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Adobe Photoshop: Photo Editor Positive Reviews

Love the app, few minor setbacksI recently got an iPad and have been using it to edit my photos. I LOVE that I can edit on my iPad and then open my desktop app to continue where I left off. This feature is also helpful because editing on an iPad is certainly limited compared to what you can do on a laptop/desktop. The iPad interface doesn’t have file, edit, image, layer, select, filter, etc. with dropdown options. While popular tools like liquify and gaussian blur are still available, there are definitely less options in those areas. What I’ve found is my iPad editing is GREAT for quick fixes or getting in some basic work on the go, and I can later revisit my files at a computer and get into any major editing that I cant necessarily do on my iPad app. I haven’t run into any app crashes— which I have some issues with on my surface pro, and overall everything functions at a really high level. I also really love the generative AI tool, it has definitely gotten me out of some pinches and it’s also fun for messing around..GibbbbbboVersion: 5.4

The release could have been handled better, but the features in v1 are well doneAs a product manager and designer myself I do sympathize with this kind of reaction to a major release. But it wasn’t unavoidable. It was waaaay easier to spend the last year thinking that an iPad version of photoshop that had feature parity with the desktop version was coming. Many of the outlets reporting on the announcement left out the caveat about v1, and even the official Adobe announcement article only had a single bullet point mentioning it. Most people who read about it walked away with the impression of “full” and “real” photoshop, not “a limited feature v1 that will grow overtime”. From an announcement hype standpoint that’s fine. From the standpoint of expectation setting, that was precisely what led to the blowback currently manifesting itself as one star reviews. The optics and narrative mistakes of the whole thing aside, what y’all have shipped in this v1 is really solid. It’s obviously limited in functionality, but everything that did make the cut is smooth, easy to pick up with knowledge of desktop photoshop, and just feels really good to use. If future functionality is added with the same care, I’ll very much look forward to trying it out..KronosqqVersion: 1.0

Defeats the purpose a bitSo, I just got an iPad and got procreate excitedly as I've heard good things. I was immediately disappointed by the lack of stabilizing tools in Procreate. Even though they technically have them, they aren't great, so I figured I'd roll back to photoshop since I know the program anyways. I was happy to find a stabilizer! And subsequently sad to find I can only use the default brushes. And the defaults in the app aren't even like the ones on the PC. What's the point if this program works better for me but none of the brushes work for what I need to do? I tried adobe sketch as well, and I'm happier with the brush options and that you're technically able to import more, but then they don't have stabilizing options! I feel like Goldilocks trying to find the program that fits just right. If this app actually allowed me to use my own brushes, it would be perfect for me. I'm a loyal adobe user but the whole point of me getting an iPad was so I didn't always have to use my computer and could draw on the go-- it's completely pointless if I can't even have good lineart brushes. PLEASE either expand the amount of brushes available or preferably allow us to import our brushes and settings..Starshine is awesomeVersion: 1.2.1

Great when the features workI paid for a one year subscription and the features work great when available, especially Retouch and replacing the eyes on facial photos. However, they are not always available. Sometimes when I want to use these features, they are inaccessible and the app informs me that the content is downloading and I will receive an notification when it is complete. It happens when I’m trying to work on photos on an iPad. It is frustrating to wait, especially considering that I have a paid subscription. However, after the content has downloaded the features are available for a short time, even when I’m working offline. However, the features become inaccessible again and I have to wait until the content downloads again. And the app tends to freeze. I use an iPad Air and have the latest iOS settings and latest app update, but the inconsistency of the features availability is surprising and frustrating. Again, the aforementioned features are great for the price of a full year. But I urge potential subscribers to bear in mind what I have described..ComicNoirFanVersion: 3.6

Promising start...but pricing?So far I’m liking the app. True, it’s not in parity with the desktop Creative Cloud version of Photoshop. It’s pretty suitable for my needs. (Though I do look forward to smart object compatibility). Pricing will make or break Adobe’s presence on my iPad. I’m fine paying for a subscription but I encourage exploration of bundle pricing or lower cost pricing. As it stands I feel I have to decide between Fresco or Photoshop (each $9.99) —and then apparently Illustrator is around the corner. I’m assuming that will be another $9.99. I implore Adobe to make these products cheap enough that I don’t need to decide. Look at Apple Arcade —everyone I know feels that Apple made that a great value. Thus I’m paying for Apple Arcade even though I don’t play that many games. BUT it’s inexpensive enough that I don’t think about it. Or Microsoft’s model: for $6.99 a month you get the entire Office Suite and 1TB of storage. I’m not saying Adobe needs to go that low but you can see how that kind of pricing is very inviting, especially to amateur hobbyists..Champion.#2Version: 1.0

$10 a month.The idea is there, but I just don’t think this app is worth paying for when I have a full working version of CC 2020 on my PC. I downloaded this in hopes of working on my projects on the go, but it’s lacking many features CC has. In all reality they should make this app either cheaper or free until they finish building the app. Edit: After a bit of playing around with it, I did notice my hand keeps hitting things in the tabs. I have accidentally closed my projects and switched layers,etc. If you could add a feature to close out the tabs and make it to where you can possibly swipe or something of that nature to access them, it would make this app much easier to use with the pencil. I would also like to ask if we will be able to see then lines we are drawing in real time eventually. I feel as if this would make life a little easier. I understand this isn’t like a display tablet, but it makes things really nice to edit on the go. I have also had a hard time accessing my files in the cloud and have resorted to using google drive and Dropbox. Maybe something worth looking into..KillaBitDXVVersion: 1.3.2

Amazing, actual real photoshop on a tabletI didn’t realize until I got an iPad today that they had ported the real photoshop over, but this is amazing. It’s not quite as refined or as capable as desktop PS, but the most essential features are there, it generates real PSDs and was able to open a few of the odd PSDs I’d already had saved to my CC account that were created on desktop. There are a few areas where it even feels nicer than desktop, namely being able to pinch to zoom so smoothly. You don’t mind the floating UI bits because it’s so easy to move the canvas around them, even on an iPad mini it works very well. Further refinements are certainly needed, but there’s no denying that this is the real deal. I don’t think it will replace desktop for anyone yet, but in a pinch, it’s excellent. Just like an extra-portable camera, it will shine the most in settings where you wouldn’t have had the full experience available. Definitely looking forward to seeing more features and quality of life refinements..PkMn Trainer ChrisVersion: 2.0.1

The reviews are slightly underrated in my opinionThis is a great app and I think as the development continues it will only get better with time! The fact that I can open large PSD files is a win for me. The tools that I’d like to see on the iPad app would be all the filters and layer styles. These are a must for me, I found myself feeling very limited without these tools. If all the tools from the desktop app are transferred to the iPad over time, I believe this will be the best piece of artwork Adobe has ever made. When Photoshop Touch first came out I was so excited for the possibilities and now I’m more excited than ever because this is the closest it’s ever been to a full desktop experience for iPad. I want to thank the developers, please know that I’m happy with the efforts you all are putting into this project and please don’t pay any attention to those who are writing negative reviews. Keep up the good work, I’m impressed with everything so far and can’t wait for the next updates to come!.TnnatureboyVersion: 1.0.1

Loving this app despite some issues I ran intoRevised Version 2.0.1 Review Thanks to the response of my initial review for this version, after deleting the app and then re-installing it, all of the brushes were restored. Finally, it’s now usable once again after stressing out over this for a couple of days. Version 2.0.1: Brushes nonexistent and useless without it This latest update pretty much makes it unusable because the brushes are no longer available. And to go along with the delayed support for the M1 chip on the Desktop version makes it a double whammy for me. Being a user of Photoshop for 5 years, I’ve never been so disappointed than ever before. Original Review titled “PSDC Files nearly deleted after update” I really enjoyed this app until I updated to version 1.6.2. What happened after updating was all of my work in the past versions was offloaded, which is fine to free up space on my iPad, but it also almost deleted all of my work that were stored in folders. Luckily they were moved in the recently deleted folder and I restored it all as soon as I saw it. But imagine if all of my work was permanently deleted as a result of an update. A hard chew to swallow, but I’ll backup my work as regular PSD’s on my computer after this near-chaotic experience I encountered when using this app..Dmark0822Version: 2.0.1

