Adobe is working on a full version of Photoshop for the iPad

Hoping to boost subscription sales and help on-the-go creatives (especially those working in the media and entertainment fields), Adobe is working on launching a full version of its Photoshop app for the Apple iPad. A report from Bloomberg claims the app will be launched at this year’s MAX creative conference in October and will hit the market sometime next year. As the report says, “Engineering delays could still alter that timeline.”

Adobe’s Chief Product Officer Scott Belsky confirmed that the company is working on a full, cross-platform iteration of Photoshop and its other apps but he won’t give a specific timeline when it comes to the release. When this launches, it will give users the ability to continue edits from one device to another. You could point out that existing apps have companion versions through the company’s Creative Cloud subscription service, but these apps are, as Bloomberg pointed out, based on “aging architectures with different underpinnings for each device.”

Adobe and Territory Studios reimagine iconic ‘Terminator’ interface for 2018

Adobe was looking for a way to showcase what Adobe XD could do, which is the company’s free UX/UI prototyping software, and an idea the company focused on was redesigning a few on-screen interfaces of Terminator 2. Adobe partnered with Territory Studios to bring this to life. The company is known for its design work for films like The Martian, Guardians of the Galaxy, Avengers: Infinity War, to name a few. The focus of the project was on the first-person heads-up display (HUD) used by Arnold Schwarzenegger’s T-800 and how it could be redesigned for this age.

Adobe licensed two specific frames to redesign, both featuring the red-tinted point of view the infamous killer robot. The redesigned frames feature tons of extra details. As Fast Company describes it, it’s like the Terminator got an HD upgrade. “This project definitely started to open up all kinds of new possibilities for XD,” said Talin Wadsworth, creative director and a founding team member of Adobe XD. “I started thinking about features that were really tailored to the work that Territory is doing—different features, different workflows, and maybe in the future more augmented reality prototyping, or virtual reality prototyping. It’s really shifted my perspective and what my hopes and dreams are for what XD can be in the future.” You can watch above the process of how this whole project came about.

Adobe Illustrator celebrates 30th anniversary

Adobe is celebrating Illustrator's 30th anniversary. Adobe Illustrator is the marquee creative tool for professional illustrators/ More than 180 million graphics are created with Illustrator CC on a monthly basis. Its output is everywhere, from the billboards you pass on the highway to the packages you see at the grocery. Read more about it here.

Adobe to shut down Contribute, Director, and Shockwave beginning February

A lot has changed since Adobe programs Director, Contribute, and Shockwave came out. And with Adobe putting its focus on its Creative Cloud suite, it looks like it wants to close some doors it’s opened in the past. The three aforementioned apps will be shut down starting February 1^st for the Director and Contribute software, while Shockwave for Mac will stop getting support my March 14^th. This marks the end of Macromedia software, a company Adobe acquired back in 2005. You can read the full official statement here.