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I’m an artist who owns one and I totally agree despite it now being an essential tool for me. Lots of airdropping files back and forth with my MacBook is the re

I’m an artist who owns one and I totally agree despite it now being an essential tool for me. Lots of airdropping files back and forth with my MacBook is the reality and it works great. You quickly realize just how crucial a mouse and it’s modifier keys are for efficient design work. It’s great for early stage thumbnailing. I’ve actually never been able to thumbnail as effectively as I can with the pro and it’s solely for the fact that I can use it as a sketchbook with integrated google images. Once a project gets rolling it’s mostly used so I can shuffle over to my comfy chair and do some detail work with the pencil. That said, I wouldnt put it past a young person who hasn’t been molded by a desktop to blow me away with it. It’s not like my desktop workflows don’t have hacky and annoying steps along the way to a final.

clay_the_ripper 8y ago
Right it can work for part of the workflow for specific things like detail work with the pencil. What I find challenging is actually finding a smooth workflow that it’s not wasting time trying to get the iPad to do what I want. I feel like I spend most of my time working around it’s limitations so it’s hardly worth it (for me). Maybe that will improve with time though. I also don’t really use iCloud Drive, maybe that would make things easier as one of the biggest problems is simply getting the things you want on the iPad ON the iPad. Importing photos for example, you have to import into photos and then double import to Lightroom.
- GeekyBear 8y ago
  Adobe seems to be putting a lot of effort into Photoshop CC for iPad to make sure that moving back and forth between the desktop and iPad versions is effortless if you choose to work that way. >the biggest change of all is a total rethinking of the classic .psd file for the cloud, which will turn using Photoshop into something much more like Google Docs. “The beauty of it with Creative Cloud and the Cloud PSD and the innovations there is that you can just pick up where you left off, and you can be somewhat agnostic,” Belsky says. “You can always go back in history. You can share it and have other people be able to go back and undo things you did.” https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/15/17969754/adobe-photoshop-apple-ipad-creative-cloud https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/15/17969754/adobe-photoshop...
  - clay_the_ripper 8y ago
    That’s pretty cool and would be useful

clay_the_ripper 8y ago

Right it can work for part of the workflow for specific things like detail work with the pencil. What I find challenging is actually finding a smooth workflow that it’s not wasting time trying to get the iPad to do what I want. I feel like I spend most of my time working around it’s limitations so it’s hardly worth it (for me). Maybe that will improve with time though. I also don’t really use iCloud Drive, maybe that would make things easier as one of the biggest problems is simply getting the things you want on the iPad ON the iPad. Importing photos for example, you have to import into photos and then double import to Lightroom.

GeekyBear 8y ago
Adobe seems to be putting a lot of effort into Photoshop CC for iPad to make sure that moving back and forth between the desktop and iPad versions is effortless if you choose to work that way. >the biggest change of all is a total rethinking of the classic .psd file for the cloud, which will turn using Photoshop into something much more like Google Docs. “The beauty of it with Creative Cloud and the Cloud PSD and the innovations there is that you can just pick up where you left off, and you can be somewhat agnostic,” Belsky says. “You can always go back in history. You can share it and have other people be able to go back and undo things you did.” https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/15/17969754/adobe-photoshop-apple-ipad-creative-cloud https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/15/17969754/adobe-photoshop...
- clay_the_ripper 8y ago
  That’s pretty cool and would be useful