The success of AdobeIf you wanna killer app, there’s AI that can provide that for you, but if you are a designer that wants to exercise, there’s pure raw on adulterated skilled the only way to do that is with the Photoshop for all the competitors we get all the imitations get all the pipe about anything new with AI if you want it done right go straight to Adobe. The king will always rule his kingdom in the world of digital photography and enhancements and just Plano making your stuff look better just creating is simply the smartest with Photoshop and the new Photoshop iOS app that is available for free as long as Adobe keeps putting this out continues to support this app. It’ll be the only thing I ever use because it’s the cleanest. It’s the most intelligent, the most intuitive, the smartest, and the most professional of any graphic design app ever created. Hands-down Photoshop is number one that’s why there’s a phrase. “Oh, it’s Photoshop.”.Sktr 5Version: 7.8

Finally on iPad!I’ve been using Photoshop since 1990 and I still have the floppy disk for the officially branded Adobe Photoshop version 1.0.6. The negative reviews are both unfair and in some cases inaccurate. Yeah, I don’t like Adobe’s subscription model either but they didn’t have to add an iPad version to keep their subscribers. If anything, they took a huge risk opening themselves up to the expected comparisons to Procreate and other competing apps that are one-time purchase. But let’s be honest here guys, those apps are not Creative Cloud just like Apple TV+ is not Netflix. Did you guys even try this app for yourselves on iPad? It’s actually really good and is an excellent interpretation of the desktop app that changed graphic design forever. Watch the tutorials. Don’t listen to the critics. This app wasn’t built to convince new customers to pay Adobe $50/mo. It was created as a free gift for their massive customer base already paying..ConcernedParentVersion: 1.0.1

As good as it is, the frustrations still haven’t been fixed, still missing featuresI love photoshop and the Adobe suite of apps and my only criticisms lie in the length of time it seems to be taking to fix the biggest glaring error I constantly experience, as well as finally bring it on par with the desktop version. — I feel this is especially true with you have the capabilities of the iPad Pro 1TB with 16GB ram and M1 processing. I don’t know if the iOS limitations are the only thing holding Adobe back from finally getting these implemented but it would be really nice to know I’m not missing things when using this version. Also and almost more importantly, how long is it going to take to fix the constant crashing that occurs when using the spot healing brush to touch things up? I go from being able to use it for a long time to use it a few times and it freezes, but allows me to attempt to close it. Then it will get stuck at 10% and freeze there until I just force it to close. At that point I typically lose all of the edits I had done to that point using the brush, and sometimes even further back to the previous edits I had been making. I have to constantly close every other app on the iPad, and even with 16GB and 1 picture open to edit, it will crash on me, perhaps 8/10 times. At first I thought it was memory, but now I think it’s more than that, but this is a really big problem and I have to wonder if anyone else experiences it, because even when I have kept the updates current on both the device and the software it’s still a problem. Once these things get fixed, this becomes my favorite app. Right now it’s great but really frustrating the same time. Hope we see some fixes and updates soon!.Drastic778Version: 3.6.3

Works well with CC but still needs some improvements.Originally, I wasn’t very fond of the mobile Photoshop app but it has definitely improved. I still find myself importing and exporting between Adobe and Procreate simply because Procreate makes it easy and intuitive, Adobe might be just as easy to use but I am only familiar with the tapping through menus method. Additionally, I personally miss the ability to Ruby mask. Also, there was some feature that I am used to using on Adobe PC that I wasn’t able to figure out on mobile so I exported it back to PC but… I forget what it was. 😅 Lastly, if you use the “quick export” option it WILL compress your image. You have to do an actual Export and Share(?) process to keep the resolution. Basically, this app has its uses but I still find myself jumping back and forth between PC, mobile, and Procreate. Side note: there are still features that state they are not available on mobile devices …?🤨.XiMiXVersion: 3.5

You guys have to fix.I don’t like doing this because I love Adobe, and to me the project when functional is complexity worth the coast, but the crashes in the app are way out of hand. I advocate Adobe and this product fully, but the instability and the length of time this app has been crashing is making it hard. I cannot get any work done at all. It crashes when I pretty much use and tool, and my project isn’t open long enough to even sync my saves to the cloud. I had been waiting for an update for a while now, so I was extremely elated to see a new up date, only to be solely disappointed that as soon as I updated and started my project again I had abandoned, the app crashed again. Please make fixing the app a priority! I don’t want my loyalty to waiver. Thank you!.JazzephayeVersion: 1.2.0

Somewhat BafflingThere are only a handful of computer programs in the history of the world that are more well known than Photoshop is, so for the mobile app experience and in particular the iPad version of it to be so clunky compared to the computer version is a bit baffling to say the least. Its understandable that apple devices may not be as powerful as a computer is, but the overall experience feels like a skeleton with meat on some parts but exposed bones elsewhere. Basic features such as guide lines, smart filters, and more than 2 layer effects (all things that can be found in the computer program) would not be nearly as missed, if it wasn’t for the fact that OTHER Adobe mobile products currently exist with them (Fresco and Illustrator). Fresco is an excellent, amazing drawing suite. Why is it not just part of Photoshop? They work together, and operate in extremely similar capacities…it’s another baffling choice. With the increasing popularity and ability of tablets, designers are becoming more inclined to use an app to help in the process. But having the primary tool they use be dull as a spoon will not motivate them to use this software. Please adobe gods, see what has been left in the shadows and do what is right!!! Or literally just add guides to the app, that’d be great too..LaneGoldenrodVersion: 6.3.1

DONT USE TEXT TOOLThe app misses a lot of features that are on the PC version, which I can deal with just fine, but the text tool CAN AND WILL RUIN your work. By any and all means, DO NOT USE THE TEXT TOOL! Even if you delete the layer the text will pop up all over your work and infect other files and can still infect new/other files even when the initial infected file has been fully deleted. Avoid it at all costs, especially if you do commission or professional work. It is a bug they either Can't or Won't fix that has been persistent for the entire time I've had this app. There are ways to "fix" the problem but it ultimately leads to you completely deleting your work. The trouble is just not worth trying to use it. So take it from someone that has lost hours of work due to wanting to put a single word on their piece, DONT USE IT..Super Uber cuteVersion: 5.5.2

Adobe Photoshop is Fine at best.Now, don’t get me wrong, Photoshop is great and helpful and allat, but there’s just so many problems with it. Maybe it’s just my internet or something, but my device can barely handle photoshop. It has a lot of problems with where to find the settings, and is overall lacking with that kind of stuff. For lots of people, they can’t really handle photoshop yet, especially beginners. So if you’re a beginner, I suggest starting out with something like Picsart. Just stay clear of the app trying to get you to pay for bonus stuff. Anyways, Photoshop kinda needs to step up their game a little. Now I get some people are gods at Photoshop and make full on blockbuster movie posters, but some people can’t do that, I can though. But In conclusion, Photoshop is mediocre but also great for experts. -Sincerely, A overly judgmental Photoshopper..Mtn reviewsVersion: 7.8

Godfather of photo editingThe mobile version is even better and for someone like me who likes simple stuff. This is the best thing ever..Bluefloyd13Version: 7.5.2

Pros and consThe AI works most of the time really well, but when it doesn’t work well and does what you don’t want you to do you’ll waste a lot of credits on it and it’s annoying.James smith athensVersion: 7.6

GoodGood, can give us more free functions ?.Chenette uVersion: 7.2

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Adobe Photoshop: Photo Editor Negative Reviews

Had a lot of potentialI have always loved photoshop for everything from personal to professional use. So I was very excited to finally get a full version of photoshop for my 12.9 iPad Pro. What I found though was that this is not a “full” version of photoshop at all. This does have many of the features I know and love, but lacks a SIGNIFICANT amount of the functionality I have enjoyed on my PC experience. I am a current paid membership user of the desktop version, so I was hoping for more of a one to one translation. My biggest grievance isn’t the lack of features though. My largest issue is the downscaling of the “cloud” files. When I upload a photo project I am working on for a client, and the PC is showing a file size of 4700x5600, I am expecting that same pixel count on the ipad. What I got was a loss of about 15% across the board on any file I uploaded to the cloud. This means that projects I want to take with me on the go are not the same resolution as they are on my personal computer. This also means that any retouching I want to do will be absolutely a moot point as I wont be able to have control of the finer details that I do on PC. I still love everything that photoshop is capable of doing, but this version feels more like a Photoshop “lite” than it does Photoshop. I am excited for the possibility moving forward but for now unfortunately I will have to stick to my computer..Dan DunmireVersion: 1.2.3

