library, opening the same image on all connected computers, or sending a message to all connected computers. When you drill down to an individual screen, you have even more functionality such as tool selection, color selection, filters, adjustment layers, and more.
Photoshop Remote from Shawn Welch on Vimeo.
Photoshop Remote will launch in early May shortly after the release of Adobe Photoshop CS 5.5. Stay tuned!
