Adobe Inc. unveiled a new generation of Photoshop that will be available on Apple Inc.’s iPad for the first time, signaling an acceleration in the software maker’s drive to boost sales with more mobile applications.
Photoshop CC will be available to customers in 2019, the California-based company said in a statement Monday.
The announcement is the culmination of Adobe’s long-held goal to bring its iconic image-editing program to mobile devices. Adobe has been on a multiyear journey to modernize its dominant creative media software, after shifting all of its apps to the cloud in 2012. With Photoshop CC, Adobe has stepped up its multidevice strategy to capture creative professionals and hobbyists who enjoy working on touchscreens.
“It’s a tip of the spear moment because this is where the rest of Creative Cloud will go,” Scott Belsky, Adobe’s chief product officer and executive vice president of Creative Cloud, said in an interview.
Adobe is hosting its annual creative conference, MAX, in Los Angeles this week, where it will showcase its latest apps and concepts.
