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    Best iPad Photo Editing/Painting Applications

    I would like to share some of the best iPad applications. If you are interested to see some of them then here it is:

    1. Photogene

    Photogene is about improving your digital photos and having fun while at it. Photogene is the ultimate editing tool for your photos on Apple mobile devices. With Photogene, it’s easier than ever to edit, improve and decorate your photos.


    This intuitive, easy to use application offers a comprehensive set of professional editing tools:
    • Crop and straighten.
    • Sharpen.
    • Full set of color adjustments (including levels and curves). Correct underexposed photos and add a spark to washed-out ones.
    • Red-eye correction.
    • Resize to any resolution.
    • Apply one of our artistic filters such as sepia or edge blur.
    • Add text boxes of different styles, colors and fonts.
    • Add frames in various shapes and colors, including shadows and glows.
    • Special effects such as reflection or vignette.
    • Apply one of our supplied macros to instantly transform your photo, or create and save your own custom macros.
    • Multiple undo and redo.
    • Upload your edited photo directly to Facebook or Twitter, mail it, or simply save it to your iPad's photo gallery.


    This version of Photogene was tailored specifically for the iPad. Photogene for iPhone has been one of the top selling photography apps for more than 18 months. Now, we bring you a completely new version, redesigned to take advantage of the large screen and processing power of the iPad.

    2. PhotoForge

    PhotoForge is a highly optimized editing and painting application designed for the iPad. It can be used for image manipulation, retouching, effects, and color correction, as well as a painter’s tool. It is indispensable for creating original artwork, or editing photos on your mobile device.

    PhotoForge is a superb photographer’s tool, providing digital darkroom capabilities that are second to none. It is also a tool for creating incredible works of art and illustrations. PhotoForge allows you to put together an image, combining filters, brushes, and effects. They may be hand-painted, or a composite of photographic images mixed with painting. The filters and effects can be layered to produce even more dynamic results.


    TOOLS
    • Crop tool: Crop, rotate, and flip.
    • Brush tool: Experiment with 8 different brush strokes. Choose from unlimited sizes, colors, and transparency options.
    • Smudge tool: Smears the pixels along the direction of the brush stroke.
    • Clone Stamp tool: Sample pixels at one location in an image, and paint them in a different location.
    • Eraser tool: Erase away portions of brush strokes, filters or effects applied to the image. For example, this tool will allow you to colorize black and white filtered images, among countless other uses.
    • Magnify tool: Zoom in, out, and pan.
    • Eye Dropper tool: Selects the color of individual pixels in an image.
    • Fill tool: Fill the visible area of the image with color.

    OTHER FEATURES
    • Load photos from your photo albums
    • Start painting from a blank canvas
    • Edit in portrait or landscape mode
    • Hide the toolbars in full screen mode
    • Resume previous sessions if interrupted
    • Unlimited undo and redo options allow you to revert your editing mistakes
    • Save to 4 different output sizes; 800x600, 1024x768, 1600x1200, 2048×1536


    3. Filterstorm

    Filterstorm was designed from the ground up to meet your iPad photo editing needs. Using a uniquely crafted touch interface, Filterstorm allows for more intuitive editing than its desktop counterparts with a toolset designed for serious photography.

    Filterstorm contains a suite of powerful tools including curves manipulation, color correction abilities, noise reduction, sharpening, vignetting, and black and white conversion fine-tuning. It also includes the powerful ability to apply any of the available filters by brush or color range, as well as to the entire image.


    Features
    • Ability to apply adjustments to entire image, by brush, or color range
    • Curves: Luminance, RGB, Red, Green, Blue, Cyan, Magenta, Yellow
    • Adjust brush size, softness, and opacity
    • Brightness
    • Contrast
    • Color Balance
    • Saturation
    • Black and white fine-tuning
    • 10-step Visual History, saved between sessions
    • Cropping, with the ability to specify aspect ratio
    • Scaling
    • Rotation (90° increments only)
    • Vignetting
    • Sharpen
    • Tone Map (Simulated HDR)
    • Box Blur (Simulated Boke)
    • Noise Reduction
    • Clone Tool
    • Send images through e-mail
    • Send images via FTP (setup through settings menu)
    • Add IPTC Captioning to images sent through e-mail or FTP
    • Image Straightening tool
    • History/Undo Brush


    4. Masque

    Masque for iPad brings powerful photo editing to your fingertips! Add striking effects to your photos through simple touch interactions. Create your "Masque-r-piece" and then show it off to the world through convenient in-app sharing!


