PhotoForge is a highly optimized editing and painting application designed for the iPhone and iPod touch. 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.

ADJUSTMENTS:

• Curves - Perhaps the most powerful and flexible image transformation tool, essentially enabling you to create your own filters.
• Noise Reduction - Digitally reduces color noise present in the photo. (Apply multiple times for more reduction)
• Sharpen - Sharpen images to remove the softness introduced during digital photo capture
• Auto White Balance - Removes unrealistic color casts, so that objects which appear white in person are rendered white in your photo.
• Auto Exposure - Corrects exposures by adjusting light intensity.
• Manual Exposure - Manually adjust photo exposure with a single slider
• Brightness and Contrast - Manually adjust the brightness and contrast of your photos with these sliders.

TOOLS:

• 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. Use the Smudge tool in the same way as you would your finger when working with a pencil or charcoal.
• Clone Stamp tool - Works by ‘sampling’ pixels at one location in an image, and painting them in a different location. Essential for retouching images.
• Eraser tool - Able to 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 - Allows you to zoom in and out, as well as pan, without damaging the editing work. Landscape editing is supported.
• Eye Dropper tool - Selects the colors of individual pixels in an image. Use the Eye Dropper by moving your finger over the image, and reading/selecting the tonal values at different points.
• Fill tool - Enables you to fill the visible area of the image with color.

FILTERS:

• Black & White
• Dreamy
• Enhanced
• Lomo
• Sepia
• Night Vision
• Heat Map
• Pencil
• Neon
• Blur
• Emboss
• Sunset
• Blue Sky
• Television

OTHER FEATURES:

• Load photos from your camera and 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 option allows you to revert your editing mistakes
• Save to 4 different output sizes; 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, 1600x1200 (Change through settings menu)

AppStore Link: PhotoForge - Price £2.99 ($4.99)