Adobe photoshopI love How finally I found a photoshop app that is good and I was so excited to finally try it out, but then I realized you had to pay to actually be able to have fun and experience this app, now I’m not trying to complain I’m just saying I don’t like how you have to pay it should be an option, I think if you paid the money you should get better features and more stuff you should just have to pay to be able to experience the whole app. It looks like you guys did I really good just making this app, and all the features it comes along with but that fact that you have to pay just to play sets me off, I just think if you pay the monthly access you should get more features and extra nicknacks then the people that didn’t pay, I still would just love to be able to make cool photos and learn how to work all this stuff and how everything goes, but now I have to keep searching for another photo shop app, the reason I want the paid monthly access to be an option is so you you could try out the game and see if you maybe like it and then if you do you can’t pay the money, I would just love to try this app out to see how everything works and learn stuff and how to get better. Well I don’t you if anyone will spend the time reading this, but if you do happen to come across this please maybe consider making some changes, and it’s not up to me it’s up to you I’m just sharing my point of view. Thank you..Hi I'm Wedroyals/Dakotaz1324Version: 1.6.3

Frankly…not worth it on any level…Let me start by saying I’m aware it will inevitably be a somewhat different experience whenever an app designed for PC’s is adapted for a mobile format. I have used a number of Creative Cloud apps on PC and been fairly pleased with their capabilities (once I got past the initial learning curve). That unfortunately has not been the case with the mobile versions. One would think that in this day and age it wouldn’t be that hard to come by apps from reputable developers that allow for FULL functionality and creative freedom without costing what feels like an arm and a leg. I’m not sure if it’s Adobe or Apple that’s not pulling their weight here, but in my experience the apps themselves take up a ton of storage on most devices, and you can’t get anything close to the full experience without paying, and even then they don’t seem to be compatible with 90 percent of the media on something like an IPad. Some might say I should try the PC versions, but I’m left to wonder, would I have to pay more than anyone should have to try and justify for a hobby or anything else for that matter? That aside, would I even be able to create well-made projects without it breaking my device’s brain? If I am to use any Creative Cloud apps in the future, I’m afraid it may have to be on PC, or at least some device that can handle what they would normally have to offer..Whitewolf98Version: 4.4

Can’t turn off autosave to Adobe CloudFirst, this app is missing a lot of useful tools that I use all the time on the desktop version. There are several cheaper apps that include many more tools for a lot less money. ArtStudio Pro and Procreate are just 2 examples that charge a one time fee (no subscription required) and are way more useful for drawing and manipulating photos on your iPad. Seriously, Adobe, you couldn’t even manage to include dodge and burn tools in PHOTOshop? But I have a subscription, so I figured I might as well give it a chance. Until I realized the app REQUIRES you to save everything to the Adobe Cloud. You can also save it to your iPad. But you cannot turn off the autosave to the cloud. I DO NOT WANT TO SAVE TO YOUR SERVER! I’m a physician at a medical school and periodically use photoshop to prepare patient photos for presentations. It would be a privacy violation if it were to end up on your servers. I need to be able to turn off the autosave function. The only possible reasons for making this a requirement, are nefarious. It is either to force you to use up your cloud space and then be forced to purchase more storage or it is a data mining scam. There is no good reason you can’t make this optional. Allow the customer to decide where they want to save their work. You will eventually cause someone to commit a HIPAA violation if you don’t change this feature..J-AndrewVersion: 2.0.2

The iPad version is broken and nearly unusable, please fix!I have been using Photoshop to create my digital illustrations for over nine years now, and was elated when I realized it also existed for the iPad when I first got mine ten months ago. I absolutely love the fact that I can work on any document on either my desktop or my iPad, and this feature alone is what has been motivating me to power through the broken mess this app has become in the past couple of months. It started with frequent crashes, then after an update about a month ago I began experiencing these white blocks popping up whenever I merge layers, only going away if I physically erase them. The thing that my finally prompt me to abandon this app all together is that all of my brushes, save the one I happened to have selected the last time I put my iPad on the charger are gone! This is 100% untenable! How is anyone supposed to create anything with only one brush?! Mind you I only had the basic ones that come with the app as to my knowledge there is no way to import brushes to the iPad version; sadly this fact also means that there simply is no work around for this issue either. This app was a boon and made working between two devices so easy, so it’s honestly heart breaking that it’s suddenly completely unusable..SkelebooVersion: 2.0.1

Who is this for? Not professionals, not hobbyists.This is a laughable release of Photoshop. I understand releasing a stripped down version of software to just get it out there with the promise that features would be gradually added. But this is so bare bones, I have absolutely no idea what I could use it for. There are some basic masking capabilities, some basic brush settings, some layer blending options, and really not much else. You can’t even import brushes. I’ve worked as a professional illustrator an animator for about 15 years, and up until about a year ago I used Photoshop every single day at work. With Procreate, Affinity Designer, and Affinity Photo, I have almost completely replaced Photoshop & Illustrator. I still use After Effects (but genuinely hope Affinity gets in on that game), and occasionally Adobe Animate (most of my animation happens in Toon Boom). The file compatibility of Procreate and Designer are excellent, every file I have saved in PSD format has worked perfectly when opened in Photoshop (a must for working with clients). I even had a 18 year old Photoshop file that Photoshop wouldn’t open... Procreate was able to open it just fine. Anyway, I have already deleted Photoshop from my iPad. Also deleted Fresco. Part of me is disappointed, I guess I’ve just been living in the Adobe ecosystem for so long, I’m used to it being the industry standard. More and more of my professional peers are using less and less Adobe, I predict in a few years the playing field will look very different regarding what software is considered “industry standard”..Unimaginative Nickname 42Version: 1.0

0 stars if I couldBLUF: Overpriced, there are other programs (even from Adobe) that do it better and it’s not ready for prime time. Adobe, I’m not sure what you were thinking with this other than “hey, I’m sure we can dupe some poor suckers into paying monthly fees because we call it ‘Photoshop,’” but I hope you’re wrong on that. You’ve waited so long to bring full programs to the iPad that we’ve all found alternatives we like. Hell, for true photography editing, I use your Lightroom on iPad. When I want to do photo illustration, I use Procreate (and so do a LOT of other people), which is awesome. So you’ve got to bring your A-game if you want us to go back to Photoshop. But you didn’t. You released another half-baked program, gimped out without all the features of the desktop, and you want us to pay a subscription fee? I want whatever you’re all smoking, because apparently it’s good stuff. For years we’ve heard you tell us “tablets aren’t powerful enough, there are too many limitations with iOS to create apps like you’re asking.” Weird that other companies have managed it. Just like Quark failed to adapt and died, so will you. The first company that comes up with good pagination software for a iPad gets my money, and I’m betting it’s not you, judging by Comp and your “full version” of Photoshop. Which is too bad; I used to love your programs..NotTheFirstToHateNicknameVersion: 1.0

A taste of Photoshop, but thats itDISAPPOINTMENT. I’ve been a devoted professional Photoshop desktop user for decades. Mastersuite actually. All of my photo processing skills and workflows are completely integrated with Adobe products - Photoshop serving as my baseline workhorse. Sure… Adobe is expensive, but its worth it to the professional user because of the extensive features for professional commercial use. So for me, extending use of that to my ipad is a no-brainer… OR SO I THOUGHT. My honest initial reaction to trying to use this on my iPad was confusion at first. Where off power features? I thought maybe I had made a mistake and downloaded the wrong version so I double and triple checking sure enough it’s the one I paid for. Then I thought, there must be some extra steps to get it set up properly in order to get the feature sets that I needed… apparently not because they don’t exist. “WHAT IS THIS CRAP, ADOBE? Shame on you for calling this Photoshop and then charging me as if it is even remotely deserving of that product label!” Adobe dropped the ball on this. Now I’m having to resort to learning and using something like ProCreate just to get some features and capabilities that should be in this so called Photoshop Mobile..LiveCreateVersion: 4.0

