Adobe Photoshop App Reviews

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The iPad version is broken and nearly unusable, please fix!. I have been using Photoshop to create my digital illustrations for over nine years now, and was elated when I realized it also existed for the iPad when I first got mine ten months ago. I absolutely love the fact that I can work on any document on either my desktop or my iPad, and this feature alone is what has been motivating me to power through the broken mess this app has become in the past couple of months. It started with frequent crashes, then after an update about a month ago I began experiencing these white blocks popping up whenever I merge layers, only going away if I physically erase them. The thing that my finally prompt me to abandon this app all together is that all of my brushes, save the one I happened to have selected the last time I put my iPad on the charger are gone! This is 100% untenable! How is anyone supposed to create anything with only one brush?! Mind you I only had the basic ones that come with the app as to my knowledge there is no way to import brushes to the iPad version; sadly this fact also means that there simply is no work around for this issue either. This app was a boon and made working between two devices so easy, so it’s honestly heart breaking that it’s suddenly completely unusable.

Waited a year for this?. So I am one of those who specifically purchased the IPad Pro in anticipation of this app. I am a novice artist but I am on my iPad literally every day sketching. To see what Adobe promised (a FULL photoshop app) compared to what they delivered is disappointing to say the least. The limited features are a major problem but so is the monthly subscription. I can’t imagine why anyone would pay a monthly subscription for this hack job of an app. Even if it were the full app, I would be leery, but for a true full app, I would probably have paid and just grumbled about it. I have several other apps that only had a one time fee and honestly, just work much better than this app. I am saddened that I have to return to them but collectively, I haven’t spent anymore on them than this app wants to charge me for just one month of use. Please, save your money. Look at the popular artist apps on the App Store. You will be glad you did. Procreate is a much better app, as an example.

This program is unusable for professional illustration. This is an amendment to my earlier review. After a day wrestling with this app and with Fresco, I can safely safely say both are riddled with bugs and neither should’ve been released to the broader public. I can’t believe that you can’t do something as basic as draw a box, triangle, or ellipse (in Fresco, it’s filled with decorative garbage I don’t want that I can’t get out and can’t fill with the paint bucket; in Photoshop, I can’t find an option to draw a shape, let alone establish rules and guidelines that would allow me to, you know, draw straight lines so I could make my own shapes— since I make comics and that sort of thing is pretty crucial to making comics). The glitches are unbearable. I was just eating dinner, studying the image of an octopus I was drawing, and I had zoomed in to work on the detail of the eye. Photoshop just spontaneously zoomed out without me touching the screen. Fresco does the same. And they do it while you’re drawing. Both litter the canvas with garbage marks. I spent more time correcting the damage the program did to my documents to today than I actually did illustrating. I’ve had these programs one day and I want a refund.

Poor monetization model for an app that is easily replaced.. I paid for Photoshop Touch when it was released years ago. It was a very competent app, and met all of my needs at that time. When Adobe adjusted its business model to follow Microsoft on their pay-per-month Office Suite, they let all of their previous apps drop from the App Store over time due to their inability to function with newer versions of iOS. When the “new version” of Photoshop Touch was released, it was split into five separate apps that effectively made the use of the product cumbersome as it required you to constantly move between apps to accomplish simple tasks. After a few years of that, we are given the honor of paying Adobe a monthly access fee to do what can easily be done via a multitude of other apps that do not require monthly fees. I would suggest this to ANYONE considering this app: choose an alternative product. At least you’ll own the app.

Very disappointed. Ive been using photoshop for awhile now. Desktop version is great. Knowing this was coming out, I purchased an iPad Pro for my travel needs. I was hoping this would allow me to work on the road and leave the clunky laptop at home with all the cords. As i knew it was an app and will be an adjustment (not working exactly like the desktop version). This APP is so disappointing. There are free apps that do so much more, which blows my mind. This is ADOBE and you pay for it. I am currently under the impression this was built quickly to try to stop people using other apps, which i understand but this launch makes me want to cancel all adobe and use all the other apps. Ive honestly lost some respect for the company. Maybe it was a scam to capture subscriptions to boost some cash flow. I keep checking apple to see if there is any updates. I’m hoping they add more and more versatility but its clear. It was a scam. Worst part, I cant return the IPad Pro. Maybe apple and adobe are splitting the scam profits?

Adobe had a monopoly on pro creative apps. Where are they?. As a (licensed since the 1990s) veteran professional user of Adobe's tentpole products (Photoshop; Illustrator; AfterEffects), I have to say I'm... sad? Furious? Curious? All three? Adobe CC on the desktop is a disaster. Apps don't download. Apps that do download and open are gross memory hogs, loaded with useless bloat-ures (3D rendering in Photoshop? Needlessly complex interface on the new Lighting effect? A dozen extra windows that have nothing to do with photo editing?) Adobe on the iPad is madness. Was it Photoshop Express I needed to color correct? Or Photoshop Mix for... mixing? And Photoshop... I don't remember what the third one was called, or what it did, either. Now with great fanfare, Adobe has given us "The Real Photoshop" on the iPad. I understand that iOS, MacOS and the iPad experiences are unique and the capabilities are not equally robust. But is it too much to ask, given the recent hike in monthly CC subscription fees, for *either* the new iPad or the CC Mac version of Photoshop to at least be as nimble, stable and functional as PS was in, say, 1997? Or as mission-focused as PS was until 1996? These multi-gig apps plod along today, when 20 years ago they soared on systems with 1/10th the power. Give me 1996 Adobe. I'll pay extra, and you can keep your 3D engine & "plugin server" and whatever Photoshop Mix is. Deal?

needs to be updated. really the only good thing about this is the brushes, but other than that the way it’s set up makes everything take much much longer to do than it should. terribly needs: a clear layer button a magic wand refer to multiple layers option esp for the paint bucket the ability to edit brushes press and hold to color drop color slider quicker back/forward reaction time needs to be easier to turn the canvas a flip horizontal button +windows such as: one to have a reference sheet open, the color pallet open, the small view of your canvas, etc a smudge tool the ability to add a layer with 1 click instead of 2 the buttons take too long to show up it’s annoying the ability to customize your workspace to only have your pen make brush strokes, whenever you move the canvas your fingers make marks all over your drawing that you sometimes don’t notice till later which is TERRIBLE OH MY GOD why aren’t the layers and layer properties together?? have them both open when u open the layers THE FREAKN ITS SO DIFFICULT TO CHANGE THE COLOR IT KOVES SO WEIRD?? WHYS IT MOVE LIKE THAT WHO WHY ITS SO DIFFICULT TO PICK COLORS why is the free trial so short if the program still needs so much updating make the whole thing more hands on, it feels like it’s trying to be like procreate but we don’t need two procreates, it’s like it’s trying to be as simple as possible but like stop we don’t need that

Finally on iPad!. I’ve been using Photoshop since 1990 and I still have the floppy disk for the officially branded Adobe Photoshop version 1.0.6. The negative reviews are both unfair and in some cases inaccurate. Yeah, I don’t like Adobe’s subscription model either but they didn’t have to add an iPad version to keep their subscribers. If anything, they took a huge risk opening themselves up to the expected comparisons to Procreate and other competing apps that are one-time purchase. But let’s be honest here guys, those apps are not Creative Cloud just like Apple TV+ is not Netflix. Did you guys even try this app for yourselves on iPad? It’s actually really good and is an excellent interpretation of the desktop app that changed graphic design forever. Watch the tutorials. Don’t listen to the critics. This app wasn’t built to convince new customers to pay Adobe $50/mo. It was created as a free gift for their massive customer base already paying.

I’ll never but a subscription based app!. Adobe has always produced products that are way too expensive for home users. 20 years ago Acrobat was too expensive for home users. Jump ahead and this app is still too expensive for home users. Maybe professionals don’t mind paying a high price but hobby and home users are not going to buy these subscription apps. It’s simply not cost effective. If a home user needs a word processor, spreadsheet, database, financial app, an app to play with photos, a reminder app, to do list and a couple of games they are potentially forking out a few hundred bucks a month. I’m sure not paying it and I’m sure this is a great opportunity for the little app creators to get their sometimes better apps out there. These big companies are just going to continue to lose customers. People can always find a cheaper way to do the same thing. Thanks Adobe but no thanks. I’ll stick with the little guys who care about their customers.

Extortion at its best. For such a renowned product why is it I’m being forced to give my cc(credit card) information first in order to have access to a free trial witch in turn is for short period of time and I’m robbed of the option of making a choice but forced into having to make an abrupt purchase without knowing the full extent of this app and there is no option of a payment but again being forced into a monthly fee after a short trial of the app that automatically charges you after it’s up witch is unfair to the consumer but is strong armed into purchase....so therefore I cannot give a review any kind good or bad and this point it’s only a bad review because I’m locked out of even being able to try the app without giving my credit card info....so I must state the facts I give this app an negative 5 stars due to inaccessibility to make any decision to purchase the app at all....definitely not good business

Frankly…not worth it on any level…. Let me start by saying I’m aware it will inevitably be a somewhat different experience whenever an app designed for PC’s is adapted for a mobile format. I have used a number of Creative Cloud apps on PC and been fairly pleased with their capabilities (once I got past the initial learning curve). That unfortunately has not been the case with the mobile versions. One would think that in this day and age it wouldn’t be that hard to come by apps from reputable developers that allow for FULL functionality and creative freedom without costing what feels like an arm and a leg. I’m not sure if it’s Adobe or Apple that’s not pulling their weight here, but in my experience the apps themselves take up a ton of storage on most devices, and you can’t get anything close to the full experience without paying, and even then they don’t seem to be compatible with 90 percent of the media on something like an IPad. Some might say I should try the PC versions, but I’m left to wonder, would I have to pay more than anyone should have to try and justify for a hobby or anything else for that matter? That aside, would I even be able to create well-made projects without it breaking my device’s brain? If I am to use any Creative Cloud apps in the future, I’m afraid it may have to be on PC, or at least some device that can handle what they would normally have to offer.

Unclear on Adobe subscription information. From the information on the Adobe subscription webpage(s) it seemed as though the iPad app would be full-featured, just like the desktop version. I thought I had read the information carefully, and researched on the web sufficiently, but I guess before I subscribed I should have checked the iPad app reviews. The main reason I subscribed to Adobe Photoshop in the first place was to be able to resize some photos in terms of print on my iPad. I am disappointed (understatement) that the feature I need at this time is not available on the iPad app. I consider this false or misleading advertising on the website and I suggest that Adobe make clear on their website subscription information that the iPad app is not full-featured. I am grateful that: 1) I have a MacBook I can drag out to use and that 2) I am still in the free trial period so I can unsubscribe without having to pay for everything.

Adobe photoshop. I love How finally I found a photoshop app that is good and I was so excited to finally try it out, but then I realized you had to pay to actually be able to have fun and experience this app, now I’m not trying to complain I’m just saying I don’t like how you have to pay it should be an option, I think if you paid the money you should get better features and more stuff you should just have to pay to be able to experience the whole app. It looks like you guys did I really good just making this app, and all the features it comes along with but that fact that you have to pay just to play sets me off, I just think if you pay the monthly access you should get more features and extra nicknacks then the people that didn’t pay, I still would just love to be able to make cool photos and learn how to work all this stuff and how everything goes, but now I have to keep searching for another photo shop app, the reason I want the paid monthly access to be an option is so you you could try out the game and see if you maybe like it and then if you do you can’t pay the money, I would just love to try this app out to see how everything works and learn stuff and how to get better. Well I don’t you if anyone will spend the time reading this, but if you do happen to come across this please maybe consider making some changes, and it’s not up to me it’s up to you I’m just sharing my point of view. Thank you.

Had a lot of potential. I have always loved photoshop for everything from personal to professional use. So I was very excited to finally get a full version of photoshop for my 12.9 iPad Pro. What I found though was that this is not a “full” version of photoshop at all. This does have many of the features I know and love, but lacks a SIGNIFICANT amount of the functionality I have enjoyed on my PC experience. I am a current paid membership user of the desktop version, so I was hoping for more of a one to one translation. My biggest grievance isn’t the lack of features though. My largest issue is the downscaling of the “cloud” files. When I upload a photo project I am working on for a client, and the PC is showing a file size of 4700x5600, I am expecting that same pixel count on the ipad. What I got was a loss of about 15% across the board on any file I uploaded to the cloud. This means that projects I want to take with me on the go are not the same resolution as they are on my personal computer. This also means that any retouching I want to do will be absolutely a moot point as I wont be able to have control of the finer details that I do on PC. I still love everything that photoshop is capable of doing, but this version feels more like a Photoshop “lite” than it does Photoshop. I am excited for the possibility moving forward but for now unfortunately I will have to stick to my computer.

0 stars if I could. BLUF: Overpriced, there are other programs (even from Adobe) that do it better and it’s not ready for prime time. Adobe, I’m not sure what you were thinking with this other than “hey, I’m sure we can dupe some poor suckers into paying monthly fees because we call it ‘Photoshop,’” but I hope you’re wrong on that. You’ve waited so long to bring full programs to the iPad that we’ve all found alternatives we like. Hell, for true photography editing, I use your Lightroom on iPad. When I want to do photo illustration, I use Procreate (and so do a LOT of other people), which is awesome. So you’ve got to bring your A-game if you want us to go back to Photoshop. But you didn’t. You released another half-baked program, gimped out without all the features of the desktop, and you want us to pay a subscription fee? I want whatever you’re all smoking, because apparently it’s good stuff. For years we’ve heard you tell us “tablets aren’t powerful enough, there are too many limitations with iOS to create apps like you’re asking.” Weird that other companies have managed it. Just like Quark failed to adapt and died, so will you. The first company that comes up with good pagination software for a iPad gets my money, and I’m betting it’s not you, judging by Comp and your “full version” of Photoshop. Which is too bad; I used to love your programs.

