- Photoshop on Android (Beta) falls for devices that run android 11 or posterior
- It’s free for limited time
- Creative cloud subscriptions unlock Adobe stock assets and generative editions
After the launch of Photoshop for iPhone earlier this year, the largest photo editing application has finally arrived in Android in the form of a project, complete with the characteristics of Photoshop marquee and generative capabilities.
Offering much of the same functionality as the iPhone application, the free beta version of Photoshop for Android has an intuitive interface designed specifically for phones, with central photoshop tools such as layers, masking and combination.
I still have to use the application, but I saw a demonstration of its abilities presented by Adobe, and it looks super impressive, apparently being one of the most equipped and powerful photo editors for Android phones.
You can import images from the roll of your camera, start from a blank canvas, use Adobe Stock assets and take a photo with your phone to edit.
As a regular photoshop user, I can’t wait to test the application on my Google Pixel phone, and here there are three tools I will start …
1. Touch Select
Simplifying the subject selection tools and Photoshop back on a mobile phone is not an easy task, but what Adobe calls ‘Touch select’ seems to do the trick very well.
During a demonstration, an Adobe professional guided us through an edition of a classic car photo, using Tap Select to make image settings only to the car and then to other subjects.
Tap Select suggests several objects in an image that can be selectively edited, showing miniatures of these, and when you have made a selection it will suggest a huge arsenal of Photoshop tools, such as color settings, etc.
The selection of the subject can be refined with the Photoshop brush tool to add / subtract from the selection when the brand has been lost.
And with these editions working within the capacities of photoshop, the changes can be adjusted at any time of the editing process.
Tap Select is the type of tool that I can see using almost all editions, and its implementation for Android phones looks well thought out.
2. GENERATIVE FIREFLY
Adobe has focused much of its energy recently on the development of Firefly, the generative the tools that are within its leading applications such as Photoshop. Naturally, Photoshop for Android phones can also take advantage of these tools.
For example, the generative filling can replace subjects and history of your liking, however, what your ideas are. Once again, during the demonstration, we saw these tools put into practice: eliminate parked cars at the bottom and replace the surrounding trees for palm trees, with multiple options generated to choose between.
Naturally, there are limits to Firefly’s capabilities, but the Android phone version seemed to be as powerful and efficient as the full version of Photoshop with the word tasks immediately assigned.
3. Take adobe stock assets
Despite having a creative subscription in the cloud, I usually do not use the assets of Adobe Stock ‘commercially safe’ at my disposal, whether images or textures or other assets. However, in the mobile version I can see having an adequate work with these.
Let’s say I want to add text to an image, for which there is a large selection of sources to choose from. Then I can mask that layer of text, modifying the lyrics with almost any texture or image of my choice of hundreds of thousands of stock assets.
In the demonstration, we saw the text ‘Aloha’ added to the classic car photo, taken in Hawaii, and then modified with an image of a hibiscus flower inside the lyrics.
I left the demonstration with the feeling that the reach of the editions that I can take to the photos of my phone is vast and limited only by my imagination.
I really want to play with Photoshop on my Android phone to have an adequate idea.
