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tool of choice for all of Adobe's mobile apps. Though not the complete Photoshop as we know it on the desk top, the iPad version has all the essentials. In a session he led on the app, Terry White explained that the initial release focused mostly on the compositing toolset. In fact, the Sensei-driven object select tool will be coming shortly. More and more desk top features will be added in fairly rapid succession. Performance, however, it not an issue with the initial release. The app was demoed with a 5gb file. Released rather quietly last summer, Adobe Fresco was given center stage following Photoshop for the iPad and for good reason. Working nicely with Photoshop and Illustrator, it will be your drawing and painting tool of choice. It even sneaks in a bit of Sensei smarts with oils and watercolors that behave like the real thing but don't misbehave. Even though you can paint on wet or dry paper, you can set hard boundaries on how far your watercolors will f low. Fresco includes more than 1,800 brushes as well as a robust set of vector drawing tools. Will it be able to stand up to Procreate? The tally of a million drawings created since its release shows that there are some folks giving it a try. Following on Photoshop's heels, we were given an impressive preview of Illustrator for the iPad that we can expect to debut at next year's MAX . It will feature AI-powered tracing and an easy-to-understand pencil tool that takes over many of the functions of the Bezier pen. It will also mesh seamlessly with AI for the desk top. Jason Levine, one of the last to take the stage, probably because no other Adobe executive would want to follow one of his high-energy (gross understatement) presentations. The big news from Premiere Pro was the new tool that can intelligently transform a scene's aspect ratio from horizontal to vertical, tracking the subject as it does. This was teased at last year's Sneaks session and will be a great help porting conventional horizontal video to social media. And on that topic, Adobe announced a new level of cooperation with TikTok, the China-based short-video plat form that has been exploding in popularity in the U.S. (and apparently now undergoing government scrutiny, according to a Reuters news report released just days before the conference). Both Premiere Pro and Premiere Rush will allow direct export to the service. Deep Reality Though the official Adobe Sneaks session was to be held the following evening, we did get to see something more of the future than Illustrator for the iPad and these revelations are probably the mos t significant . The company whose product was the source of the commonly- used verb for altering visual reality ( "photoshopping" ) will be taking the lead in making sure what is portrayed as reality, truly is. Partnering with Twitter and the New York Times, it is working on a new Content Authenticity Standard in an effort to overcome malicious deep fakes. (A s shown during the Sneaks session on Tuesday, a team of Adobe developers have made significant progress in detecting manipulation in images by per forming pixel - level analysis with AI algorithms.) Belsky brazenly predicted that Augmented Reality will become something bigger than the web. He hopes that, driven by 3D tools like Aero, working in AR will become more accessible to a wider group of artists and content creators. The keynote closed with one final reveal of things to come: Photoshop Camera. Imagine being able to use the program's powerful filters and augmentation tools as you're shooting on a smartphone with a vast lens library, not only provided by Adobe but from a huge pool of crowdsourced creators. They put out the word they're looking for collaborators and you can go to photoshopcamera.com to apply to be one of those they work with. DAY TWO: The Artists Have Their Say At MAX , the second day's keynote presentation are a time of celebrity gazing and listening. But this year's theme, "Creativity the Great Enabler," truly resonated with all the speakers. The best we can do for you, our readers, is to offer a few of the highlights and hope you go to YouTube or Bēhance to listen for yourself and be truly inspired by some truly great presentations. ( We strongly recommend keeping a notepad handy. You'll be hearing some very memorable things.) The running thread throughout the talks was the importance of listening to your own personal inspiration and stay true to the stories that are important for you to tell and your unique ways of telling them. There were, in our opinion, three standouts that morning . Artist Shantell Martin walked on stage, shuffling a deck of index cards , each card with a simple - sounding question, each provoking an unexpectedly profound answer. For example, "Can you draw?" Obviously, the answer for many in the hall was a resounding "yes ," but the rest of us just shook our heads with some regret . And in answer, she