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Photo editing app for iPad 3

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Posted by David DesRochers on May 15, 2012 at 10:01 PM
My wife just got an iPad 3 and we are looking for recommendations for a good photo editing app. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Posted by Catherine Reilly on May 16, 2012 at 1:07 AM
Snapseed for iPad is the one I use. From NIK Software. Easy to use, good results. Definitely worth a. Look.
Posted by Paul DeCesare on May 16, 2012 at 1:26 AM
Yep, great app. Photoshop is too. :biggrin:
Just search Photoshop Touch in the App Store. It's $9.99 but pretty powerful. Or start out with Photoshop Express, it's stripped down but it's free.
Posted by Jim Sabiston on May 16, 2012 at 9:18 AM
I'll back up the above recommendations: I use all the following:

Snapseed
Camera Genius
Photoshop (free)

You can see some of the results of Snapseed processing on the iPad3 here:

http://www.essentiallightphotography.com/#serenity-lounge/1

About 1/2 to 3/4 of the series images were taken with the iPad3 and all of the images were processed with Snapseed on the iPad3. One of the neat things you can do is to send jpeg files over from other cameras and process them with the iPad app. Note that everything comes out at 72 ppi resolution, so you may have to adjust the resolution on your computer, depending on what you intend to do with the processed files afterwards.


I should probably get the touch version of Photoshop, too.
Posted by David Bostedo on May 16, 2012 at 10:24 AM
Note that everything comes out at 72 ppi resolution, so you may have to adjust the resolution on your computer, depending on what you intend to do with the processed files afterwards.

Jim - Do you ever find the need to change this setting in a file? I certainly don't. It doesn't have any effect on how the image is shown on screen, and most printing will just override it based on your image settings. Is there some other time when you find you have to change it?
Posted by Brad Mangas on May 16, 2012 at 7:26 PM
Filterstorm
Iris
Snapseed
PhotoForge2
100 Cameras
Photo Toaster
Color Splash
Camera+
Photosynth
Camera Awesome
Autopainter I & II
Dramatic B&W
Pro HDR
645 Pro
Photo Resizer

Just to name few I use. I wouldn't even bother with Photoshop Express it is a very lame app. Touch may be better.
Posted by Jim Sabiston on May 16, 2012 at 11:01 PM
Dave,

No need to change anything for monitor displays or web work - hence my qualified comment. However, if you intend to do a quality print, enlarging the image is a good idea. Note that I haven't actually done this with my iPad3 yet, as it has a larger res file. The images taken with the iPhone 4 are about 2000 pixels on the long side (dependent on which app and aspect ratio you use) at 72 ppi. This is 26 inches on a side - albeit at very low res. A printer would probably adjust the image just fine, but for those images I want to print, I enlarge the files to 360 ppi and 13" on the short side. I printed for a gallery show in Lexington - iPhone images only in the show! - with the physical print as a 7" square. The quality was gorgeous.

The iPad3 images are higher res and might not need this little tweak as much as the older iPhone images.

Doing this with the image file just makes me feel better. :wink:
Posted by David Bostedo on May 16, 2012 at 11:05 PM
...I enlarge the files to 360 ppi

Ah... that explains my confusion. You were referring to what the ppi should be for the actual print. I was thinking you were simply talking about the metadata setting. You could change 72 to 360 in the metadata and not really change the file at all.