Microsoft and Adobe team up to make Photoshop way better for touchscreens

Photoshop isn't the easiest app to use on a touchscreen, but Adobe is quickly beginning to change that. It officially began supporting touch gestures on Windows 8 today — including the ability zoom, pan, and rotate — after starting to publicly test them early this year. But more important for the long run, Adobe is working on some interface changes that'll make the app designed for use with touch, rather than having touch support grafted onto it.

Adobe teased the first of those changes today by demonstrating an upcoming feature called Playground. It's a new, minimalist view inside of Photoshop that lets you scrub through all of the different layers in your file just by swiping your finger across it. Layers can even be picked up and...

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