Plan
- Photoshop User Guide
- Introduction to Photoshop
- Photoshop and other Adobe products and services
- Photoshop on the iPad (not available in mainland China)
- Photoshop on the iPad | Common questions
- Get to know the workspace
- System requirements | Photoshop on the iPad
- Create, open, and export documents
- Add photos
- Work with layers
- Draw and paint with brushes
- Make selections and add masks
- Retouch your composites
- Work with adjustment layers
- Adjust the tonality of your composite with Curves
- Apply transform operations
- Crop and rotate your composites
- Rotate, pan, zoom, and reset the canvas
- Work with Type layers
- Work with Photoshop and Lightroom
- Get missing fonts in Photoshop on the iPad
- Japanese Text in Photoshop on the iPad
- Manage app settings
- Touch shortcuts and gestures
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Edit your image size
- Livestream as you create in Photoshop on the iPad
- Correct imperfections with the Healing Brush
- Create brushes in Capture and use them in Photoshop on the iPad
- Work with Camera Raw files
- Create and work with Smart Objects
- Adjust exposure in your images with Dodge and Burn
- Auto adjustment commands in Photoshop on the iPad
- Smudge areas in your images with Photoshop on the iPad
- Saturate or desaturate your images using Sponge tool
- Content aware fill for iPad
- Photoshop on the web (not available in mainland China)
- Common questions
- System requirements
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Supported file types
- Introduction to the workspace
- Open and work with cloud documents
- Generative AI features
- Basic concepts of editing
- Quick Actions
- Work with layers
- Retouch images and remove imperfections
- Make quick selections
- Image improvements with Adjustment Layers
- Move, transform, and crop images
- Draw and paint
- Work with Type layers
- Work with anyone on the web
- Manage app settings
- Generate Image
- Generate Background
- Reference Image
- Photoshop (beta) (not available in mainland China)
- Generative AI (not available in mainland China)
- Content authenticity (not available in mainland China)
- Cloud documents (not available in mainland China)
- Photoshop cloud documents | Common questions
- Photoshop cloud documents | Workflow questions
- Manage and work with cloud documents in Photoshop
- Upgrade cloud storage for Photoshop
- Unable to create or save a cloud document
- Solve Photoshop cloud document errors
- Collect cloud document sync logs
- Invite others to edit your cloud documents
- Share files and comment in-app
- Workspace
- Workspace basics
- Preferences
- Learn faster with the Photoshop Discover Panel
- Create documents
- Place files
- Default keyboard shortcuts
- Customize keyboard shortcuts
- Tool galleries
- Performance preferences
- Use tools
- Presets
- Grid and guides
- Touch gestures
- Use the Touch Bar with Photoshop
- Touch capabilities and customizable workspaces
- Technology previews
- Metadata and notes
- Touch capabilities and customizable workspaces
- Place Photoshop images in other applications
- Rulers
- Show or hide non-printing Extras
- Specify columns for an image
- Undo and history
- Panels and menus
- Position elements with snapping
- Position with the Ruler tool
- Web, screen, and app design
- Image and color basics
- How to resize images
- Work with raster and vector images
- Image size and resolution
- Acquire images from cameras and scanners
- Create, open, and import images
- View images
- Invalid JPEG Marker error | Opening images
- Viewing multiple images
- Customize color pickers and swatches
- High dynamic range images
- Match colors in your image
- Convert between color modes
- Color modes
- Erase parts of an image
- Blending modes
- Choose colors
- Customize indexed color tables
- Image information
- Distort filters are unavailable
- About color
- Color and monochrome adjustments using channels
- Choose colors in the Color and Swatches panels
- Sample
- Color mode or Image mode
- Color cast
- Add a conditional mode change to an action
- Add swatches from HTML CSS and SVG
- Bit depth and preferences
- Layers
- Layer basics
- Nondestructive editing
- Create and manage layers and groups
- Select, group, and link layers
- Place images into frames
- Layer opacity and blending
- Mask layers
- Apply Smart Filters
- Layer comps
- Move, stack, and lock layers
- Mask layers with vector masks
- Manage layers and groups
- Layer effects and styles
- Edit layer masks
- Extract assets
- Reveal layers with clipping masks
- Generate image assets from layers
- Work with Smart Objects
- Blending modes
- Combine multiple images into a group portrait
- Combine images with Auto-Blend Layers
- Align and distribute layers
- Copy CSS from layers
- Load selections from a layer or layer mask's boundaries
- Knockout to reveal content from other layers
- Selections
- Get started with selections
- Make selections in your composite
- Select and Mask workspace
- Select with the marquee tools
- Select with the lasso tools
- Adjust pixel selections
- Move, copy, and delete selected pixels
- Create a temporary quick mask
- Select a color range in an image
- Convert between paths and selection borders
- Channel basics
