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Photoshop Touch Overview - II

Photoshop Touch offers four categories to 9 effects in each: Basic, Stylize, Artistic, Photo. Much of it is focused on the picture, and they were not called Automatic - one effect - one effect. Deliberate tautology means that make the picture "candy" overlay, for example, Stamp Pattern does not, in fact - it is suitable for display to others is in doubt. Photoshop Touch requires a knowledge of the influence of and ability to combine the available tools. If Snapseed lets you customize several thematic filters, Photoshop Touch in these filters to create step by step, layer by layer. Ideally, projecting knowledge desktop version.

  

  HDR Look Filters and Grainy Night

More arguments "for"

Snapseed has a unique control - enough for most press your finger to the screen svaypami up and down to select an option or a tool, svaypami left to right to indicate the intensity of its effects. For the development of the interface requires a few minutes, and then just do not understand why others do not use the photo editors sverhudobnuyu management scheme. It is still possible to compare the original and the processed image. Well, one of the strongest arguments in favor of the program will be the one for free (compared to $ 5 for a version of Photoshop Touch for iPhone).

C filter (top) and without (bottom)

Photoshop Touch can not only edit photos and create images. There are a variety of brushes, tools, fill and gradient, blur and sharpness, even your favorite Clone Stamp & Healing. Do not forget about a great opportunity to release parts of the image (Magic Wand on the spot), and often useful shade and mandatory text blocks. So how can forget layers! As a result, we have cut down, but Photoshop. That is a very advanced tool, albeit requiring a thorough study.

Brushes

Selection panel selection tool

Separately tell you about a very steep, but the nuances of the opportunity - Adobe Creative Cloud . This is a cloud service that allows you to synchronize projects between mobile and desktop versions of Photoshop. That is, start editing is possible on the iPhone, and finish the procedure on a large screen iMac or slightly less than the big iPad. The idea is cool, but its spread among our people rests on two things - Cloud now available in Ukraine, and costs $ 20 per month.

Outcome / verdict

When you select a photo editor is very important to understand the purpose for which you intend to use it, as described products represent radically different approaches. Snapseed - it's very convenient in many automated tools for primary processing of the image and overlay effects artistry. Photoshop Touch may well be attributed to the professional tools, as even a third of its capacity will not be a simple user demand. It is seen as a great companion to Photoshop and Photoshop Touch for iPad, in that its use is logical conjunction.But very few will be willing to pay rent for the Adobe Creative Cloud, without which such a scenario is impossible.

It makes sense to choose Snapseed, if:

• need easy to use photo editor
• there is no need to make changes in the image, clean or restore its fragments, superimpose text
• critical speed and performance and comfort control with a small screen
• artistic filters like and want to monitor their impact

It makes sense to choose Photoshop Touch, if:

• know Photoshop
• on the iPhone need an editor with the opportunities as close to a desktop Photoshop
• already use or plan to use a bunch of desktop Photoshop + Photoshop Touch sync projects through Adobe Creative Cloud
• willing to put up with not the most user-friendly controls, delays in the processing of commands

Photoshop Touch or Snapseed. Choose the best photo editor for iPhone

I am sure you are not shocking statement that the latest generation iPhone is set smart camera. She's cool and quickly removes, by activating the screen lock is always on hand, and it just is not a sin to use. But a good shot - it's only half the story, it is also ideally need to be processed in a graphics editor. That process, not impose automatic coarse filter!

Regular readers may have noticed that for the post-processing of images, we strongly recommend the program Snapseed (which has recently became free ). The comments even flashed corruption charges, allegedly bought us developers with giblets. I declare with full responsibility - it is a blatant lie! Just until recently, this application did not have any viable alternative. But yesterday eminent Photoshop Touchreceived another update, and with it the support of the iPhone. It would be a great omission not understand why there is a new player and not his background as our favorite looks Snapseed.

Overview Snapseed

Designed for people / redaktorische for pros

  Snapseed - left, Photoshop Touch - right

Snapseed aimed at beginner with minimal, or even the lack of understanding the mechanisms of image processing. Do not hide it in press releases, talking about it, and affordable business management tools. But the implementation of Annex features a flexible (and though not mandatory) setting

tools and image quality after post-processing allow Snapseed to use not only for entertainment but also for work. As a result it is not a mega-functional, but a good and very easy to use photo editor.

Photoshop Touch - youngest in the family of Photoshop, the heir to the world's best professional bitmap photo editor. The creators really tried to include in the mobile version features more noble ancestor, and that the convenience of use. But the trade-off - it is a compromise. Either half or even one-fifth of the monster Photoshop CS version of the phone have not got, and that fit requires many, many buttons and sliders. As a result, to use the program on a 4-inch screen, the iPhone is possible, but the process is not comfortable to call. And without proper training (ideally - familiarity with large Photoshop) complicated. If you intend to unlock the potential of this tool, be prepared to understand and even learn.

