Adobe Ideas is a vector-based drawing tool, one that can accept input from a finger or a pen. Because the lines being drawn are vector-based, rather than pixel-based, they will appear solid, regardless of the display resolution. Adobe Kuler is a virtual color book of color swatches, one that will allow multiple users to peruse and discuss different colors. The colors can be exported to Adobe Creative Suite projects.

All six apps will be closely tied in with Adobe's cloud service, due in early 2012, which will allow users to share content across different devices and users.

The apps will initially be available for Android tablets in November, at an introductory price of US$9.99 each. Adobe will announce availability of Apple iOS-based devices early in 2012. No word was given for when, or if, Windows 8 versions will be available.

Early customers will be given access to a beta version of the Adobe Cloud, for storing and sharing content. Each application also works with Adobe Carousel, a service for sharing photos across different platforms.

Perhaps to help implement these apps, Adobe also announced at Max that it is acquiring Nitobi, a company that offers open-source software, called PhoneGap, for building apps that run across multiple platforms, using HTML5.