Adobe updates Photoshop for iPad with Refine Edge Brush and two-finger rotation

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Adobe released Photoshop for iPads back in November 2019 after plans to bring the photo editing app were revealed in 2018. However, though the app is built on the same codebase as the desktop counterpart, it launched with a limited set of capabilities since the company intended to expand the product depending on how “people use Photoshop on a mobile device”.

Today, the company is adding two major improvements for the iPad app – the Refine Edge Brush and the ability to rotate the canvas using a two-finger gesture while editing. The firm aims to bring feature parity with the desktop counterpart, and the Refine Edge Brush brings more useful functionality to the offering for those that use the iPad version.
 

The Refine Edge brush – as the name suggests – lets users refine the edges of images when selecting tricky objects, such as hair or fur. The company says that it is “required to achieve realistic, professional quality selections of objects”, and helps smoothen out or remove subjects from “complex backgrounds”. The firm adds that it tweaked the UI to adapt it for touch-based devices. However, the results mimic the app on the desktop.

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