Photoshop

Scribbler is an app specially formulated for the iPhone or iPad that integrates the freedom to draw and the ability to share one’s artwork with their peers via Facebook, Twitter, and Scribbler itself. Scribbler will include a number of effects, tools, colors, and texts to apply to each Scribble, similar to Photoshop.

The past week in lecture, we reviewed the topic of Photoshop, the world’s most popular digital imaging software. Photoshop enables its users to transform images using professional effects, layering and masking, and illustrating tools. One can even create 3-dimensial photos! Photoshop is even able to produce videos. Users include: architects, graphic designers, scientific researchers, and even astronomers. Nowadays, students are introduced to the computer program in grade levels as low as middle school. I remember learning the basics of Adobe Illustrator in seventh grade and later moved on to Photoshop my freshman year of high school in a Graphic Design class.

Recently, there has been an updated version of Adobe Photoshop Touch application in the App Store. It was released September 5, 2012 for the Apple iPad. The app is specially designed for the personal tablet and provides all the necessary tools that are on the computer version. Camera images up to twelve megapixels are supported. All actions are controlled through one’s fingertips. Finished artwork can be shared through Facebook, saved with the use of Cloud Computing or wirelessly printed through AirPrint.

While comparing the Photoshop Touch app with my project idea for Scribbler, it is easy to see that both applications share similar uses and editing capabilities. Scribbler will incorporate most if not all professional imaging effects of Photoshop, but also provide the ability to share photos on its own application, like Instagram. Peers will be able to review and comment on other’s artwork and are able to post the finished work via Facebook and Twitter. The difference between the Touch app is that it is only readily available with the iPad, not the iPhone. Scribbler will be able to be used on both. With the constantly updating Apple iPhone software and physical phone design, it will be expected that Scribbler will update its system as well. Which will provide its users with the most up to date imaging techniques.