- Save selections and alpha channel masks
- Select the image areas in focus
- Duplicate, split, and merge channels
- Channel calculations
- Get started with selections
- Image adjustments
- Replace object colors
- Perspective warp
- Reduce camera shake blurring
- Healing brush examples
- Export color lookup tables
- Adjust image sharpness and blur
- Understand color adjustments
- Apply a Brightness/Contrast adjustment
- Adjust shadow and highlight detail
- Levels adjustment
- Adjust hue and saturation
- Adjust vibrance
- Adjust color saturation in image areas
- Make quick tonal adjustments
- Apply special color effects to images
- Enhance your image with color balance adjustments
- High dynamic range images
- View histograms and pixel values
- Match colors in your image
- Crop and straighten photos
- Convert a color image to black and white
- Adjustment and fill layers
- Curves adjustment
- Blending modes
- Target images for press
- Adjust color and tone with Levels and Curves eyedroppers
- Adjust HDR exposure and toning
- Dodge or burn image areas
- Make selective color adjustments
- Adobe Camera Raw
- Camera Raw system requirements
- What's new in Camera Raw
- Introduction to Camera Raw
- Create panoramas
- Supported lenses
- Vignette, grain, and dehaze effects in Camera Raw
- Default keyboard shortcuts
- Automatic perspective correction in Camera Raw
- Radial Filter in Camera Raw
- Manage Camera Raw settings
- Open, process, and save images in Camera Raw
- Repair images with the Enhanced Spot Removal tool in Camera Raw
- Rotate, crop, and adjust images
- Adjust color rendering in Camera Raw
- Process versions in Camera Raw
- Make local adjustments in Camera Raw
- Image repair and restoration
- Image enhancement and transformation
- Drawing and painting
- Paint symmetrical patterns
- Draw rectangles and modify stroke options
- About drawing
- Draw and edit shapes
- Painting tools
- Create and modify brushes
- Blending modes
- Add color to paths
- Edit paths
- Paint with the Mixer Brush
- Brush presets
- Gradients
- Gradient interpolation
- Fill and stroke selections, layers, and paths
- Draw with the Pen tools
- Create patterns
- Generate a pattern using the Pattern Maker
- Manage paths
- Manage pattern libraries and presets
- Draw or paint with a graphics tablet
- Create textured brushes
- Add dynamic elements to brushes
- Gradient
- Paint stylized strokes with the Art History Brush
- Paint with a pattern
- Sync presets on multiple devices
- Migrate presets, actions, and settings
- Text
- Filters and effects
- Saving and exporting
- Color Management
- Web, screen, and app design
- Video and animation
- Printing
- Automation
- Troubleshooting
Find answers to the most common questions about Photoshop on the iPad.
Can I use Photoshop on the iPad?
Yes, you can now use Photoshop on your iPad and create anything, anytime, and anywhere.
Try the mobile app
Try out the latest features and enhancements in the Photoshop app on the iPad for general availability.
When you're inspired to create something new, Photoshop on the iPad allows you to open and edit large Photoshop files, create stunning composites, retouch your images, and apply effects while on the go. With Photoshop on the iPad, you can untether yourself from your desktop and resume work seamlessly across devices — with the power of cloud documents.
Begin creating with Photoshop on the iPad today by subscribing to a Creative Cloud plan that includes Photoshop. Already have an active plan that includes Photoshop? Sign-in with your Adobe ID on your iPad and download Photoshop for the iPad today.
Which iPad do I need to download and use Photoshop?
To use Photoshop on the iPad, check the list of supported iPad models updated to iPadOS in System requirements | Photoshop on the iPad.
What languages are supported in Photoshop on the iPad?
To know the languages in which Photoshop is available on supported devices, check out System requirements | Photoshop on the iPad.
Which Adobe plans include Photoshop on the iPad?
If you have an Adobe Creative Cloud plan that already includes Photoshop, you can simply download Photoshop on the iPad for a limited time without purchasing another plan — simply sign-in with your Adobe ID.
If you don't have a plan that includes Photoshop, for a limited time, you can purchase the Creative Cloud Photography plan that includes Photoshop (desktop, iPad, and web), Lightroom, Lightroom Classic, Adobe Firefly, Adobe Express, and Portfolio. Simply sign-in with your Adobe ID to purchase the Creative Cloud Photography plan.
You can also subscribe to Photoshop on the iPad through the App Store as a single app or as a part of the Design Mobile bundle.
Don't have an Adobe ID? It's free and easy to create one. Click here to quickly create your Adobe ID.
Which Adobe plans include both Adobe Fresco and Photoshop on the iPad?
When you subscribe to Photoshop on the iPad through the App Store, you get access to both Photoshop on the iPad and Adobe Fresco and vice versa. If you have a Photoshop single app or Creative Cloud all apps subscription, Fresco is already included in your subscription. Also, you can subscribe to Photoshop on the iPad along with Fresco as a part of the Design Mobile bundle through the App Store, if applicable.