Doesn’t work well with Apple pencilI was really looking forward to this app but I find the use of it to be so frustrating I literally cannot even do the simple “warm up” projects I am trying to do so I can get used to the differences between this app and the desktop version. It can tell the difference between the Apple Pencil and my finger, in that if I use my finger (or the palm of my hand as I rest it on the screen so I can hold my Pencil like a normal human being) it doesn’t take pressure input. This is good. However, even when I turn off “use pressure for opacity” and “use pressure for brush size,” those are overriden and turned back on for the Apple Pencil. This means I have no actual control with things like the eraser tool as I try to just nudge an edge clean. Also, if I am using the Pencil, I want it to turn off drawing input from my hand. (See above re: resting my hand and accidentally drawing or erasing stuff.) And with pressure sensitivity, in order to get the full opacity and size, I have to push so hard with the Pencil I am worried I will break my screen. Thus I cannot get the eraser to be 100% opacity with the Pencil, even though with my finger it’s successful. In conclusion, I’m not finger-painting here, Adobe. Your app should know that and react accordingly. My note-taking app (Notability) can easily distinguish between Pencil and hand, and react to those different inputs differently, knowing when I use my hand I want to pan the screen and when I use the Pencil I want to draw/write. If it’s easier to draw in a note-taking app than in Photoshop, you have real functionality problems. Please fix those in the update and I’ll try your app again..AnjawithajVersion: 1.1

Typical AdobeThis is a half-baked product. As usual Adobe released it with a skeleton set of features and continues to add to it SLOWLY. I would say it probably has 10% of the power of the desktop version even though an iPad Pro is more than capable of running a full version of Photoshop. They keep focusing on features like streaming in-app instead of features that are actually useful to their product. Is anyone really going to stream inside of Photoshop instead of just screen sharing with an app that we all already have? Probably not. Yet they’ll delay all sorts of needed features while they work on that. Meanwhile Photoshop for iPad remains a shadow of it’s true self. It’s just bad decision making at the top. All of this to say, Adobe consistently underwhelms and disappoints with their products for professionals. If there was another game in town, then I’d be using it. How is it that Affinity Photo is about 5x more powerful than this, and yet they are a tiny company with a fraction of the funding that Adobe has. Their product is harder to use for sure, but it at least has desktop level features. My point is that Photoshop for iPad COULD have the same features as desktop, Adobe just chooses for it not to..ToddbarnesVersion: 2.2

Not a full versionI’ve been using PS desktop since 1995 so I’ve been really looking forward to this. The hype said we would get the full version of Adobe PS on iPad Pro. Some people even bought the iPad Pro in anticipation of this. I don’t think anyone really thought it would be a perfect mirror of the desktop program, but this is a disaster. It’s more like a “sample” and it feels like a slap in the face. This is not by any stretch a full version. I’ve only played with it a few minutes but I’ve been frustrated. I can’t add custom brushes. There appears to be no magnetic lasso or polygon lasso in selection tools. Transform function is severely limited. Super limited filters, no layer effects. The list goes on and on. Artstudio or MediBang or Affinity Photo are all better alternatives. Heck they could have just copied Artstudio and labeled it PS and the reception would have been better. Since I’m now working more on my iPad than my desktop its likely that I will cancel my adobe subscription. Huge disappointment. If you’re just starting out or don’t already use the desktop version, this isn’t worth the monthly subscription. There are better alternatives. I really hope Adobe gets their act together with this, but I’m not holding out much hope..Ce5156Version: 1.0.1

This program is unusable for professional illustrationThis is an amendment to my earlier review. After a day wrestling with this app and with Fresco, I can safely safely say both are riddled with bugs and neither should’ve been released to the broader public. I can’t believe that you can’t do something as basic as draw a box, triangle, or ellipse (in Fresco, it’s filled with decorative garbage I don’t want that I can’t get out and can’t fill with the paint bucket; in Photoshop, I can’t find an option to draw a shape, let alone establish rules and guidelines that would allow me to, you know, draw straight lines so I could make my own shapes— since I make comics and that sort of thing is pretty crucial to making comics). The glitches are unbearable. I was just eating dinner, studying the image of an octopus I was drawing, and I had zoomed in to work on the detail of the eye. Photoshop just spontaneously zoomed out without me touching the screen. Fresco does the same. And they do it while you’re drawing. Both litter the canvas with garbage marks. I spent more time correcting the damage the program did to my documents to today than I actually did illustrating. I’ve had these programs one day and I want a refund..BranheckVersion: 4.6

WAY TOO LITTLE, FAR TOO LATEThe title says it all. At first I thought maybe I was missing something, and then I realized Photoshop for iPad is missing A LOT. One very simple example is understanding cut/copy/paste. I can’t seem to find any way to make a selection and just copy that selection so I can duplicate it. NOT the layer, the selection. The only thing I can do is make a new layer for each selection which is a nuisance to work with and sends me running back to my computer. I could give you a laundry list of features this app is missing and i’m a little shocked and bewildered given that Adobe beta tested this for so long and delayed it repeatedly. I am sure they are laughing all the way to the bank with a subscriber base that’s paying $10-$50 monthly to be guinea pigs for relentlessly updated software that constantly breaks as they toss out new endeavors missing obvious features. I’m frustrated with Adobe and this is just one more reason. In my professional job i’m stuck with Premiere Pro for video editing but i’ve made the switch back to Final Cut Pro for all of my side gigs. The reason is precisely the decline of software from one release to another, i’m talking app-crashes, broken or missing features, etc. This is just one more example in a long line of recent blunders. Adobe would be smart to stop lallygagging with 15 sub-par apps and focus on creating ground-up FULL versions of actual software people have enjoyed and relied on using. I saw Adobe’s blatant disregard for the growing tablet market years ago and I should have been able to predict this. Feature this up, fix it, FULFILL what Photoshop really is and needs to be for professionals and this could be something. Right now its basically a public beta..KIrkDouglasSDVersion: 1.0

The “new” Adobe Photoshop Is Not Adobe Photoshop At All.So, I used Adobe Photoshop incessantly for my personal enjoyment for the last nine years, and let me tell you all how extremely disappointing this “new” version is. You simply cannot compare the two as they are clearly two different apps under the same name. Clearly they were on a budget this time around. Though the filters and add ons are great, it is the drawing/paint feature us artists care so much more about. This new format is too different and the navigation just simply isn’t the same. Some of simplest tools such as the Eraser for example does not have the Intensity level adjuster as the old one, which is vital when drawing on a picture. The other feature that’s missing is the Brighten/Darken Adjuster. This feature in particular was a favorite of mine, which you could easily do highlights on a face, eyes, hair, jewelry; as well as darkening a particular object, or other facial features, or the entire picture to achieve a more vibrant vivid colored image. How could y’all leave off such an important feature? Please fix this on your new update ASAP..MexiRockerVersion: 5.5.2

Constant crashesAs much as ive always loved photoshop on my computer, this version for ipad is pathetically unusable. I cant use it for more than maybe 10 mins before it crashes. Quicker than that if you want to use more than 2 layers in an image. It runs fine if you only use one main image layer and only do minor color balancing tools…but at that point there are plenty of other apps that offer that basic level of photo editing for free. Any of the great photoshop pro level editing tools that the app has, and merits the cost of a monthly subscription, make the app completely unstable and causes constant crashes, to the point where it will start crashing even before it can fully open to the main screen. And i have tried uninstalling and reinstalling several times. It fixes the isssue, for maybe another 10 mins. Then its back to crashing quicker and quicker again to the point of not even being able to successfully open all the way. Not worth the effort anymore fussing with uninstalling and reinstalling every half hour or so, cannot get any work done because so much time is wasted trying to deal with this unstable version..Postingfrommytoilet87Version: 3.1

20+ year user / their latest update = complete failureNotably, Adobe does not show here precisely what ios operating system versions this version will work on leaving users like myself to find, AFTER updating (with no ability to go back to prior version which worked fine), this version will only work with the latest ios version. Wow. Was in middle of a big job and mid-job to be informed I have to lay out $xxxx to buy an entirely new ipad. Wow. Maybe think through the effect on users with such decisions before deploying and AT LEAST WARN! If the app is completely incompatible with user’s iOS version, UX BASICS: WARN USER or provide a way to go back! The specs on required iOS version for this version is not even stated here. Is the assumption everyone is $ well endowed and as far as others go, who cares? Nice. Thoughtful… not. Adobe did respond to my review here but not with a solution. Takeaway: Maybe think again before updating to this version or even using PS at all on your iPad. When it DID function on the iPad, it was pretty good. All of the other Adobe mainstays for we in the field, though (Illustrator, Fresco, Rush, et al) still seem to function just fine..AnonymsFanVersion: 6.3

