Photoshop CS7 to be Tablet only

[cagenuts]

With Photoshop CS6 currently avaiable as a free beta, Adobe has given us an exclusive sneak peek at what it's planning for the next version: Photoshop CS7, which is due for launch on April 1 2014. The biggest surprise is that Adobe is dropping the desktop version for a tablet-only release for Apple's Even-Newer-Than-New iPad and whatever Android tablets are still with us.

Adobe says that it's stripping back Photoshop CS7's feature set to focus on core creative tools, which it claims will help artists and photographers work more efficiently and concentrate on their work. Adobe's turning its back on Photoshop CS6's new dark interface and returning to a lighter texture accented in yellow and blue. The toolset will include only a Pen tool with four widths, and Eraser of four strengths, a simple set of swatches (though more colours can be purchased separately), the ability to start again and a button for when you're finished. There will also be a simplified Text tool.


"I've spent a lot of time with the most popular creative iPhone app and it's changed the way I look at what we can achieve with our software," Adobe's CEO Shantanu Narayen told us. "I was spending so much time on it that it was beginning to take over my working day, but with our new strategy I can carry on as it's much-needed research, right?"

He continued, "do you think John Warnock will be able to tell this is 'bromance'?"

So here's our exclusive look at the Photoshop CS7, helped out by a trio of London-based artists and designers we begged and cajouled until they agreed to help us.



Photoshop CS7's new toolset



The new Text tool

[Roberto]

April fools?

Did you know if someone pulls an April Fools joke after midday in some countries (SA being one of them) the jokes on them?

[cagenuts]

Yeah know about the time but the Americans are behind us remember.

[Henk Coetzee]

Yeah know about the time but the Americans are behind us remember.

Sometimes not only the few time zones .