Mobile Version on iPad Pro. Once my PC crashed, I happily upgraded to the 12.9" iPad Pro with the M1 Chip and 16GBs of RAM. The Liquid Retina XDR Display far exceeds my old laptop. However, I didn't expect the lack of PhotoShop Features on what turns out to be a Mobile Version of the software. And even with 16GBs of RAM and an 8-core Processor, PhotoShop tends to lag or even crash during certain Edits. With this much Power in the hardware, this should rarely (if ever) happen. I have been waiting for months for Adobe to add missing features to the Mobile Version, but there has not been any progress. In the meantime, I purchased a decent 10-core PC laptop to have full access to PhotoShop. Still, it's disappointing that I can't use the iPad Pro as a laptop replacement because of limitations like this.

Terrible with the Magic Keyboard. I was so excited to try out the iPad version of Photoshop, especially since I had just gotten the Apple magic keyboard. I was expecting to be able to use the trackpad and keyboard shortcuts with ease on my iPad. However, this is just a terrible watered-down version. I was expecting less features, but in reality there is significantly less. I’ve just started using the app today, so I’ll update my review as I go, but by FAR the worst part is it’s compatibility with the magic keyboard. So far for the past week, I’ve never had problems with the trackpad. However, on this Photoshop app, 1 out of 10 times, it doesn’t respond. I will click and click on the trackpad and nothing. I would have to go in on the touchscreen to click something. This is extremely inconvenient and seems to be a problem with the app, not the apple product.

Photoshop is trash.. I will never cease to be amazed at how garbage this app is. I used photoshop for 2 years on the PC as I wanted to up my art game, and it worked well, but then bugs began appearing and I went to many forums, reported them many times, even called customer service and nothing was done. I’ve not used photoshop since then, but now I am in an intro to digital art class in college and it is required I use photoshop. I would love to know how I am to use this app without it saying “loading documents” for Four. Hours. I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled it, I’ve restarted and updated my ipad, I’m tech savvy I know how to fix stuff. Photoshop is a horrid app and it’s appalling to me that it’s so mainstream in this world. Screw photoshop, if you are an artist who DOESN’T need it for a class, I beg you to download procreate instead. I use it, it works great, please don’t download this app unless you NEED it for class like me.

You guys have to fix.. I don’t like doing this because I love Adobe, and to me the project when functional is complexity worth the coast, but the crashes in the app are way out of hand. I advocate Adobe and this product fully, but the instability and the length of time this app has been crashing is making it hard. I cannot get any work done at all. It crashes when I pretty much use and tool, and my project isn’t open long enough to even sync my saves to the cloud. I had been waiting for an update for a while now, so I was extremely elated to see a new up date, only to be solely disappointed that as soon as I updated and started my project again I had abandoned, the app crashed again. Please make fixing the app a priority! I don’t want my loyalty to waiver. Thank you!

Not a full version. I’ve been using PS desktop since 1995 so I’ve been really looking forward to this. The hype said we would get the full version of Adobe PS on iPad Pro. Some people even bought the iPad Pro in anticipation of this. I don’t think anyone really thought it would be a perfect mirror of the desktop program, but this is a disaster. It’s more like a “sample” and it feels like a slap in the face. This is not by any stretch a full version. I’ve only played with it a few minutes but I’ve been frustrated. I can’t add custom brushes. There appears to be no magnetic lasso or polygon lasso in selection tools. Transform function is severely limited. Super limited filters, no layer effects. The list goes on and on. Artstudio or MediBang or Affinity Photo are all better alternatives. Heck they could have just copied Artstudio and labeled it PS and the reception would have been better. Since I’m now working more on my iPad than my desktop its likely that I will cancel my adobe subscription. Huge disappointment. If you’re just starting out or don’t already use the desktop version, this isn’t worth the monthly subscription. There are better alternatives. I really hope Adobe gets their act together with this, but I’m not holding out much hope.

Unreliable, unprofessional. Is Adobe not aware that internet isn’t universally accessible? I mean, ultra-portability is one of the main reasons for working on an ipad. In a place with barely any wifi and no cell service, Photoshop insisted on opening cloud documents that I DID NOT NEED before it would open. Then when it couldn’t connect to the server it signed out, leaving me high and dry. $55/month for the suite and this is what Adobe considers “professional:” stranding users who are often up against tight deadlines. Charging on a subscription basis was one thing but charging on an annual basis while simultaneously being unable to implement a system that can check if the subscription is active on an annual basis is ridiculous. An app that can’t open without checking creative cloud documents is ridiculous. Fortunately Adobe’s reputation for catastrophic incompetence precedes it. Over the last 16 years I’ve learned not to rely on them. Fortunately I purchased Affinity Designer as a backup and opted not to store work in creative cloud.

Constant crashes. As much as ive always loved photoshop on my computer, this version for ipad is pathetically unusable. I cant use it for more than maybe 10 mins before it crashes. Quicker than that if you want to use more than 2 layers in an image. It runs fine if you only use one main image layer and only do minor color balancing tools…but at that point there are plenty of other apps that offer that basic level of photo editing for free. Any of the great photoshop pro level editing tools that the app has, and merits the cost of a monthly subscription, make the app completely unstable and causes constant crashes, to the point where it will start crashing even before it can fully open to the main screen. And i have tried uninstalling and reinstalling several times. It fixes the isssue, for maybe another 10 mins. Then its back to crashing quicker and quicker again to the point of not even being able to successfully open all the way. Not worth the effort anymore fussing with uninstalling and reinstalling every half hour or so, cannot get any work done because so much time is wasted trying to deal with this unstable version.

It’s right up there with Procreate...and here inlies the problem. It is Photoshop! It doesn’t feel particularly watered down like its former version, and it works great on iPadOS 13 but, at least with my experience so far, even though it is still new, it feels like it is right up there with Procreate. The main problem here, and this is true with the entire adobe suite, is that you cannot OWN anything with Adobe. For the price of one month of Photoshop on iPadOS, you can OWN Procreate forever, with no hidden fees or recurring charges. I like what I see, but I will not be continuing using after my 1 month free trial (which, to their credit is generous as I expected maybe a week at most for a free trial), I don’t feel particularly compelled to pay for a service-based app when I can get an equally competent version for the price of one month of this app. Please change my mind Adobe, I really want to rate this higher.

Can’t turn off autosave to Adobe Cloud. First, this app is missing a lot of useful tools that I use all the time on the desktop version. There are several cheaper apps that include many more tools for a lot less money. ArtStudio Pro and Procreate are just 2 examples that charge a one time fee (no subscription required) and are way more useful for drawing and manipulating photos on your iPad. Seriously, Adobe, you couldn’t even manage to include dodge and burn tools in PHOTOshop? But I have a subscription, so I figured I might as well give it a chance. Until I realized the app REQUIRES you to save everything to the Adobe Cloud. You can also save it to your iPad. But you cannot turn off the autosave to the cloud. I DO NOT WANT TO SAVE TO YOUR SERVER! I’m a physician at a medical school and periodically use photoshop to prepare patient photos for presentations. It would be a privacy violation if it were to end up on your servers. I need to be able to turn off the autosave function. The only possible reasons for making this a requirement, are nefarious. It is either to force you to use up your cloud space and then be forced to purchase more storage or it is a data mining scam. There is no good reason you can’t make this optional. Allow the customer to decide where they want to save their work. You will eventually cause someone to commit a HIPAA violation if you don’t change this feature.

Typical Adobe. This is a half-baked product. As usual Adobe released it with a skeleton set of features and continues to add to it SLOWLY. I would say it probably has 10% of the power of the desktop version even though an iPad Pro is more than capable of running a full version of Photoshop. They keep focusing on features like streaming in-app instead of features that are actually useful to their product. Is anyone really going to stream inside of Photoshop instead of just screen sharing with an app that we all already have? Probably not. Yet they’ll delay all sorts of needed features while they work on that. Meanwhile Photoshop for iPad remains a shadow of it’s true self. It’s just bad decision making at the top. All of this to say, Adobe consistently underwhelms and disappoints with their products for professionals. If there was another game in town, then I’d be using it. How is it that Affinity Photo is about 5x more powerful than this, and yet they are a tiny company with a fraction of the funding that Adobe has. Their product is harder to use for sure, but it at least has desktop level features. My point is that Photoshop for iPad COULD have the same features as desktop, Adobe just chooses for it not to.

Not what we were promised. I’m a photographer and have been using Photoshop and Lightroom for at least 10+ years. I was so exited when I saw that Adobe was releasing full Photoshop for the iPad, as advertised by both Adobe, and Apple. Then comes November 4th and the very disappointing release. As is, it is really useless for photographers. I can’t have my own brushes, no useful filters, no raw support, no curves, cannot resize images, the list goes on and on. I was so hopeful that I could travel light out in the field, only needing my 3rd Generation 12.9” iPad Pro, and an SSD, for quickly processing some images, and getting them uploaded to various sites. I do like that it has layers, and I like the few tools we have, like spot removal, cloning, etc. But I need more to make this a useful app. I am currently trying Afinity for the iPad as a possible alternative, as it has cross platform capability, and is a much more robust and complete app than photoshop. Adobe needs to get this app up to speed soon, or I may cancel my Creative Cloud account and move on to an app that actually works.

The release could have been handled better, but the features in v1 are well done. As a product manager and designer myself I do sympathize with this kind of reaction to a major release. But it wasn’t unavoidable. It was waaaay easier to spend the last year thinking that an iPad version of photoshop that had feature parity with the desktop version was coming. Many of the outlets reporting on the announcement left out the caveat about v1, and even the official Adobe announcement article only had a single bullet point mentioning it. Most people who read about it walked away with the impression of “full” and “real” photoshop, not “a limited feature v1 that will grow overtime”. From an announcement hype standpoint that’s fine. From the standpoint of expectation setting, that was precisely what led to the blowback currently manifesting itself as one star reviews. The optics and narrative mistakes of the whole thing aside, what y’all have shipped in this v1 is really solid. It’s obviously limited in functionality, but everything that did make the cut is smooth, easy to pick up with knowledge of desktop photoshop, and just feels really good to use. If future functionality is added with the same care, I’ll very much look forward to trying it out.

[Photo editing] Useless addition to Lightroom. While Photoshop is a powerful tool on my desktop system to complete my photo editing workflow with features such as focus stacking, masking, HDR merge, auto alignment, this iPad app is totally useless. None of these relevant functions are available and unless you like to draw or add layers to your photo, I see no benefit in using this App for photo editing purposes. Very disappointing, but at least Affinity Photo provides a reasonable alternative on my iPad. Hopefully, CaptureOne will release a good Lightroom contender on the iPad, so that I can finally stop my subscription with Adobe. Lightroom is the only tool that keeps me locked in at the moment - and admittedly, Lightroom is a prime example of how an iPad App should look like! Either Adobe is upping their game, or it will sooner or later be replaced by app developers who are willing to invest in more than a halfhearted approach.

Great when the features work. I paid for a one year subscription and the features work great when available, especially Retouch and replacing the eyes on facial photos. However, they are not always available. Sometimes when I want to use these features, they are inaccessible and the app informs me that the content is downloading and I will receive an notification when it is complete. It happens when I’m trying to work on photos on an iPad. It is frustrating to wait, especially considering that I have a paid subscription. However, after the content has downloaded the features are available for a short time, even when I’m working offline. However, the features become inaccessible again and I have to wait until the content downloads again. And the app tends to freeze. I use an iPad Air and have the latest iOS settings and latest app update, but the inconsistency of the features availability is surprising and frustrating. Again, the aforementioned features are great for the price of a full year. But I urge potential subscribers to bear in mind what I have described.

Works well with CC but still needs some improvements.. Originally, I wasn’t very fond of the mobile Photoshop app but it has definitely improved. I still find myself importing and exporting between Adobe and Procreate simply because Procreate makes it easy and intuitive, Adobe might be just as easy to use but I am only familiar with the tapping through menus method. Additionally, I personally miss the ability to Ruby mask. Also, there was some feature that I am used to using on Adobe PC that I wasn’t able to figure out on mobile so I exported it back to PC but… I forget what it was. 😅 Lastly, if you use the “quick export” option it WILL compress your image. You have to do an actual Export and Share(?) process to keep the resolution. Basically, this app has its uses but I still find myself jumping back and forth between PC, mobile, and Procreate. Side note: there are still features that state they are not available on mobile devices …?🤨

A taste of Photoshop, but thats it. DISAPPOINTMENT. I’ve been a devoted professional Photoshop desktop user for decades. Mastersuite actually. All of my photo processing skills and workflows are completely integrated with Adobe products - Photoshop serving as my baseline workhorse. Sure… Adobe is expensive, but its worth it to the professional user because of the extensive features for professional commercial use. So for me, extending use of that to my ipad is a no-brainer… OR SO I THOUGHT. My honest initial reaction to trying to use this on my iPad was confusion at first. Where off power features? I thought maybe I had made a mistake and downloaded the wrong version so I double and triple checking sure enough it’s the one I paid for. Then I thought, there must be some extra steps to get it set up properly in order to get the feature sets that I needed… apparently not because they don’t exist. “WHAT IS THIS CRAP, ADOBE? Shame on you for calling this Photoshop and then charging me as if it is even remotely deserving of that product label!” Adobe dropped the ball on this. Now I’m having to resort to learning and using something like ProCreate just to get some features and capabilities that should be in this so called Photoshop Mobile.