This app is mostly here to take your moneyI’ve used Adobe products and photoshop for over 8 years now, mainly on desktop and PCs. When I finally took the plunge into buying an iPad, I did so with Adobe’s claim that the full version of photoshop is available on it...this is not a full version. I don’t even think this is sample or trial worthy. Many of the tools frequently used and loved simply don’t exist. What very view tools exist, are disappointingly husks of what the real full version can do. Adobe has been changing as I’ve used their products, but this app felt truly like throwing money down the toilet...it’s false claims of being the full photoshop aren’t backed when you download the app. I believe there was an initial $10 charge to just download it, followed by a prompt that you cannot bypass without paying for a monthly 10 subscription. Now, if this had actually been a full version, I would have gladly paid that, but I couldn’t even try the app without committing to a subscription that is essentially USELESS to me. There are better apps out there, for free even. Don’t waste your time, your money, and spare yourself the stab in the back that this is to loyal users..AristarrrVersion: 1.6.3

I really tried to make it work, but too many issues with cloud and file managementI have used Photoshop for drawing on the iPad for over two years. I really like the layout and the experience. The tools work for me and it feels very responsive and natural, but it just doesn't work as part of a professional workflow. I've stopped using it because file management and the Adobe cloud is just too buggy, confusing, and slow. I've had files rolled back to an old version because of bad sync, I've waited hours for a few small files to sync, I've been unable to use the app because sometimes without an internet connection it locks up on "loading your files" and the only way to unlock it is to find an internet connection. And file management... This app uses a new file format .psdc, so it's actually VERY SEPARATE FROM PHOTOSHOP. You are importing your .psd files to the iPad, then exporting them back to .psd for the desktop, the same as you would for Procreate or any other app. Any file you open on the iPad is saved to the cloud automatically, but not to normal folders in the Adobe Creative Cloud, in a different mysterious place called "cloud something". The only way to get them off of the iPad and out of the cloud so that they can be stored in folders and used in normal workflows is to open each file individually and export it to a local folder. You can't export multiple files at once, or export a folder, only one at a time by opening each file and going through a series of menus. Trying to keep versions straight for all of the files involved in a big project is a nightmare. I finally realized that managing files in Procreate is actually easier, with just as much importing and exporting, and no cloud has to be involved. If Photoshop for iPad ever really becomes part of a functional workflow for local files I might give it another try, but there are a lot of problems to fix..NortheastBirderVersion: 3.2.2

Photoshop is the worst at helping customers!My photoshop has been crashing for weeks. It’s been glitching, lagging, and will even freeze for no reason. I reached out to support x3 this year and have not gotten the help I need. They had me choose a day to be called by them because they agreed I have a lot of issues with photoshop and they never called. I feel ripped off. I’ve been paying for multiple devices for 6 months and have asked to go to the one device 5 months ago but somehow the last two customer service reps couldn’t figure out how to do so. Every time I bring up a photo to edit, photoshop crashes and makes me exit out of the frozen screen. When I go back, all of my edited work is now on a blank page as if I never had a photo to edit to begin with. This is so frustrating. Please photoshop I NEED HELP. I’m not seeing the benefits of paying $50+ each month when I don’t have multiple devices to work from and the app crashes everytime I edit. EVERY TIME. I just want to pay for one device and not have photoshop crash. WHY IS THIS SO DIFFICULT.Lavender__HazeVersion: 3.6

SubstandardToo many things to criticize, but here are a couple. PS for iPad forces you onto the Creative Cloud universe which makes it nearly impossible to use in LR. And the LR universe doesn't communicate with CC very well, so you have 2 places to store photos but no easy way to track where the most recent edit might be. LR Classic is good at allowing cross platform editing through collections. You edit anywhere and the changes show up immediately. All that is lost if you edit with PS for iPad. Finally, the tools in this app are terrible compared to other Adobe photo apps. LR fix works better than this. Someday the same capabilities will be included in the iPad version of PS but until then it's not as good as just LR. People are complaining about the subscription price. Yeah, it costs 20 bucks a month but no other photography editing and organizing software that works on both iPads and desktops exists. If they fix the problems described in this review, $20 a month will be a good value, especially since Adobe is constantly adding improvements to the apps. But this app is nothing to write home about..Madtown goonerVersion: 1.0.1

You had one job, Adobe! Light on features. Heavy on the wallet.I have used Photoshop on the computer since the early 1990’s. So I’ve seen many early iterations of the desktop software that were very light on features compared with Photoshop CC on the computer today. Those were in the days before Adobe switched to its unpopular subscription model. By the time that Adobe made that move, Photoshop had become the industry standard on desktop computers in the corporate and media worlds, with nothing out there that really compared. Well, this is NOT that Photoshop... and it’s not that user market. What Adobe failed to understand here is that the iPad market is nothing like that of its desktop applications. Apple iPad users are mostly individual creatives, not large corporations. And, there are already incredibly popular art and design applications in the marketplace that only require a one-time purchase. The developers of many of these apps - companies like Serif and Savage, as well as the community itself, have mostly rejected the subscription model. And, these apps are far superior to the version of Photoshop that Adobe just dropped for iPad today. Honestly, for Adobe to offer an app that harkens back to early Photoshop and expect users to fall in line and sign up for a subscription, was a serious miscalculation. This version of Photoshop is missing so many features that I don’t even consider it production ready, much less Photoshop. It pales in comparison to Procreate ($10), Artstudio Pro ($10) and Affinity Photo (normally $20), all of which are available for a one-time purchase at a fraction of the cost of an Adobe subscription. In fact, since Affinity Photo is now on sale for $10, I will be choosing it as my next creative app for the iPad, to use in addition Procreate, Artstudio Pro and Concepts. Photoshop? Nah. I won’t bother..SplashofcolorVersion: 1.0

Why Should I Bother?I purchased an iPad Pro last year. One of the first things I did was to download all my drawing and coloring apps that I have used on my old iPads over the years. And I have a lot of them: $10 here, $20 there, you get the idea. They are all paid for and I’ve managed to figure out the strengths and weaknesses of each one to exploit them when doing my art. I’m happy because they all work and are all paid for. Adobe Photoshop? Heck, I have CS5.1 on my Mac which works well for me. And I can bring my artwork to the iPad if I have any pressing, special needs. Now the wait is over to get Photoshop. The first thing I did after downloading it was to OPEN IT UP and see that money was the first thing adobe wanted from me. What the hell? I didn’t even get to try it out without being hit for “dues,” so to speak. Adobe, if you can’t allow us to pay a one time fee, go “eff” yourself. I don’t need to pay $10 a month for a program that I can’t even try out first. And from the other reviews here, it sound like Photoshop isn’t ready for Prime Time, anyway. I’ll spend my money elsewhere..MChrisVersion: 1.0

Do your research firstI am not here to knock Adobe or to write a scathing review, BUT as an adult and as an artist, it is important to be honest and upfront with peers and future customers. I love Adobe and have used many of their main programs for years in Premiere Pro, Photoshop, Lightroom, and InDesign. All of their programs are exceptional BUT seem to be made solely for computers and laptops. I am a tattoo artist and over the past two years I have nearly migrated fully from my laptop to my iPad. Generally I use my iPad to draw (a with ProCreate) and my laptop to edit photos and make videos. It can be extra sometimes to have to export to my laptop and then back to my iPad so I figured I would try this app so I could just edit my photos on here and save a step. After purchasing the photoshop app about a year ago (of which I am an Adobe member already…) I quickly realized how much of a false app this really was. The audacity to call this app Photoshop is a disservice to the Adobe name. There are barely any options on this app that makes the desktop version Photoshop so renowned. This app is good for the most basic editing, stuff that can be done on free apps. Heck, procreate which is primarily a drawing app has more editing capabilities and creativity than this app. All in all this app would be good for someone who has never used Photoshop before because the functionality is still good….it’s just for users who expect this app TO BE the Photoshop we all know will be severely disappointed. Still love you Adobe..SsssfffffffVersion: 2.6.1

Cannot move past home screenWithin the last week after opening Photoshop the program will only load the first 25 or so thumbnails in my files, leaving all available to scroll but freezing the app if I attempt to open any of them. If I try importing a file or photo, it will either freeze the app entirely again or give me a blank menu with contents that won't load. If I manage to tap the import button just quick enough after the splash screen, it allows me to open an image and create a new file - yet for whatever reason I am totally unable to use the transform mode, and who knows what other tools. Yes, I have uninstalled and reinstalled. This has made simple tasks nearly impossible given that I can't even access the service or my files 90% of the time. Between this (among other bugs) and Illustrator not having so much as a shear feature in 2026, it is becoming difficult to justify my Adobe subscription..Ryan BrotherstonVersion: 7.5.2

