Jr. / Express versions always have this issue. Its not that a person uses every feature of the product but if they rely on 1 or a half dozen features that only appear in the full product even if they ignore 1,000+ other features the express product falls short. They can't do what they need.
Historically it is why I developed a dislike for Jr. products. For example WordPerfect Jr. lacked endnotes/footnotes I think - and for a student whose papers required that it crippled the product. Picking and choosing features (equations, graphics, tables, mailmerge, etc.) is always a dangerous game because if a user only uses 12 product features but 1 or more of them were just an 'edge case' their business needs involved the Jr. experience is DOA.
That being said Tablet apps need to try to figure out the very core set of features 80% of the users need, and will make some users happy, and they can graduate to Photoshop on laptops/desktops perhaps in future. And those tablet users can pay $10, instead of several hundred dollars and each subsequent version can address the most urgent feature needs and incrementally evolve to be very useful to many.
MS is trying to offer a "full" Office on Surface/WinRT to avoid that but even they could not get Outlook there in first cut. And they have a LOT more resources than most vendors to throw at a port. Full Photoshop to Tablet would be an expensive 'port' so of course Adobe will try to find a good set of features that pleases most but not all to ship something on the platform and have a presence. And from those users if they listen they can incrementally get some key stuff in place each future release because the people have a product to use however 'less featured'.
Jim, I use Photoshop CS6 daily for post work on photos and for photo
restoration work. There is no way that Photoshop Touch or Photoshop
Express would even start to approach what CS6 does.
Paul in Portland OR
On 11/2/2012 12:00 PM, Jim Saklad wrote:
>> Yes, I have Adobe too but it is nowhere near the full version of Photoshop CS.
>> Judith Barnett
> Have you ever made use of *ALL* the capabilities of the full Photoshop CS series?
>
> More than 60% of the features?
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> How many iPad users are *likely* to need more than what Photoshop Touch ($10) or even Photoshop Express ($0) provides?
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