    Key Features
    • One-touch importing from your Facebook, Flickr, or Photo Library.
    • Paint effects on with your finger and unleash your creativity.
    • Layer multiple effects on top of each other to achieve stunning results.
    • Share photos to Facebook, Flickr, Photo Library, or email to your friends.
    • Automatically saves so that you can always continue from where you left off.


    Advanced Features
    • Use gradients to apply and fade effects across the entire photo – just like real camera filters!
    • Adjust the size, opacity and softness of your brush or eraser.
    • Invert tool magically removes an effect from where it is and applies it to where it's not.


    5. PixelMagic

    PixelMagic is the first photo editing solution for your iPad. You will find many professional tools you are used to from desktop solutions. PixelMagic is designed to be easy yet powerful. Use your fingers to control image parameters like brightness, contrast and saturation, apply filters, draw with many brushes, apply effects or perform fine-tuned histogram corrections.


    Features
    • over 10 high-quality filters: sharpen, de-noise or blur and many more
    • effects like Sepia and vignette
    • auto-fix
    • histogram controls
    • red-eye fix
    • digital brushes: paintbrush, blur, sharpen etc
    • crop, rotate, mirror


    6. PhotoPad

    PhotoPad is a premium photo editing app designed specifically for the iPad.


    PhotoPad capabilities include:
    • Image Rotation
    • Image Scaling
    • Drawing/sketching
    • Paint Bucket
    • Color Swap
    • Cropping
    • Threshold levels
    • Posterize


    Adjust:
    • Color
    • Contrast
    • Tint
    • Chromaticity
    • Saturation


    7. Sketcher HD

    Sketcher HD is the iPad Exclusive app for sketches, doodles and endless fun for you, your family and friends! If you love the good old Etch-A-Sketch, you will absolutely fall in love with Sketcher HD! Sketcher HD is not an etch a sketch. It is MUCH MORE!


    Sketcher HD Features
    • Horizontal and Vertical knobs for precise sketching!
    • Undo / Redo knob that lets you backtrack your sketch back and forth (WARNING: VERY ADDICTING!!!)
    • Tap anywhere on the screen to start sketching at that spot. Your sketch does not have to be connected!
    • Sketch with your fingers! You don't have to always use the knobs if you don't want to!
    • Sketch Gallery! Save your sketches in the sketch gallery. Reload them anytime you want! You can still undo / redo!
    • Tap Pin to delete! Just tap the sketch pin if you don't want your sketch anymore.
    • Gorgeous user interface with awesome animations!


    8. Fingerpaint Lite 2.0

    FREE FOR A LIMITED TIME, Fingerpaint Lite 2.0 has been redesigned from the ground up to take full advantage of Apple's latest iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch devices.

    This KID-FRIENDLY interface ensures that your young one will enjoy clutter-free coloring for hours!


    GLOW COLORING on black surfaces has now been enhanced, and CONVENTIONAL COLORING on a white surface has been added. DOUBLE your fun with our new FLIP MODE.

    SAVE YOUR PICTURES to the camera roll, or EMAIL TO A FRIEND.

    9. Brushes

    Brushes is a popular painting application designed from scratch for the iPhone and iPod touch. Paintings produced with Brushes have appeared on the cover of The New Yorker on numerous occasions. It has now been redesigned to take full advantage of the larger screen offered by the iPad. Featuring an advanced color picker, high quality brushes, layers, extreme zooming, and a simple yet deep interface, it is a powerful tool for creating original artwork on your mobile device.


