New iPad Photo App: MobileMonet HD

"MobileMonet HD is a photo sketching/painting app for the iPad that supports full-res images."

App Store Description: MobileMonet HD allows you to interactively create an artistic rendering of a photo using a creative two step process.

The Unique Sketch/Paint Process

• MobileMonet HD generates a black and white sketch version of any picture you select. There are settings to adjust the sketch line thickness, intensity and even color, as well as the shading.
• MobileMonet HD then lets you paint onto the sketch using a soft flow brush tool that applies a painterly version of the original photo. The more you brush, the more paint is applied. It’s deceptively simple, but very creative. Brush in just the areas you want to highlight. You can adjust the paint settings to get just look you want. The adjustments include vibrance and brightness, as well as number of color shades and edge softness.

Complete Professional App

• MobileMonet HD supports multiple undo, live controls, high speed brushing, pan and zoom, device orientation and saves at high resolution. Images can be loaded from the Photo Album, Camera, Clipboard or Facebook and can be saved to the Album, eMail, MMS, or Facebook.

App Store Link: MobileMonet HD; Price: £1.19/$1.99/€1.59

Editors comments: If you use your iPad to edit your photos, and you want to create that painterly look, then MobileMonet HD takes the hard work out of this process.

In my tests, this app coped with the 10 megapixel images from my Canon 400D DSLR without any problems, saving them at the original full resolution.