Not what we were promisedI’m a photographer and have been using Photoshop and Lightroom for at least 10+ years. I was so exited when I saw that Adobe was releasing full Photoshop for the iPad, as advertised by both Adobe, and Apple. Then comes November 4th and the very disappointing release. As is, it is really useless for photographers. I can’t have my own brushes, no useful filters, no raw support, no curves, cannot resize images, the list goes on and on. I was so hopeful that I could travel light out in the field, only needing my 3rd Generation 12.9” iPad Pro, and an SSD, for quickly processing some images, and getting them uploaded to various sites. I do like that it has layers, and I like the few tools we have, like spot removal, cloning, etc. But I need more to make this a useful app. I am currently trying Afinity for the iPad as a possible alternative, as it has cross platform capability, and is a much more robust and complete app than photoshop. Adobe needs to get this app up to speed soon, or I may cancel my Creative Cloud account and move on to an app that actually works..BryanerbVersion: 1.0.2

My experience with Adobe PhotoshopI have this app on my computer because I had to download it for school and it worked okay for that school year, it was hard to navigate and a bit complicated and I personally didnt like it and never figured out how to use it, so I failed that class, with maybe like a 40% grade and not to say that its bad quality because im sure the people that do know how to navigate this have a fine time on the app but im pretty sure it requires a subscription but my school gave it to us for free and my computer stopped working with it because it had scratch disk or something so I had nothing but problems with this app and now that I am not taking that class anymore I try to delete it from my computer and it doesnt let me delete it, the app just keeps coming back, I dont know whats wrong or how to fix it and it take around 20% of my computers storage, my computers out of space its not working and all because I cant delete this app can someone please help me delete it.KittkattlindaVersion: 7.4

Decent for Photo Editing. Abysmal for Painting.To those reviews saying that this iPad app is anything close to the desktop version are either lying, paid, or woefully unfamiliar with the desktop app. While it does offer a number of features found in the desktop version, this is NOT a direct port. There are many often-used features missing which are available in other (LESS EXPENSIVE) iPad apps. Brush features leave a LOT to be desired. Editing brushes within the app is all but non-existent, offering very basic adjustments, and relying on .abr imports from either downloading from Adobe, or from brushes already owned from the desktop version. All in all, there are other apps that do offer direct comparison to their desktop counterparts. To Adobe: start listening to customers. Stop cramming AI into every aspect of the actual process of creating. Designers and artists don't want to "commission a robot." How the mighty have fallen, indeed..LiterallymikeVersion: 7.5

I see it’s still the same as alwaysI can’t believe it’s been years since you released this app and it’s still lacking features compared to Clip Studio. Why on EARTH would anyone choose this (or Fresco) over Clip Studio or even ProCreate? You offer us nothing that the other apps don’t (and they do it better), you STILL treat the iPad like it’s a glorified iPhone, and you want us to pay for the privilege of being frustrated because of missing features. Any artists reading this, don’t bother. Get ProCreate or ClipStudio or a frickin toaster because it probably has more features than Photoshop for the iPad. Kyle Webster’s brushes are the only thing you have going for you and they can be loaded into literally any other app — even old .tpl files can be read by ArtStudio (which is also better than Photoshop and Fresco). I feel bad for the guy — such talent, all wasted. Everyone is just using the old .abr files we got from his Gumroad before you closed it all. I can load .tpl files into my old copy of PS (which I paid for once, back when you’d let us do that, and you’ll pry it from my cold dead fingers) and convert them into .abr to use them in Clip, ProCreate, Affinity… all better apps than what you’re offering, and at a significantly lower cost. Go ahead and drop a canned response if you want, this review isn’t actually for you. It’s to let my fellow artists know that the grass is in fact greener. Don’t settle for this..CaelanbagginsVersion: 5.2

Should be free or purchasable.I really don’t want to rent IPad apps , especially inadequate ones. Take the $10 a month you’re asking to rent this for. Then calculate how complete a version of Photoshop this is. If it’s 50% of full photo shop charge five dollars. Or come up with a price to purchase it. Procreate is free. Sketchbook Pro is $24 for a year last I checked. Real professionals use these apps in production.I can’t tell you how burned I feel because I purchased this $1400 iPads The specifically because we were supposed to have a full photo shop. Full Photoshop was the selling point of this IPad for me. I don’t care how you slice it. Two years from now this is not an app worth $240 per year from now it’s not an airport $360 or four years from now $480. What it is is the biggest sore point and biggest and most expensive lie I’ve ever been told buy two major technology companies. What it is is the biggest sore point and biggest lie I’ve ever been told buy two major technology companies..Fiddle DDVersion: 2.6.1

NEVER USE THIS APP!!!!I honestly don’t get why Photoshop has such a huge reputation. I’ve tried using it several times, and every time it just leaves me frustrated and disappointed. The interface is cluttered, it feels like the developers are filtering out, inexperienced users on purpose. The learning curve is absolutely ridiculous—why should a simple task like resizing a picture feel like I need a degree in graphic design? And don’t get me started on the background removal function. Background removal? More like half a background removal function. I’m not going It’s way too expensive for what it delivers. I don’t even want to talk about the subscription. I’d have better luck using a graphing calculator to edit a picture than using Photoshop without a subscription. It’s just a stupid petty company taking all your money. There are more intuitive alternatives with friendly GUI’s that actually get the job done without all the headaches. I’ll definitely be switching to something else..Ducky_The_ConsumerVersion: 6.4

Needs to be updatedReally the only good thing about this is the brushes, but other than that the way it’s set up makes everything take much much longer to do than it should. terribly needs: a clear layer button a magic wand refer to multiple layers option esp for the paint bucket the ability to edit brushes press and hold to color drop color slider quicker back/forward reaction time needs to be easier to turn the canvas a flip horizontal button +windows such as: one to have a reference sheet open, the color pallet open, the small view of your canvas, etc a smudge tool the ability to add a layer with 1 click instead of 2 the buttons take too long to show up it’s annoying the ability to customize your workspace to only have your pen make brush strokes, whenever you move the canvas your fingers make marks all over your drawing that you sometimes don’t notice till later which is TERRIBLE OH MY GOD why aren’t the layers and layer properties together?? have them both open when u open the layers THE FREAKN ITS SO DIFFICULT TO CHANGE THE COLOR IT KOVES SO WEIRD?? WHYS IT MOVE LIKE THAT WHO WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO PICK COLORS why is the free trial so short if the program still needs so much updating make the whole thing more hands on, it feels like it’s trying to be like procreate but we don’t need two procreates, it’s like it’s trying to be as simple as possible but like stop we don’t need that.YggujnbhujVersion: 2.4

Portrait Photo Editing is Completely InadequateAs a portrait photographer, you need very precise editing features to make the model perfect. The current mobile version of photoshop lacks many tools to do skin retouching and recoloring. For example, selective color and specific color channels for hue and saturation do not exist. These are evidently important for skin recoloring as I need to be able to select very precise misscolored magenta and red channels and bring them back down to a much more normal orange skin tone. Also, without these tools, color grading is very hard to do. I do know that Lightroom does exist on the IPad but I was hoping that Photoshop Mobile would be like Photoshop CC as the pros of Photoshop is that you can select very specific areas of a photo and change the color in a layer format which is a lot easier to work with in comparison to Lightroom’s dot system. Also, to clear a persons skin without the patch tool, clone stamp, or healing brush is just near impossible to do. You literally can’t retouch skin. More or less the current version of Photoshop is great for people doing very basic edits but for more professional use. There’s no point as it lacks so many features. This app really should be free. The IPad Pro is more than capable to run Photoshop CC. I know they have to make it “mobile friendly”, but I don’t see any harm for Adobe to just release the full desktop version on the IPad and have beta testers tell Adobe how to make it mobile friendly..Mark.8866Version: 1.0.1

Very disappointedIve been using photoshop for awhile now. Desktop version is great. Knowing this was coming out, I purchased an iPad Pro for my travel needs. I was hoping this would allow me to work on the road and leave the clunky laptop at home with all the cords. As i knew it was an app and will be an adjustment (not working exactly like the desktop version). This APP is so disappointing. There are free apps that do so much more, which blows my mind. This is ADOBE and you pay for it. I am currently under the impression this was built quickly to try to stop people using other apps, which i understand but this launch makes me want to cancel all adobe and use all the other apps. Ive honestly lost some respect for the company. Maybe it was a scam to capture subscriptions to boost some cash flow. I keep checking apple to see if there is any updates. I’m hoping they add more and more versatility but its clear. It was a scam. Worst part, I cant return the IPad Pro. Maybe apple and adobe are splitting the scam profits?.Joe PS user since 2002Version: 1.0.2

