iPhoto app comes to the new iPad
Certainly, there's a wonderful iPhoto app for the new ipad. For years, Apple’s iPhoto has been the go-to software for Mac owners looking to catalog photos and make simple edits to pictures. The new one is massively powerful and puts a lot of the iPad’s other photo editing tools on notice. Effects look great. iPhoto for iPad will take any image up to 19-Megapixels in size, and all your pictures sync with iCloud. But if you just need to sync ipad with new computer, I know how to do it quickly. The app is $4.99, and it joins a host of photo apps for the iPhone and iPad. The new app requires updating your software to iOS 5.1. It’s an easy addition that can be had by going to the General section of your mobile device and clicking on software update.
Let's get more about the new apps. The home screen in iPhoto for iPad shows four tabs along the top: Albums, Photos, Events, and Journals. Tapping into any of these except for Journals, takes you to an individual photo page, and a grid icon displays thumbnails of all the photos in the album along the left (you can switch between one, two, or three columns for this, or move it to the right). As with some other clever iOS apps, a question mark button is always present, to show you overlays that explain what all the controls on the screen do or bring up help. Next to this, an undo arrow lets you backtrack at any time, and a super helpful button at top right lets you quickly view the original image after any amount of edits. A nearby "i" info icon shows camera, size, and date for the present photo.
Once you're in a photo page, you can tap the Edit button at top-right for a slew of options. Along the bottom left, icons access crop and straighten, exposure, color, brushes, and effects. In the middle are your Auto-Enhance (which worked fairly well for me except on difficult exposures), Rotate 90 degrees, Flag, Favorite, and an X for Hide. I would have preferred to see more than one auto option, however, with different options separated out for brightness, color, and so on.
Adjusting brightness and contrast is handled in a way that's innovative for the touch interface. A bar along the bottom represents the image from its darkest to lightest tones, and you can either tap on the picture and swipe up or down to increase or decrease brightness, and right or left to do the same for contrast. The Apple-award-winning SnapSeed for iPad uses a similar swiping approach. Alternatively, you can slide points on the bar at the bottom that corresponds to the darkest and brightest points, or to points along the bar that indicate contrast. So moving the leftmost end of the bar can make a photo darker than its darkest value, and the same goes for brightness on the right. It's sort of a histogram without the graph.
The artist's palette icon offers the five adjusters shown along the bottom – saturation, blue skies, greenery, skin tones, and white balance. Just swipe up or down to increase or decrease each adjustment. Here it's asking for skin colors, but if you place your finger on sky blue, the option changes to darken or brighten the intensity of the sky. You can choose standard white balance settings like sun, clouds, or flash, but you can also set a custom white balance based on a person's skin in the photo or a neutral tone in the photo.
I guess the photo is pretty good after get everything done. In that case, I will kepp it and share with friends and family. You may transfer photos from ipad to pc for backup, too. Ok, I think you have a fair understanding of iPhoto. Next, try this.
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