Adobe's new mobile apps transcend Creative Cloud beyond the desktop

Adobe recently updated its Creative Cloud Suite to include a series of new mobile apps that can transcend Creative Cloud to tablets and even smartphones. Seven apps, five of which are totally new are detailed after the jump.

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Adobe acquires Aviary to enable creative cloud app development

Adobe today announced that it has acquired privately held Aviary, a developer of mobile SDKs (Software Development Kits) for the delivery of creative apps.

With millions of people already using Aviary-powered photo-editing apps and thousands of developers using Aviary’s SDKs, across mobile platforms, the acquisition accelerates Adobe’s strategy to make Creative Cloud a vibrant platform for third-party apps, through a new Creative SDK.

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Adobe and Google collaborate on open source font for Japanese, Chinese and Korean

Adobe just announced the release of Source Han Sans, an open source typeface supporting Japanese, Chinese and Korean, as well as Latin, Greek and Cyrillic alphabets.

It was developed in collaboration with Adobe’s key partner Google and contracted foundry partners across East Asia (Changzhou SinoType, Iwata Corporation, and Sandoll Communication). Source Han Sans marks a record-breaking typeface in terms of size, scale, complexity and support for Japanese, Chinese and Korean all within the same font family. It provides designers and developers creating content for international audiences one uniform font to use in print and Web files no matter the language - eliminating the need to license multiple fonts.

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Photoshop finally lands on Windows Phone

Windows Phone users have been excluded for quite some time from using Adobe Photoshop on their devices. The wait is now finally over as Adobe finally released Photoshop Express on the platform. Now, you can do your Photoshop magic on your Windows Phone device before you flaunt your creations on your social network of choice. Some of the filters and “looks” may require you to buy them within the app though. But the app itself is available for free download here.