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The complete Photoshop is a pro-level app that makes a lot of sense on an iPad. Illustrator would also be great. Easy enough to write out a new PDF, but so hard to edit an existing PDF.

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I think Illustrator would work much better than Photoshop. I don't know too many people who don't have third party plugins in their professional (nontrivial, couldn't-just-use-Pixelmator) workflows, or don't need pretty fast storage for stuff like batch jobs. Illustrator tends to be used more as-is, in my experience.

How often would anyone do pro-level PS work on an iPad? I'm sure some will. Some just love love the attention of "swinging their junk around" in public. But that's - hopefully - a pretty small market.

Niche uses? Yeah probably. But general pro-level? I'm reaching for the erase tool ;)

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