Adobe Photoshop CC For Dummies, 3rd Edition

Chapter 18

Ten Ways to Integrate Your iPad

IN THIS CHAPTER

Adding your iPad’s screen space to Photoshop

Introducing Photoshop on the iPad

Storing in the Cloud

Using your Wacom tablet with Photoshop

If you’re using Apple products and your equipment is reasonably up to date (and you’ve kept your software current), you can use an iPad as an extension of your laptop or desktop monitor. Much cooler (and less expensive) than dragging that 24-inch, 4K display along with you on the road. And Adobe has a version of Photoshop for the iPad. Not “a Photoshop app for iPad” but rather Photoshop on the iPad. The interface takes some getting used to, and it doesn’t (yet) have all the features of Photoshop on your primary computer, but the software is much more powerful than earlier iPad apps for image editing. Does the iPad replace your Wacom tablet? Not necessarily. (I explain why at the end of this chapter.)

Using Sidecar to Add an iPad to Your Screen

In the Mac’s System Preferences, you see Sidecar (assuming that your hardware and OS meet the requirements named in the following section). When ...