Photoshop.com Mobile - A Great Free iPhone Photo Editor

Adobe released an iPhone app recently that allows for on-the-go photo editing. There are two very surprising things about this application: 1) It's good - in fact it's very good considering the price. 2) The price - it's FREE! That's correct, Adobe actually made an application that's free and what's more, it feels like it shouldn't be. This is a solid application for quickly retouching photos out in the field. You won't be able to do anything significant like add masks or mock-up websites, but if you need to crop, de-saturate, and publish a photo from anywhere, then definitely give Adobe's Photoshop.com iPhone application a look.

The application is directly tied in with its Photoshop.com photo sharing service. When you first load the app, you'll notice that three of the four icons on the bottom tab bar will let you edit, view, and upload your photos to share with the world. The last icon is for modifying the application's settings.

Upon first load, you'll be given two options - take a new photo or use an existing one from your camera roll. Once you've made your choice, you'll be taken to the Edit screen. The number of options given to the user is staggering. it doesn't look like much at first, but each icon comes with its own drop down menu. For example, within the "Color" icon (second from the left on top), you can adjust the exposure, saturation and tint of the photo, as well as make it black-and-white. To utilize your selection, you drag your finger over the photo itself, which makes Photoshop.com Mobile feel more like an Apple-branded iPhone app, rather than something from a third party.

Once you've finished editing your photo, you can save it to your camera roll and upload it directly to the Photoshop.com site where all your friends can see your iPhone-edited masterpiece.

This isn't meant to replace any of your desktop photo-editing applications (especially Photoshop proper), but it might replace some of your iPhone photo-editing apps, especially given the price. My advice: download it and use it for awhile. Even if you don't use the Photoshop.com service, you'll still get a lot of benefit from a free photo editor for the iPhone published by the makers of the industry's defacto photo-editing standard.

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