This morning, Adobe released Photoshop Touch for iOS and Android smartphones. Previously only available for tablets, Adobe was able to shrink this powerful program down into a smaller-display friendly app and slap a $5 price tag on it. Much like the tablet version, Photoshop Touch brings countless editing features right to those gorgeous fingers of yours. 

Today, Adobe pushed out an update to Photoshop Touch that brings some very classy features and bug fixes. For starters, there are two new effects called Shred and Colorize for you to utilize, two new languages (Russian and Portuguese), and the ability to edit images up to 12MP while still retaining the high quality of image. 

Adobe Photoshop Touch was just demoed on stage here at Adobe MAX, dropping quite a few jaws and grabbing enough cheers to get us excited.  I actually booked it immediately after the on-stage walk-through over to Samsung’s booth to get some hands-on time with it and I’ve got to say, that this is going to be one cool tool when it launches in November.  As a piece of software that won’t be here for another month, it was very polished, easy to navigate, and powerful.  While I am by no means a PS pro, I saw every tool, brush, and setting that gets me through my day.

The tablet that Adobe is using to showcase it on is a prototype from Samsung that they won’t reveal much on (no it’s not running Ice Cream Sandwich).  It was built specifically for their new pen technology that is pressure sensitive and allows you to draw, erase and choose colors in a jiff.  In fact, we aren’t sure this model will ever make it to stores, but the idea of this type of pen experience on a tablet is intriguing.

The app will run $9.99 when it is released.

Update:  In the Adobe executive team Q&A that is going on right now, one question brought up the idea of plug-ins to Photoshop Touch.  Would there ever be any?  As of now, there are no plans, but you get the feeling that Adobe has already thought about it and will possibly introduce them in the future.  They did point out though, that tablets right now are where PCs were 5 years ago.  What they mean by that is that we have a long way to go before tablets can even come close to what we can currently do on a computer. Could plug-ins come in the next year?  Possibly.  I think NVIDIA’s quad-core processor is a step towards this happening.

Update 2:  In case anyone was wondering, all of their new Touch apps were built in Adobe AIR.

Press release, including their other new Touch apps below.