一段时间以来， Apple(Apple)一直在推动他们的 iPad（尤其是 iPad Pro）作为传统笔记本电脑甚至台式机的替代品。(replacement)随着iPadOS的发布，Apple可能是最大的推动力，为 iPad 提供与笔记本电脑相同的功能范围。
虽然 iPadOS 非常棒，并且兑现了大多数(most )旨在使其成为您唯一的计算机的承诺，但我们仍然需要软件开发人员加强并提供能够为我们提供与桌面同行相同的功能集的应用程序。
例如，LumaFusion是一款 iOS 应用程序，提供与桌面视频编辑器相同的功能。您可以 100% 使用它作为您唯一的视频编辑器。这不是为平板电脑创建应用程序的“移动”或“精简”方法。
这就是为什么照片处理社区中的每个人都非常期待Adobe Photoshop桌面版登陆 iOS 的原因，自从大约一年前在 Adobe 会议上首次宣布它以来。现在它就在这里，您可能想知道是否值得使用此版本的iPad 版Photoshop。让我们看看最突出的点。
价钱(Pricing)
当我们问“值得吗？” 它通常意味着“它值这个钱吗？”。对于 iPad 版 Photoshop，这很复杂，因为Adobe早就放弃了一次性软件销售模式。
获得Photoshop的唯一(only )方法是订阅他们的 Creative Cloud服务。最便宜的版本，包括Photoshop和Lightroom，每月只需 10 美元。但是，这是一份年度(annual )合同。这意味着如果您选择按月付款，您每年需要支付 120 美元。提前取消是可能的，但它带有罚款条件。
因此，作为 iOS 上的独立应用程序，iPad 版Photoshop非常畅销。但是，如果您已经订阅了包含桌面版Photoshop的 Creative (Photoshop)Cloud计划，那么您也已经拥有此应用程序。只需(Just)下载并登录。
明白为什么这很复杂吗？它本身就是一个昂贵的应用程序，但如果您已经是Photoshop用户，它本质上是一个免费的附加组件。如果您还不是Photoshop用户，那么您并不是这个应用程序的真正目标。因此，我们将从我们期望大多数用户拥有的角度来看待它。
iPad 版“完整”Photoshop 的承诺(The Promise Of “Full” Photoshop for iPad)
Adobe将“完整”桌面Photoshop带到 iPad意味着什么？好吧，这并不意味着两个版本之间存在功能对等。Photoshop for iOS (Photoshop)1.0(Version 1.0)版缺少桌面版的许多功能。这些会及时出现——在一定程度上——但现在看来Adobe并没有提供桌面Photoshop的替代品。
那么是什么让它与桌面版本完全可比呢？这里的关键事实是它使用与桌面版本相同的代码。iPad版 Photoshop(Photoshop)的核心是同一个应用程序。这提高了Adobe(Adobe)能够相对轻松地添加更多父应用程序功能的希望。他们已经开始做的事情。
专注于“共同”任务(Focusing On “Common” Tasks)
Adobe 似乎专注于最常见的Photoshop工作流程和功能。尤其是用户在移动环境中最可能需要的那些。
如果您是桌面版Photoshop的当前用户，那么最好检查一下对您当前的工作流程至关重要的工具是否已经在应用程序中。
行动中缺少的功能(Features Missing In Action)
当您阅读本文时，Adobe可能已经纠正了其应用程序中一些更紧迫的缺失功能，但在撰写本文时，桌面用户可能会在平板电脑版本的Photoshop中遗漏大量内容。
在 iPad 版的Photoshop(Photoshop)中找不到相对高级的功能，例如动画。同样(Likewise)，似乎没有 RAW 图像编辑支持。这是一个真正的耻辱，因为现代USB-C iPad 使得在旅途中直接将照片从相机传输到平板电脑变得轻而易举。
您也不会在此处找到桌面Photoshop的高级选择工具、自定义画笔或其他更专业的功能。(Photoshop)至少现在还没有。这是Photoshop的基本实现，只有时间才能证明Adobe会将 iOS 版本的Photoshop推向其桌面父级的距离有多近。
Procreate & Affinity Photo：更好的选择？(Procreate & Affinity Photo: A Better Alternative?)
Photoshop for iPad的一个大问题是其他开发人员多年来一直在开发他们的 iOS 照片处理应用程序。他们可能采用了移动优先的方法，并且没有Photoshop背后令人印象深刻的代码和技术，但他们已经瞄准了Adob(Adobe) e 留下的真空。
Procreate已成为在 iOS 上绘图的黄金标准。Adobe现在也发布了Fresco，但我们必须将其与Photoshop中的绘图功能进行比较，因为这是吸引力的很大一部分。
Affinity Photo一直在充当 Photoshop 在 iPad 上的空白的答案。它自称是 iPad 的“桌面级”照片编辑应用程序，考虑到用户的普遍反应，它似乎确实可以胜任。
然而，在这两种情况下，这些应用程序都比Photoshop(Photoshop)具有主要优势，仅仅是因为它们的价格要便宜得多。如果按月付费， Photoshop每年至少要花费 120 美元，但Procreate和Affinity都是一次性购买的。它们也不是特别昂贵，这使得Photoshop很难卖。
底线(The Bottom Line)
因此，在撰写本文时，我们可以就iPad版Photoshop提出一些建议。(Photoshop)如果您当前没有订阅Adobe Creative Cloud，并且想在 iPad 上进行桌面级照片编辑，那么您最好购买像Affinity Photo这样的成熟应用程序。
另一方面，如果您已经订阅了包含Photoshop的(Photoshop)Adobe CC，那么您无需额外付费即可获得 iPad 版本。在这种情况下，您可能会发现桌面和平板电脑之间基于云的文件共享可能是一个真正的福音。您可以即时对照片进行基本的准备工作，然后坐下来做高级的工作，这样可以节省大量时间。
如果您是用 iPad 替换笔记本电脑或台式机的人，那么Photoshop for iPad 还没有准备好成为您唯一的照片编辑器。再一次，您最好使用已建立的 iPad 优先应用程序。
随着更多功能以及可能在 iOS 上一次性购买应用程序的选项，该建议可能会改变。目前，最好还是拭目以待。
Is Adobe Photoshop For iPad Worth The Money & The Hype?
