Adobe and Apple may have had their past squabbles over Apple’s refusal to make the iPad run Flash, but Adobe isn’t vindictive. The video above, taken at Photoshop World 2011, shows that Adobe has been hard at work developing an incredible Photoshop app for the iPad. Adobe currently offers an app called Photoshop Express for iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad, but this looks an order of magnitude better.

This app isn’t obviously underpowered like Photoshop Express, nor does it merely attempt to port over the features of desktop Photoshop without regard for platform: Rather, it knows and behaves like it’s a touchscreen app without being reduced to a dinky toy. No word on when this will be released or what it will even be called. This probably wouldn’t meet many needs of hardcore graphic designers with a pixel-by-pixel attention to detail, but it certainly gives the lie to the tired line about the iPad being a device for consumption and not for creation.

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Mehmet Gozetlik has designed a series of posters riffing on a theme that today’s techies have all thought about at one point or another: Today’s software is very, very big when compared to the standards in place not too many years ago. (See: Moore’s Law.) To hammer the point home, Gozetlik has calculated how many 3.5″ high-density floppy disks it would take to hold the contemporary likes of Firefox and The Sims. (Formatted 3.5″ floppies hold up to 1.44 MB.)

His findings: It’d take 12 disks to hold Firefox, 36 disks for Firefox Add-Ons; 46 disks for notorious piece of bloatware iTunes; 358 disks for Adobe Photoshop CS4; 1760 disks for The Sims 3. Can you believe that all of Windows 3.1 fit on six floppies?

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If there were no computers, Adobe Photoshop might look a little something like this. (Merging layers would sure be a pain.) Yes, this is a real photograph.

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This morning, Adobe announced the coming release of the eagerly-awaited Creative Suite 5, which is available for preorder on their website and is expected to ship within 30 days. This means, among other things, that Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Flash Catalyst are getting their CS5 dues.

Recently, Adobe Labs has been posting some videos of new tools that will be included in upcoming editions of their ubiquitous Photoshop software. They’ve released two videos so far, the first a couple of weeks ago and the latest earlier today. We’re of two minds while watching these. First, it’s really frightening to know that we now exist in a world where we can never truly trust a reproduced image ever again and that people can easily create complete fabrications for nefarious means that will trick 99% of the population into believing whatever they want. On the other hand though, OMG, LOOK HOW COOL THESE VIDEOS ARE! HE MADE THAT TREE F’ING VANISH!

For those familiar with iPhoto, Apple’s recently upgraded Aperture 3 is a great introduction to advanced digital imaging without the price tag and headache of learning Photoshop. Aperture 3 is the software equivalent of an entry level DSLR camera—not quite professional quality, but much more enticing than your average point-and-shoot.

Apple added over 200 new features, some useful and some negligible: