52 MACWORLD FEBRUARY 2020
iOSCENTRALIMAGE: ADOBEA
“real” version of Adobe
Photoshop (go.macworld.com/
apht) is finally available on the
iPad, over a year after Adobe
first announced it was coming.
Keep in mind, though, that “real”
Photoshop and “full” Photoshop aren’t quite
the same things. Adobe gets away with
calling it “real” Photoshop (in contrast to
something like Photoshop Express [go.
macworld.com/phxp]) because the iPad
version shares the same base code as the
desktop version. This, in turns, allows iPad
users to easily and swiftly switch between
desktop and mobile versions of their
projects thanks to the cloud version of
Adobe’s PSD file format. Adobe also uses
this as an incentive to start keeping your
files in its cloud, which shouldn’t be too
much of a storage problem if you keepAdobe Photoshop finally makes
it to the iPad
The popular photo editing app isn’t picture perfect yet, but it’s off to a nice start.
BY LEIF JOHNSON