Adobe to launch 6 new tablet apps, including Photoshop Touch

Adobe has announced a new cloud service called, appropriately enough, Adobe Creative Cloud. The service intends to streamline sharing projects generated in Adobe's apps and creative suites. The big takeaway for iOS users is that Adobe has announced six new tablet apps, including Photoshop Touch.
These six new apps, completely optimized for a tablet interface, will cost US$9.99 each and will be available for Android tablets in November. Adobe has offered no firm date for an iPad launch, but it will make an announcement regarding availability on iOS in "early 2012."
These six new apps sound slightly more ambitious in scope than the tablet apps Adobe launched several months back. Photoshop Touch sounds particularly intriguing; from Adobe's description, the app sounds like a much more powerful and full-featured app than the Photoshop Express app it currently offers free of charge.
The app will reportedly allow users to "combine multiple photos into layered images, make popular edits and apply professional effects," while a feature called Scribble Selection Tool "allows users to easily extract objects in an image by simply scribbling on what to keep and then what to remove. With Refine Edge technology from Adobe Photoshop, even hard-to-select areas with soft edges, such as hair, are easily captured when making selections." Sounds great; if it works as advertised, Adobe's got my ten bucks.
The five other apps Adobe announced aren't quite as attention-grabbing as Photoshop Touch, but they all sound as though they'll satisfy tablet owners who have been looking for powerful touch-based analogues of Adobe's desktop tools.

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