Photoshop is the worst at helping customers!. My photoshop has been crashing for weeks. It’s been glitching, lagging, and will even freeze for no reason. I reached out to support x3 this year and have not gotten the help I need. They had me choose a day to be called by them because they agreed I have a lot of issues with photoshop and they never called. I feel ripped off. I’ve been paying for multiple devices for 6 months and have asked to go to the one device 5 months ago but somehow the last two customer service reps couldn’t figure out how to do so. Every time I bring up a photo to edit, photoshop crashes and makes me exit out of the frozen screen. When I go back, all of my edited work is now on a blank page as if I never had a photo to edit to begin with. This is so frustrating. Please photoshop I NEED HELP. I’m not seeing the benefits of paying $50+ each month when I don’t have multiple devices to work from and the app crashes everytime I edit. EVERY TIME. I just want to pay for one device and not have photoshop crash. WHY IS THIS SO DIFFICULT

This app is mostly here to take your money. I’ve used Adobe products and photoshop for over 8 years now, mainly on desktop and PCs. When I finally took the plunge into buying an iPad, I did so with Adobe’s claim that the full version of photoshop is available on it...this is not a full version. I don’t even think this is sample or trial worthy. Many of the tools frequently used and loved simply don’t exist. What very view tools exist, are disappointingly husks of what the real full version can do. Adobe has been changing as I’ve used their products, but this app felt truly like throwing money down the toilet...it’s false claims of being the full photoshop aren’t backed when you download the app. I believe there was an initial $10 charge to just download it, followed by a prompt that you cannot bypass without paying for a monthly 10 subscription. Now, if this had actually been a full version, I would have gladly paid that, but I couldn’t even try the app without committing to a subscription that is essentially USELESS to me. There are better apps out there, for free even. Don’t waste your time, your money, and spare yourself the stab in the back that this is to loyal users.

Why Should I Bother?. I purchased an iPad Pro last year. One of the first things I did was to download all my drawing and coloring apps that I have used on my old iPads over the years. And I have a lot of them: $10 here, $20 there, you get the idea. They are all paid for and I’ve managed to figure out the strengths and weaknesses of each one to exploit them when doing my art. I’m happy because they all work and are all paid for. Adobe Photoshop? Heck, I have CS5.1 on my Mac which works well for me. And I can bring my artwork to the iPad if I have any pressing, special needs. Now the wait is over to get Photoshop. The first thing I did after downloading it was to OPEN IT UP and see that money was the first thing adobe wanted from me. What the hell? I didn’t even get to try it out without being hit for “dues,” so to speak. Adobe, if you can’t allow us to pay a one time fee, go “eff” yourself. I don’t need to pay $10 a month for a program that I can’t even try out first. And from the other reviews here, it sound like Photoshop isn’t ready for Prime Time, anyway. I’ll spend my money elsewhere.

A Year Late and 50 Dollars a Month Short. Not only is this app a year late, not only is the ram management so poor that you cannot even go home and then come back without it restarting, not only are half of the tools seemingly missing, not only is the performance incredibly poor, not only does it not properly support drag and drop or split screen, not only does it not run on anything but the topmost Pro model (I have it but I feel bad for my friends who don’t), but after ALL of that I pay FIFTY DOLLARS A MONTH to this corporation. You are seriously trying to get us to believe that it takes a year to put touch hitboxes on an interface and then port it to a system more powerful than Windows XP machines that can still run 2019 alright? Adobe proves time and time again that they are the worst corporation in the history of the world, and I cannot wait for the day that someone finally drops a competent After Effects competitor so we can all drop them. Affinity Photo is a one time app buy that is actually fully featured, is updated, performs well, and the devs aren’t the most greedy evil people in the industry. You ought to be ashamed of yourselves Adobe, you’re becoming a parody of the monopoly man.

Numerous issues make serious work impossible. Seems to be some issue with memory. Here are just a few examples from my work over the last hour tonight. After a few minutes of work things start to fall apart. Document setup breaks so that when you open the project (every time) the orientation is wrong. The color picker breaks - for some reason goes a lot lighter in saturation than the selected color. And something that I think makes this unusable for serious work is that *work isn’t saved* correctly. When it starts to glitch like this your work will be lost when you close and reopen the app. Most of the time it’s too late - you’ve realized it’s glitching and there’s nothing you can do except to restart the app and lose the work. I cannot use or recommend this for serious or professional work.

$10 a month.. The idea is there, but I just don’t think this app is worth paying for when I have a full working version of CC 2020 on my PC. I downloaded this in hopes of working on my projects on the go, but it’s lacking many features CC has. In all reality they should make this app either cheaper or free until they finish building the app. Edit: After a bit of playing around with it, I did notice my hand keeps hitting things in the tabs. I have accidentally closed my projects and switched layers,etc. If you could add a feature to close out the tabs and make it to where you can possibly swipe or something of that nature to access them, it would make this app much easier to use with the pencil. I would also like to ask if we will be able to see then lines we are drawing in real time eventually. I feel as if this would make life a little easier. I understand this isn’t like a display tablet, but it makes things really nice to edit on the go. I have also had a hard time accessing my files in the cloud and have resorted to using google drive and Dropbox. Maybe something worth looking into.

One year later and it's still trash.. I complained about how few features this amateur trash heap has a year ago, and it still looks like nothing has changed. Literally. There are no new features. Again, MediBang provides LOADS of features for FREE, where you people cant even provide a shape tool, or an alpha lock. Like what?? You guys are so afraid to get in trouble with the likes of free drawing apps that you resort to this? You guys cant even add a transparent gradient. You make me sick. I wish Photoshop wasnt the industry standard. I really do. Like, imagine having the audacity to charge someone for this! Thankfully my college also gives me a free key to it, otherwise i dont know what i'd do. Looks like ill just have to buy MediBang Premium so i can export .psds and make it look like i have a desktop computer. Because no one will be able to tell the difference between MediBang and Desktop Photoshop at that point.

4 Years Later - Still Trash. Blackmagic Design just released the FULL version of Davinci Resolve for iPad - with everything looking the exact same as it is on desktop. Affinity Photo has about 90% of the functionality of its desktop counterpart. Neither of these companies have a fraction of the money or resources that Adobe has, yet we get this "real photoshop" for iPad that only has about 20% of the functionality! I seriously have no idea what your engineers spend time doing all day because there is no way this app should still be THIS limited FOUR YEARS LATER! It's borderline comical how useless this app is...instead of spending all of your resources on this cloud collaboration garbage, that effort should have been focused on making an app with decent functionality first, turn work on the cloud stuff. What's the point of collaboration when this watered down app can't do anything??!

Benefit of doubt.... Once an Adobe fanboy, I upgraded from floppy’s, to CDs, and, reluctantly to the cloud. That last has been a sticking point for a lot of reasons, but this is not the place to unload that baggage. Looking at the file size for this App, one wonders why we can’t get a less bloated version for desktop. Taking into account the myriad missing features not included, it’s not surprising. Yet, there is something to be said for an App that can do most of the desktop versions basic tasks without taking 3 GB of storage on your main computer. This does not meet that standard. Yet. I will say, they tried. They needed to. I would not pay for this in its current form. If it remains part of the CC version, I will keep looking to see if it gets better. They seem willing to listen to constructive criticism. That’s a good sign. They have been ignoring me since CC Became a thing. Oops. There goes that baggage again.

Amazing, actual real photoshop on a tablet. I didn’t realize until I got an iPad today that they had ported the real photoshop over, but this is amazing. It’s not quite as refined or as capable as desktop PS, but the most essential features are there, it generates real PSDs and was able to open a few of the odd PSDs I’d already had saved to my CC account that were created on desktop. There are a few areas where it even feels nicer than desktop, namely being able to pinch to zoom so smoothly. You don’t mind the floating UI bits because it’s so easy to move the canvas around them, even on an iPad mini it works very well. Further refinements are certainly needed, but there’s no denying that this is the real deal. I don’t think it will replace desktop for anyone yet, but in a pinch, it’s excellent. Just like an extra-portable camera, it will shine the most in settings where you wouldn’t have had the full experience available. Definitely looking forward to seeing more features and quality of life refinements.

Promising start...but pricing?. So far I’m liking the app. True, it’s not in parity with the desktop Creative Cloud version of Photoshop. It’s pretty suitable for my needs. (Though I do look forward to smart object compatibility). Pricing will make or break Adobe’s presence on my iPad. I’m fine paying for a subscription but I encourage exploration of bundle pricing or lower cost pricing. As it stands I feel I have to decide between Fresco or Photoshop (each $9.99) —and then apparently Illustrator is around the corner. I’m assuming that will be another $9.99. I implore Adobe to make these products cheap enough that I don’t need to decide. Look at Apple Arcade —everyone I know feels that Apple made that a great value. Thus I’m paying for Apple Arcade even though I don’t play that many games. BUT it’s inexpensive enough that I don’t think about it. Or Microsoft’s model: for $6.99 a month you get the entire Office Suite and 1TB of storage. I’m not saying Adobe needs to go that low but you can see how that kind of pricing is very inviting, especially to amateur hobbyists.

Good start but i hope it gets better!. I switched to an iPad Pro last year when they announced photoshop for iPad. I was beyond excited to only carry an iPad. Without photoshop i started using affinity design and it is almost identical to photoshop on windows or Mac. Things are just done a little different. Everytime i minimize this photoshop app when i re open it the last part of the image i was working on has been moved across the image. It also does not let you copy font from say my google drive docs or webpage for that matter and paste into the text box.. That’s annoying for creating blog headers and such. No selective color effects or Hsl also has me going back to affinity to finish designs. I do love a lot about this app but until those are fixed its hard to really make this work for my everyday needs.

Late bloomer over here. I don’t know how to describe the issues I’m having. Primarily, the interface is cryptically sparse. I want “File” and “Edit” back and the type tool is a nightmare to work with. Can you not copy and paste text from elsewhere into a text layer? Also, why is it that when you want to turn your art board, it rotates the opposite direction? I feel like photoshop thinks it’s helping me but it’s more or less aggravating. Seriously though, that type tool is awful. An edit that should have taken 20 minutes tops turned into two hours. I use clip studio mostly for illustration and it at least feels more like the traditional desktop versions of photoshop. Though I can’t do type. Also guides to snap to rulers; where do I find guides and rulers? You guys need a call center. Those FAQ community things never help.

Loving this app despite some issues I ran into. Revised Version 2.0.1 Review Thanks to the response of my initial review for this version, after deleting the app and then re-installing it, all of the brushes were restored. Finally, it’s now usable once again after stressing out over this for a couple of days. Version 2.0.1: Brushes nonexistent and useless without it This latest update pretty much makes it unusable because the brushes are no longer available. And to go along with the delayed support for the M1 chip on the Desktop version makes it a double whammy for me. Being a user of Photoshop for 5 years, I’ve never been so disappointed than ever before. Original Review titled “PSDC Files nearly deleted after update” I really enjoyed this app until I updated to version 1.6.2. What happened after updating was all of my work in the past versions was offloaded, which is fine to free up space on my iPad, but it also almost deleted all of my work that were stored in folders. Luckily they were moved in the recently deleted folder and I restored it all as soon as I saw it. But imagine if all of my work was permanently deleted as a result of an update. A hard chew to swallow, but I’ll backup my work as regular PSD’s on my computer after this near-chaotic experience I encountered when using this app.

I’m a Creative Cloud Subscriber: This is a Misfire!. Generally speaking I have no qualms with Adobe’s subscription model. I am a photographer with a subscription to Adobe’s “All App” plan. I hardly ever use Lightroom, but I do use Photoshop and some of the other apps. From a photographer’s perspective, this is a massive disappointment. I understand it’s a first gen product, but Adobe promised so much more when it announced this in 2018. A year later, we have an application that can’t view raw files, cannot receive files sent directly to it by an application like Lightroom, has fewer adjustments than even Lightroom, and the list goes on. I had really hoped that with a 12.9 inch iPad Pro, I could begin to utilize Lightroom Mobile as a repository for my images, and even do a lot of the retouching on the iPad, all while on the go. I own other editing apps for the iPad. I have Serif’s Affinity Photo, Pixelmator’s Photo, and more. At this stage of the game, they’re all better choices than Photoshop for the iPad. In reality, there is little I can do with Photoshop for the iPad. I’ve seen better apps in beta states than this. If you are a CC subscriber like me, I suggest downloading it and keeping it on hand to see what future updates do to rescue this misfire. If you are not a CC subscriber, you’ll have to pay for this after 30 days of testing. Save your money. It’s really not worth it at all.

Should be free or purchasable.. I really don’t want to rent IPad apps , especially inadequate ones. Take the $10 a month you’re asking to rent this for. Then calculate how complete a version of Photoshop this is. If it’s 50% of full photo shop charge five dollars. Or come up with a price to purchase it. Procreate is free. Sketchbook Pro is $24 for a year last I checked. Real professionals use these apps in production.I can’t tell you how burned I feel because I purchased this $1400 iPads The specifically because we were supposed to have a full photo shop. Full Photoshop was the selling point of this IPad for me. I don’t care how you slice it. Two years from now this is not an app worth $240 per year from now it’s not an airport $360 or four years from now $480. What it is is the biggest sore point and biggest and most expensive lie I’ve ever been told buy two major technology companies. What it is is the biggest sore point and biggest lie I’ve ever been told buy two major technology companies.

