BANGALORE: Adobe will be following up its discontinued Photoshop Touch iOS app, by replacing it with Project Rigel which was announced earlier this year in May. The app will have some new features to make it user friendly along with some new image retouching tools.

In an interview with CNET, the company’s Senior Product Manager for Digital Imaging Manu Anand said “unlike Photoshop Touch, the upcoming app would be free for iOS users. With the app being free, there will be no need of Creative Cloud subscriptions, which were previously mandatory on Photoshop Touch.

The new app is very easy to use and Adobe made it sure that the beginners also could get it right, by revising the names of tools to a more easy and understandable synonyms. Like the Dodge and Blur tools are now named as lighten and darken, in the same sequence there are other features in the app to make it user friendly.

The new Project Rigel app will focus on features like crop, adjust, liquify, heal, smooth, light, color, paint, defocus and vignette, and some more that were not even available on desktop Adobe Photoshop. Like the the new face-recognition tool inside the 'liquify' menu, this feature recognises the face in an image and lays control points on eyes, nose, mouth, chin and cheeks. The overlaid points can be resized and remodelled to chisel the face.

With the new app, the user can now import images from Dropbox, Facebook, iOS Photos app and more. The app will not only edit and save the image as a flat picture, but would be saved in layers, that can be saved to desktop by sync. Following the iOS launch, Adobe is planning to launch in Android platform also.

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