Photoshop's best features are now free

Almost everyone you know has a pirated copy of Adobe’s Photoshop and if you ask them why they don’t pay for the original version, well, it is simply too expensive, especially since they don’t use more than 10% of the features buried within the app.

For a very long time, Photoshop hasn’t been for these people – it’s been for the professionals who need many of its deeper, more specialized, and more arcane tools.

To bridge this gap, Adobe has been making the app more accessible lately: on the desktop, it’s started offering Photoshop and Lightroom in a bundle for $9.99 per month, and on mobile, it’s started to break Photoshop apart into easily digestible chunks offered for free.

Today, that mobile strategy gets much more exciting with the release of Photoshop Fix, a photo-editing app that includes all of that 10 percent that the average Photoshop user utilizes.

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As the name of the app implies, Photoshop Fix is all about fixing photos. The app includes most of the key Photoshop tools used for altering pictures: one of the tool lets you make adjustments to contrast, saturation, and exposure, another tool lets you warp faces and objects, another lets you edit objects and blemishes out.

There are also more general tools that can be used for cropping, painting, and adding a vignette. It’ not all of the tools that Photoshop can offer but most of the tools are what an everyday casual user would be okay with.

Photoshop Fix is available for the iPhone and the iPad for free but the app will require you to sign up for an Adobe account, which is also free. Adobe says an Android version of the app will be available later.