Defeats the purpose a bit. So, I just got an iPad and got procreate excitedly as I've heard good things. I was immediately disappointed by the lack of stabilizing tools in Procreate. Even though they technically have them, they aren't great, so I figured I'd roll back to photoshop since I know the program anyways. I was happy to find a stabilizer! And subsequently sad to find I can only use the default brushes. And the defaults in the app aren't even like the ones on the PC. What's the point if this program works better for me but none of the brushes work for what I need to do? I tried adobe sketch as well, and I'm happier with the brush options and that you're technically able to import more, but then they don't have stabilizing options! I feel like Goldilocks trying to find the program that fits just right. If this app actually allowed me to use my own brushes, it would be perfect for me. I'm a loyal adobe user but the whole point of me getting an iPad was so I didn't always have to use my computer and could draw on the go-- it's completely pointless if I can't even have good lineart brushes. PLEASE either expand the amount of brushes available or preferably allow us to import our brushes and settings.

Substandard. Too many things to criticize, but here are a couple. PS for iPad forces you onto the Creative Cloud universe which makes it nearly impossible to use in LR. And the LR universe doesn't communicate with CC very well, so you have 2 places to store photos but no easy way to track where the most recent edit might be. LR Classic is good at allowing cross platform editing through collections. You edit anywhere and the changes show up immediately. All that is lost if you edit with PS for iPad. Finally, the tools in this app are terrible compared to other Adobe photo apps. LR fix works better than this. Someday the same capabilities will be included in the iPad version of PS but until then it's not as good as just LR. People are complaining about the subscription price. Yeah, it costs 20 bucks a month but no other photography editing and organizing software that works on both iPads and desktops exists. If they fix the problems described in this review, $20 a month will be a good value, especially since Adobe is constantly adding improvements to the apps. But this app is nothing to write home about.

The reviews are slightly underrated in my opinion. This is a great app and I think as the development continues it will only get better with time! The fact that I can open large PSD files is a win for me. The tools that I’d like to see on the iPad app would be all the filters and layer styles. These are a must for me, I found myself feeling very limited without these tools. If all the tools from the desktop app are transferred to the iPad over time, I believe this will be the best piece of artwork Adobe has ever made. When Photoshop Touch first came out I was so excited for the possibilities and now I’m more excited than ever because this is the closest it’s ever been to a full desktop experience for iPad. I want to thank the developers, please know that I’m happy with the efforts you all are putting into this project and please don’t pay any attention to those who are writing negative reviews. Keep up the good work, I’m impressed with everything so far and can’t wait for the next updates to come!

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A bit sketchy. When you first get the app it asks you for your email and password I didn’t put it in cause I don’t trust it, now I am not sure if apple made this app or not but if they did then i would trust it but at the moment I don’t now so for now I am not using it. If you find out if it’s not by apple please don’t put your email in they might hack you.....

Photo Shop’s true rating. You might think that this game is the new game for you. But I do NOT recommend it. It looks free but just to sign in it’s like $50 or $100! I got so Excited to make new art and create but that’s not what it was. I know that probably most reading this will think I’m crazy or something but I swear I’m not! Please don’t get this game and waste your time unless you want to pay a lot of money for a game that you might not even like and always read this reviews because sometimes a game might not be what it looks like. Thanks for reading this

Why. I have one main point about this review = WHY DO WE HAVE TO PAY FOR A SUBSCRIPTION? I mean seriously. Aren’t you satisfied with how much people pay you if they want to get a decent amount of Photoshop WITH a subscription? I mean, I’m on an IPad and still you HAVE to get a subscription to even USE it. And I know, that you are going to read this and think: we have a free trial, but what if the Apple ID can’t have payments? Did you even think about that? I guess I will get another app. Which actually works, that is.

I hate it.. DO NOT GET THIS APP! First, it asked me to sign up. That is fine, no problem, but then it asked for my birthday, region and last and first name. You shouldn't need that for photoshop. Then, once I had signed in with a false identity, they forced me to buy the subscription. Says it's free, it's not. As soon as I realised there was no x in the corner of the subscription thing, I immediately deleted the app. Very disappointed, dissatisfied and upset. Do not get this app, I repeat DO NOT GET IT!

A disappointment. My first impressions of photoshop on the iPad Pro is that it’s both disappointing and toy-ish. It’s missing so much from the desktop version. I was sure that it was marketed as a native version of Photoshop on the iPad Pro however it’s more like a cutdown compatible companion app. If adobe can continue to developer it, it has potential. I am concerned however this it as good as it gets, and that it may have been a struggle to get here. Not really worth much by itself.

So cool 💜. I really love this app. It’s a great way to photo shop and I highly recommend it. Although it could be a little better I’ve been using it for years and it has never failed me.

Lack of Function. Hoped and wished the Photoshop for iPad would allow me real access into using the program on the go, but lack of support for smart objects and an incredibly simplified program don’t give me the flexibility and usability I’m accustomed to having with Photoshop. Currently Affinity and Procreate both give me way more bang for my buck and I can still import both into photoshop if I need to. Please add smart object support. Please add full filter functionality. There are other programs for what photoshop is doing and this feels like a massively dumbed down and simplified version that doesn’t represent the franchise. Please consider that Photoshop is a product that targets professionals and right now a professional would be hard pressed to incorporate this program into a smooth and successful workflow without making large compromises in quality and function. There’s just too much missing. I’m sure its not easy to program all of the pieces, but look at putting more effort into this product...please.

They make me pay subscription!!!. I was so excited to use this app, i found it easy to log on, but as soon as i got on a page popped up saying pay subscription now. And there was no visible button saying go for free. So they give u the app for free but make you pay? Some people just cant afford this. Can photoshop support reach out to me or something because i am deeply upset with this outcome, and thats why i give it such a bad review, if i can fix this i will change my review but by the looks of things that would happen unless apple support helps me. I am disappointed in this product.

Good app. This is honestly one of the better photoshop apps out there. I look through them a lot and none of them are as detailed as this one. It is overall a great game but there are a few things wrong with it

Does not work. I bought the free trial and I get nothing. All that happens is a black screen which I can’t use, every time I go into the app it brings me to the billing screen. Do not buy

Adobe User for a Decade. Now i use Photo Affinity on my ipad so i can utilise the pencil feature’s that are exceptional on ipad, but photoshop just doesn’t allow me to do my professional level editing on ipad at all, i would say i miss it but Photo Affinity does an incredible job and i can send from Lightroom where i soft-proof to Photo Affinity for heavier edits.

Great but needs improvement. Lot of potential but if I leave the app and quickly jump into a different one and come back, 80% of the time the file will close and the latest edits are not saved. This has happened to me so many times, it is frustrating to waist time re editing!

Does this update work?. A vastly improving app Adobe! But please don’t let your developers release updates unless they’re confident it works! I can see why this update has come so quickly with the most recent version’s logging in issues - constantly coming up in trial mode, or fetching sub then crashing, 35% black screen start up, and multiple having to re-log in despite having an automated subscription. While the app’s photoshop abilities seemed unaffected, trying to get into the app was rather time consuming and frustrating…

What you will first realise. Ok first thing most of photo shop endlessness possibilities are gone. It’s been watered done to just barely the basics. You big time fans are going to have to retrain your brains for we’re things are and what’s been cut out (don’t take anything for granted since I ashore you it’s Likely not their). Even something as simple as pen tool won’t work. I won’t ramble on but it’s not ready yet or it simply shouldn’t be called photo shop, god call it photo shop light it be more honest

It’s not working. I tried to login and I was faced by a white screen with a picture up top and I cannot draw or view my art I’ve tried to login and out and delete it and downloaded can you please help me and I pad the subscription (it’s a great app BTW)

Mobile version is a joke. Using a iPad Pro which is more powerful than nearly all PC’s, I’m disappointed as a paying subscriber that a full version, like on my desktop, for LR and PS is not possible. With the massive share price value of Adobe thanks to its cloud structure, which I’m OK to pay for, it’s almost criminal that this company hasn’t looked after their customers who use multiple devices for their work, especially in 2020 where so much is available to us. Forums have the same complaint as me, so get to it Adobe and wake up with the hardware your software can be used on.

Great for on the road. As more and more functionality is added it allows you to work away from the computer then synch up to the desktop to finish off.

Glitchy and not quite there yet. I really want PS for IPad to work well. There are aspects that are great but I guess we will have to wait for this to become fully realised for iPad. There are huge limitations if you’re used to the desktop version, and it seems to freeze and crash a few too many times. I look forward to this being the great app I know it will be soon.

Not the best version.. On a Mac you would expect this to have all features. Does not have subject selector lasoo for straight line select. Example if you want to cut out a triangle using the lasoo tool, you can’t do that. Also opacity for a layer - either I haven’t figured out that yet or they have hidden it somewhere. Different to the other versions of photoshop on pc. Etc.

Seasons of change are here. After waiting months for this product and being greeted with an opening screen offering ‘1 Months free trial’ I disappointingly, have decided not to use this product. Other options on the market now are increasingly offering amazingly reasonable ‘one off’ purchase deals (And Ownership), ongoing support, and truly excellent, professional and highly marketable results. I have never ethically supported subscription services and the new generation of excellent alternatives and the options on offer are the ultimate catalysts for my decision.

Getting Excellent. While Photoshop for desktop is still required for complex work, I am increasingly finding that Photoshop on the latest generation 13 inch iPad Pro not only is capable of 95% of my image creation needs, I actually am enjoying the way desktop functions have been reinterpreted to suit the touch interface. However I do use the Apple Pencil, Magic Keyboard, and have the increased RAM of the 1TB largest screen current model iPad. My old 2nd generation iPad Pro would not have been able to handle the increased file sizes I use, and it would drive me crazy to be trying to use Photoshop on a smaller screen. But on good hardware this iOS version of Photoshop is a delight to use as a creator making illustrations, graphic design, and photograph editing. I also like that Adobe is communicating clearly the development path for the software. I remember when Adobe first developed for iPad the apps were a bit of a joke. At some point they woke up to the fact that users were rapidly migrating to alternative iOS software and not using the poor Adobe apps, and from that moment they got serious about canvasing user needs, and their current crop of apps are getting to be really useful, and I am proof of a migration back from alternatives to increasingly using the Adobe products.

Great addition to CC but still has a lot of teething issues. I’ve been so keen to finally have the photoshop program on my iPad Pro for a while and only recently decided to give it a go. Although it has some nice features of the actual desktop version of the app, I feel the mobile version is still very lacking. I also find that the app keeps crashing on me when I’m trying to edit files. I would love a function to be able to manually save to the cloud as well.

Great, still work to be done. It includes most of the things available on desktop Photoshop, but don’t expect it to have the same versatility. A couple of tools and options that are extremely necessary for me, ( like the smudge tool and art boards) are unavailable. I get that this app is still in development but I still have to use my desktop for certain tasks which is annoying. Otherwise, it’s an app with amazing pen capabilities and great opportunities.

Confused. Photoshop is just editing a picture right BUT why dose it cost money a month to have it all it’s doing is editing a picture as far as I know pc photoshop is free BUT why is photoshop not free on iPad some people like don’t have a pc it u know that or not so if someone wants to be a photographer when there older they need to get taught from a kinda young age so if they don’t have a pc they have to ask there perents for money to but it like WHAT some family’s don’t have much money so they might not be able to buy the monthly payment for the photoshop so pls put this into consideration 🙏

An embarrassing, brand damaging mess.. I’m a creative cloud subscriber and was really looking forward to this app being released since I saw it being touted at an apple event featuring the iPad Pro. I actually waited to by an iPad until this app was released and it seems as though I should have waited a bit longer until it was actually Photoshop and not the bare bones image loading (hardly could be called editing) app that has been delivered. What possible excuse is there to release this app at this point in its development?? It’s so relieving to hear that our feedback is important to you, and that we can suggest features... How about just delivering the app that you promised- Full Photoshop for the iPad! That Adobe allowed this app out into the world and that Apple are promoting it as and Editor’s pick is ridiculous. Get an update out quick or actually come clean to your customers about what has led to this mess rather than pretending everything is OK...

Lots of glitches but I still like it. Very odd things happens like all the time, can’t import the photos.....I don’t know how to fix it other than installing...so frustrating

Saving to iCloud/Creative Cloud is clogging up. This is usually a fantastic program that I have been using from the start when Adobe started, but this latest version of photoshop on my iPad Pro with the latest update iOS 16.1.1 is playing up, as it is taking like 5 minutes or longer for a file to upload once you have exited it The round circle of arrows appears in the bottom right corner until after time it becomes a Tick This use to happen instantly

Why is this happening?. Adobe photoshop is a very good app you can do lots of things like ,create wallpapers , draw etc. I first signed into adobe and it worked out fine,I haven’t used adobe in a bit but I went in and signed into a second account, it was loading and then it’s on this screen telling me free trials and saying I can access my App Store to cancel but it didn’t let me get out of the screen. i tried multiple times to get the another screen where I can create things but it never let me through. I was obviously annoyed cause I didn’t want to pay anything just to get into another screen to create things. Overall this app is good but just get of the d@mn screen. Thank you.

