
When you send a document to Adobe Preview CC you can simply switch artboards in Preview CC to see how each design option looks on the actual device. With artboards, you can have multiple canvases of different sizes in a single Photoshop document, making it easier to explore and develop related design ideas together. Preview CC really comes into its own when combined with the new Artboards feature in Photoshop CC 2015. Photoshop CC 2015 and Preview CC will automatically find each other if you are signed into both Photoshop and Preview CC with the same Adobe ID, and the device is connected to your computer either with a USB cable or wirelessly over the same Wi-Fi network. If you’re designing a website or mobile app UI with Photoshop CC 2015, you can open the Device Preview panel to view that Photoshop document on the screen of an actual mobile device running Preview CC.


The new Adobe Preview CC app does something a little different for Photoshop, compared to the other Adobe Creative Cloud mobile apps. See Your Mobile Designs on Actual Devices with Adobe Preview CC By the time the team gets back to their desks at the office, they’ll see that all of the ideas they collected with their mobile devices are already listed in the shared Creative Cloud library in Photoshop and other Creative Cloud desktop applications, ready to be refined and developed into finished festival project graphics.

When it’s time to develop the mockup into a more finished piece, the work you do on the iPad isn’t a dead end because you can send the Photoshop Mix composition to Photoshop on your desktop computer, where it appears as a layered Photoshop document.įigure 5 Sample or create color themes in Adobe Color CC (left) and create brushes in Adobe Brush CC (right).Īs your team collects these color themes and brushes to the library, they can add them to the library you shared straight from the mobile apps. If you only need an object out of the scene, you can use Photoshop Mix to cut the object out of its background. For example, if you see a scene that conveys the right tone for an ad you’re designing, you can use the Adobe Photoshop Mix app to take a photo of the scene with your phone’s camera, bring in design assets from your Creative Cloud online storage, and assemble the mockup in Photoshop Mix. That’s why Adobe has developed a range of Creative Cloud mobile apps that are optimized for particular tasks.Ī smartphone or tablet camera might not be a digital SLR, but its images are more than good enough for you to use as the basis for digital paintings or a design mockup. Instead of creating a simple digital version of a designer’s paper notebook, Adobe has thought about how mobile apps can address specific needs for photography, design, and illustration. Start Ideas Anywhere, Finish Them in PhotoshopĬreative Cloud mobile apps let you work out visual ideas as soon as you think of them, and then you can send those works-in-progress along to Photoshop and other Creative Cloud desktop applications for further development. Let’s look at how Photoshop CC 2015 integration with Adobe mobile apps works in both directions.

That connection goes both ways: You can use Creative Cloud mobile apps to feed ideas into Photoshop and other Creative Cloud desktop applications, and you can now use Photoshop CC 2015 to more easily design content for mobile apps and web sites. But Adobe is increasingly connecting the desktop with a constellation of apps on mobile devices, and Photoshop CC 2015 is a major player in this effort. Since Adobe Photoshop became a part of Adobe Creative Cloud, much of the attention has focused on the desktop-oriented benefits of Creative Cloud, like how it brings together continuous feature updates, simplified installation, file storage, and additional tools and services such as the TypeKit font library and the Behance creative network.
