Courtesy Adobe
Adobe has just released a free iPhone app, the snappily entitled Photoshop.com Mobile, which, as the name suggests, is tightly integrated with Photoshop.com. The app has a limited range of editing options that include Cropping, Rotating, Flipping, Exposure, Saturation, Tint, Black and White and Sketch, Soft Focus and a small range of Filtering options. It prompts you to select a pre-existing image or to take a new one. It also allows you to Save and Upload your images to Photoshop.com, where a free 2GB of online storage is available. Unfortunately, the Upload function on the edit menu is a bit flakey, however, the dedicated Upload button on the main menu page worked perfectly well.
The editing options, while limited in range, do what they do very well, although filtering is a bit of a mixed bag. All the editing functions are very well presented and allow you to work easily by dragging on the image. The Save function saves an edited JPEG version of the image back to your camera roll by adding it to the end of the existing images and incrementing the last image number by 1.
Although based in the UK, I was able to register for this US optimised site with a small bit of toing and froing. Fairly quickly, I was able to upload any images on my iPhone camera roll to the Photoshop.com site – on which a number of additional edits are possible. The app also allows you to check what you have online at Photoshop.com and all in all is a great – (did I say it was free?) – addition to iPhone photographic functionality.
It gets a well deserved 4 stars from us.
