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Adobe launches Creative Cloud updates and new links to mobile apps

Mel Martin
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In a major announcement today, Adobe is updating almost every desktop and mobile app it offers. It is aiming these new features and applications at creative professionals so their desktop and mobile tools deeply integrate. Beginning today, Adobe is also offering a new tool called Creative Profile that connects users to their work, to the assets they use to create, and the communities they interact with -- no matter where they are. Files, photos, colors, brushes, shapes, fonts, textstyles, graphics, and any other assets are always at the fingertips of users. This new Creative Profile moves with creatives from app to app, and device to device, so assets automatically appear when users need them, in the right context. It's a major effort, and should significantly and positively impact Adobe Creative Cloud subscribers.

In addition, new mobile apps are going public today, including:

  • Photoshop Sketch lets artists draw with new built-in expressive brushes and enables an integrated workflow with Photoshop CC and Illustrator CC.

  • Updates to Photoshop Mix extend precise mobile compositing capabilities which now includes enhanced integration with Photoshop CC as well as a new iPhone version.

  • An enhanced Lightroom Mobile app builds on integrated desktop and mobile workflows and includes features to allow clients, friends or family to select favorites and leave comments for photos shared online; and GPS information from iPhone photos now syncs with Lightroom desktop.

  • llustrator Draw (formerly Adobe Ideas) gives users access to their favorite vector drawing tools and features in a modern, streamlined interface, high-fidelity integration with Illustrator CC and enhanced support for Adobe Ink and Slide.

  • Illustrator Line, a precision drawing app, gives creatives new features for perfectly distributing shapes as they draw, plus the ability to send sketches to Illustrator CC, where they have full access to their original vector paths for editing.

On the video side, we have the brand new Adobe Premiere Clip app, which transforms video shots on iPhone or iPad into edited videos that can be shared. Videographers can then send their compositions to Adobe Premiere Pro CC for advanced editing and finishing.



Adobe also announced additional new iOS mobile apps that are designed to capture designs and bring them into other Adobe applications. Those include:

  • Adobe Brush CC lets designers craft unique brushes, on iPad or iPhone, to use in Photoshop CC, Illustrator CC or Adobe Illustrator Sketch. Any photograph can be made into a brush, so creatives can quickly and playfully design beautiful, high-quality brushes that can range from photorealistic, to organic, painterly or graphic.

  • Adobe Shape CC is a simple, way to capture and create shapes on iPhone or iPad. A high-contrast photo of anything can be converted into vector art that can be used immediately in Illustrator CC and Adobe Illustrator Line via Creative Cloud Libraries.

  • Adobe Color CC (formerly Adobe Kuler) allows users to capture colors and save them as themes that are then instantly available in other Adobe applications, including Illustrator CC and Photoshop CC.

Adobe has also unleashed 3 other new services:

  • Creative Cloud Market is a collection of high-quality, curated content that's freely accessible to Creative Cloud members. Users can download thousands of professionally crafted files, including user interfaces, patterns, icons, brushes and vector shapes, to speed through desktop and mobile projects.

  • Creative Cloud Libraries is an asset management service that lets people access and create with colors, brushes, text styles, and vector images through Creative Cloud desktop, mobile apps and services. Creative Cloud Libraries connects desktop tools like Photoshop CC and Illustrator CC to each other -- and to other Adobe mobile apps.

  • Creative Cloud Extract is a cloud-based service that reinvents the Photoshop CC comp-to-code workflow for web designers and developers, letting them share and unlock design information from a PSD file (such as colors, fonts and CSS) to use when coding mobile and desktop designs.

I had an online demo of many of these new apps and features last week, and I was greatly impressed. I haven't been able to test them on my own, but it's pretty clear these are evolutionary and sometimes revolutionary changes in the way users will work and collaborate.

This is a major release with greatly enhanced functionality for Adobe's customer base. The updates should be available by the end of today and are part of Adobe Creative Cloud membership at no additional cost. The new and updated mobile apps are free to everyone, but of course they are most useful to subscription holders who can integrate other Adobe tools with them.

Information about the new mobile tools can be found at the Adobe website. Although many of the Adobe tools are used by professionals, the company offers special price incentives for students and photographers.