San Francisco — Adobe Systems last week surprised the some of the experts in designing industry when it rolled out its popular Photoshop app for iPhone and iPod Touch users that enables them to edit photos from both their phone and their online library on Photoshop.com.
The new Photoshop app for iPhone, which is FREE, offers tools such as cropping, image rotation, color controls, and simple one-touch filter effects among a lot of other basic functionality for those looking to share, edit or tweak up photos taken on an iPhone that can change the look and feel of shots all at once.
The app also allows iPhone users to adjust the pictures on their camera roll with relative ease. It also features undo and redo controls so that if users make a mistake, or want to revert back to the original, it takes just a few taps.
Moreover, the app is limited compared to what can be done with full-featured Photoshop, but the average user who wants to crop, rotate, or change the exposure on iPhone photos will find something to like here. What is more, there are 8 “effects” you can apply including a “vibrant,” “border,” and some other favorites like, “warm vintage”. Just fiddle around with them to see what you like. When done editing an image you can save and exit or save and upload the image via your Photoshop account.
What makes the app notable (apart from being from Adobe) is that the entire editing control set works off gestures. Rather than using dials or sliders, users just need to swipe their finger across the screen to change things such as brightness or color values. The same goes for its filters, which can be whisked from one end of the screen to the other instead of taking up more screen real estate or using a drop-down menu.
It works in conjunction with a Photoshop.com account (which is free), and allows users to sync up to 2GB of photos with the Photoshop.com site. The best part of this integration with Photoshop.com is that iPhone users can access their entire online photo library from their phone.
Photoshop.com for Mobile is not the first company to offer on-board photo editing software for the iPhone, but it is one of the more intuitive mobile photo-editing app, and can be quite precise once you get the hang of it.
Other notable apps that is available in the market are PhotoForge and EffectsLab that came before it. But, the Photoshop brand is a trusted one that will attract numerous downloads–especially because the app is free. Here is the iTunes Store link.