    Features
    • High-quality brushes (with an erase mode)
    • Up to 6 Layers (768x1024): reorder, merge, and adjust transparency
    • Layer Blend Modes: Normal, Multiply, Screen, Overlay, and Color
    • Desktop-class color picker (including swatches)
    • Extremely responsive zooming from 50% to 3200%
    • Eyedropper tool
    • Generous level of undo and redo
    • In-app replay of your paintings
    • Import photos (scale, rotate, translate)
    • High resolution export with Brushes Viewer on Mac OS X
    • Upload your paintings directly to Flickr


    10. Layers

    Want to doodle, draw on photos, or paint a masterpiece on your new iPad? Look no further! Layers packs in everything you need to be creative on the go. The pro edition of Layers provides more brushes, more layers, and more advanced layer operations than the standard edition. Enjoy more control over your brush tip using the brush offset option, and email your paintings as layered PSD files to transfer your work to the desktop!


    If you're looking to try out Layers before purchasing the pro version, download the standard edition! You can upgrade at any time via in-app purchase.

    Layers for iPad offers a balanced set of painting tools completely redesigned for the iPad's large, crisp display. With high-quality brushes, an eyedropper, a smudge tool and an eraser, Layers provides the tools you need to create great art. Transparency is fully supported throughout the app and a brand-new history panel allows you to view your recent actions and quickly jump back in time. Want to add photos to your paintings? Layers allows you to position and scale the photos you add and see how they'll appear on top of your existing work.

    Layers for iPad features an online gallery that allows you to put your paintings on display and view the work of others. Create a free account within in the app to comment on paintings and upload your own, or watch replays of paintings as they come to life!

    Features
    • A clean, intuitive painting interface
    • Two fingered pan and pinch to zoom
    • Double-tap for quick zooming
    • Square (1024x1024) and 3:4 (1024x768) canvas sizes
    • Fifteen high-quality brushes
    • Up to five paintable layers per drawing
    • Paint brush, smudge tool, and eraser
    • Full featured eyedropper tool
    • Precisely adjustable brush sizes up to 64px
    • Large color picker that saves recent colors
    • Full support for brush transparency
    • Generous undo history that is saved on exit
    • Email drawings as JPG, save to photos
    • Browse thousands of paintings in the Layers Gallery
    • Replay your paintings and watch them come to life!
    • Advanced layer manipulation tools
    • Email painting as layered PSD files
    • Create a profile page in the Layers Gallery

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    11. Autodesk SketchBook Pro

    Autodesk SketchBook Pro for iPad is a professional-grade paint and drawing application. Using the same paint engine as its desktop counterpart, SketchBook Pro delivers a complete set of sketching & painting tools through a streamlined and intuitive user interface designed exclusively for the iPad experience.

    Whether you are an occasional doodler or a professional illustrator, SketchBook Pro transforms your iPad into the ultimate digital SketchBook.


    If you love SketchBook Mobile for iPhone, you will adore SketchBook Pro on the iPad.

