3 Creative Photo Editing Apps for Your iPhone or iPad

Tilt Shift Generator for iPhone and iPad

Photo editing apps for the iPhone and iPad are becoming increasingly popular these days. After all, they’re a great way to express your photographic creativity, even when you’re not out shooting photos. Got a couple of hours to kill at the airport? Why not edit a few photos and share them with friends. Burned out from doing image edits and resizes on that huge batch of wedding or commercial photos that you shot the other day? Take a breather and fool around with some fun photos to break the monotony.

Here are three fun iPhone photography apps that are sure to spark some creativity, and at the very least, give you some fun visual candy while you’re waiting for those hi res images to upload to your client’s ftp site.

TiltShift Generator: Nothing changes things up like slapping on a tilt shift lens or a Lensbaby. Now you can manipulate focus, apply radical depth of field effects and recreate that incredibly stylized look to images that are stored on your iPhone’s camera roll. Also works on the iPad, which I’m sure looks great on the bigger screen. They even have a web version of the app that you can try out for free.

Masque for iPad: Make your photos pop by adding any number of striking effects, including B+W, Blur, Contrast, Darken, Saturate, Invert and Erase. The app allows you to paint effects onto any part of your image, gives you the option of changing brush sizes, applying effects to multiple layers and features Multi-Touch Gradient Tool.

Masque for iPad

Artist’s Touch: Available for both iPhone and iPad, Artist’s Touch allows you to paint realistic-looking effects onto your photos. You import a photo, choose a medium and start painting. Included mediums include oil paint, watercolor, pencil, airbrush, chalk, finger paint and a host of other paper and texture effects.

Artist's Touch

I’ve used apps like these before and they’re not for the creatively timid. You’ll need to just jump right in there and start experimenting. However, if you drop all inhibitions and just go at it, you can create some really cool art!

————-

Dan Bailey is a professional adventure, outdoor and travel photographer based in Anchorage, Alaska. Follow his own blog at danbaileyphoto.com/blog and see his daily updates at facebook.com/danbaileyphoto.

Tagged as: App, app reviews, creative inspiration, editing, Editor's Pick, fine art photography, iPad, Iphone, Photography