On Tuesday, Adobe announced that its Photoshop app is coming to mobile phones for the first time, with both a free version and a paid version priced at $7.99 per month. Launched in 1990, Adobe’s digital imaging software has always required payment, with the previous cheapest option being a $9.99 monthly subscription for Apple’s iPad.
Reuters:
Adobe has now released a free version for Apple’s iPhone, with an Android app coming soon. Adobe will offer a premium version for $7.99 a month that includes more features as well as access to more cloud storage and the web-based version of Photoshop for editing on larger screens.
The move comes as mobile operating systems from Apple and Alphabet’s Google have replicated, for free, many longtime Photoshop features such as adjusting a photo’s colors or removing some distracting objects.
Deepa Subramaniam, Adobe’s vice president of product marketing for creative professional apps, said the company is focused on courting younger users whose phones are their primary camera and editing device when they need more tools than a phone’s operating system offers.
Even the free version of the Photoshop app will have features such as splitting a photo into separate layers, masking off parts of it and adding text…
MacDailyNews Take: Whatever. Many years too late.
We long ago moved to Pixelmator Pro on the Mac, after Adobe wrote off the Mac for dead, and Pixelmator for iOS ($9.99 one time purchase). We don’t miss Adobe subscriptionware in the least.
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