New iPad Photo App: Filterstorm Pro

Filterstorm Pro redefines your photography workflow. Built with photojournalists' needs in mind, Filterstorm Pro's batch processing features let you edit, add IPTC metadata, and transmit multiple images at once.

Filterstorm Pro takes the photo editing capabilities of Filterstorm (Best App Ever 2010 iPad Photography Category), expands and enhances them, and adds its own photo library. Using FSPro's photo library lets you store multiple versions of the same image, manage IPTC information, and manage export destinations for images. You can send images to iPad's photo library, FTP, Flickr, Dropbox, and email.

Filterstorm Pro's editing tools are unparalleled on iPad. From the standard cropping, rotating, and straightening tools, to more powerful curves, white point, black and white (with RGB channel mixing) tools. The true power is revealed with the masking tools. You can apply filters such as B&W or curves to specific areas of the image using brushes, gradients, vignetting, and by color range selection.

Features:

• Export images up to ~22Megapixels (iPad 2) or ~7.5Megapixels (iPad 1)
• Bulk import from iPad Library
• Email images
• Post images via FTP
• Send images to Flickr
• Send images to Dropbox
• Save edits as automations to apply to other images
• Curves (Luminance, RGB, red, green, blue, cyan, yellow, magenta)
• Brightness
• Contrast
• Color balance
• White Point Picker
• Saturation
• Text tool
• Black and white fine-tuning
• Red-eye reduction
• 30-step Visual History
• Cropping, with the ability to specify aspect ratio
• Scale
• Scale to Fit
• Rotation and Image Straightening
• Vignetting
• Sharpen
• Tone map (Simulated HDR)
• Blur
• Noise Reduction
• Clone Tool
• Multi-exposure Tool
• Border Tool
• EXIF info (displayed and saved, cannot be edited, limited support with certain camera RAW files)

Differences between iPad and iPad 2:

• Max Export Size: ~22MP (iPad 2) / ~7.5MP (iPad 1)
• Max Library Thumbnail Size: 350px (iPad 2) / 210px (iPad 1)

PLEASE NOTE: FSPro requires location services permission in order to access photos from the photo library. It does not add any new location information to photos, but will preserve it if already there.

App Store Link: Filterstorm Pro; Price: £5.99/$9.99/€7.99

Editors comments: I'm not a big fan of the original Filterstorm, a universal app that runs on both the iPad and iPhone, however this iPad only, pro version has changed my opinion, with an interface that benefits from the iPads screen real estate. Whilst Filterstorm Pro and the original iPad will support up to 7.5 megapixels, if you are lucky enough to have the new iPad 2, then you will be pleased to hear, this app will support up to 22 megapixels, making this an ideal app for DSLR users.

Overall there is much to like about Filterstorm Pro, with its improved user interface, added features and solid support from developer Tai Shimizu.

Comments

[Amy]

Wow. This looks to be a pretty strong editing program! It looks like what I've been looking for on my iPad 2, any chance of free codes coming up before I go buy it? Lol

[gazwire]

Looks good.
I think there should be an update rout for people who have already purchased the standard one though.

[skaramba]

there will Be a free update to FS2.x Users, though Not with all pro Features.

[David Mielcarek]

Finally! Now we're getting somewhere with photo editing on iPad - I've been waiting for this since the first iPad came around!