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InDesign Touch Workspace part of EOY 2022 update

With nearly two dozen applications in its Creative Cloud suite, Adobe e'er has something upward its sleeve, and this yr's MAX 2022 conference is again a showcase for its latest upgrades and updates. Between updated mobile and desktop applications, new apps for photographers and designers, and improved integration with its cloud-based services, at that place is something for everyone. Many of the new features are available immediately, while some volition exist rolling out later this twelvemonth.

Adobe continues rolling out new mobile capabilities

Adobe now has nigh equally many mobile apps as it does traditional applications. The most interesting new i is Photoshop Fix, which allows the retouching and restoration of photos on an iPad or iPhone. Information technology is expected to exist bachelor for Android sometime next year and features some powerful tools including the Healing Castor and Liquify that before at present were limited to Adobe's desktop version of Photoshop.

Adobe has also repackaged Brush CC, Color CC, Hue CC, and Shape CC into Capture CC — which is now available on iOS and Android. Along with all the new mobile applications, existing applications volition have a more than-tightly integrated workflow. For instance, Adobe CreativeSync volition at present work mobile to mobile.

Desktop photograph apps also promise some new capabilities

Adobe has already fabricated its major upgrade to Lightroom and Photoshop this year, simply used MAX to tease some interesting new features for them, including a localized-version of its powerful Dehazing filter, and Autosync for Lightroom catalogs. Windows x touch devices volition also receive boosted back up. The new desktop applications aren't available yet for review or purchase, and then we'll be covering them in more detail when they are available later this year.

Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop will get a number of interesting new features -- but won't roll out until later this year

Ane of the more interesting new features of Photoshop CC will be a Design Space, that volition let designers to focus on layout and placement — including an Artboard capability. User experience designers volition benefit from Project Comet, a new end-to-finish design solution that will include both a desktop application and a companion mobile app.

Adobe is continuing to tighten the integration between its new Adobe Stock photo and video library and its desktop applications. The new versions will arrive easier to license images without leaving your application. Premiere Pro upgraded to provide full back up for both 4K and 8K video, as well as HDR workflows.

Create your ain Portfolio

Adobe Portfolio will allow easy creation of great-looking profile sitesAdobe is also wrapping a powerful, new photo site creation front end around its Behance artistic community. Adobe Portfolio will be available later this year on several platforms, and should permit photographers and creative professionals to easily create compelling portfolio websites.

$600/year is all the same a stiff price for many users, but creative professionals continue to get more than for their money with each new update to Adobe's Creative Deject suite. For photographers, the $120/year programme offers an increasing array of tools for less than it used to cost to merely upgrade to each new version of Photoshop. Of course, both of those options lock you into a subscription model for your creative tools — which is exactly Adobe's intent.