"Adobe plans to release six applications designed to be used exclusively on touch-based devices, including apps to execute creative tasks such as photo editing and Web page design, the company announced Monday...
"All the apps address different needs in the realm of digital content creation, allowing users to work on their creations in ways that they could only do before via desktop applications, or by hand.
Touch is the "next giant leap in human-computer interaction," Lynch said, comparing the interface, now used on tablets and phones, to the previous major changes in the way people worked with computers, such as the introduction of the mouse and the keyboard...
"Before computers, people were using paint brushes, scissors, pencils. You were able to directly interact with the work you were creating," Lynch said. "The era of mice and keyboards abstracted you from the work you were creating -- you had to think abstractly about how you were creating it. Now with touch, you are coming back to physical interaction of creating the media directly, and removing that layer of abstraction."
"This will be a big, big empowering thing for all of us," Lynch said. "We are embracing this move. This is the first time in 20 years we are rethinking our creative tooling."
"Perhaps the most significant release for many people will be Adobe Photoshop Touch, a version of Adobe Photoshop designed for touch capability...
"The software also offers a three-dimensional view of an image...
"Another touch-based app with a potentially wide audience is Adobe Proto, which provides Web developers a workspace for developing wireframes, or prototypes, of websites and Web-based mobile applications.
"Using Proto, Lynch demonstrated how, using only his finger in a series of gestures, he could sketch out all the major sections of a Web page...
"Adobe Ideas is a vector-based drawing tool, one that can accept input from a finger or a pen. Because the lines being drawn are vector-based, rather than pixel-based, they will appear solid, regardless of the display resolution. Adobe Kuler is a virtual color book of color swatches, one that will allow multiple users to peruse and discuss different colors. The colors can be exported to Adobe Creative Suite projects.
"All six apps will be closely tied in with Adobe's cloud service, due in early 2012, which will allow users to share content across different devices and users."
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