Tablets have huge potential for photographers. They are a great way of showing off your work to friends and prospective clients without having to carry a large portfolio case or computer, and there are some great apps that can make your life easier, by adding GPS tags to images, calculating hyperfocal distances, or even enabling a camera to be controlled remotely.
Adobe has produced some superb mobile apps such as Photoshop Express for making quick, simple changes to images captured by the on-board camera, and Adobe Nav, which turns your tablet into a tool box to save screen space when you’re working on your desktop computer.
Photoshop Touch goes quite a bit further than Photoshop Express, giving you a pretty comprehensive set of tools and features (including layers) to edit images.
It’s available for the iPad from the App Store, and for Android tablets via Google Play, and it costs £6.99 for tablets and £2.99 for phones.
Few are likely to switch to using Photoshop Touch instead of Photoshop CC, but it’s a great platform for thinking through ideas and experimenting with images. You can treat it like a photographer’s sketchpad.
However, if you want to edit images when you’re out and about, there’s an impressive collection of powerful tools that give some great results, and you can sync your images and projects with your Creative Cloud account to carry on working on your computer when you get home, or share the results on Facebook.
Combining the right mobile apps to use your Photoshop on your mobile, can help take the task away from the tools you don't neccesarily use. The Photoshop Touch is available at a low price, but filled to the brim with layers and features.