Forget Photoshop, iPhoto Is The Only Photo Editor You Need On The iPad

2012-03-08T18:22:20.402Z

Alongside yesterday's introduction of the newest iPad, Apple also released iPhoto for iOS.

We spent some time familiarizing ourselves with it this morning. So far our take on it is as follows -- it can be as easy or as complex to use as you want.

Do you want to do some cropping, maybe rotate an image? iPhoto can handle it. Or do you want to adjust white balance and run your image through some fancy filters? iPhoto has you covered there as well.

Here's the original, unaltered image we'll start with

Tapping on the artist's palette in the bottom left brings up sliders to adjust aspects like saturation and skin tones

Select the brushes to make use of tools like "Sharpen," "Darken," and red-eye correction

This slider tool lets you simultaneously adjust shadows, contrast, brightness, and highlights

This is the gradient tool, a way to run your photo through some cool filters to achieve some interesting looks

If you go with a more artistic gradient, you can make your photo look like a watercolor painting

We love the crop tool, which lets you scale and rotate your photo with ease

And 90-degree rotations are a tap away

If any of this got too complicated along the way, tapping the question mark always revealed useful descriptions of what each tool was for on a given screen

This is just a very rudimentary example of a Photo Journal -- everything you see is customizable with stylized text and the option to add more photos as a way to visually catalog an event

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Forget Photoshop, iPhoto Is The Only Photo Editor You Need On The iPad

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Forget Photoshop, iPhoto Is The Only Photo Editor You Need On The iPad

Here's the original, unaltered image we'll start with

Tapping on the artist's palette in the bottom left brings up sliders to adjust aspects like saturation and skin tones

Select the brushes to make use of tools like "Sharpen," "Darken," and red-eye correction

This slider tool lets you simultaneously adjust shadows, contrast, brightness, and highlights

This is the gradient tool, a way to run your photo through some cool filters to achieve some interesting looks

If you go with a more artistic gradient, you can make your photo look like a watercolor painting

We love the crop tool, which lets you scale and rotate your photo with ease

And 90-degree rotations are a tap away

If any of this got too complicated along the way, tapping the question mark always revealed useful descriptions of what each tool was for on a given screen

Once your photo is complete, tap the share button to unleash it on the world

iPhoto on iOS introduces the idea of a "Photo Journal," which is basically a digital scrapbook. If you decide to share via Photo Journal, you get to select a theme you like. In this case, we went with "Light"

This is just a very rudimentary example of a Photo Journal -- everything you see is customizable with stylized text and the option to add more photos as a way to visually catalog an event

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