Adobe Photoshop Touch / FAQ

Adobe Photoshop Touch lets you transform images using core Photoshop features designed for mobile devices — tablets, smartphones, and iPod Touch — as well as new capabilities tailored for mobile creativity and social networking. With Photoshop Touch, you can:

• Create new images by combining photos, making popular edits, and applying professional effects
• Quickly find images, share your creations, and view comments — all from within the app, thanks to integration with Facebook and Google^1,2
• Access interactive tutorials that can help you quickly achieve great-looking results²
• Sync projects to Adobe Creative Cloud™ and open layered files from Adobe Photoshop Touch in Photoshop^1,3

Photoshop Touch is right for anyone — amateur, enthusiast, or professional — who wants to edit photos on a mobile device. Photoshop Touch lets you quickly combine images, apply professional effects, and share the results with friends and family through Facebook and more — all from the convenience of your tablet, smartphone, or iPod Touch.1 If you are a more advanced user, you can take your projects even further in Photoshop.³

Adobe Creative Cloud is a digital hub where you can explore, create, share, and deliver your work using any of the Creative Cloud desktop tools, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom® software, and apps and services like Adobe Muse^TM CC and Adobe Edge Tools & Services.

By offering connectivity with Adobe Photoshop Touch (purchased separately), Creative Cloud enables a mobile workflow, from ideation to publishing, to bring the power of Adobe innovation to your mobile devices. It gives you the freedom to create, offering immediate and ongoing access to industry-defining tools and innovative technologies to serve a vibrant worldwide community of creative talent along with the ability to sync, store, and share your work across multiple devices.¹ Learn more.

Adobe Photoshop Touch delivers the power, control and possibilities of Adobe Photoshop, in a mobile phone or tablet environment. Adobe Photoshop Express is a set of quick-and-easy tools to quickly touch up photos before sharing them.

• If you create images and want the versatility of Photoshop layers, selection tools, effects, and adjustments on your mobile device, consider Photoshop Touch.
• If you want to quickly add embellishments and share the photos you take on your mobile device, consider Photoshop Express.
• Alternatively, consider taking advantage of both apps for even more mobile editing and creativity on the go.

Visit a store in your region to purchase Photoshop Touch for your devices. Photoshop Touch for tablet is available from the Apple App Store, Google Play Store, Amazon Appstore, and Samsung Apps. Photoshop Touch for phone is available from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.

You can work with images on your mobile device and then take them further on your PC or Mac in Adobe Photoshop. You can move files between tablets, smartphones, and computers by using Adobe Creative Cloud to open layered files from Photoshop Touch in Photoshop. This requires a downloadable plug-in for Photoshop CS5 and later. You can also open Photoshop (PSD) files in Photoshop Touch; however, all image layers will be flattened into a single layer.

No. Photoshop Touch and Photoshop complement each other nicely, but you can use either independently of the other.

Work with images on your tablet and/or smartphone and then take them further on your PC or Mac in Adobe Photoshop. Sync projects to Adobe Creative Cloud and open layered files from Adobe Photoshop Touch in Photoshop.² You can also open native Photoshop (PSD) files in Photoshop Touch; however, image layers will be flattened into a single layer. Adobe constantly evaluates potential new features. If accessing multiple PSD layers in Adobe Photoshop Touch is important to you, provide feedback in the Adobe Photoshop Touch user forum.

For the latest system requirements, visit the Photoshop Touch tech specs page.

For a list of supported languages, visit the Photoshop Touch tech specs page.

To check availability, visit the Apple App Store, Google Play Store, Amazon Appstore, or Samsung Apps in your country.

For pricing in your local currency, visit the Apple App Store, Google Play Store, Amazon Appstore, or Samsung Apps in your country.

You can learn more about Photoshop Touch on these web pages:

• Visit the Apple App Store, Google Play Store, Amazon Appstore, or Samsung Apps.
• Visit the Adobe Photoshop Touch product page.
• Find videos on Adobe TV.
• Visit the Photoshop Touch page on Photoshop.com.

Photoshop Touch contains some of the core Photoshop features that Photoshop users know and love, plus some new capabilities that apply best to working on a connected tablet or smartphone. With a Photoshop compatible file format, users can start brainstorming and creating work in Photoshop Touch and then access that work via Adobe Creative Cloud in Photoshop on a Mac or PC for further refinement. This workflow requires a downloadable plug-in for Photoshop CS5 and later.

No. Photoshop Touch leverages Adobe Creative Cloud (announced at Adobe MAX 2011) to sync files with your desktop for further refinement in Photoshop on your Mac or PC.

Learn more about the Photoshop companion apps at the Mobile & Tablet Apps page on Photoshop.com or at the Adobe mobile apps page on Adobe.com. Learn more about the Photoshop SDK at the Photoshop Developer Center.