[News] An Update to the Adobe Creative Tools

Adobe has announced it is moving ahead with its cloud pen, Project Mighty and digital ruler, Project Napoleon, from a technology exploration to a planned product.

The Adobe Creative Tools were first announced in May at MAX – The Creativity Conference, when Adobe shared its vision for the Creative Cloud.

Adobe’s Managing Director for Australia and New Zealand Paul Robson said the Creative Cloud is giving Adobe the opportunity and impetus to innovate and ultimately empower a new generation of creatives.

“Today we’re excited to announce we are teaming up with Adonit to manufacture and ship Mighty and Napoleon in the first half of 2014,” Mr Robson said.

“With our first tools for the new creative — Project Mighty and Napoleon — we are confident we can help make digital creativity both more accessible and more natural by combining the accuracy, expressiveness and immediacy of pen and paper with all the advantages of our digital products and the Creative Cloud.”

Project Mighty is pressure sensitive, which helps it draw a natural and expressive line. It is also connected to the Creative Cloud, giving users the ability to carry all of their favourite personal digital assets, brushes and colours with them, copy/paste across devices and more.

Adobe has already pioneered some of the most widely used tablet apps in the creative space, including Adobe Ideas and Photoshop Touch, that are relied on by millions of creatives around the world.  Today we are unveiling two sneak peaks in this realm that we think really move the combined hardware and software experience forward: Project Parallel, a drafting iPad app designed and developed from scratch for the Project Napoleon hardware.

The second, Project Contour, is essentially Kuler for shapes – take a photo of a favourite object or shape on an iPhone and access it with Napoleon on the iPad to simplify architectural line sketching, drawing and ideation. Together, they enable what we like to call “straight line sketching,” a simple and expressive way of getting your creative ideas recorded.

“Through natural interface, cloud connectivity and now new hardware, we are starting the process of creating tools for the next generation of creatives and redefining the playing field for designers,” Mr Robson said.

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