Photoshop has been made better for your touchscreens

If you have a touchscreen and you’re using Photoshop you may have noticed its quite a challenge to use, but luckily Adobe is beginning to change that, let’s see how Microsoft and Adobe have teamed up to make Photoshop way better and easier to use on your touchscreen.

Photoshop has now officially began supporting touch gestures on Windows 8, this allows you to:
- Zoom
- Pan
- Rotate
More importantly Adobe is actually working on some changes that will make the app for your touchscreen designed specifically for use with touch.

One of the new upcoming features is called Playground, it’s a new view inside of Photoshop that lets you go through all of the different layers in your file just by simply swiping your finger across it, you can even pick up and move around layers while using Playground.

Touch features are coming to illustrator too and the experience is already very powerful, surface chief Panos Panay wrote “There is a transformational new experience here.”

Adobe isn't the only one making changes, they’re part of a growing partnership with Microsoft, their strength in supporting touchscreen desktop apps helps to the full affect. Adobe can still offer the full version of Photoshop for you, only now it enables very useful interactions through the new hardware.

Both Adobe and Microsoft are focusing strongly on cloud services, their hardware and software complement each other in obvious ways. Apparently according to the CEO the companies have demonstrated that they are ready to get the journey started in terms of what the next generation of hardware/software combination can be.

Adobe and Microsoft have put together a video to show the awesome features.

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Written By: Christine Romans
CopyWriter at The Computer Guyz