Today Adobe announced Photoshop Mobile (PS Mobile) for the iPhone. This is a free app that allows for editing of new camera images or images from the camera roll in the iPhone:
PS Mobile has four options groups of editing options:
- Crop/Rotate/Flip
- Exposure/Saturation/Tint/Black & White
- Sketch/Soft Focus
- Effects: Vibrant, Pop, Border, Vignette Blur, Warm Vintage, Rainbow, White Glow, Soft Black & White
Pulling up an options allows for further detail of the change. For example, if I select ‘exposure’, it switches to a screen where I can swipe my finger across the screen to change the levels between –64 and +64- accompanied with a live change view.
Other options across the bottom of the screen allow for cancel, undo, redo and save. The save options allows to save on the iPhone (as a new file- not replacing the original) or upload photoshop.com (more on this later).
Overall, the software is very responsive (at least on an iPhone 3GS) and actually a little fun to use. It is a great app to take a picture, convert it to B&W and save it for email/MMS to a friend.
One issue I immediately discovered is when I save a modified image, it creates as new copy- and it is missing almost all of the original EXIF data:
Original EXIF Data  | EXIF Data After PS Mobile  |
Hopefully this is an oversight in the initial build and will be corrected in future releases.
Abobe seems to be taking a foothold in the online photo sharing game; PS Mobile allows for uploading to the ‘photoshop.com photo sharing site’. The site is a flash based web site that can accept uploads and perform basic editing of the photos- as well as allow for emailing, linking and downloading the photos. The editing features on the site are more diverse than the PS Mobile app- adding red-eye removal, distort and sharpen options- to name but a few.
Photoshop.com allows for customized site names (I am using http://broo2.photoshop.com) and provides 2GB of free storage. If you need more, it will cost a bit:
| 2GB | Free |
| 20GB | $20/Yr |
| 40GB | $50/Yr |
| 100GB | $100/Yr |
| 250GB | $250/Yr |
| 500GB | $500/Yr |
The site also allows linking to Facebook, Flickr, PhotoBucket and Picassa for editing of photos contained in each. The editing saves the changed photo back to the originating site- also as a copy, leaving the original intact.
The website does not seem to retain the login information for the sites mentioned above; if I close my browser, I must re-authenticate for Flickr/Facebook/etc.
I have not verified if the website strips the EXIF data.
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