Works great. I have been waiting for photoshop to come to the ipad ever since it was announced. Now that its out I can say that its a great app, yes its missing a few features from the desktop version but thats to be expected. Also I will say that the subscription is pricey but thats the same with all adobe products these days so I'm fine with it. Final Verdict - don’t get this app expecting it to be exactly the same as the PC photoshop its not and if your not already paying for adobe products I wouldn’t pay the monthly fee for this app its probably not worth it for you.

Missing basic features - unusable. My computer had to be repaired so I was excited to move my stuff to the ipad since I work in animation as a background artist. Only to find out that it can’t copy and paste text, doesnt have a straight line option like holding down shift and no alpha lock option. AN ABSOLUTE JOKE. So basically I can’t do any of my work. These aren’t special features, these are BASIC features that everyone uses, how are these not there from the get go. Do better Adobe, no wonder people are flocking to Procreate.

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Scam. So I was looking at this photoshop app and I notice it had a 30 day free trial, so I decide to subscribe to it and just try out the 30 day free trial, and then I look at my credits and it said $0.00... YOU SAID THERE WAS A 30 DAY FREE TRIAL AND YOU TOOK MY MONEY AWAY FROM ME, and I’m also sick of this subscriptions BS, it’s look we don’t own anything anymore. To everyone, please do not get this app. You are better getting the photoshop on desktop or on a laptop then this bug of a app.

Great App for editing but some minor issues. This is a great app for editing but some issues that I have encountered, Firstly when I tried to open the app it kicked me out straight away, So I started to reset my console and still did it. So I hope you can fix this or it’s just my console. From: Me

Can’t exactly use. It starts with me needing to sign in then it forces me to do some sort of free trial and it makes you have to pay in certain days and there is no way to skip it. Does the pc version still need you to do this? Because I can’t use this type of photoshop. I wish you could skip it and then you can use certain tools (which you could maybe use 20) and get even more tools by subscribing.

ehh... im not here to right a nasty review of course.. but i dont think i shall need to pay to make simple edits that dont even take that much time. i know you can have a free trial and get it free for a month. But i dont want to pay after a month. But i do know if you pay it would be a good app!

Subscriptions. I downloaded this app thinking it was free only to be taken immediately to the option of paying a monthly subscription. Whilst I am not against paying a ‘one off fee’ that’s a reasonable price I refuse to pay monthly subscription as it’s getting ridiculous. Most people are not millionaires and can not afford to pay constant subscription charges for everything. You are losing customers Adobe because you have jumped on the ‘greedy train’

Not bad, Not amazing. I am a Photoshop devotee, no question - the desktop version is an indispensable tool and I love it. However, for mobile painting, Procreate still has the crown. The sophistication of the brushes and user interface in Procreate far far exceed what you can do in this initial version of Photoshop iPad. I haven’t fully explored all of the image manipulation tools (I can’t help but feel if I really need to do a lot of fiddly stuff I’ll just switch to the desktop). But we shall see how it progresses in the next few iterations.

It’s great. The app is perfect for doing all of the little things like drawing in those little gaps, however it is not as good as the computer version and you’d be much better on a surface pro or something similar

Doesn’t do what it says on the tin. I was very excited to hear about photoshop for iPad. The first thing I noticed after 10 seconds of drawing was that there was no rotate canvas function. Second let down is the brushes. Can’t use brushes already installed on the computer app. I’m sure these issues have been heard from multiple users. It also feels like a beta version....not the full version as stated In adobe max :/ Think I will return back to better iPad drawing apps.

Cheated.. Quite simply, I feel cheated. When Adobe first showcased Photoshop for iPad at Apple’s iPad Pro event last year, they demonstrated what appeared to be a fully functional version of the application. Naturally just like everyone else, I was excited at the idea of replacing what must now be considered an archaic and static workflow through the use of a mouse and monitor; with a more dynamic and interactive mode of editing. Instead, I’ve been met with an application that feels more like a beta version of something that has been half-heartedly cooked up. Where are the most basic of features? Where are the various export options? Where is the ability to export in RAW? (This applies to both Lightroom and Photoshop). Where is the ability to Edit in Lightroom and vice versa? Adobe, come on. Get your act together. People in their droves, are finding alternative apps that are far more capable than your suite of apps; and which offer far better value propositions.

Not quite what I expected. I have jumped ship from 30 years of Windows to an iPad Pro. I thought that the iPad Pro would run a full version of Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop. I was wrong!! The iPad seems powerful enough to handle so much more than the programs are offering.

Cloud Only App - Not suitable for professional use. For the first time in years I am considering cancelling my subscription. All Adobe's apps on the iPad are barely usable, they all require Adobe cloud, a product that I have no interest in using - It's painful to use, even needing to check online to open each file. Photoshop on the iPad feels like a web app, no brush editor, all files have to be downloaded and uploaded to Adobe cloud. The alternatives for digital art and illustration on the iPad are much more polished and feel like powerful native apps, and I am in control of my files, I think Adobe's rein as creative king is coming to an end.

Show me the product!. They’re talking of a recurring fee once said trial period ends yet I’m seeing no RAW functionality...is someone joking? I’m not when I say that it’s stunts like the one that’s being pulled right here that push users towards other platforms (you hear that apple?) literally not one app in the App Store that doesn’t cost you featuring ability to work with raw with this one being no exception.... oh and even once you accept a trial this one apparently still won’t do it... what is the point of this app?

Pretty good. Though not quite as functional as the desktop version of Photoshop, this version has most of the features that the original has. And most importantly, you can translate artworks from Procreate directly to Photoshop. Just press “save as _____ images” (changes depending upon amount of layers) and export manually as images into photoshop.

Pathetic. I freaking HATE this app, you know why? Because you have to PAY a monthly subscription to use it, I’m just 11 and can’t use this app, if you remove the subscription and have the actual app cost money, so like the app is $10. 99 or something, that would make me feel so much better and give you better reviews Sincerely, from your ticked off customer. 😟

Not the best app ever but meh. Ok so I like this app but I’m not sure how it really works there are so many buttons I don’t know witch is witch and what they all do the makers of this app really need to put a tools button or shorten the amount of button to press but other then that it’s pretty Good overall I really like this app no just messing with you it’s so hard to sign into I put my real gmail address and it said it was not real witch it was so I couldn’t even use it but like the fifth time it let me in for like a day or so so I just ended up deleting it cos I hated it anyway so maybe my advice would be to not have to have an account cos the same thing that happened to me might happen to other people

Gets worse. I used to *buy* software from Adobe and, after maybe one update which fixed bugs it would work perfectly for years. Now I am forced to subscribe and pay yearly for them *not* to fix very basic things (you’d think InDesign might be able to detect that “overset” text is just space by now), break things, do updates that I didn’t need, add new features I don’t want, and things like this: last time I opened Photoshop on my iPad it was fine. Usable. I only open it when I want to use it, right? Which means I want to get something done. So - the app has updated, I go to open it and have to log in. First barrier to getting something done. Then when I’ve gone through that pointless exercise all I get is an alert saying it’s loading my files. Which it doesn’t do. And I can’t use it while it’s doing this. I don’t use it much on iPad so don’t have many files so what is it doing? Will it ever load? It’s not an isolated incident. I have InDesign on my laptop. It crashes a couple of times a day. Photoshop can’t open Apple’s HEIC format and how long has that been around now? Oh yeah and the way they package their apps means you have to pay the highest price even you only want Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator. There are plenty of cheaper options out there, Adobe has become complacent/arrogant and blown it. I’ve been using them for over 20 years and now I feel they are taking the mickey. Time to move on.

Lacking Features. I am a seasoned PS user on the pc and was extremely looking forward to transitioning my work flow to a mobile platform like the iPad. Whilst I recognise the constraints in porting PS to a mobile device device, I am shocked by the absence of features available on the current version PS for iPad. If affinity photos can achieve a full fledged application for photo editing why can’t Adobe with its team of budget release an app with more features? Very disappointed and worry how the creative cloud will cope with the move to silicon chips by apples flagship professional devices. Perhaps its time for new players to shake this industry up. There are currently viable alternatives to Lightroom and I hope the photoshop alternatives catch up so that I can end my subscription.

It’s okay.... This is average for what it really is on the desktop. Please, I would love a smudge brush and I would like to be able to rotate the canvas instead of my actual iPad. I know this is meant to be a program for an iPad but please, is it possible to make the features that I have mentioned available?

Don't Waste Your Time. I have waited years for a decent version of photoshop on the iPad. Oddly enough Adobe once had a good photoshop app but replaced it with a plethora of other crappy one trick pony apps. But here it is... except it doesn't actually work! After downloading this app on the first day I was treated by the app failing to connect to Adobe's servers, then it crashed. Three days later it still does not open, just crashes. Do not waste your time with this rubbish. There are plenty of other alternatives that actually work.

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Buggy?. When I held the shortcut key the brush turned to An eraser as it should but would not revert back to a brush. I tried everything except uninstall

We’ve could had it all. This is not the full Photoshop experience on iPad. I’ve been a Photoshop user for years and was eagerly expecting the Photoshop on iPad. This is way below my expectations. The brush engine is flimsy, it lacks on adjustments layers and effects (there are only two to my knowledge)... it would seem to me that they’ve released the app just to release it, and not with quality Adobe always praise it had. Even Fresco had more thought put into it. This app is way below expectations.

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Terrible. It’s an incomplete version of photoshop with far fewer features than Affinity Photo. Which makes the awful subscription price even worse—do not buy!

Really buggy. Don’t bother.. Very disappointed

Procreate does it better. I am greatly disappointed that after all this wait this is the result. Little to no features. Can’t even apply a simple Gaussian blur on my iPad Pro. Adobe needs to wake up. Will continue to use Procreate instead.

Not the PS I was looking for. Very limited functionality, far from the computer version. Disappointed. Going to get Affinity Photo while it’s on sale

Not the photoshop experience. I write this from the standpoint of a concept artist and illustrator with 4000+ hours on the pc version of the app. This current build of the app simply does not give me the tools i need to effectively create paintings and drawings that i would make on the pc version of the app. The tools i would need for this to be the “real photoshop experience” would be : 1. The Brush tool library window, the brush tool in the current build lacks the ability to have your brushes present on the screen while working it is hidden behind a press and hold which really slows down workflow. The brush tool library window also hosts a settings window to adjust brushes you are using and though the current build has a version of this it is very... very slimmed down... I want all the brush settings available on the pc build, key ones being colour dynamics, spacing, rotation modification. I may not be correct on this but i was unable to find the place to upload my brush.abr file so as far as i know on this version i am not able to use my brushes. 2. Missing key tools for my workflow Like the Wet paint mixer tool, Smudge tool, liquify filter, gradient maps and image adjustment directory from things like hue + saturation, brightness and contrast + the adjustment window for colour balance and a bunch of other tools. These are key tools of the photoshop experience in terms of my workflow and without them this app doesn’t standout for digital painters. 3. Many of the quality of life features that have been shaped from the many updates of the program have just been scrapped for this version of photoshop. The reimagined layer ui simply doesn’t hit its mark for veteran users in my option it’s given way to much screen priority, being the whole right side of the screen.... all the features are spread way to far apart, testing blending modes takes way to long especially if you want to play around with the order of different blending modes stacked on top of each other. Doing things like deleting a layer is also hidden behind a button. I understand the priority on touch for this version of the app but the layers window was... a big let down. I was happy to see that keyboard commands were in this app unlike adobe fresco but it seems many of the modifier commands and ease of access commands are no longer present + re mapping keyboard commands or re mapping the (new)Apple Pencil button is not a feature. I really like to use a Bluetooth keyboard on the iPad i think it would be a great quality of life feature for veteran users of the program to have 100% of the commands that the desktop version has from simple commands like Control + T for transformations to holding a modifier key to go into free transform mode or having the lasso tool switch from free lasso to polygonal with the touch of a modifier key while in a selection + the ability to map horizontal canvas flip to a button. Catering to keyboard users may not be the intended vision of photoshop on the iPad but I would need to have these options at least given in some form of gesture control ~especially the toggling free form to polygonal lasso (procreate has a really intuitive lasso tool for pen only input for example.) All of these quality of life features add up to give users a “authentic photoshop experience” if adobe were to add these features they would be holding up to the promise they made in that press demo held just under a year ago. These features would make this app into the definitive drawing app for iPad . These features would bring veterans to iPad .. and have them stay. while also helping new artists learn industry standard software helping them transition to desktop. For now this feels like a really bare bones photoshop essentials, without even colour correction tools i could see photographers not even having much use for this app. In the current build I cant recommend this app (even for hobbyists there are better digital painting apps on the iPad) , it confuses me that adobe is trying so hard to innovate for a touch only experience but doesn’t seem to take any inspiration from the leading apps on the platform. i am hopeful that changes can come... for now I will recommend infinity painter (being the closest thing to a photoshop digital painting experience ) , csp (a seamless pc to iPad transition...for keyboard users) & procreate ( a intuitive and powerful tool with a few bothersome quirks ) for this device.

Crashing. Can’t even try it just keeps crashing. I pay for adobe every month for the last 3 years and can’t even try the photoshop app. Disappointing

Can’t Use 3rd Party Stylus. If you’re not using a real Apple Pencil or your finger, you can’t see the line your drawing until you stop drawing it. It works fine in other apps, I’ve been using this stylus to write notes in class without issue, so the fact that it doesn’t work, feels like a choice. I understand that a cheaper stylus lacks some features, but it’s capable of drawing a line, it doesn’t have to be a fancy line that varies in thickness, I just want a line that I can see as I draw it. I love photoshop, this just makes it unusable for me.