    Features
    • Full Screen work space with support for any device orientation
    • Canvas size: 1024 x 768
    • Multi-Touch Interface:
      • Two finger pan & zoom navigation with 2500% zoom
      • Three finger tap for controls
      • Three finger swipe gestures for quick access
    • High Quality Brushes and Tools:
      • Professional grade paint engine delivers smooth and precise brush strokes
      • 75 preset brushes, including pencils, pens, markers, natural media and photo brushes
      • New Nature & Stamp brushes
      • Flood fill and smear tool
      • Completely customizable brush settings for each brush
      • Draw styles for creating straight lines, rectangles, and circles
      • Synthetic pressure sensitivity (brush fade-off)
      • 10 levels of undo and redo (Quick Access: three finger swipe left and right)
      • Dynamic symmetric drawing
      • Quick Access: Three finger swipe down on canvas
      • Individual brushes can now be reset to factory settings by pressing and holding on their icons until the reset dialogue appears.
    • Layers:
      • 6 Layers allowing ease of editing and control
      • Import layers from Photo Library
      • Duplicate, Merge and Reorder Layers
      • Move, scale, and rotate layers interactively using Multi-Touch
      • Toggle visibility and adjust Layer Opacity
      • Quick Access: Three finger swipe up on canvas
    • Blend Modes
      • SketchBook 1.1 introduces Blend Modes to the layer editor.
      • Supported Blend modes include: Multiply, Add, Screen and Normal
      • When saving to PSD blend modes are maintained in the exported file
    • Preserve Transparency
      • When enabled on a layer this feature allows users to paint only on top of existing paint strokes. This is very useful for repainting, shading or other detailed work that requires exact detail within an area that has already been painted.
    • Template Library
      • A new Template Library is now available from the image import button in the Layer Editor. This library includes a variety of grids, perspective reference and ruled paper.
    • Video Output
      • When connected to a compatible display through either the Apple Component AV Cable or the Apple Dock Connector to VGA adaptor your canvas and gallery can be mirrored to an external display or television.
    • Gallery:
      • Store and view work-in-progress
      • Export to Photo Library
      • E-mail images
      • Export as a layered PSD file
      • Browse images in full screen mode
      • Export to iTunes File Sharing
    • Colors:
      • Color Wheel with HSB and RBG color space
      • Customizable Color Swatches
      • Eye-dropper color selection
      • Erase color chip to convert any brush into custom eraser
    • Customizable double tap canvas corners
      • Customizable double tap canvas shortcuts. You can assign one of the following shortcuts to each corner: Clear Layer, Frame Canvas, Undo, Redo, Last Brush, Last Color.
    • Stay Connected:
      • Built in SketchBook News panel for live info about Sketching events and announcements
      • Visual help pages


    12. ArtStudio

    ArtStudio is a professional drawing / painting application. It uses advanced mathematics to attain the highest level of quality, at the same time offering incredible performance achieved through numerous code optimizations. It still remains a fantastic tool for beginners - it contains drawing lessons showing step-by-step instruction on drawing various types of images.


    FEATURES
    • support for any device orientation
    • available canvas sizes: 768x1024, 768x768, 1024x1024
    • 25 brushes including pencils, brushes, eraser, smudge tool, bucket fill (simple and smart mode), glow, tube, airbrush, 1px and many more…
    • 14 drawing lessons (animals, human, 3d, perspective)
    • dodge/burn with the following options: shadows/mid-tones/highlights, normal/colorize
    • advanced settings offer 8 different parameters (size, opacity, fadeout, spacing, jitter, speed-based thickness, hard-edge and more) and real-time preview for all brushes
    • erase mode for each brush
    • simulated brush pressure
    • line smoothing, antialiasing, zooming with filtering
    • shapes: lines, rectangles, ellipses, polygons (open, closed)
    • very comfortable interface; screens can be displayed in simple or advanced mode.
    • quality and performance unmatched by any other app in the app store
    • 5 layers with options: add new/delete/reorder/duplicate/merge/clear/transparency/visibility
    • layer transformations: rotate/move/scale/flip with multi-touch
    • preserve transparency layer mode (so you can draw only on the visible contents of a layer)
    • multi-touch navigation with unlimited zoom
    • tap-and-hold to enable eyedropper
    • two modes of eyedropper: sample current layer/sample all layers
    • advanced color editing with customizable color swatches and real-time colorized RGB sliders
    • undo/redo system, with almost infinite number of steps
    • filters: blur, sharpen, edge detect, sepia and more...
    • load/save/export to iphone gallery/import from gallery/send by e-mail
    • additional "quick menu" with the most frequently used functions, displayed after three-finger tap
    • over 500 beautiful paintings (selected from many more) in online gallery


    13. Artist's Touch

    Artist's Touch is an amazingly intuitive and powerful painting application that let's even an amateur artist paint like a professional. Paint "Freehand" on multiple mediums with life like tools and brushes or create paintings from your photos through our exclusive Photo Paint feature that creates digital blue prints of your photos.