Two reviews in one!#1. The ‘Since I Already Have a Creative Cloud Subscription’ Review... ...this is kind of free for me so I would give it a 3 star rating *** and say... ‘I would need transform warp to really find any use for it and even then I would still export to Procreate for finishing as it is pretty limited and not nearly as smooth for navigation. Procreate is the best for Painting and probably always will be on iOS, regardless of how many updates Photoshop gets but the two together may grow to be an interesting partnership. #2. The ‘If I Didn’t Have a Creative Cloud Subscription Already and Was Just On iOS’ review... OMG, just get Affinity Photo and Procreate and save a load of money. Maybe in a couple years Photoshop will be worth it, but it isn’t remotely worth the price now. What was Adobe thinking? This is a flop. Talk about riding your name. Nerd rage etc ... *.RicheroniVersion: 1.0

UujjC est de la marde.Nik mok(._.)Version: 1.0

TerribleIt’s an incomplete version of photoshop with far fewer features than Affinity Photo. Which makes the awful subscription price even worse—do not buy!.Joshdaboss224Version: 1.0

Terrible and subscription basedThis app just doesn’t work, let alone the subscription model. Don’t waste your time and money..DavidesmithVersion: 1.0

Photoshop in name onlyIf you get this thinking you’ll be receiving anything remotely resembling the desktop Photoshop experience, hold on to your hats folks...it’s a doozy. Countless missing features, terrible brush engine, unintuitive UI, subscription model...and that’s just off the top of my head. Adobe thinks they are still the best in the business when it comes to high-end professional photo editing and digital painting programs. With much better alternatives like Procreate, and the Affinity suite, don’t bother with this until they do a serious overhaul. Very disappointing..Legeon128Version: 1.0

We’ve could had it allThis is not the full Photoshop experience on iPad. I’ve been a Photoshop user for years and was eagerly expecting the Photoshop on iPad. This is way below my expectations. The brush engine is flimsy, it lacks on adjustments layers and effects (there are only two to my knowledge)... it would seem to me that they’ve released the app just to release it, and not with quality Adobe always praise it had. Even Fresco had more thought put into it. This app is way below expectations..IndigolacieVersion: 1.0

Not the photoshop experienceI write this from the standpoint of a concept artist and illustrator with 4000+ hours on the pc version of the app. This current build of the app simply does not give me the tools i need to effectively create paintings and drawings that i would make on the pc version of the app. The tools i would need for this to be the “real photoshop experience” would be : 1. The Brush tool library window, the brush tool in the current build lacks the ability to have your brushes present on the screen while working it is hidden behind a press and hold which really slows down workflow. The brush tool library window also hosts a settings window to adjust brushes you are using and though the current build has a version of this it is very... very slimmed down... I want all the brush settings available on the pc build, key ones being colour dynamics, spacing, rotation modification. I may not be correct on this but i was unable to find the place to upload my brush.abr file so as far as i know on this version i am not able to use my brushes. 2. Missing key tools for my workflow Like the Wet paint mixer tool, Smudge tool, liquify filter, gradient maps and image adjustment directory from things like hue + saturation, brightness and contrast + the adjustment window for colour balance and a bunch of other tools. These are key tools of the photoshop experience in terms of my workflow and without them this app doesn’t standout for digital painters. 3. Many of the quality of life features that have been shaped from the many updates of the program have just been scrapped for this version of photoshop. The reimagined layer ui simply doesn’t hit its mark for veteran users in my option it’s given way to much screen priority, being the whole right side of the screen.... all the features are spread way to far apart, testing blending modes takes way to long especially if you want to play around with the order of different blending modes stacked on top of each other. Doing things like deleting a layer is also hidden behind a button. I understand the priority on touch for this version of the app but the layers window was... a big let down. I was happy to see that keyboard commands were in this app unlike adobe fresco but it seems many of the modifier commands and ease of access commands are no longer present + re mapping keyboard commands or re mapping the (new)Apple Pencil button is not a feature. I really like to use a Bluetooth keyboard on the iPad i think it would be a great quality of life feature for veteran users of the program to have 100% of the commands that the desktop version has from simple commands like Control + T for transformations to holding a modifier key to go into free transform mode or having the lasso tool switch from free lasso to polygonal with the touch of a modifier key while in a selection + the ability to map horizontal canvas flip to a button. Catering to keyboard users may not be the intended vision of photoshop on the iPad but I would need to have these options at least given in some form of gesture control ~especially the toggling free form to polygonal lasso (procreate has a really intuitive lasso tool for pen only input for example.) All of these quality of life features add up to give users a “authentic photoshop experience” if adobe were to add these features they would be holding up to the promise they made in that press demo held just under a year ago. These features would make this app into the definitive drawing app for iPad . These features would bring veterans to iPad .. and have them stay. while also helping new artists learn industry standard software helping them transition to desktop. For now this feels like a really bare bones photoshop essentials, without even colour correction tools i could see photographers not even having much use for this app. In the current build I cant recommend this app (even for hobbyists there are better digital painting apps on the iPad) , it confuses me that adobe is trying so hard to innovate for a touch only experience but doesn’t seem to take any inspiration from the leading apps on the platform. i am hopeful that changes can come... for now I will recommend infinity painter (being the closest thing to a photoshop digital painting experience ) , csp (a seamless pc to iPad transition...for keyboard users) & procreate ( a intuitive and powerful tool with a few bothersome quirks ) for this device..RE//TAYLORVersion: 1.0

Not the PS I was looking forVery limited functionality, far from the computer version. Disappointed. Going to get Affinity Photo while it’s on sale.RubberGunVersion: 1.0

Seems lackingIt seems to be missing the most basic of features. E.g. Filters not implemented. They have the nerve to ask for a monthly subscription? I have news for you guys... Buy Affinity Photo instead. It’s not a rental, and it’s fully featured..AndreTheGeekVersion: 1.0

Are you kidding me?I heard some bad things about the beta but did not expect it to be this bad. Seriously adobe... what the heck? Affinity photo and even art studio pro is beating you with features and quality. And they don’t require an outrageous subscription. There is soooo much missing. There is no excuse for this after waiting over a year for this. Your company must be embarrassed..IshybeatsVersion: 1.0

Worse than giving us nothingWhy in the world would they preview the app and call it “real photoshop” and this deliver this less then half assed attempt? Every feature I would need to use is missing. Layer effects, adjustments, almost all filters. Who in the world is going to find use in this? There are much better alternatives on the App Store for years. A huge company like adobe takes 8 years to deliver this? All the more reason I cut back my subscription from the full plan to the basics. Even now I think I am going to ditch desktop photoshop since this iPad one turned out so useless..Captian SeamonkeyVersion: 1.0

NopeThey basically labelled this as a “free” app for download count and exposure while forcing a mandatory subscription down ur throat if u want to use it at all. It’s just another cheap “monopoly-wannabe” app from adobe. Disgusting as usual..Mr.MaouVersion: 5.5.2

Hot garbageUse LITERALLY any other program, do not get sucked in because of it being industry standard, theres cheaper and better alternatives.LeoTheArtistVersion: 4.8

A Shell of its Desktop versionI recently purchased an iPad Pro as my old laptop could no longer run photoshop properly. I was very disappointed to see that majority of the features I used in the desktop version are not available. I’m now regretting buying an iPad Pro to use as my main editing device as I’m quite constrained with so many missing features in Photoshop for iPad. Hoping eventually that all features in the desktop version are made available here but I feel that my iPad Pro will be 10 years old by the time that comes true..Chronological pleaseVersion: 4.4

Don’t buy this app until they deliver the updates that they’ve promised!Too many people have been paying the monthly charges since 2019 for a Photoshop iPad app with the promise that it will soon be as good as the desktop version. We’re nearly halfway into 2021 and it’s not even close! They always have the same “Coming soon” descriptions but don’t hold your breath because it’s not happening!.StarfishSueVersion: 2.4

DisappointingIt won’t let me import my Art that I made in procreate even when I save it as a psd file..Ashes JVersion: 1.6.3

Are you kidding me?I can’t use for free Just free download this app!.12nfnfcnxVersion: 1.6.3

