Tapping the flag icon "flags" a photo (as you might flag certain e-mails for later actions), tapping favorite marks an image as a "favorite," and tapping the "X" hides an image. You can rotate images 90 degrees with the orientation tool, clockwise by default or counterclockwise by holding on the icon to bring up a contextual pop-over. Like most automatic tools, however, don't expect miracles. (The iPhone doesn't have the orientation control, however.) Auto-enhance does the same "magic" that it does in iPhoto on the desktop, and the results are generally good for the average photo. The basic tools are, from left to right, auto-enhance, orientation, flag, favorite, and hide. The iPad also offers an additional drop-down menu that lets you limit the displayed thumbnails to just flagged, edited, or "hidden" images. On the iPad, you can adjust the width of the thumbnail column to show one, two, or three columns of thumbnails at a time. Tapping the "grid" icon on the top toolbar will show images in a scrollable thumbnail view, either to the left of the selected image (iPad) or along the bottom (iPhone). Choosing an image loads it into a larger view, ready to apply the various editing tools. These views let you look through your images as well as pick one for editing. We won't make an aesthetic judgement, but in our experience, Apple's use of skeuomorphism works well in iPhoto. In some cases the ornamentation is superfluous, in other cases it limits or impedes functionality (see Lion's address book). For instance, journals look like little Moleskine notebooks. Like many of Apple's recent apps, iPhoto for iOS relies heavily on "skeuomorphism," or making UI elements that look like their real-life counterparts. Note that events and journals also appear on floating glass shelves. Events only work if synced from the desktop, and "faces" don't sync. The event and journal views on the iPhone. We verified with Apple that as far as functionality is concerned, the iPad and iPhone versions are identical. Apple says it's compatible with iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, and iPad 2 or higher, and requires iOS 5.1. More importantly, for $4.99 you get a photo editing tool that can, in many ways, out-Photoshop Adobe's own Photoshop Touch.Īs we mentioned, iPhoto is a universal app, so you can use it on iPads as well as iPhones. It also improves a bit on the standard Photos app's organization, and greatly enhances sharing options. The app has a lot more photo tweaking capability than you might expect from first blush, including fully non-destructive editing that can be selectively undone. We spent some quality time with the app using an iPad 2 and iPhone 4, and came away impressed with the unique user interface design, general intuitiveness, and overall power Apple managed to pack into the app. Photograph by Chris Foresman reader comments 42 withĪpple released the final piece of its iLife suite for iOS on March 7, delivering a universal version of iPhoto for iPad and iPhone (sorry, iPod touch users).
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