Adobe reportedly working on full Photoshop version for iPad

I think the new Surface Go should be fine, as long as you get the 8GB version. I think I read somewhere the Go is very similar to the Surface Pro 3 but with newer USB ports (ie. USB-C) and probably the newer processors, but I was able to run PS and LR on my 8GB Surface Pro 3 just fine. I just wish Microsoft would add a second port so that you can use a USB 3.0 HDD and a USB mouse at the same time, then I'd get another one.

You store them at home, on an iMac and Thunderbolt drives.

Use the iPad when you are on the road as a temp storage system, syncing with LR Mobile.

Tou should edit some raws on tge current ipad before making the statement. Paper specs arent the all. For example- the overgeas on the OS is far lighter. You are also dealing with a different multicore architecture.

At some point good enough pwrformance happens with a monility advantage and foe many real world photographer workflows that works better.

>>arbux
Next time use it first before you comment. I am amazed at how fast it is compared to the desktop. Try Affinity Designer on iPad compared to Adobe Illustrator. It's the closest thing to compare since Illustrator is not available on iPad. The 120hz refresh is super smooth. It can open much faster and is easier to edit.
basing your opinion on specs alone is useless. Try it out. Being efficient makes it much faster.

This has been debated endlessly here, and piracy the main reason ruled out long ago! What it will do, is cause new instances of piracy, if possible, imo.

Many things have been debated and debated and debated. It’s part of the human condition and proves that narratives rather than anything else rule out in the end.

I’m paying less now than I was when I put out for CS series but then I change computers and cameras often and need the latest support. Others may not and that may be a weak link for the subscription model. I don’t even like the subscription model and I won’t defend it. But it makes sense. I didn’t personally know a single person except for a few designers that ever paid for it. That’s an anecdote but it’s a powerful one that gave credence to at least one narrative that shrugs at ththe debate.

Elonlukatski ... no, too bad for you. In 5 years time when I’m still happily running the CS6 I’ve been using for the past 5 years, I’ll have saved over £1000 on a subscription model, no updates needed. Zero £’s a month is a lot easier!

Plenty of people use 13” notebooks to get some photoshop done, even though most of those screens are just uncalibrated sRGB on Windows. Considering that the iPad Pro 12.9” is about a 13” screen, but had 2700 x 200 resolution, and DCI-P3 phosphors, and is calibrated with Apple’s built-in color management, the screen isn’t an issue. Many people have been using a 12” Wacom screen with far lower resolution, and poorer color.

Yes, even with a keyboard it’s not the same. But that doesn’t mean it won’t work well. The other editors on the iPad do work quite well, other than those apps own problems. This will be a great success.

You may be surprise to see how fast an iPad can be when optimized for it. Check out how Affinity Pro performs some operations in near real time thanks to the heavy GPU optimization.

I find that Affinity whilst being capable just tries too hard and worst of all it’s just so complicated to do the simplest task. It’s capable just not intuitive. I personally think this has more to do with the capabilities of the software design team than the hardware.

I don't think there's any way for developers to target specific iPad models... All of the latest iPad's (pro's or otherwise) are actually quite powerful—not compared to beefier i7 based PC's, but faster than the mobile intel chips.

DualSystemGuy - actually the *current* iPad Pro can compete with a pretty modest PC performance wise for several things - though I guess that depends on what you mean by "pretty modest PC"

Raist3d - We may have a difference in opinion on what a 'modest' PC is, but iPad Pro's are roughly equivalent in processor power to older generation Core M/Y ultra low wattage entry-level laptop processors (something few would try to run Photoshop on). The iPad version would have to be stripped down to some degree to be pleasant. Compared to even an entry level desktop system it would not even remotely compare - the iPad's aren't bad per-se, it's just not a fair comparison with wattages, IPC, cores, etc.

The funny thing about facts is it doesn't really matter what you think, they're still true. A sub-10 watt processor in an iPad can't even come close to the power of a desktop PC processor which run at much, much, higher wattages and clock speeds with more cores.

I have an iPad Pro 10.5" with Affinity, Lightroom, and Luma Fusion (for video). It is not what I would consider fast. My kids mostly use it now for browsing and YouTube because it can't really do any of the things I need it to do in a professional RAW editing workflow.

Try to load 50+ 60MB RAW files and batch process them. Try to load a Colorchecker Profile. Try to load a plugin. Try to calibrate the screen. Let me know how you make out with all that on your supercompu...er sorry, iPad.

So it will be utterly pointless in the field with all that RAWs on my SD card? Welp. Fantastic!

I agree, and until there is some improvement in the two issues you mention, I don't see myself going this route. Maybe ideal for those photographers (and I'm sure there are some pros) who's main camera is an iPhone.

So then don't buy it. Others will.

It's relatively easy to import full size RAW files through the iPad Pro to lightroom and sync later on. Lightroom on the iPad is just like Lightroom CC on your computer and just as fast. I've got around 20,000 images synced to my iPad. It's very convenient.

For those of you who do this, how easy would it be to work with several hundred RAW images averaging 50MB each with sketchy or no internet? I'm thinking this is not very doable but I'd love to be set straight.

Just run a Surface Pro, problem solved.

If you have an Ipad Pro, getting the RAWs in is a piece of cake, they transfer quickly and easily using the SD card reader. However, this is where the issues with Apple mentality start. Once on the camera roll, they then need to be duplicated to whatever application you are using to manage them, be this LR mobile, Mylio or whatever. Once in this application you then have the issue with syncing which has to be done over the internet or your local network if using Mylio.

Surface is nice but it runs windows and whichever way you look at it, the OS is really not as nice when travelling, especially with the myriad of apps available on the Ipad that add value at every turn.

Trust me, I've tried all of these solutions, and have a requirement to manage upwards of 500 large raw images while making relatively short journeys. There is no perfect solution at present but the Ipad Pro ticks quite a lot of boxes, although it is not without frustrations!

If DSLR makers neglect investing in DSLR development then yes, don't give them your money.

New feature updates and performance updates as quite far and in between for LS/PS. You get new camera updates for LR/Camera RAW and some small upgrades here and there, but the big updates still take years rather than months.

The Print dialog has been bugged and not seen new features since I first used it. I pay subscription since 2014.

Implementing multi-threading support for various functions in LR has taken many years and it still doesn't fully scale to high CPU count CPUs. There still is no native support for network drives and collaboration with catalogs. The program still even has to restart just to open another catalog. A new demosaicing algorithm should be implemented that doesn't deliberately blur finest details (to mask labyrinth pattern artifacts).

All stuff that needs manpower and financial investment. Most news from Adobe center around tablet and cloud development, though.