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First official time at the beach. He sat there, then laid there, mostly listened and looked at the Gulf of Mexico then grabbed handfuls of sand and tried to eat them. He's a typical boy!
I've been trying out this app by Nik software called Snapseed.
The selective adjustment feature is a standout for photo editing on a touchscreen. What you do is touch the point you want to adjust. The software creates a resizable circular mask anchored around the point you selected and automatically limits the editing area to the object - probably using some sort of colour and luminance matching eg. A symbol or underexposed shadow. You can then adjust the exposure, contrast an saturation of the selected object in quite a natural way without affecting other parts of the photo. It's like the old darkroom techniques of spotting and dodging, but done with digital precision. It's hard to explain in words so here's the demo video
On my last trip I also tried pairing my DSLR with my iPad to backup and process photos on the fly. All I needed was an iPad USB adapter and USB cable to hook it up directly to any digital camera. I usually lug around a MacBook + hard drive.
The workflow from camera to publishing is still a little clunky:
1. Use the standard iOS Photo app to import photos from the camera. It would be really helpful if they made the previews larger so you can actually choose the best shots to import. Instead you get small thumbnails that don't show you much detail.
2. Open Snapseed and of the photos you did import, try guessing the best one to edit from the small thumbnails. You end up opening and closing photos several times to get the right shot to edit.
3. Use the Snapseed touchscreen editing tools - which are great!
4. Save back to the iOS Gallery.
5. Use whatever it is you do to share photos. With the Flickr app you can tag and upload up to 10 at a time.
It would be great if there was a way to sync all your work back onto a desktop when you finally get home to view and continue editing via a bigger screen so that you can continue on with the editing.
However, I've never used a more efficient tool for the editing part. The touchscreen enables me to apply delicate exposure and contrast adjustments and I didn't have to wait till I got home to get my photos off my DSLR and onto the web. Lookin forward to the next version of this app.
Pros
- selective adjustment for fine and precise image control
- ambience adjustment is a good alternative look to vignette
- great natural adjustments and effects
- brilliant value for AUD$5.49
Cons
- each edit is burnt in each time you use one of Snapseed's tools with no undo button
- you can't batch process
- no end-to-end workflow. It would be greatly improved with better import and export/sharing tools
Comments and links please!
I was keen to try and see if I can do everything I need to on my iPad without having to sit in front of my desktop... seems like we're not quite there yet. At the moment I can only really use Snapseed for ad-hoc editing but what I'd like to do is pair my camera with my iPad for most of the edits and relegate the Desktop to backups and high detail edits in Photoshop.
If anyone has a better way to process images from their DSLR on their iPad, do tell!