iPhone Photo Keys is an interesting iPhone/iPod Touch Photoshop helper application available on the iTunes App Store.
Photo Keys turns your iPhone or iPod touch into a Photoshop companion tool by putting the entire Photoshop toolbar, as well as many useful shortcuts right at your fingertips. If your iPhone or iPod Touch is nearby that is.
After downloading the iPhone app from the Apple app store, you also must install a server app on your computer so that the Photo Keys app can connect to it via wi-fi. The main toolbar screen contains all the tools in the Photoshop toolbar palette. Simple click any tool to select it in Photoshop. For tools that contain multiple tools, such as the Rectangular Marquee tool, you can cycle through the tools by clicking the same tool multiple times.
There is also an Edit screen which contains 4 rows of commonly used editing shortcuts. Following these keys, there are 8 fully customizable hotkeys that you can configure in the server setup. These can be used to preform any Photoshop keyboard shortcut or trigger custom Photoshop Actions.
Finally there is a Move screen. This screen contains four arrow keys, which are used the same way as the ones on your keyboard. Below the arrow keys is a selector, which allows you to specifiy how you want the arrow keys to work, this is similar to holding down modifier keys while using the arrow keys on your keyboard. Tapping an arrow with 1 finger will move the selection 1 pixel, tapping with 2 fingers will move it 10 pixels. The benefit of having arrow keys in this tool is that it allows you to use them with your left hand, so you don’t have to take your hand off the mouse like you do when using the keyboard arrow keys.
Feature list:
- Full screen Photoshop tool bar.
- 20 useful editing keyboard shotcuts, such as Cut/Copy/Paste, Undo/Redo, Open/Save, and many more.
- 8 Fully customizable hot keys. Useful for defining your own keyboard shortcuts or custom Photoshop Actions.
- Arrow keys with 3 selection movement modes.
- Zoom bar, allows you to zoom in and out by sliding your finger across the bar or by clicking the + or – magnifying glass icons.
- Supports Bonjour for auto-configuration.
I have not used this app, so I can’t vouch for it’s usefulness. However I did purchase the company’s other iPhone app Air Mouse, which turns your iPhone/iPod touch into a virtual mouse and Air Mouse is excellent an well thought out piece of software. I can only imagine that Photo Keys has the same amount of polish and attention.
Photo Keys has server software for both Mac & PC. Photo Keys is only $3.99 at the App Store (iTunes Store link).
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Tags: App Store, Apple, iPhone, iPod Touch, Photoshop, productivity, software
Also own Air Mouse and downloaded this one just today. Pretty cool app, not as amazing as Air Mouse, but still very cool and useful if you use Photoshop a lot.
Good to know. I am so entrenched in the Photoshop/Adobe keyboard shortcuts, I don’t know if this is something that would be useful to me. But I am very curious to try it out.
If it ever dropped to $2 I’d probably buy it. But in the meantime, especially with the new Spring-Loaded Keys feature in Photoshop CS4, I am not sure how much use I would actually get out of this app.
AirMouse however is fantastic I agree.
Thanks for the info!
Superb !! thanks for the info