Adobe has released a new iPhone app, bringing some of the power of Photoshop to the mobile Apple device, giving users an opportunity for better than average photo editing on the move.

The app is free and contains most of what is needed to edit photos that are taken with the iPhone, according to a TechTree story. A photo can be taken and then edited or an existing photo can be worked with. The app will let the user perform basic operations such as crop, rotate and flip using familiar iPhone touch screen gestures. For example, the crop works by touching and dragging the corners of an onscreen cropping area and the rotate works by just turning the image with your finger.

The new Adobe iPhone app also has a number of impressive features to edit the way a photo looks. The user can edit the exposure settings just by sliding a finger across the image, basically lightening or darkening the image. Color saturation can be done in much the same way, as can the color tint of the photo. A single menu selection also allows the photo to be turned into a grayscale image. The tint function can be used to produce a sepia image, as well.

The iPhone Photoshop app also allows the user to access a number of photo special effects. It allows a broad range of sketch effects and lets the user perform photo magic by changing the image focus softness with just the slide of a finger. Similarly, there are a number of photo effects available, such as single-touch filters for vibrant, pop, placing a border around an image, the inclusion of a vignette blur, adding a warm vintage look, or a rainbow effect to a photo.

The app also allows you to upload photos to your account at Photoshop.com. If you do not have one, the iPhone app will allow you to create one in order to share your photos on the Web. It would appear as if Adobe has covered the basic needs with this app, allowing most of the simple editing functions needed for basic changes and effects for photos taken with your iPhone. It seems like a worthwhile addition to a photographer’s iPhone arsenal.

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Entry was posted on Monday, October 12th, 2009 at 1:06 pm under Free Apps, iPhone, iPod Touch.  Print This Post

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