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Adobe updates Voice for iPad with new features and themes
Adobe Voice hit the market in May and has been used by companies, small teams and individuals wanting to create audio and video presentations that look good with minimal effort. The app is free but requires an Adobe ID. Today the iPad app added the ability to color-customize backgrounds, icons, text and more – within themes – via hexadecimal color code or color wheel picker. The introduction of "Theme Lab" in Adobe Voice makes stories more customizable and versatile than ever before. Use Theme Lab to match company-specific colors and ensure brand identity or convey a colorful mood that is truly unique to each story. Today's Voice release also includes another handy feature: improved photo resizing. Now you can pinch to adjust the size of photos to make sure nothing important gets cropped out – or easily scale logos and other small images to the size you want. I've experimented with the app and found it easy to use, and the presentations look polished. It's an interesting competitor to Microsoft's PowerPoint and Apple's own Keynote app. One difference is that Keynote runs on iOS and the Mac, while Voice is iPad only. While Keynote and Powerpoint are designed to create pages, with multi-media features, Voice creates a video which is a complete self running package. Adobe has a video showing the new features, which was created, of course, with Voice. I think the remaining weakness, and one users want very much, is the ability to save the presentation to the camera roll. Currently videos can be mailed, shared on Facebook or Twitter, and inserted into a web page.