    FEATURES
    • Paint in Realistic Media
      • Oil paint
      • Watercolor
      • Pencil
      • Airbrush
      • Scratchboard
      • Charcoal
      • Chalk
      • Pastel
      • Finger paint
      • Pen and Ink
      • Calligraphy
    • Paint on Realistic Paper Textures
      • Canvas
      • Brick
      • Cracked Paint
      • Mosaic
      • Rough Paper
      • Stone
    • Brush splatter - create painting 5x faster than before!
    • Photo Paint Tinting - create amazing artistic effects from your photos by tinting them as you paint in any medium like oil, watercolor, etc.
    • Completely redesigned and streamlined user interface with multi-touch pinch to zoom while painting

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    14. Adobe Ideas 1.0

    Adobe Ideas is your digital sketchbook, letting you capture and explore ideas anywhere you go. Adobe Ideas is an ideal companion for the professional design applications from Adobe, including Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop software.


    Sketch design concepts while sitting in a cafe, or capture and store color themes while browsing through the photos on your phone. Any time you need to explore creative ideas, Adobe Ideas is there with you.

    Features
    • Simple vector-based drawing tools
    • Zoom control without jaggies or big pixels
    • Variable-size brushes using multitouch control
    • Vector eraser
    • Huge virtual canvas
    • Automatic creation of harmonized color themes from your photos or images
    • Ability to email ideas as PDF files for editing in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop or for viewing with any PDF viewer
    • Gallery-style organizer to quickly scroll through your ideas and color themes
    • Separate drawing and photo layers
    • Easy creation of multiple versions of design concepts
    • 50-level undo


    Publisher: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Price: Free

    15. Draw Free for iPad

    Sketch, Doodle, Draw On Top Of Pictures, Erase, Share on Twitter and Email. Best of all, it's FREE! Draw free for iPad simply rocks!


    Publisher: David Porter Apps
    Price: Free

    16. TypeDrawing

    TypeDrawing is a really easy app to use, but it's perfect for creating TYPOGRAPHY ART and UNIQUE WATERMARK over your photos. If you love typography, this poetic visual art app is absolutely yours.

    Start by typing a sentence you want to say, and then just draw with your finger. This simple action leads you to make stunning typography arts and wallpapers. Of course, every screenshot is made only with TypeDrawing for iPad. It's your turn


    MAIN FEATURES

    TEXT
    • Type Text to draw
    • Every language in the world support (like Japanese, Chinese, Russian, ...)
    • Every unicode support (like ✤♥☂♫♞)
    • Text Archive (new feature) : Your sentences or words are automatically saved
    • Option of Always starting from the first letter when drawing


    FONT
    • 24 Font families (49 Fonts) Available
    • Option of Random typeface (this is a really cool feature)
    • Font Size from 5pt to 300pt
    • Option of Varying font size by finger speed (Draw faster to make bigger text, Draw slower to make smaller text)
    • Tracking(letter-spacing) from -200 to 300


    COLOR
    • Full Color support by Color Wheel
    • Random Color by HSV range (new feature)
    • Option of Shadow


    BACKGROUND
    • White and Black paper
    • Import Photos as background


    EYEDROPPER
    • use Eyedropper button or Tap & Hold anywhere to enable Eyedropper


    ZOOMING
    • Zooming & Panning with two fingers
    • Double tap to quickly zoom in or out


    OTHERS
    • Tap to hide or show toolbars
    • Support for any device orientation
    • Undo & Redo (10 levels)
    • Save to Photo gallery and Send Email


    Publisher: Hansol Huh
    Price: $2.99

    17. Drawing Pad

    Cheaper than a box of crayons! Drawing Pad is a mobile art studio designed exclusively for the iPad! The beautiful user interface puts the fun into creating art. Create your own art using "actual-sized" photo-realistic crayons, markers, paint brushes, colored pencils, stickers, roller pens and MORE!


    Save your artwork to your Drawing Pad Album and reload it later to keep working on your masterpiece! Save to iPhoto, share via Email, Twitter or Facebook (note to Facebook users, once you upload a drawing, log onto your Facebook account and "Approve the Pending Drawing Pad Album). Use iPhoto to set your new creations as your desktop background!

    Publisher: Darren Murtha Design
    Price: $1.99

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