The app provides access to tools derived from Adobe Photoshop such as brushes, clone, eraser, text, and gradients in addition to layers, blend modes, and Photoshop's Refine Edge feature. A new tool called scribble lets you make basic selections of foreground and background to ease compositing. You can create masks or extract selections and place an object on a new background--all with finger gestures.

The service that was introduced in Photoshop CS4 is now a Touch app. Kuler is designed for graphic artists whose work relies heavily on color coordination and theme creation; it lets users create and share themes via their tablet and the cloud.

Kuler retains much of the same emphasis on the tablet as it did within the desktop Photoshop program--that is, to create, explore, and share color schemes and find harmonizing colors. You can extract color themes from photos, generate new themes, or adapt themes that have already been shared via the online Kuler community.