I’m a big fan of my iPad, and while I use it a lot for viewing and sharing photographs I have taken with my digital camera, I don’t really use it for editing or tweaking them. This might change with the arrival of Photoshop Touch which is now available for the iPad
First up it’s worth mentioning that Photoshop Touch requires at least an iPad 2 and iOS 5. It won’t work on the iPad 1.
You can work on photographs taken directly with the iPad camera, or load images from your Camera Roll. You can also carry out a Google Image search from within the app.
You get a range of effects and filters to apply to your photos from the basics like blurs, glows, and drop shadows to stylized looks like Old Photocopy and Glass. Applying adjustments to any photo is easy – you can just select the effect from a series of thumbnails and then drag your finger horizontally on the slider to increase or decrease the strength of the effect. You can also add text to your images quite easily.
Processed images can be saved to your Cameral Roll or shared via Facebook, email or sent to a printer.
Teachers who are using iPads in their classroom will definitely want to take alook at Photoshop touch if you want something to allow your students to work with photographs, but at £6.99 it might not be something you’d buy for the whole class. For alternatives, Apple’s new iPhoto app is half the price, and so is a definite rival. Also worth taking a look at Snapseed too.
For more creative things for your class to do with photographs – look at Strip Designer or Comic Life, which lets you turn your photos into comic books.
You can get more info on Photoshop Touch from the Adobe website here.
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