Adobe Carousel Makes Mobile Photo Syncing and Editing As Easy as it Should Be
By: Hillel Fuld
While Jobs might not be the biggest fan of Adobe products on iOS devices, Adobe has been pushing the envelope lately on innovation and their latest, Adobe Carousel is no different.
As 9to5mac puts it “The program lets you access your entire photo library on your computer from any iOS device and vice versa. It all happens wirelessly and automatically, without you having to sync or transfer photos manually. From Adobe:
Adobe Carousel gives you a new way to enjoy your photos, making all of them available across your Mac and iOS devices, so you can browse, enhance, and share them easily. No manual syncing, no storage limits, no differences in what photos are available to you. Your photography is everywhere you are.
It’s built on the Photoshop Lightroom technology so you’ll get “consistent, high-quality results across devices”, the blurb has it. You can fix exposure, white balance and saturation, adjust contrast, brightness and vibrance, among other features. Similar to the famous Camera+ app, editing in Adobe Carousel is non-destructive, always preserving your original photo. You can also assign other people privileges to browse your library, favorite photos and more.
The app will be released on both the App Store and Mac App Store soon as a free download. You should know that a paid cloud account will be required, starting at six bucks a month until January 31, 2012 (twice as much after that). Versions for Windows and Android are in the works so you’ll eventually be able to manage photos across all major platforms.
Funny thing, remember when Steve Jobs had to beg Adobe to build Mac versions? It’s also nice how Adobe’s John Nack described Carousel using Apple-like words in a post on the official Adobe blog, quoted below the fold…”
I am no photographer, but I have found the photo syncing and editing experience across my Macbook Air, iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Samsung Galaxy Tab, and Nexus S to be pretty tricky…. Yes, yes, I know, I have way too many toys.
This service definitely looks interesting and if Adobe makes it as intuitive and seamless and Photoshop on iOS or Android, I am going to be the service’s biggest supporter.
