Logitech’s MX Artistic Console is a Stream Deck for Photoshop and Premiere Professional

After buying Steam Deck rival Loupedeck final 12 months, Logitech is launching a $199.99 MX Artistic Console that’s designed to regulate Adobe Photoshop and Premiere Professional. The management panel features a Stream Deck-like keypad and a dialpad that has an analog dial and loads of buttons to hurry up inventive duties.

Logitech has created customized plugins for Adobe apps like Photoshop, Lightroom Traditional, Premiere Professional, After Results, Audition, and Illustrator for its MX Artistic Console. In Premiere Professional you should use the dial to wash via a timeline, and there are 4 buttons across the dial to activate features like undo.

There’s additionally a curler for navigation, permitting you to simply regulate the extent of zoom on a Premiere Professional timeline for extra exact edits. In Photoshop you may twist the primary dial to regulate brush sizes, or zoom out and in utilizing the curler.

The principle keypad works very like a Stream Deck, with 9 customizable LCD keys that can be utilized to launch apps or management completely different options inside apps like Photoshop or Premiere Professional. There are additionally two web page buttons on the backside so you may create 15 pages of keys for every app.

All the controls are absolutely customizable via Logitech’s app, with presets you may drag and drop onto the buttons for every app. It helps automate repetitive duties right into a single button press that often require a number of clicks or memorizing quite a few keyboard shortcuts.

Whereas any such {hardware} mixture will definitely velocity up inventive duties in apps, if you have already got the muscle reminiscence of figuring out quite a lot of keyboard shortcuts then the Artistic Console is perhaps barely much less helpful. The dialpad alone might make this $199.99 gadget price it for some although, due to the dial and curler precision instruments which are not like controlling apps utilizing a mouse or keyboard.

Logitech is launching the MX Artistic Console in pale gray and graphite fashions, and it’s even bundling three months of Adobe’s Artistic Cloud membership. The principle keypad connects to a PC or Mac via USB-C, and the dialpad connects through Bluetooth or Logitech’s Bolt dongle (bought individually).