IPads are really companion devices, currently, and still lack in the overall ease of use and ease of productivity department.Įven with an iPad Pro ( I own the large 128 GBs storage version) iOS is iOS. I laud your courage and effort in this matter, but I think your approach is not going to be an ideal one.

I decided to leave some of my opinions on what you are trying to accomplish because this is important for you to know and really understand if you want to minimise your frustrations with iOS and your iPad Pro. If you want to add more fonts to your iPad that apps can have access to, search for the app HD Photo Sort (an image/document folder based organisation app) Here's my own incomplete list of creative image and drawing apps that I have installed and use. There are other image editors and painting apps that you can use

I use quite a few image editing apps and painting apps, but both Pixelmator and Procreate are the apps that are at the top apps on my large iPad Pro. If you do not like this multiple iOS Photoshop app approach, then your only alternatives are Pixelmator for iPad and maybe, in addition, Procreate. Working in iOS is mostly working with multiple apps.įor image editing work and digital painting and illustration work, you will find you will have to constantly import/export files from one app to another. There is no one app that will cover everything you may need. You'll end up using multiple apps for doing a great many things, that maybe easier on a computer, no matter what, anyhow. You'll end up using multiple Photoshop apps to cover everything you do with full Photoshop.

If using an older version of Photoshop, you will need to use a Cloud service like DropBox or Box or some other Cloud Service, like Apple's iCloud Drive, Amazon Cloud Drive or GoogleDrive to be able to bandy your work back and forth between your iPad and computer.Īdobe, I guess, won't or doesn't know how to create one version of Photoshop on iOS that is a close approximation to Photoshop on a full blown computer.Īdobe has broken up full Photoshop into a variety of apps to cover different Photoshop areas. If you use an older version of Photoshop and not the current Adobe creative cloud suite with subscription, most of Adobe's apps, in order to better integrate will need to pay for a CreativeCloud monthly subscription or login to your Creative Cloud account if you already pay for a subscription. If you want to maintain an all Adobe workflow, for Photoshop, in order to get most of Photoshop's functionality on a computer, you will need to use all of the various Adobe Photoshop apps to work with.

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