Adobe releases much-anticipated family of Touch Apps

PanARMENIAN.Net - Adobe released the much-anticipated family of Touch Apps to the Android Market.

The list of included apps is impressive, including Kuler, Photoshop Touch, Debut, Ideas, Collage, and Proto, Android Police reports.

The Creative Cloud is what brings Adobe's Touch Apps together, allowing users to upload and download content in a variety of formats to and from the cloud, connecting Android Tablets and desktop machines.

Not only do the Touch Apps connect to the Creative Cloud, but users can pull assets from other sources as well, including Facebook, Picasa, Flickr, their device's camera, and even Google Searches.

Those who buy one of Adobe's Touch Apps will have access to the Creative Cloud, which offers an ample 20GB of cloud storage for free. Adobe representatives did not reveal plans to expand to a subscription-based service, but indicated that any such decision would be made on a need basis.

Based on Adobe's popular online color scheme tool, Kuler offers a highly sophisticated color theming solution, allowing users to create various color themes from images, captured photos, or their imagination, according to rules which dictate what type of scheme will result (ie monochromatic, complementary, triad, etc.). Users can also fine-tune color schemes to their exact liking, allowing for a practically unlimited range of options.

Adobe Ideas is an app that has actually been available for iOS for a while now, but the key difference between its previous iteration and Android implementation is its connectivity to the Creative Cloud.

Adobe Debut provides a nice presentation solution, pulling together all efforts from the other members of the Touch App family, and assets from the cloud as well. Users can import multiple file types at once, and even choose which layers will remain visible in the final presentation. Besides a dynamic slideshow interface, debut offers a variety of markup tools, allowing users to make note of suggestions or thoughts on the fly, applying them to any slide, and making them invisible again for presentation.

Proto is Adobe's solution to web design on the fly, using the Creative Cloud coupled with an extremely intuitive gesture-based design system to create an incredibly easy experience in preliminary web design. Proto allows for a variety of practical options, facilitating multiple pages (which can be actively linked together from within the app), video embedding, image placement, text flow, font formatting, interactive element creation, and much more.

Adobe Collage, an app that is geared toward the creation of conceptual mood boards. For those unfamiliar with the idea, a mood board is essentially a conglomeration of images, words, markup, and other media that represent a fragmented conceptualization of the overall tone, theme, or mood of a project. For example, the art director for a fashion shoot may collaborate with stylists as well as hair and makeup artists to create a mood board, showing how all the stylistic elements come together in a common conceptualization. What's unique in Collage, however, is that the user can actually include video clips from YouTube, which are playable as part of the mood board, and can be rotated, resized, and marked over. Users can also perform image searches based on color.