Tablets and smartphones, we are in 2014 almost. Any image editor?

[HKS racer]

So, with all these expensive mobile devices in the market someone want using them with something like Photoshop or Gimp. You know image editing that kind of stuff.
Do you know any similar programm that let you import images and support multiple layers? I've heard about a Photoshop mobile app last year but it was a joke compared to the real Photoshop. Why can't we just have a proper Photoshop/Gimp for tablets? Is that too difficoult for developers? Hardware limitations?
Any idea? Anyone into mobile image editing? What programm do you use? What's your advice?

 

[TB]

The first feature listed for Photoshop Touch is "Use popular Photoshop features designed for the tablet such as layers, selection tools, adjustments, and filters to create mind-blowing images."

Past that, of course the tablet version of a photo editor isn't going to be as good as the PC version. The memory and processor limitations would clearly be the first reasons as to why.

 

[HKS racer]

The first feature listed for Photoshop Touch is "Use popular Photoshop features designed for the tablet such as layers, selection tools, adjustments, and filters to create mind-blowing images."

Past that, of course the tablet version of a photo editor isn't going to be as good as the PC version. The memory and processor limitations would clearly be the first reasons as to why.

Thanks for reply, yeah I knew about the silly mobile version of Photoshop, with only 15 layers, a complete joke.
But I'm not sure about hardware limitations. Tablet nowdays are quadcore or something.
I mean there are apps where you can paint using a touch pen
That is good for painting images from scratch, photoshop and gimp are image editors which is different.

Maybe with a windows 8 tablet I can use proper Photoshop or Gimp? Any clue?

 

[TB]

The processor in a tablet are very low power so you can have decent battery life. As such, they aren't built for applying effects. Layers take up a lot or memory and tablets have (using the Nexus 10 as an example) 2Gb of RAM, and DDR3 RAM at that. Again, not ideal for image editing. The Surface 2 Pro might be able to do more with its 4 or 8 Gb of RAM and an i5 processor but I have no experience with one.

Sounds like you might be looking more for a touch screen laptop instead of a laptop-like tablet.

 

[Sprite]

I use Snapseed for quick stylised edits on my iPad but serious editing still has to be done with a Mac or PC.

As TB says its a hardware limitation as I'm sure Adobe and the like would love to give us more powerful tools.

 

[F1GTR]

The Surface Pro 2 and the similar Sony Vaio tablets will be the only ones that can run Photoshop (at least they're the only W8 tablets that run the proper OS that I know of). But at the price they're asking, I'd rather pay a bit more and buy a proper laptop from Apple or Lenovo since keyboard shortcuts will speed up any workflow immensely.

 

[HKS racer]

Thanks for the replies folks,
basically what I would like to do is painting liveries for pc sim games like rFactor, GTR2 etc. I'm not into serious photo editing yet.
Templates have a resolution of 2048*2048 px standard or 4096*4096 px HD. I need about 40 / 50 layers, I load .png files of sponsors, a couple of images, I cut, draw some lines, change some colors here and there, and the skin is basically done. I still think I could do this with a tablet somehow, or indeed technology is not ready yet.

The thing with laptops is battery life after a year, and most important LOL, they are not trendy anymore!
All these silly girls nowdays think someone using a laptop is either poor, stupid or I don't know.

I know it'a laughable but I don't want to spend 800 € for a new laptop to use on the bus, and these random silly (but good looking) girls sitting near me thinking "OMG we're in 2014 why u using laptop?!??" You know LOL.

 

[Azuremen]

You shouldn't do art if you are worried what girls on a bus will think of you for editing your worn on a laptop. You are also clueless if you think 50 layers at 17mp is somehow trivial and manageable on a tablet with 2gb of ram.

Question: have you ever actually done such editing on a PC?

 

[HKS racer]

Question: have you ever actually done such editing on a PC?

Yep. I just don't bother releasing. My laptop is 4 years old, can handle CS5 just fine.

 

[Boffin]

First up, I am posting from a rather powerful version of a beautiful object known as a Macbook Pro. I have used windows laptops just as much and I am not a fanboy to either faction but I know which would win in a 'cool' contest against some Alienware if judged by 'these random silly (but good looking) girls'. Macbooks are most certainly not out of fashion. Come tell me when world famous and adored DJs and digital artists stop using them because they are so uncool they are ruining their image.

Second of all - if there are limitations with layers, why don't you merge some together to keep the count down? Why are you even designing these things on the go anyway? It sounds like something you would need to sit down and think about. I wouldn't think of editing one of my master files while on the bus home or under the table while having coffee with someone. Can mobile tablets even read psd's? All editing I have done on my phone yields terrible results partly because they are compressed so much with resaving..

Third of all, and back to the cool thing.... I really don't think 'cool' should even be a consideration when you are talking about designing, essentially to most, the colours for some cars in a video game. Sure - appeals to some of us because we can see why you do it, but can you imagine the reaction from those 'random silly (but good looking) girls'? If you really want to keep your image so much you want to do this work on some hardware that isn't as good as a regular laptop but is 'cool', I suggest you just drop it all together in a public place and leave it at home. Keep the bus rides for talking to 'these random silly (but good looking) girls'

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