Adobe's Photoshop app comes to Android

Adobe Systems on Friday introduced a new Photoshop app for Android users that lets them edit photos from their phone, as well as access their online photo collection on Photoshop.com.

The app comes just shy of a month after the release of the company's application for Apple iPhone and iPod Touch users, which quickly became the top free application in the App Store and grabbed a million downloads within a week of its release.

The version for Android shares the same, simple editing UI as the iPhone/iPod version, both of which let users make edits by sliding their fingers across the screen and undo any changes made. It also features some very basic photo editing tools like crop, rotate, and image flip, as well as controls for adjusting exposure and tweaking color tint and saturation. Android users even get one new tool that iPhone/iPod users don't even have yet, which lets them straighten a shot against a grid.

Photoshop for Android looks similar to its iPhone/iPod sibling, but has a few less editing effects.

(Credit: Adobe Systems)

Here's the bad news though: Android users are getting a slightly-less featured version than those who use it on iPhones or iPods. The Android version is missing a whole menu full of filter effects, which can be one of the most enjoyable aspects of using the app. It's also missing the sketch tool, which can add a neat cartoonish effect to photos.

Snap this to jump straight to the app.

There is one feature that could make up for these omissions though, and that is the inclusion of an auto-uploader that can automatically send any photo you take on your Android device to Photoshop.com's cloud storage. Users just need to turn the option in within the app, and it will do it whether they have the app running or not. The only downside to this, is that just like on the iPhone/iPod version, you can only enter the Photoshop app's editing mode on photos that are stored locally.

Photoshop for Android can be found right now on the Android Marketplace. We've also included the app's barcode so you can hop right to it without having to type anything.

[pctec100]

You should put the barcode for the app in the article so Android users can jump right to it.

[sansdave]

i second this.

[Josh.Lowensohn]

Done and done.

[thelazzyone]

I agree..that a barcode should be included in the post. It makes it so much easier to download apps..

[Josh.Lowensohn]

It's up there now. Cheers.

[Remo_Williams]

Hey Adobe, thanks for porting Photoshop, that's so awesome. Is there any chance of you porting, oh, I dunno, ADOBE READER to the platform? Seeing as how there are more PDFs out there for me to read than PSDs... stupid.

[FLYNET]

I second that motion.

[FLYNET]

Do you need a particular app to scan this barcode? The default camera nor scanlife app can proccess it. Please advise.

[Josh.Lowensohn]

Yeah, you'll need to pick up "Barcode Scanner" app from Google. They've got a how-to guide here: http://bit.ly/Tx1aT

[dracoaffectus]

how do you use the barcode to get to the app....?

sorry, i'm slow sometimes...

[Josh.Lowensohn]

Just answered above, but Google's got a simple how-to here: http://bit.ly/Tx1aT

[johnnydesilva]

Any chance this is coming to Windows Mobile?

[lazycat202]

try Pocket Artist. It's a good program to edit and manage images.
Photoshop doesn't support WinMo yet :P

[lazycat202]

try Pocket Artist. It's a good program to edit and manage images.
Photoshop doesn't support WinMo yet :P

[Josh.Lowensohn]

I don't see why not. Adobe's got a couple other pieces of mobile software on there including Adobe Reader and some packaging utilities.

[bkroupa]

Already has been released for winmo:
https://www.photoshop.com/?wf=winmo&promoid=DMGSM

[johnnydesilva]

That Windows mobile version doesn't allow editing bkroupa .
Already has been released for winmo:
https://www.photoshop.com/?wf=winmo&promoid=DMGSM

[stevicus]

not in the Japanese market :(

[neilq101.]

not in the U.K. market either. They don't even have the localisation excuse here. I only have a Touch so it doesn't make much difference to me, but I hope they just haven't got round to releasing it yet, and that there isn't some stupid political reason why we don't get it.

[cw_]

Which android phone is pictured?

[bkroupa]

it's the android emulator

[DMBoricua]

This is so cool. I've been looking forward to getting an Android phone for a while now and to have an app called Photoshop for simple image editing on the phone makes it really really cool. Still waiting for an Android phone to go on AT&T(which is my carrier) and get one!!

[Frederikrooms]

I think this app isn't a worthy competitor to Picsay!
Picsay offers the same as photoshop + the option of adding textballoons, funny tools,...