Adobe Ideas App Gets Customizable Toolbar, Other Improvements

Adobe has updated its Ideas app for iOS with a customizable toolbar, the ability to extract & save color themes, and other improvements.

Adobe Ideas lets you create freeform vector illustrations wherever you are with your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch. With a Creative Cloud membership, easily sync Adobe Ideas projects to Creative Cloud and open them for refinement in Illustrator CS6.

Capture and explore ideas anywhere
• Customize the toolbar with your favorite brushes (NEW)
• Kuler sync (NEW)
• Color theme extraction (NEW)
• Simple vector-based drawing tools
• Use Adobe Ideas on iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad and iPad mini**
• Apply color quickly with the Paint Bucket tool
• Eyedropper tool to easily pick up, compare, and match colors from your photo or drawing
• Choose colors using HSB and RGB color pickers
• Drag and drop to save your own color themes
• Use up to 10 drawing layers plus a photo layer for each sketch
• Refine your vector sketch with the Eraser tool
• 50-level undo/redo
• Huge virtual canvas


Work with precision and control
• Increased accuracy of strokes (NEW)
• New shortcuts for color selection, clearing layers and regions, and undo/redo in full screen mode (NEW)
• Multiple drawing tools, including pencil, pen, paintbrush, and marker tools
• Duplicate layers to quickly make a copy of their content
• Merge two layers to reduce the number of layers in your artwork
• Tap to flip layer horizontally or vertically
• Smoothly pan around your canvas, without making marks, using your finger or a stylus
• Move, rotate, and scale individual layers for precise positioning
• Zoom without jaggies or big pixels

Refine and share your ideas easily
• Instant sharing to Facebook and Twitter (NEW)
• Copy and paste artwork into other applications (NEW)
• Sync your artwork to Adobe Creative Cloud to easily access for further refinement using Adobe Illustrator CS6*
• Export artwork as a PDF email attachment, or add it to your iOS photo album as a JPEG file
• Display ideas on an external display (requires adapter)

In-App Purchase; Auto-Renewable Subscription: Creative Cloud Storage (20 GB)
With the free Creative Cloud Account you get 2GB of Creative Cloud Storage, but with an optional In App purchase subscription of 20GB ($1.99/month), you can upgrade that to a total of 22GB of storage.

What's New In This Version:
* Extract & save color themes right from your Ideas artwork
* Sync color themes between Ideas and Kuler
* Customize the toolbar with your favorite brushes
* Draw with increased accuracy
* Share your Ideas on Facebook and Twitter
* Purchase additional Creative Cloud storage from within the app


You can download Adobe Ideas from the App Store for free.

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