Apple has been pushing their iPads (especially the iPad Pro) as a replacement for traditional laptops and even desktops for some time now. With the release of iPadOS, Apple has made perhaps the largest push to give iPads the same range of capabilities as you’d find in a laptop.
While iPadOS is pretty fantastic and delivers on most of the promises geared towards making it your only computer, we still need software developers to step up and provide applications that give us the same sort of feature set as their desktop counterparts.
For example, LumaFusion is an iOS app that provides the same functionality as desktop video editors. You could 100% use it as your only video editor. It’s not a “mobile” or “lite” approach to creating an application for tablets.
This is why everyone in the photo-manipulation community has been waiting in great anticipation for the desktop version of Adobe Photoshop to arrive on iOS, ever since it was first announced at Adobe’s conference about a year prior. Now it’s here and you might be wondering if it’s worth it to use this version of Photoshop for iPad. Let’s look at the most salient points.
Pricing
When we ask “is something worth it?” it often means “is it worth the money?”. That’s complicated when it comes to Photoshop for iPad since Adobe has long ago abandoned the one-off software sale model.
The only way to get Photoshop is to subscribe to their Creative Cloud service. The cheapest version, which includes Photoshop and Lightroom, will run you $10 a month. However, it’s an annual contract. This means you are on the hook for $120 per year if you choose to pay monthly. Early cancellation is possible, but it comes with penalty conditions.
So off the bat, Photoshop for iPad is a hard sell as a standalone application on iOS. However, if you’re already subscribed to a Creative Cloud plan that includes the desktop version of Photoshop, you also already have this app. Just download it and log in.
See why this is complicated? It’s an expensive app by itself, but essentially a free add-on if you’re already a Photoshop user. If you aren’t already a Photoshop user, you aren’t really the target for this application. So we’ll look at it from the perspective we expect most users to have.
The Promise Of “Full” Photoshop for iPad
What does it mean for Adobe to bring “full” desktop Photoshop to iPad? Well, it doesn’t mean that there is feature parity between the two versions. Version 1.0 of Photoshop for iOS lacks many features that are in the desktop version. Those will come in time – to a point – but right now it doesn’t seem like Adobe is providing an alternative to desktop Photoshop.
So what makes it comparable to the desktop version at all? The key fact here is that this uses the same code as the desktop version. At its core, Photoshop for iPad is the same application. This raises hope that Adobe can, with relative ease, add more of the parent application’s features. Something which they have already started doing.
Focusing On “Common” Tasks
Adobe seems to be focusing on the most common Photoshop workflows and functions. Especially ones that users are most likely to need in a mobile context.
If you’re a current user of Photoshop on desktop, then it’s a good idea to check whether tools that are essential to your current workflow are already in the app.
Features Missing In Action
By the time you read this, Adobe may have rectified some of the more urgent missing features in their app, but at the time of writing, there’s a sizable list of things desktop users may miss in the tablet version of Photoshop.
Relatively advanced features, such as animation, aren’t to be found in the iPad version of Photoshop. Likewise, there doesn’t seem to be RAW image editing support. This is a real shame since modern USB-C iPads make it a doddle to directly transfer photos from a camera to the tablet on the go.
You also won’t find the advanced selection tools, custom brushes, or other more specialized features of desktop Photoshop here. At least not yet. This is a rudimentary implementation of Photoshop, and only time will tell how close Adobe will push the iOS version of Photoshop to its desktop parent.
Procreate & Affinity Photo: A Better Alternative?
The big problem with Photoshop for iPad is that other developers have been developing their iOS photo manipulation apps for years. They might have had a mobile-first approach and don’t have the impressive code and technology behind Photoshop, but they’ve targeted the vacuum left by Adobe hard.
Procreate has become the gold standard for drawing on iOS. Adobe has now also released Fresco, but we have to compare it to the drawing functionality in Photoshop since that’s a large part of the appeal.
Affinity Photo has been acting like the answer to Photoshop’s gap on iPad. It bills itself as a “desktop-grade” photo editing app for iPad and given the general responses of users, it certainly seems to do the job.
In both cases, however, these apps have a major advantage over Photoshop simply because they are so much more affordable. While Photoshop will cost you at least $120 a year if paid monthly, both Procreate and Affinity are once-off purchases. They aren’t particularly expensive either, which makes Photoshop a pretty hard sell.
The Bottom Line
So, at the time of writing, we can make a few recommendations about Photoshop for iPad. If you are not currently subscribed to Adobe Creative Cloud and want to have desktop-grade photo editing on your iPad, you’re better off buying an established app like Affinity Photo.
If, on the other hand, you already have an Adobe CC subscription that includes Photoshop, you’re getting the iPad version for no extra money. In which case you may find that the cloud-based file sharing between your desktop and tablet could be a real boon. You could do basic prep work on photos on the fly, and then sit down to do the advanced stuff, which saves a lot of time.
If you’re someone who has replaced their laptop or desktop with an iPad, then Photoshop for iPad isn’t ready to become your one and only photo editor. Once again, you’re better off going with the established iPad-first applications.
With more features and perhaps the option to buy the application once-off on iOS, that recommendation could change. For now, it’s better to wait and see.