Not even half baked yet. It’s powerful enough to open large, multi-layered documents but lacks many of the basic tools to do anything with this power other than the very basic. Not even a pen tool? Doesn’t the iPad version of Illustrator already have that function?

Ok well. So I have to start a subscription to use this app. That’s already enough for me to not buy this and just stick with procreate.

Don’t buy this app until they deliver the updates that they’ve promised!. Too many people have been paying the monthly charges since 2019 for a Photoshop iPad app with the promise that it will soon be as good as the desktop version. We’re nearly halfway into 2021 and it’s not even close! They always have the same “Coming soon” descriptions but don’t hold your breath because it’s not happening!

hot garbage. use LITERALLY any other program, do not get sucked in because of it being industry standard, theres cheaper and better alternatives

Terrible and subscription based. This app just doesn’t work, let alone the subscription model. Don’t waste your time and money.

Is this a joke?. Where’s the rest of the app? Two filters!? Why would anyone choose to use this when Affinity Photo or ArtStudio pro provide many, many more features for much less money.

Are you kidding me?. I can’t use for free Just free download this app!

Not what I would expect from Adobe. This is far from a full version of photoshop. I was expecting way more from Adobe. I will stick with Afinity Photo for now.

Photoshop in name only. If you get this thinking you’ll be receiving anything remotely resembling the desktop Photoshop experience, hold on to your hats folks...it’s a doozy. Countless missing features, terrible brush engine, unintuitive UI, subscription model...and that’s just off the top of my head. Adobe thinks they are still the best in the business when it comes to high-end professional photo editing and digital painting programs. With much better alternatives like Procreate, and the Affinity suite, don’t bother with this until they do a serious overhaul. Very disappointing.

Disappointing. It won’t let me import my Art that I made in procreate even when I save it as a psd file.

It good. It good

No RAW support. I made it as far as importing a RAW file and getting the error it was unsupported. Are. You. Kidding. Me... What’s the point of this app then?

suks..... suks....

Definitely not a desktop experience. Was super excited to try out a fully-featured Photoshop on the iPad (in fact, it’s part of the reason why I bought my iPad Pro in the first place). Unfortunately this version is extremely lacking in features. Simple things like being able to select an area and set a stroke with the selection, drawing and manipulating shapes, decent brush support, filters, and probably many other features I don’t regularly use are missing. There is no way I would ever be able to do my current workflow with this app. Very disappointed, so much that this is the first time (at least that I can remember) that I’ve ever left a negative review on the App Store. Would have been better to delay it for a few months than to release whatever this is supposed to be, because it definitely isn’t the full desktop experience we were promised.

Don’t work. Just don’t work...不能用，登录后一直显示网络错误。

Not ready!. It’s just not photoshop. Not at all. So many elements missing. A huge let down from Adobe. Blows my mind considering how much they rob their customers. They have way too much money and still can’t make a decent app for the iPad. Very disappointed.

Seems lacking. It seems to be missing the most basic of features. E.g. Filters not implemented. They have the nerve to ask for a monthly subscription? I have news for you guys... Buy Affinity Photo instead. It’s not a rental, and it’s fully featured.

Worse than giving us nothing. Why in the world would they preview the app and call it “real photoshop” and this deliver this less then half assed attempt? Every feature I would need to use is missing. Layer effects, adjustments, almost all filters. Who in the world is going to find use in this? There are much better alternatives on the App Store for years. A huge company like adobe takes 8 years to deliver this? All the more reason I cut back my subscription from the full plan to the basics. Even now I think I am going to ditch desktop photoshop since this iPad one turned out so useless.

Totally deserves 0. i decided to check this out, thinking that the negative reviews weren’t true, but turns out ITS ALL TRUE. the app charges you. I THOUGHT THIS WAS FREE. so don’t bother with downloading this.

Not ready whatsoever.... This is pretty much a proof of concept app. Most features say “this feature is not supported by this device yet’. You also can’t even make a transparent gradient. Stick with Procreate if you want to illustrate. This is not ready for prime time at all.

STILL can’t add basic features we want!. It’s 2023… it’s been 4 years and I still can’t add basic things like stroking a selection or a drop shadow. Sure there are long ways around this, but after 4 years it’s still missing a LOT of features that other art and/or photo programs have already incorporated.

Are you kidding me?. I heard some bad things about the beta but did not expect it to be this bad. Seriously adobe... what the heck? Affinity photo and even art studio pro is beating you with features and quality. And they don’t require an outrageous subscription. There is soooo much missing. There is no excuse for this after waiting over a year for this. Your company must be embarrassed.

More hands on tutorials please!. The hands on format is great. Loved learning tricks with it on the desktop version. Please bring more to the iPad version.

Cmyk and AI. I would like to see the ability to make cmyk color mode documents on iPad. Also it would be nice to add ai and generative fill on the iPad

A Shell of its Desktop version. I recently purchased an iPad Pro as my old laptop could no longer run photoshop properly. I was very disappointed to see that majority of the features I used in the desktop version are not available. I’m now regretting buying an iPad Pro to use as my main editing device as I’m quite constrained with so many missing features in Photoshop for iPad. Hoping eventually that all features in the desktop version are made available here but I feel that my iPad Pro will be 10 years old by the time that comes true.

Two reviews in one!. #1. The ‘Since I Already Have a Creative Cloud Subscription’ Review... ...this is kind of free for me so I would give it a 3 star rating *** and say... ‘I would need transform warp to really find any use for it and even then I would still export to Procreate for finishing as it is pretty limited and not nearly as smooth for navigation. Procreate is the best for Painting and probably always will be on iOS, regardless of how many updates Photoshop gets but the two together may grow to be an interesting partnership. #2. The ‘If I Didn’t Have a Creative Cloud Subscription Already and Was Just On iOS’ review... OMG, just get Affinity Photo and Procreate and save a load of money. Maybe in a couple years Photoshop will be worth it, but it isn’t remotely worth the price now. What was Adobe thinking? This is a flop. Talk about riding your name. Nerd rage etc ... *

Was really excited and but let down.. I really wanted this to be a full featured app but it’s half baked at best. I wouldn’t have put the Adobe Photoshop name to it. I don’t know if I would even call it Adobe Photoshop lite. I’ll stick with Affinity for now. Much, much better product.

Can’t even get it started. Reports that it can’t connect to Adobe’s servers and to try again later!

Unbearable crashing. Files crash every time I try to save. If I could break it, I would.

Where is select source for healing brush?. I’m very disappointed that the select source for the healing brush isn’t available in this ipad version. Since I was planning on using this app to retouch skin, not having the ability to select the source of the healing brush makes keeping original skin texture impossible. Hopefully they fix this in the next version, but for now, this software is useless for me. Not everyone only does photo composition with Photoshop. Time for adobe to consult with real working photographers that use photoshop for a living.

Not the photoshop I was expecting. So I got this iPad Pro 12.9 for the reason of replacing a laptop and expecting the full photoshop for the iPad, and this is what we get?? The subsciption price is ridiculous for the amount of missing features that missing compared to the pc/Mac version. All that wait...for this. I cant express enough my frustration and disappointment for this product. This is something I use everyday for photography and I am appalled at the quality and features of this product. Don’t be greedy, the subscription is just ridiculous.

Wow....absolute trash. I’ll tell you why.. The typical responses you see talk about a lack of features and functionality. Those are all true. So I don’t need to repeat them. This is barebones and has fewer photoshop desktop features than competitor apps on the App Store. But here’s the BIG HUGE PROBLEM. This is actually based on the desktop code. Which means....single threaded. I opened up a roughly 7000x4000 pixel PSD file. 105MB. About 150 layers. I tried doing something as simple as resizing one object. It chugged along at a nice 5-10fps. I did the same thing with affinity photo, and it was running at a solid 60-120fps. I can’t tell exactly. But it’s instantaneous and buttery smooth. This is on a 2018 iPad Pro 1TB with 6gb ram. I have procreate, I have affinity photo, and I have an adobe creative cloud subscription. I can tell you that due to the core design flaws in this app, it can never replace our existing apps. I was hoping the iPad app would mean reworking the engine to allow proper multi-core workload distribution that would then trickle down to the desktop app. But no...this is just as plagued as desktop photoshop when it comes to multi-threaded support. Very sad. Very garbage.

It’s okay.. It’s definitely useful and good for many things, but damn, is it ever buggy sometimes. I also wish it would have launched with more features in line with the actual computer software version. I still use it very frequently and am rooting for the improvement of this app!

Common…. This app has made me realize that I’d rather feel frustrated on a daily basis and lose a whole bunch of time, than learning a new interface. Not even the ones deep into Photoshop can find this app enjoyable to use, but it’s free and familiar I guess… I don’t understand why Adobe isn’t taking this product seriously, the competition is good, and it is VERY affordable. I also don’t get the 4.2 star rating, there is no way…

Horrible. Like it cost money to not sigh up like it’s dumb 😡😡😡😡

Menu???. I just want a visible menu instead of trying to figure out how to paste things.

Paywall before you can even try something. To force a 1 month trial on a product that is for all purposes pre-release alpha is literally offensive. Of COURSE I won’t waste my trial on something you guys KNOW isn’t ready. Give a year of this away for free and watch what gets used, adopted and requested - since you’ve clearly stated that it will be a long path until it will become a fully-featured product that can take place is an artists’s daily workflow. But to paywall this and ask for a whopping additional $15/mo for a nowhere-close-to-ready product is just a surefire way to both build resentment and block off all your valuable usage feedback which an alpha product at this stage critically requires. Horrible product management / business leadership decision-making!

Wont even let me use. Whenever I tap on the app it immediately kicks me out. 🙄🙄

Less features. Overpriced for features available

I’m sorry, why?. I can’t see if the app is good or not, because I have to pay for a subscription first. How do I know I wont be paying money for something that is no good? At least let us test it out first please! Thank you.

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Bad and good. There is a lot of good basic features that this app has that are fun. But there are so many others that I am confused as to why they are in by default. 1) pen tool. How is that NOT in this app already. It is a tool that everyone uses and there is a really nice simple version the desktop version has that this iPad app could use. 2) shape tool. This is something that I would so much in this app for making custom backdrops for my compositing. But sadly it isn’t in here and it make it harder to do things on the go. Please update this app with some features that make photoshop easier to use. These are my top picks personally. Not sure what the community would say though

One way ticket. Photoshop on an iPad Pro works very well, although I’m mainly interested in editing RAW files using ACR. I load RAW files from my camera to the iPad when traveling and it’s great to be able to use ACR with the same features as the desktop version of ACR. That’s where the joy ends. There is no way to get your RAW files back to the desktop with your ACR edits in place to continue editing. There are no .XMP files. Your edits stay on the iPad and you have to start over and re-edit. If you intend to do all your editing on the iPad and never go back to a PC then I would give this a highly recommended. If the iPad is a mobile solution while on the road, but you need to work in the desktop version back home, I give this application zero stars.

This app is SO bad..... Professional working artist here. I’m sorry, Adobe you should have waited for this product release. Half the tools don’t work like normal photoshop, I have to stop everything to sample colors, to resize brushes, adjust pressure sensitivity, on and on and on. There is no continuous work flow what so ever. Using this app is physically infuriating. I like adobe products. Adobe draw is better than photoshop! I’m very disappointed in this product... From trying to wrestle with this program for 3 hours with only cringe, I can absolutely tell you had no artists on staff, consulting or testing of this product. I gave it one star because it did open and run. This is the equivalent of a basic drawing app for kids but FAR FAR from the professional tool on computer and it pains me to say that. I really hope you read this review and hire some artists to use this app and show you what’s wrong!

Definitely better than the mobile version. The title isn’t hyperbole, but I definitely wish it had more of the features that come with the desktop version - while I feel freed by the mobility of my iPad, I feel somewhat restricted by the app. As a suggestion: I’d love it if all of the brushes I’ve made on my desktop would sync to my account so that when I boot up my iPad’s version, all my brushes would be there. Now I’m having to re-make all of them by scratch. I only have a few dozen for my photography, but I’m sure those who use this program for something like graphic design or just general art would have much more than me and would be thereby furious by this.

does a lot well; needs support for legacy mobile apps. Adobe: Please build support for your legacy mobile apps’ (Sketch, Draw) file formats into the current iPad versions of Photoshop and Illustrator. When I’m on the go without my main computer, it’s frustrating that I can’t open my .gem files for conversion to .psdc or .aic. Being able to access and edit these old formats without using a computer (since those formats’ apps were never desktop apps anyways) would be greatly appreciated. Or bring back Draw and Sketch for CC subscribers so we can update and convert the legacy files. CC subscriber all apps

Shuts down every 5 minutes. I’ve used other Adobe apps and I think they are awesome, which is why I didn’t expect to have such a problem with this one. Honestly, the biggest problem is that it shuts down about every 5 minutes. I can’t get it to stay running long enough to learn to do anything. I don’t know if there is anything else that needs work on the program because I can’t keep it running long enough to find out. I’m on an iPad Pro and it is less than two weeks old (aka brand new), and the system is updated. I cannot understand why this app won’t work. It is the only app I have found that constantly shuts down like this. In fact, no other app has crashed on me even once. I had hoped to use the free month to learn how to use Photoshop and if I like it or not, but I’m going to go ahead and cancel it because I just can’t use it.

