Photoshop Touch Gives You Core Photoshop Features for Your iPad or Android Tablet

If you’re a Photoshop fan and an iPad owner, you’re in luck. You can now edit and share their images through the new iPad Adobe Photoshop Touch app. The app is part of the Adobe Touch Apps family, a group of 6 apps inspired by Creative Suite® software made especially for tablet use. Up until now, however, the apps have only been available for Android tablets. Here’s a rundown of the new iOS version.

First off, you should know that you need a second generation iPad (sorry, iPad 1 users!) and at least iOS5 to run Adobe Photoshop Touch. Now that that’s out of the way– Photoshop Touch for iPad allows you to import images from your iPad native photo albums, your Adobe Creative Cloud account, Google Image Search and your Facebook albums. Once your images are in the app, you can combine them into layers and edit them with popular Photoshop features such as selection tools, adjustments and filters.

Other notable tablet-optimized features include the Scribble Selection and Refine Edge tools, which let you use your fingers to select part of an image to extract from its background, and the camera fill feature which allows you to capture an image with your iPad camera and use it fill in part of a layer.

When you’re done touching up your image, you can save it to your camera roll or upload it to Facebook, Email, or your free Adobe Creative Cloud account. If you save your work to Adobe Creative Cloud, you can retrieve and continue to edit an image (with the layers intact!) from Photoshop CS5 on your desktop.

Adobe Photoshop Touch is available in the iTunes App Store (and the Android Market) for $9.99, but if you’d like a chance to get it for free, we have one $10 iTunes gift card to give away. Just comment on this post before 11:00 P.M. EST today and we’ll pick one person at random to receive a free $10 iTunes card!

Sarah Feng is a sophomore at NYU, where she is double majoring in Economics and Journalism and minoring in Computer Science. She came to New York from her hometown of Knoxville, Tennessee. Her interests include figure-skating, playing the piano, eating, working out, and trying new apps on her Macbook Pro. Her favorite color is pink, her favorite food is ice cream and favorite teen drama is a tie between Gossip Girl and The O.C. Aside from writing on Hackcollege, you can also find her on twitter and facebook.

New Version of Todo.txt Touch for Android Now Available

 Just pushed a new version 0.8 of Todo.txt Touch for Android, which offers a brand spanking new homescreen widget, tappable contact info, better search results, and more. Download it to your Android device now.

In addition to the new homescreen widget pictured here, this release detects email addresses and phone numbers in task text and offers a one-tap shortcut to the dialer or your device's email handler. For example, if you have a task that reads "Email joe@example.com or call 718-555-1212," when you tap on that task, the action menu looks like this. Tap on the email address to compose a message or the phone number to pre-fill your phone's dialer.

Searching todo.txt for keywords now works better, too. If you've got two tasks that read "Process pull requests" and "Request pull on project," in earlier versions if you searched for "pull request" you'd only see the first task. Instead of only displaying exact phrase matches, version 0.8 ORs your terms, so a search for "pull request" returns both tasks.

More interface improvements: when you scroll down your todo.txt file and complete or delete a task, the app remembers your scroll position and keeps you in place. This makes processing consecutive tasks easier. The filter interface has been redesigned to match the rest of the application, in white and green. See it here. Finally, thanks to the latest version of the Dropbox SDK and Android LINT, this release is more secure, more performant, and less buggy.

Thanks to all the Todo.txt community members who make Todo.txt Touch for Android happen.

Version 0.8 has been submitted to the Amazon Appstore for approval, but you can download Todo.txt Touch from the Android Market now.