The Daily App: Photoshop Touch for Android

Adobe has been in a somewhat awkward position in the mobile tablet space for more than a year. Apple has mostly shunned its software. While Research in Motion has embraced its applications for its Blackberry Playbook device, the market hasn’t exactly embraced the Blackberry Playbook.

That brings us to Android, and Adobe has taken aggressive measures to take one of its flagship products – Photoshop – to the tablet platform with its Photoshop Touch app. A $9.99 download from the Android Market, think of Photoshop Touch as less of a “lite” version of Photoshop than a robust, very functional version of the application for the Android platform.

With Photoshop Touch, you’ll be able to take any photo – either from the Web, the cloud, from email or your own photos taken on the device itself – and handle the basic layering and editing functions as you’ll get from the full-blown version.

If you’re not used to Photoshop on a PC or Mac, this isn’t exactly an app you’ll be able to dive right into on the first go without taking your time to figure it out. Adobe provides step-by-step tutorials for most basic functions, but they can take time and require a number of tries for Photoshop newbies.

For those who are, in fact, experienced with Photoshop, Adobe provides a solid, workmanlike app for photo editing that also will sync with your Photoshop application on a laptop or desktop via Adobe’s Creative Cloud.

There are a number of basic, rudimentary photo-editing apps for Android and iOS devices, and Adobe even has PS Express for iPhone-based photo editing. However, Photoshop Touch is simply the fullest-featured, most robust one that we’ve yet seen – and by lot.