Extortion at its best. For such a renowned product why is it I’m being forced to give my cc(credit card) information first in order to have access to a free trial witch in turn is for short period of time and I’m robbed of the option of making a choice but forced into having to make an abrupt purchase without knowing the full extent of this app and there is no option of a payment but again being forced into a monthly fee after a short trial of the app that automatically charges you after it’s up witch is unfair to the consumer but is strong armed into purchase....so therefore I cannot give a review any kind good or bad and this point it’s only a bad review because I’m locked out of even being able to try the app without giving my credit card info....so I must state the facts I give this app an negative 5 stars due to inaccessibility to make any decision to purchase the app at all....definitely not good business

Versatility Lacking. I realize only so much can be crammed into the iPad version of PS, so take what I say with a grain of salt: The inability to fine tune a brush is almost a deal breaker for me. I have to switch between apps to draw/edit, where I prefer to work in only one, and it’s looking more and more like PS still isn’t the one. I can edit brushes in Procreate and Clip Studio to where I need them to be, but a brush I export from desktop PS isn’t behaving the same way, and I only have a few choices to tweak what I have. I can’t mess with tilt, grain, texture, etc. If somehow I can, it is super hidden and I’m not clever enough to find it. Please make it possible to make/build a brush on my iPad version of PS, and tweak/fine tune what brushes I import and start with. Thank you.

Update says it’s fixed I still can’t login! Authentication Error. Update says it’s fixed I still can’t login! Authentication Error UNINSTALLED !!!!? There’s better apps out there that I own and don’t have to pay a subscription for! When Adobe switched to a Subscription only format I went somewhere else! It’s just a way to milk people out of money! I work in places that don’t have internet and probably will never have it for the duration of human existence (yes I believe we have ruined the earth and it’s past any long term hope for us!) I’m a Cyberlink customer now until they get greedy like adobe and I will move on again Cyberlink does have software you can buy without a subscription still and it may not be on the level of Adobe but it’s close enough for drone and dslr photography.

Late bloomer over here. I don’t know how to describe the issues I’m having. Primarily, the interface is cryptically sparse. I want “File” and “Edit” back and the type tool is a nightmare to work with. Can you not copy and paste text from elsewhere into a text layer? Also, why is it that when you want to turn your art board, it rotates the opposite direction? I feel like photoshop thinks it’s helping me but it’s more or less aggravating. Seriously though, that type tool is awful. An edit that should have taken 20 minutes tops turned into two hours. I use clip studio mostly for illustration and it at least feels more like the traditional desktop versions of photoshop. Though I can’t do type. Also guides to snap to rulers; where do I find guides and rulers? You guys need a call center. Those FAQ community things never help.

“Personal Accounts are not supported”. Sorry, what? I pay $50/month for a Creative Cloud sub. You’re telling me that, for 600 dollars a year, I can’t have access to a second-rate version of software the premium version of which I already pay for? I could possibly understand “Desktop Photoshop is years old, abandonware, and it makes sense to pay to support further development of the iOS version.” But that’s not the case. UPDATE: for some reason now I can log in. But the first brush I tried, “Animator’s Pencil”, has bad lag drawing on a 1920p canvas at 72dpi. With ONE LAYER, a WHITE BACKGROUND, and in the first five strokes. Is there a timeline feature on this piece of junk app? Why have an animator’s pencil then? Why have an app at all if it’s not 1/10th as good as Procreate, a one-time payment of 10 bucks or less? This is a worse move than not releasing an iOS version at all.

Good but needs Improvements.. Could use more features and 9.99 for CC was a good move. Photoshop became more affordable for their subscription service but also when more features are added it’s going to be a very valuable product. What people don’t realize is that this is v1 of the software and it will be a product built on feedback. But unlike other mobile software it’s good that they didn’t release a buggy mess that crashes all the Layer styles, sharpening tools , fix filters, more customizable interfaces and tools would be great. Would love the ability to import and export fonts but also those awesome color swatches.

How is this taking so long. Don’t understand why Adobe’s bajillion dollars couldn’t manage a competent very-late-to-the-party release, and slowly, after 15 months of ‘fixing bugs’, is still frustratingly prioritizing the wrong kinds of features (P2P collaboration and video tutorials before other core tools & effects?). No one needs the app to be ‘cool’, everyone needs functionality. It’s getting there, but Adobe execs should be embarrassed by their competitors’ solid offerings so many years before theirs. Loving Fresco, Aero and Capture for iPad, but your bread and butter apps (this and Illustrator) are in need of some extra resources/manpower. Props to the devs and designers, boooo to top-down rollout strategy & management lol 😞

iPad version not PC quality. It’s nice having some Photoshop capability on my iPad Pro, but I’m surprised that it’s clunky and incomplete. Must of the iPad site is this way. I just hope that this is because they’re very new, and that it’ll be more like I expect in the future. For example, you can open a file in what is labeled as “Cloud documents”, but it’s not your “Creative Cloud Documents”. If you created it on your iPad, you might be score to open it, but if it created it on your PC, you have to migrate the file to some other cloud storage if you want to access it here. I also don’t like that there’s no in-app feedback feature. Do you really want me to go over to the forum s and post all the issues?

Completely not worth the price.. Lacking basic features like warp, liquify, alpha locking, doesn’t seem to be able to even edit brushes, amongst numerous other complaints I could think of. As a whole, the app is awful not only it is not impressive by any metric, combined with its asking price. It just falls flat. Mind you this is created by a multi-billion dollar company. Yet there are apps made by a single person/small team that run circles. If you want something good. Procreate, Infinite Painter, Art Studio Pro, iArt Book. If you don’t want to spend a dime. MediBang Paint is the way to go. If you are into comics/animation. and don’t mind a subscription but want something competent and feature rich, Clip Studio Paint. It just baffles me despite all the time passed that this app is lacking so much. Both photoshop and fresco are a hard pass. I thought maybe after enough time passed things would be better, nope. Feels like a significant downgrade from free apps/apps that ask no more than 10 bucks as a 1 time life time payment vs this hyper over priced app. If it was 5 bucks, my opinion would be a little bit more forgiving but it is the price that is ultimately what makes this app garbage.

Good start. Lacking features.. First up, I have to clarify: the subscription model. If you have a subscription to Adobe CC, you can log in and use this app, no purchase necessary. What do people expect? A full Photoshop program for free? But is it really *full* Photoshop? No. I hope that one day it is, but as of now, it isn’t. It’s missing basic features like shapes, color channels, paths, path masks, color libraries, and many more. From the list of upcoming features, I hope it has them in the future. Now I’ll tie those both together. If you already have a CC subscription for work, personal, etc., then what do you have to lose by getting this completely free app? It’s lacking features and you should know that, but you’re not losing anything by having it, and it will be updated in the future, hopefully. Do you want something that does more without having a CC subscription, though? Or even with one if you want to work on iPad? Get Affinity or one of the many many other similar apps on the App Store. Bottom line: don’t complain if you expected Photoshop for free or feel like you are losing anything at all by using this with an existing subscription that includes the real, desktop Photoshop.

From zero to CD cover. The music was done, the packaging selected and the distribution date set. Then my graphics designer took another full time job the day before we boarded a boat for a week long cruise. At our hotel, I downloaded the Photoshop for iPad app, the printer’s templates some pictures I wanted to use and watched a couple of tutorials. Then we boarded the ship. In 4 days, I completed the artwork for the 4 panel cover, 16 page booklet and the disc image. Working with image masks and layers was a foreign concept before that week. I may not ever be a master designer but my CD will be ready in time for my release date and I am very happy with the graphics. Maybe now I will design a tee shirt to sell at gigs!

Immensely Disappointing. Honestly I had my hopes for the functionality for this app, however having spent a significant amount of time with it I feel that Adobe has really dropped the ball on this. I do understand that this is not a “full” version and updates will roll out new features, however why they would release it without any grids or guides is beyond me. Still to this day it has not been added. Simple tools for blur and proper blending are absent which makes no since since many other photo editing apps come with those functions. I would love to use this app to do most of my work but the process of moving back and forth between this and my computer makes it practically pointless. I’m locked into my subscription with Adobe so it only comes as salt to and open wound that a $10 one time purchase app like Procreate has more functionality and less bugs.

Price is pretty high... So I’ve always wanted PS. When I finally found it on iPad, I asked my mom if she could get it. She did get it, but we checked how much the subscription was, and we were shocked by the price! I personally think you should lower the prices at least by a bit. You know, like a dollar less, maybe. One of my dreams is to have an Insta account and post a lot of pictures. And I’m not doing that without some type of editing. NO. WAY. Hmm. I sound kinda bratty. Meh. Anyway, there are a lot of people who want to have PS but can not afford the subscription. So i think you should lower it, at least by a lil bit.

So far so good. I saw a lot of hate for this app on those “initial thoughts” videos and. I totally see that it’s not as robust as the desktop version. For some who is really really good at photoshop, this app probably won’t make you happy. However if you’re like me and you jerry rig your image editing like you’re using a glorified version of MS Paint, this app works great. Some guy was really disappointed that they couldn’t rotate the image but locking the screen and rotating the iPad was an acceptable workaround for me xD There are also a lot of resources on how to best use the app which were pretty illuminating. I’m sure it’ll only get better and this is a great start

Apple Pencil with Photoshop is a game changer!. I have used the desktop app for 23 years now and have always loved Photoshop. I have been using iPad version for several weeks now. At first, I was struggling doing even those most basic things but after watching a few tutorials, I have learned what I need to do. The ability to use the Apple Pencil is powerful. I can do so many things now that I could never do on the desktop. There are still a few things that either aren’t available or I haven’t learned how to do them but am enjoying learning all the tricks.

Shameful. The glorious days of Adobe spearheading the area of digital image editing are well over. It’s shameful that a company with that level of resources would put out such a mediocre product. This doesn’t even have 20% of the features included in the desktop version of Photoshop. And I won’t even mention the outrageous price, which makes this “Photoshop” an outrageous scam. Sure, Procreate blows this one out of the water. But you don’t even have to go there. Simply buy Art Studio Pro instead, and for a 15$ flat fee, you get a powerful, stable, fully featured software that would even give the desktop version of Photoshop a run for its money. I would even argue that it flat out beats Procreate in many areas. But you don’t have to take my word. You can try for yourself the free version. I was hoping that Adobe would love up to its reputation but this is an insult to this venerable company.

Could be better. I just purchased an iPad Pro and am completely in love with it. It makes my retouching so just faster and easier. Especially using Lightroom. I was really excited about photoshop coming to the iPad, however, I am a bit underwhelmed. I wish it were more like the computer version, as I usually love dodging and burning my photos. I’d also want to add my filters and such so. I think people are taking it too far by putting 0 stars because the app is still a great tool, especially for cloning and cleaning up blemishes with the Apple Pencil. Hopefully, with the next update, more features will come out. People must remember that this is still new and they are continuing to work on it.

Not Full Photoshop as Promised. Just look at the program size, it is only 208MB. This application is crippled compared to Affinity and Art Studio Pro. It is a bandaid that came way too late. The only thing it potentially offers is creative cloud sync, but this is not that useful besides fonts. I’m sure this will hit the mark for a few people, but as someone with an Adobe CC subscription, I won’t be using this one. If you don’t have a subscription, then the price is absurd. Even for $9.99 permanently, it is still overpriced compared to the competition. You are much better off just buying Affinity Photo and Designer, then Art Studio Pro (more PS like than the official PS app), and maybe Procreate if you like that one. The entire Adobe strategy of half-baking dozens of apps is sad. They should have put all efforts into mobile photoshop since the first iPad, but they didn’t.

Beautiful, but unfinished. I’ve been using Photoshop mobile with Fresco for a few weeks now. I can sense that the Adobe designers are putting a lot of love and care into these two apps. The stuff that works is really cool. But, there are still essential elements missing. In fact, I would say these two iOS art tools, combined, are about 85% complete. Once finished, however, these apps will surely blow all other iOS drawing programs out of the water. Yet, Adobe is charging me a premium price for the monthly subscription, right now—for unfinished products. So, I’ll give them 85% of a top rating until Adobe pushes out the rest of the functionality. Then I’ll give them 5 stars.

Exactly what I expected. This app is exactly what I expected it to be; an unfinished version that they had to put out early to get feedback from the users and make subsequent updates. People expecting this version to be desktop quality Photoshop is what seems to have caused a lot of the negative reviews. The app is not finished yet and I don’t expect it to be for about a year after this, until then Procreate will keep its spot at the top so if you’re looking for a fully finished app go for that. When this app is more finished I think this will be able to be in competition with Procreate and have better support via Adobe.

Booo… Sub Model RUINED PHOTOSHOP!!!. I’m in my late 30s… I’ve been using photoshop since it was very first released to the public. I’ve paid for different versions over time, and I’ve paid!!! This new subscription model where you have to keep paying for life, and you never “own” it… this is the problem with all of these new subscription model corporate pay schemes. And if you signup on their site you’re locking in a non-breakable contract somehow??? You used to be able to open the app up, do a few things, play around a bit before you were forced to give them more money, now it just loads the sub page. This is absolutely crazy… I will no longer use Adobe products whenever possible, as they’ve taken advantage of their users for far too long now. Buh Bye!!!

