Adobe Photoshop for tablets looms nearer

You can't download Photoshop for your iPad yet, but the technology is getting close enough for Adobe Systems to begin showing what it's got in mind.

John Nack, the Adobe Systems program manager leading the effort, revealed some ideas of how Adobe envisions marrying its flagship image-editing software to tablet computers.

Adobe displayed two broad possibilities in mock-ups and a presentation at the Adobe Max conference: first, a direct editing application for tablets that's operated with a multi-touch user interface, and second, a companion application that would let a mobile device augment Photoshop running on an ordinary computer.

"We're trying some different design directions, making stand-alone imaging tools for tablets, as well as companions to Creative Suite apps" such as Photoshop, Nack said in a blog post .

Galaxy Tab and iPad demos

Adobe chief technology officer Kevin Lynch demonstrated some ideas last week at Adobe's Max conference using first an Android-based Samsung Galaxy Tab and then an Apple iPad.

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