

(It’s a worthy goal to strive for, however-the less work you have to do to an image later, the better.) Most pictures can benefit from a little tinkering in a few areas. In an ideal world, every photo I capture would be perfect in-camera, but that’s just not the case. I also include a few specialized apps, such as piRAWnha for editing raw files directly and TouchRetouch HD for removing blemishes or objects from a scene. If you already have a favorite alternative, you’ll find similar controls for accomplishing the tasks I mention. In practice, I use Snapseed and Photogene interchangeably depending on how I want an image to appear, so I walk through making edits in those apps. In this chapter, I focus on common photo adjustments using a handful of representative apps. Image editing tools on the iPad are especially helpful when you want to share photos soon after importing them, before you’re back at a desktop computer.

A rich array of apps can manipulate pixels in all sorts of ways: apply premade filters to simulate other cameras or eras, correct color and tone, retouch to fix blemishes and other oddities, and much more. But, of course, it’s a powerful image editor, too. And if the iPad were nothing more than a glorified picture frame, that would be fine. So far, I’ve focused mostly on moving photos around-importing them into the iPad, organizing them, and getting them onto your computer.