To check all subscription plans, see Creative Cloud plan.
If you accidently end up with two active app subscriptions, check out Cancel a duplicate app subscription.
Can I open and work with Adobe Fresco documents in Photoshop on the iPad?
Photoshop on the iPad and Adobe Fresco work great together. Fresco is an app built specifically for drawing and painting and is a great companion to Photoshop on the iPad. Enjoy drawing using Fresco on an iPad when you are on the go and access the same artwork anywhere from your iPad in Photoshop. Enhance your drawing further with creative edits in Photoshop on the iPad. Any artwork you create in Photoshop on iPad or Fresco is auto-saved as a cloud document when you are connected to a network.
To learn more about how to seamlessly work in Photoshop and Fresco, see Adobe Fresco and Photoshop.
For some inspiration to get started, see Use Fresco and Photoshop on the iPad to turn yourself into a manga character.
How do I manage my Photoshop on the iPad subscription purchased through Apple App Store?
Any Photoshop on the iPad subscription that you purchase from the App Store is managed through your App Store account.
For step-by-step instructions, see Apple documentation for View, change, or cancel your subscriptions.
For billing issues or a refund, see Apple documentation for Request a refund for an App Store or iTunes Store purchase.
Is Photoshop on the iPad available in my country?
Photoshop on the iPad is available only in countries where Creative Cloud services are available. See the latest list of countries that support Creative Cloud services.
Adobe Creative Cloud services are currently not available on adobe.com in mainland China. As a result, Photoshop on the iPad is not available in this region.
How does Photoshop on the desktop work with Photoshop on the iPad?
Any document you create with Photoshop on the iPad is automatically saved as a cloud document, so that you can easily access your creative work from iPad to desktop. Cloud documents are automatically synced across devices to create a seamless workflow.
For example, if you want to resume your desktop work on the iPad, simply save your PSD as a cloud document.
To view your cloud documents, simply navigate to the Cloud documents tab on the home screen.
How can I open a Creative Cloud file in Photoshop on my iPad?
To open a Creative Cloud file in Photoshop on the iPad, do the following:
1. In the home screen, tap Import and open () and select the Files app.
2. In the Browse panel that opens, select Locations > Creative Cloud to quickly import a file from Creative Cloud.
Note: If you're unable to find the Creative Cloud option under Locations, download the Creative Cloud app on your iPad and ensure that you are signed in. To add Creative Cloud under Locations, see the directions listed under 'Use third-party apps' in the Files section in Use the Files app on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.
3. In the Creative Cloud mode, browse through and select a file to open.
To learn more, see Create, open, and export cloud documents.
Can I turn off auto-save in cloud documents?
A cloud document is always automatically saved to the cloud — this is what helps you work seamlessly on your creative projects anytime, anywhere, across your devices.
Although cloud document auto-save does not turn off, you can restrict syncing over your cellular network when working on an iPad.
To learn more about cloud documents workflows in Photoshop, see Photoshop cloud documents | Common questions.
How much cloud storage does Photoshop on the iPad provide? Can I upgrade my storage?
Your cloud storage is shared across your Adobe Creative Cloud apps. The amount of your cloud storage is determined by your Adobe Creative Cloud subscription plan.
|
Base storage offer |
In-app purchase (via Apple App Store) |
100 GB |
Free trial |
2 GB |
Creative Cloud Photography plan (20 GB) |
20 GB |
Creative Cloud Photography plan (1 TB) |
1 TB |
Photoshop Single App |
100 GB |
Creative Cloud All Apps |
100 GB |
If your cloud storage goes over your quota, your documents can be saved as a local document only. If you need more cloud storage, easily upgrade your subscription plan to include additional storage at any time.
What happens to my assets if I close or delete my Adobe account?
If you close or delete your Adobe account, or if your subscription expires, your assets remain in the cloud and available to download for 30 days. After 30 days, you may lose access to some or all of your documents that are saved on the cloud servers.
To view your assets, go to Creative Cloud web.
To learn more about Creative Cloud, see Common Questions | Creative Cloud.
What are the keyboard and touch shortcuts for Photoshop on the iPad?
To view a list of popular keyboard shortcuts in Photoshop on the iPad, see Keyboard shortcuts.
To learn more about touch shortcuts and touch gestures in Photoshop on the iPad, see Touch shortcuts and gestures.
How do I suggest a feature or report an issue with Photoshop on the iPad?
Adobe actively listens to our large community of users. We value your input and make it easy to report issues or request new features for Photoshop on the iPad.
To report a problem, suggest a feature, or take a survey, navigate to App Settings > General > Help > Send feedback.
To ask a question and be a part of community discussions on Adobe Forum for Photoshop, navigate to App Settings > General > Help > Community forum.
To join a discussion or post to the community, go to Adobe Support Community | Photoshop.