WHY YOU WANT ALLOW CANCELLATIONS. I am so tired of getting the run around. I cancelled my this the same day I signed up. I haven’t used it at all. I keep getting the run around from Apple sending me links that go no where. The product doesn’t give cancellation options anymore. I even emailed removed my credit card information & I am still getting charged. I just want want this cancelled please. I am so tired of asking for a simple cancellation I know a refund is out of the question. Since I am having no luck I am going to contact my credit card company & cancel my card which is a pain cause I have automatic payments that I do want to be deducted. Thanks so much expected better from a multimillion dollar company. Just no customer service anymore.

False advertising, missing important features. App has placeholders for things that, not only should be standard tools, but they even go so far as to say “this feature not yet supported on mobile.” What’s the point of having it there for months on end and never actually add the features? No custom brushes is another major feature completely missing from this version of Photoshop... Even more, the “Express” Photoshop apps have features that even this dedicated Ps app is missing. What a joke, especially given the pricing of the app as a monthly subscription. What am I paying $120+ a year for?

Not only crashes but doesn’t save. Program crashes repeatedly with almost any action and the auto-save is either not working or set to save at a long interval. In trying to use quick select (or select subject) I crashed 5-6 times in less than 10 minutes and at no time were my edits up to that point saved. That’s right, I started from scratch each time. I’m going to stick with the desktop version for now until Adobe gets it together with this app - surprised to find such a buggy app from Adobe _ I subscribe to Creative Cloud and normally am very happy with the quality of performance. Take your time Adobe and don’t rush to get these tablet/pad apps out - it only takes a short amount of time to tarnish the gleaming reputation you labored to build over decades...

Very noob friendly. I still don’t know what I’m doing, but I can completely edit out things that would ruin an otherwise fantastic photo of my cat. The tutorials are on useful things to learn for beginners and very easy to follow. I get endless compliments on photos I share on social media, often after a simple crop and using the “Auto” button in Lr and removing unwanted imperfections in Ps. If you really want to improve your photography hobby or family photos, Adobe CC with Lightroom and Photoshop are a no-brainer. HIGHLY RECOMMEND

Have no issues with this app. I have been using Photoshop on my computer for upwards of three years now, and I will say that Adobe has translated the power of the app to the iPad very well. Even with me using a rather antiquated iPad (I think it’s a Pro from around 2016,) it runs fine. My only gripe is that sometimes it lags or freezes up, but that also happens to me on several other apps not from Adobe as well, so I will put that up to my iPad being old. In short: If you’re doing graphic design on the go, I’d recommend this app for those in the Adobe scene.

Almost wish I could rate 0 stars. This app is LITERALLY so desperate for people’s money and information, that you can’t spend one second on the home page with out getting prompted for money. Basically what I’m saying is that as soon as you get in you have to pay $9.99 a month for something you have had ZERO time to use. You have absolutely NO CLUE. NO CLUE AT ALL if the app is going to be good or not. I’m really surprised this app is “editor’s choice” because to me it’s more like a choice of losing your money or just deleting the app altogether. Now you may ask..how are they stealing information? Well I forgot to mention that you are asked to sign in or sign up if you don’t want the “FREE TRIAL.” This means giving away your PRIVATE information to an app you already know can’t be trusted. I really am surprised by how this app even 2.1 stars as a rating. To me it should be 1 star. I guess you can’t always trust an app that’s Editor’s Choice.

Returning. After retiring, I returned to photography for many reasons. I freelance now as a Damage Consultant, and various levels of photography is utilized everyday. I also have clients who hire me for different events like Car Shows, Street Art events, and occasionally food shots. 80% of my edit are on an iPad, where I was only able to use Affinity. However, when I found that PS was to become available for the iPad, I asked questions, researched for bugs, and went ahead and downloaded. Where I failed to realize is that the program will not open RAW files. Very disappointing. All I shoot is RAW. Affinity has a full feature program that opens any of the RAW files I load. So I ask, when will you come to the plate, and add the RAW file converter?

Humble Beginnings. I am underwhelmed by the debut of “full Photoshop for the iPad”, however, I have a strong feeling that this program, thru it’s updates, will eventually far surpass anything out there, including ProCreate. But not yet. So far, in comparison to ProCreate and Autodesk Sketchbook, Photoshop feels like Microsoft Paint. At $10/month, that is pretty steep for its current functionality, but I believe I will keep my subscription as a show of good faith. I adore Adobe, I have been neglecting my education in programs like ProCreate because of this highly touted release of Photoshop for IPad, so I am going to stay the course. So, chop chop, Adobe! 🤗 we have art to create!

App keeps crashing and not saving my work!!!. I am getting to the point where I am about to delete this app for good! I can NOT work more than 5 minutes (at the most!!) before the App crashes, and I lose EVERYTHING!!!! If I try to save my work, it crashes.... Doesn’t save... If I restart the app, my work is not there, instead a white square. I have wasted so much time and research as to why this keep happening, and NOTHING is working!! I have gone to the Adobe FAQ, and did exactly what others swear up and down works, and nothing! My stock photos that I purchased are loading so pixilated, you can’t tell what they are!! And these are adobe stock images! I depend on adobe so that I can do my job, and after I have wasted over 30+ stock image credits, and time wasted on research, this has ended up costing me to lose a few clients... So beyond frustrated......

Why just why?. Ok so this cost money on computer so I thought maybe it wouldn’t here because it said the app was free. It said in app purchases but I thought maybe you could buy stuff. Nope. You download it for nothing absolutely nothing. Because right when you sign up or log in, you can’t use the app without buying the subscription. You may think I’m saying this because the app is limited, but no. I’m serious. If you don’t believe me waste your time and download it. To the developers, why make the app free if you can even use it without paying money? Back to the review. I gave it one star because it is a truly amazing editing app. How I know this, my friend has it. But only one because of what I spoke of in my review. Thank you for taking the time to read this.

Almost great. I love the fact that I can perform most illustration tasks in the photoshop app on my ipad pro. The stalling however is the main annoying factor. I literally have 2 TB of storage and close all other apps while using the app. When painting large areas, I use the lasso and paint bucket tools to save time and not overload the app with so many brush strokes. However, when adding highlights and shading there is always a stall. Overall, the workflow is amazing. I miss a few bells and whistles from the full version but this is a great companion when on the go or if you don’t have a pro drawing tablet. I highly recommend this app.

Error loading files. Like some of the other reviews I have use Photoshop on desktop for many years and was very excited for this to come out on the iPad. It was a major part of me buying the iPad in the first place. Unfortunately, I was never able to download any of my pictures into the program due to the files not being supported. I was unable to find any information online to help me which I found surprising and suspicious. I did however find a few forums where people had given their own work arounds which in the end was much more time-consuming than just downloading one of the many free apps that do the exact same thing plus much more. I do agree with many of the other reviews that adobe has pushed this out much sooner than it should have been and as a result I will be deleting the app and canceling my membership.

Waste of Time. Adobe, what is this? Designer and long time user of your products here. I was expecting a full port of the desktop version of PS, instead we received something subpar to MS Paint. I never write reviews, but since I was really looking forward to this product on the iPad Pro, the letdown is noteworthy. Adobe’s CC business model is release now, repair later. We the customers are basically the beta testers. In that case, Adobe needs to listen and give us what we want with your lofty subscription fee: An adapted, fully functional full version of the PS app. This could include at least a relatable layout to the desktop PS, with accessible features I don't have to dig for. If your users are trying to figure out a dumbed down version of a product they’ve been using for years, something’s wrong.

Very Basic. I’ve used Photoshop before. I’ve tried the desktop version and sometimes the shortcuts were useful but things like zooming in was something I actually had to look up to do. I thought the tablet version of PS would be better and more user friendly but as soon as I opened it it reminded me of those free drawing art apps you let your kid download so they have something to do. I’m using an iPad 6th gen and PS was laggy laggy laggy. That didn’t happen with Procreate. Hell you couldn’t even rotate the canvas at all on PS! Big turn off. I’ll stick with Procreate they understand their audience. People were jerry rigging animation with Procreate and now the newest update is going to have an option for animation and easier playback and even onion skinning that’s what I call listening to consumers.

Few features, hard to use. I’ve used photoshop for years. I know what the tools are and what the icons look like. The reorg they did for iPad meant that every time I needed to do something, I had to Google it to figure out where they put it. The last straw was trying to sharpen a photo. Google was no help. I contacted Adobe customer support, who said there was no record that I had a subscription at all, despite charging me $9.99 a month. Then the rep told me the sharpen tool was under settings. It wasn’t. Then she told me there wasn’t a sharpen tool. She obviously was Googling, too, because I found that same contradiction in my searches. I gave up and canceled my subscription. TL:dr - It’s really hard to find what few tools there are, it’s expensive, and support is dismal.

Lifelong Adobe customer, very, very disappointed.. I’m on an iPad 5th gen with pencil. This app is crazy buggy. Have to restart constantly. Have to delete and reload app fairly frequently. For a premium app from a known company on the latest hardware it’s a shockingly bad experience. Doesn’t offer guides, rulers, or any polygonal lasso. No way to make a straight line or constrained angles selection. Doesn’t have a snap feature other than snap to grid. Disappointing. But the constant crashes and black screen on app launch that happen every time I use this app are what finally got me here to review today. Super frustrating. Honestly I would switch completely from Adobe if that were possible, that is how betrayed I feel. If you can, look elsewhere.

Charged me for annual sub, instead of monthly I chose. I am an extremely tight-budgeted poor college student, So I KNOW I chose monthly subscription. But no help for me. Just sitting here with an overdrawn account I’m gonna get charged again for because Apple decided to F me over and give me a subscription that I can’t get a refund for or change until NEXT YEAR. I wanted to try it to appease my GF’s wishes of me taking my art somewhere, but man I should’ve known apple would do this to someone. First and LAST time I will ever buy, use, or own an apple product. Selling this iPad next week. I’d give zero stars if I could. So many hidden fees and its so impossibly difficult to find actual support. It’s like they try to give you the run-around so you just give up on trying to get a refund.

A great start that’ll keep getting better.. Bringing Photoshop to the iPad is a humongous effort and most other reviewers are hating because it isn’t “full Photoshop”. What most people don’t understand is that this is an MVP (minimum viable product) that needs to be iterated on over time. If it wasn’t built in this manner, Photoshop for iPad wouldn’t be released for another 3 to 4 years. By then, they’d still be missing features that have been added since they started this effort. I have a lot of respect for they Adobe team for releasing this without any bugs and by fully integrating it with the iPad’s interface and tools (like the Apple Pencil). I’m looking forward to releases in the future.

Late and not like Ps on desktop. I bought iPad Pro because they advertised that they’re going to release photoshop on ipad that’s gonna have all the function that a photoshop on laptop has and it will be able to do the same thing. But turns out this photoshop app release a year later than since the ipad is launch. If you’re gonna advertise something make sure users can use it when they get the product. Not one year later. And I was so disappointed to find out that it doesn’t even do Harf of the things a full version can do. User interface is confusing. Does have even half of the tool real Ps has. And the price is too expensive. 9 dollars per month for subscription for an application that can do the same thing or less things than other free app.

awful. i got the app because my computers broken and i need to use photoshop for work, so i thought this would be a good idea. it wasn’t. ignoring the price, this isn’t even a full version of photoshop. it’s photoshop lite, and you still have to pay for it ( >:( ). also the ui is ATROCIOUS. nothing is clearly labeled or laid out, which doesn’t make sense to me. why not just translate the desktop layout to mobile??? features are hidden in different, obscure places and many of the icons that hide them are not intuitive to understand, if that makes sense. (for example, you can’t tap on a layer to edit it or make it a clipping layer, you have to click on the icon with the three dots on the bottom right hand side.) this app a mess. it’s clunky, expensive, and confusing.

Half Great, Half Baked. Photoshop is finally here on iPads, and it’s a mixed bag. Features coming eventually doesn’t bother me so much, most of the features I use are here, it’s the smaller things that bother me. Like, why when I resize my brushes, it represent the size of the brush if I was using my finger, and not the Apple Pen? Often times I have a massive brush size while the Apple Pen’s is significantly smaller than what’s represented. There’s no color swatches, and I couldn’t find a way to use my own color swatches that are saved on Adobe Cloud. As it is now, this version of Photoshop is more like a companion to your version on a desktop or Mac. Hopefully the missing features comes quickly to bring this version of Photoshop to the same level as the desktop version.

Disappointed with the lack of features on iPad. My 2011 MacBook Pro pretty much lost its ability to function in this decade, so instead of buying a new one, I opted for a brand new iPad Pro. I bought it with the largest capacity and all the fixings, got an Apple Pencil and everything. I immediately downloaded creative cloud to the device, opened photoshop, tried to design a flyer and edit pictures, only to realize I can barely do anything. Luckily, what starts in the cloud stays in the cloud, so I was able to finish what I couldn’t do on my iPad, on my old MacBook, but it’s such a waste of time and mental energy. Now I’ll still have to carry my old MacBook around with me to do my job, because this million dollar iPad is nothing without the full use of photoshop. Please get it together Adobe.

Not being able to open from Photos. I think it’s a very good product but...not finished yet. I’ve created a composition in Procreate, exported it as PSD and could not open it in Photoshop on iPad. Then I’ve tried opening any photo and it gives an error, “unsupported format” , same error as with PSD. I then tried export from Procreate as JPEG and same result . Some other photos taken directly from WhatsApp can be open without any problems. Not sure what happens but it’s frustrating. I have last PS version. EDIT: the problem was that my iPad didn’t has access to “All Photos”, just “Selected Photos” . After I gave it access to All , it worked. Anyway, the error message is misleading. Sorry Adobe, but please, fix the message. Thanks.