Don’t workJust don’t work...不能用，登录后一直显示网络错误。.Jclhkvm79Version: 1.1

Not the photoshop I was expectingSo I got this iPad Pro 12.9 for the reason of replacing a laptop and expecting the full photoshop for the iPad, and this is what we get?? The subsciption price is ridiculous for the amount of missing features that missing compared to the pc/Mac version. All that wait...for this. I cant express enough my frustration and disappointment for this product. This is something I use everyday for photography and I am appalled at the quality and features of this product. Don’t be greedy, the subscription is just ridiculous..FIFTYCALGRAVEVersion: 1.0

Totally deserves 0I decided to check this out, thinking that the negative reviews weren’t true, but turns out ITS ALL TRUE. the app charges you. I THOUGHT THIS WAS FREE. so don’t bother with downloading this..SadPixelPerson:(Version: 1.0

Suks....Suks.....MmmmmhSuksVersion: 1.0

Not what I would expect from AdobeThis is far from a full version of photoshop. I was expecting way more from Adobe. I will stick with Afinity Photo for now..NSeguin1980Version: 1.0

Was really excited and but let down.I really wanted this to be a full featured app but it’s half baked at best. I wouldn’t have put the Adobe Photoshop name to it. I don’t know if I would even call it Adobe Photoshop lite. I’ll stick with Affinity for now. Much, much better product..Greg SilverVersion: 1.0

Is this a joke?Where’s the rest of the app? Two filters!? Why would anyone choose to use this when Affinity Photo or ArtStudio pro provide many, many more features for much less money..Mazx6Version: 1.0

Where is select source for healing brush?I’m very disappointed that the select source for the healing brush isn’t available in this ipad version. Since I was planning on using this app to retouch skin, not having the ability to select the source of the healing brush makes keeping original skin texture impossible. Hopefully they fix this in the next version, but for now, this software is useless for me. Not everyone only does photo composition with Photoshop. Time for adobe to consult with real working photographers that use photoshop for a living..DonBou19Version: 1.0

Can’t even get it startedReports that it can’t connect to Adobe’s servers and to try again later!.SgfdsfsfdfdsVersion: 1.0

Not ready!It’s just not photoshop. Not at all. So many elements missing. A huge let down from Adobe. Blows my mind considering how much they rob their customers. They have way too much money and still can’t make a decent app for the iPad. Very disappointed..I'm not entering a nickname!Version: 1.0

Paywall before you can even try somethingTo force a 1 month trial on a product that is for all purposes pre-release alpha is literally offensive. Of COURSE I won’t waste my trial on something you guys KNOW isn’t ready. Give a year of this away for free and watch what gets used, adopted and requested - since you’ve clearly stated that it will be a long path until it will become a fully-featured product that can take place is an artists’s daily workflow. But to paywall this and ask for a whopping additional $15/mo for a nowhere-close-to-ready product is just a surefire way to both build resentment and block off all your valuable usage feedback which an alpha product at this stage critically requires. Horrible product management / business leadership decision-making!.Marchy2222Version: 1.0

Wow....absolute trash. I’ll tell you why.The typical responses you see talk about a lack of features and functionality. Those are all true. So I don’t need to repeat them. This is barebones and has fewer photoshop desktop features than competitor apps on the App Store. But here’s the BIG HUGE PROBLEM. This is actually based on the desktop code. Which means....single threaded. I opened up a roughly 7000x4000 pixel PSD file. 105MB. About 150 layers. I tried doing something as simple as resizing one object. It chugged along at a nice 5-10fps. I did the same thing with affinity photo, and it was running at a solid 60-120fps. I can’t tell exactly. But it’s instantaneous and buttery smooth. This is on a 2018 iPad Pro 1TB with 6gb ram. I have procreate, I have affinity photo, and I have an adobe creative cloud subscription. I can tell you that due to the core design flaws in this app, it can never replace our existing apps. I was hoping the iPad app would mean reworking the engine to allow proper multi-core workload distribution that would then trickle down to the desktop app. But no...this is just as plagued as desktop photoshop when it comes to multi-threaded support. Very sad. Very garbage..HyperMatrixVersion: 1.0

CrashingCan’t even try it just keeps crashing. I pay for adobe every month for the last 3 years and can’t even try the photoshop app. Disappointing.TGPTATVersion: 1.0

No RAW supportI made it as far as importing a RAW file and getting the error it was unsupported. Are. You. Kidding. Me... What’s the point of this app then?.Megahy604Version: 1.0

Definitely not a desktop experienceWas super excited to try out a fully-featured Photoshop on the iPad (in fact, it’s part of the reason why I bought my iPad Pro in the first place). Unfortunately this version is extremely lacking in features. Simple things like being able to select an area and set a stroke with the selection, drawing and manipulating shapes, decent brush support, filters, and probably many other features I don’t regularly use are missing. There is no way I would ever be able to do my current workflow with this app. Very disappointed, so much that this is the first time (at least that I can remember) that I’ve ever left a negative review on the App Store. Would have been better to delay it for a few months than to release whatever this is supposed to be, because it definitely isn’t the full desktop experience we were promised..BCrausenVersion: 1.0

Not ready whatsoever...This is pretty much a proof of concept app. Most features say “this feature is not supported by this device yet’. You also can’t even make a transparent gradient. Stick with Procreate if you want to illustrate. This is not ready for prime time at all..HeyImDVersion: 1.0

Not even half baked yetIt’s powerful enough to open large, multi-layered documents but lacks many of the basic tools to do anything with this power other than the very basic. Not even a pen tool? Doesn’t the iPad version of Illustrator already have that function?.MykbVersion: 1.0

Procreate does it betterI am greatly disappointed that after all this wait this is the result. Little to no features. Can’t even apply a simple Gaussian blur on my iPad Pro. Adobe needs to wake up. Will continue to use Procreate instead..IamincognicoVersion: 1.0

Ok wellSo I have to start a subscription to use this app. That’s already enough for me to not buy this and just stick with procreate..RjfjfjfjfjjfVersion: 1.0

Background and people removal weirdAsked for people to be removed in photo. People were removed and strangers with skewed faced were added back in. Totally unusable result, but counted as a credit used..ChaseTRGVersion: 7.8

Terrible app on ipadIt is suck, i can’t do any thing with it..UtjrdVersion: 7.6

So close…Why can’t I export with metadata..?.ILeetVersion: 7.3

Not the same toolsThe ipad version does not have the same tools and UI is not like the computer software. Very limited and frustrating to workaround limitations. Updated review post Adobe response: The tools I would like to have are basically the same you would find on my Windows installation of Photoshop. - Layers control - Filters - Image and canvas sizing controls - Better Generative AI control - Saving to any format - Stamp tool - Background editing tools - Brushes tools - Basically everything we can do on MAC or PC..VyperX666Version: 7.6

Awful experienceBarely usable.SquikleVersion: 7.6

Constantly crashingPhotoshop for iPad is crashing all the time. It’s erased my work and deleted custom brushes. I’ve reached out to Adobe for help, but I just get the same advice to uninstall and reinstall. I have a brand new iPad and all software is up to date. I draw comics professionally and I’m advising all artists who ask about what program to use to definitely go with Procreate. I am switching over as well..MidnightDrawerVersion: 7.5.2

Ne veux plus créer de plan de travailC’est sure … je viens de payer en plus et plus possible de faire quoi que ce soit..NoemieP.Version: 7.5

Only getting buggierStop with new features and make current features work better.And worseVersion: 7.4

6 years later and no alignment functionI didn’t want to have to post this but….is anyone trying to upgrade functionality for this app?…where is the alignment tools? Please fix this. Thank you!.Melfice .Version: 7.3.2

BugsThe app freezes and crashes whenever I try to use generative AI. Have tried reinstalling, signing in again, different photos, etc..TommyGunner9087Version: 7.2

Simple Things Are Too Complicated!All I wanted to do was add some text to an image. To create a simple meme to make a family laugh. Strike 1: Removing the image was a piece of cake, but I couldn't change the silhouette's colour. Instead of giving me an error message, the app crashed. Twice! Strike 2: Could not copy/paste text from another app on my phone! Strike 3: I had to delete and retype the text to fix typos. I could not drag the cursor to the spot where the errors were and edit them, like I just did in this review. I had to delete the text and start over. I’m stubborn, so I finished what I started, but I won’t be using this app again anytime soon..MitchRossMusicVersion: 7.2

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