- Photoshop on Android (beta) drops for devices running Android 11 or subsequent version
- It’s free for a limited time
- Creative Cloud subscriptions unlock assets in adobe stock and generative changes
After the release of Photoshop for iPhone earlier this year, the biggest photo writing application finally reached Android in pro-grade form, with photoshop brand functionalities and generative capacities.
Offering roughly the same features as the iPhone application, the free beta version of Photoshop for Android has an intuitive interface specifically designed for phones, with basic photoshop tools such as superposition, masking and mixing.
I have not yet used the application, but I have looked at a demonstration of its capacities presented by Adobe, and it looks super impressive, apparently one of the most fully equipped and powerful photo editors for Android phones.
You can import images from your camera roll, start from a blank canvas, use Adobe original active ingredients and take a photo with your phone and then modify.
As a regular Photoshop user, I can’t wait to try the application on my Google Pixel phone, and here are three tools with which I will start …
1. Press Select
Simplifying the selection tools of the subject’s subject and photoshop backgrounds on a mobile phone is not an easy task, but what Adobe calls “Tap Select” seems to do the trick.
During a demo, an Adobe professional guided us through a modification of a classic car photo, using TAP Select to make image adjustments to the car itself, then to other subjects.
Tap Select suggests various objects in an image that you may want to change selectively, by displaying these vignettes, and when you have made a selection, this suggests a huge arsenal of Photoshop tools such as color adjustments, etc.
The selection of the subject can be refined with the Photoshop brush tool to add / subtract from the selection when it has missed the brand.
And with these modifications operating in the superposition capabilities of Photoshop, the modifications can be modified at any time of the publishing process.
Tap Select is the type of tool that I can be used on almost all assemblies, and its implementation for Android phones seems well thought out.
2. Generative Firefly
Adobe recently concentrated a large part of its energy in the development of Firefly – the generative tools of the AI which are in its main applications such as Photoshop. Naturally, Photoshop for Android phones can also use these tools.
For example, a generative filling can replace subjects and backgrounds to your liking, so fanciful of your ideas. Again, during the demo, we saw these tools in practice – removing cars parked in the background and replacing the surrounding trees for palm trees, with several options generated to choose.
Naturally, there are limits to Firefly’s capacities, but the Android Phone version seems to be as powerful and effective as the full version of Photoshop with the words of words that have been allocated to it.
3. Pressing Adobe Active Stock
Despite a Creative Cloud subscription, I generally do not use assets of “commercially safe” Adobe actions at my disposal, whether images or textures or other assets. However, on the mobile version, I can see myself having an appropriate game with them.
Let’s say that I want to add text to an image, for which there is a wide selection of fonts to choose. I can then hide this layer of text, by modifying the lettering with almost any texture or image of my choice from hundreds of thousands of stocks stocks.
In the demo, we saw text “Aloha” added to the classic car photo, taken in Hawaii, then modified with an image of a hibiscus flower in lettering.
I got out of the demo with the feeling that the scope of the changes I can make to the photos of my phone is large and limited only by my imagination.
I can’t wait to play with Photoshop on my Android phone to have a good idea.
