The Verge:

Adobe is launching a new app today called Photoshop Camera that’s filled with a bunch of very elaborate filters that can change your face and the world around you. Some of the filters are really impressive: several identify the sky behind you and replace it with perfect clouds or a magical moon; another puts you inside a Black Mirror-esque glitchy world; and another makes you look like you’re in a comic book.

The app is available for free and works on both iOS and Android (though only recent Pixel, Galaxy, and OnePlus models are officially supported for the latter). Adobe launched a preview of the app in November.

Photoshop Camera has little to do with Photoshop beyond the fact that both have to do with photos and both of them are apps. You can do some basic photo editing here — adjust contrast, exposure, saturation, and so on — but mostly you’re meant to snap a picture, filter it, and leave. If you want to make adjustments, there’s a magic wand button that automatically dials in changes for you so you don’t have to worry about the actual settings.

I was a beta tester for PS Camera (as it was then called). Whether you’ll like the app I think depends greatly on whether or not you want “insta-worthy” (ugh – I hate that term) photos or not. I found it to be fairly simplistic and over the top. Not the “Camera” app I was expecting and hoping for from Adobe.

Adobe CTO Abhay Parasnis said in an interview with The Verge that Photoshop Camera is “the next one in that journey for us.” I really hope not.