Adobe is making new efforts to bring its ever-growing suite of mobile apps more in line with its flagship desktop offerings. The goal, they say, is to create an environment where users can seamlessly transition projects and workflows from mobile to desktop.

To help further this vision of "truly mobile to desktop workflows," the company rolled out a series of updates Monday, including nine new and updated mobile apps, enhanced Creative Cloud tools and improved touch optimizations for the Surface Pro 3 and Windows 8 devices.

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On the imaging side, Adobe added two new Creative Cloud-connected iOS apps: Adobe Brush and Adobe Shape. Brush allows users to create customized brushes based on photographs. Snap a photograph and users can focus in on a portion of the image that will become the brush stroke. Once created, brushes can be saved via Creative Cloud for later use in Illustrator or Photoshop on the desktop or the Illustrator Sketch iOS app.

Shape transforms mobile photos into vector illustrations, which can then be used in Illustrator or the Illustrator Line iOS app. Take a photo and the app generates an illustration based on the lines and borders in the photo. Adjust the portions you want to save and the image will be saved to your Creative Cloud Library.

Adobe Shape allows you to turn photos into illustrations that can be opened in Illustrator or Illustrator Line. Image: Adobe

Adobe also unveiled a new video app, Premiere Clip. The video editing app is a kind of pared down version Premiere Pro that streamlines basic editing features on iPhones and iPads.Users can trim videos, apply filters, transitions, soundtrack and slow motion effects to videos.

Premiere Clip takes iPhone and iPad videos and adds music, transition and other effects automatically. Image: Adobe

Adobe Sketch and Adobe Line, the two companion apps to Adobe's Ink Stylus and Slide Ruler, have been renamed Photoshop Sketch and Illustrator Line to emphasize compatibility with their respective desktop counterparts. The Photoshop Sketch update also adds six new built-in brushes and better Creative Cloud support.

Similarly, Adobe Ideas— now Illustrator Draw— has been given the same naming treatment and now supports the Ink and Slide accessories. Photoshop Mix, another app that launched alongside Ink and Slide, is now also available for iPhone users who want to take advantage of the app's compositing and masking features.

The company is also rolling out the first public beta of its Creative SDK, which allows third-party developers to tap into the Creative Cloud Platform for their own apps. The SDK is currently only available for iOS but the company says it plans to make one available for Android and Windows.

But Adobe isn't totally ignoring Windows— Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro and After Effects have all been updated with better touch support— including new gesture controls in Illustrator— for the Surface Pro 3 and Windows 8 devices.

All of the new and updated apps are available now. The iOS apps are free and the updated desktop apps are free to existing Creative Cloud subscribers.