Pruning, resayzd, rotation, and so on in the same spirit

In Snapseed provides two tools for such manipulations with images: Crop and Straighten & Rotate. The first allows you to quickly crop images by one of the patterns (the original, square, 3:2, 16:9, etc., a total of 8 pieces) or in arbitrary proportions. The second tool is able to rotate the image in increments of 90 'or 10' between left and right. In the latter case it is necessary to sacrifice some image as background to add a snapshot editor can not. But even more embarrassing inability to adjust the actual resolution of the frame - it is as large as possible after all your scrap-rotations.

  

Let's start with the fact that  Photoshop Touch  allows you to set the size limit of the imported image (in Mp) and the reference pixels in the editor will occur often. Photoshop Touch also supports layers, and therefore can not be limited initially available cloth and otherwise alter the picture. So these problems Snapseed here you will not find. The image can be cut (templates, unfortunately, no), randomly rotate, translate, mirror and distort beyond recognition. Moreover, most of the processes are set up to pixels / degree. Such a great opportunity - it is a plus, but the process has nuances. Among them - the apparent delay in the application process, the need to deal in a variety of instruments and over-miniaturization of some of them. The work of the editor requires thoughtfulness and precision, "on the go" picture is not handled.

  

Image enhancing color, sharpness, saturation, and not only

In this aspect of image processing Snapseed  is a great opportunity. Automatic tool produces almost automatic correction of the image, allowing you to configure only the intensity of the impact on the contrast and color (from 0 to 100). Tune Imege implement fine-tune brightness, lighting, contrast, saturation and white balance. Regulated by each parameter in the range of -100 to 100 in units. Details can be adjusted by means of focus and structure of the image. There are Selective Adjust - one of the most useful tools for fine-tuning the picture (to a certain extent it is an alternative to laying fiber filter to a specific area in the Photoshop Touch). The tool allows you to adjust brightness, contrast and saturation of a specific area, and can be repeated many times. For example, it allows you to identify the person in the picture and draw attention away from the unimportant details. Most importantly, the use of all available methods of treatment is fast, intuitive gestures, almost without buttons.

  Automatic modes and Tune Imege

  Selective Adjust mode

Why, it's  Photoshop ! This idea will be the background to haunt you in the process of exploring this aspect of using Photoshop Touch. The application has great tools for image processing: In & W, Saturation, Auto Fix, Brightness / Contrast, Temperature, Replace Color, Shadows / Highlights, Color Balance, Reduce Noise, Invert, Levels, Curves. Each of the available tools have several, sometimes dozens, corrective adjustments.And tied to the color options also make it very, very accurately select the color, and even prescribe its value.All picture settings can be applied both at the entire picture, and the parts of it (brush, make a selection.)And do not forget the layers and features of their application. Picture of boundless freedom spoil a no mask but constant delay effect applied to the image (even Hustler iPhone 5).

  Tool Levels (right)

  Curves tools and Reduce Noise

Effects, filters

Effects and filters - including strengths Snapseed . And here it is important to understand that this is not a dozen pieces, used "as is" with the hope that one of them will turn a mediocre shot into a masterpiece (hello,Instagram !). In Snapseed artistic tools are divided into categories: Black & White, Vintage Films, Drama, Grange, Center Focus, Tilt Shift, Retrolux and Frames. I will not dwell on each separately, as the subject in a separate review . Their common feature is the presence of several styles within the given topic, the choice of textures (when texture mapping provides filter), as well as several options overlay effect. Through extensive configuration, each of the available tools offers dozens (if e hundreds) of options, and you feel like a participant in the process of modifying the frame, not outside observer (hello, Instagram!). Impact on the sharpness of the frame in the Center Focus Tilt Shift, and very high quality, a lot of frames to choose from and they are configured in a wide range.

  Filter Vintage (right)

  Filters and Drama Retrolux

Photoshop Touch offers four categories to 9 effects in each: Basic, Stylize, Artistic, Photo. Much of it is focused on the picture, and they were not called Automatic - one effect - one effect. Deliberate tautology means that make the picture "candy" overlay, for example, Stamp Pattern does not, in fact - it is suitable for display to others is in doubt. Photoshop Touch requires a knowledge of the influence of and ability to combine the available tools. If Snapseed lets you customize several thematic filters, Photoshop Touch in these filters to create step by step, layer by layer. Ideally, projecting knowledge desktop version.

  

  HDR Look Filters and Grainy Night

More arguments "for"

Snapseed has a unique control - enough for most press your finger to the screen svaypami up and down to select an option or a tool, svaypami left to right to indicate the intensity of its effects. For the development of the interface requires a few minutes, and then just do not understand why others do not use the photo editors sverhudobnuyu management scheme. It is still possible to compare the original and the processed image. Well, one of the strongest arguments in favor of the program will be the one for free (compared to $ 5 for a version of Photoshop Touch for iPhone).

C filter (top) and without (bottom)

Photoshop Touch can not only edit photos and create images. There are a variety of brushes, tools, fill and gradient, blur and sharpness, even your favorite Clone Stamp & Healing. Do not forget about a great opportunity to release parts of the image (Magic Wand on the spot), and often useful shade and mandatory text blocks. So how can forget layers! As a result, we have cut down, but Photoshop. That is a very advanced tool, albeit requiring a thorough study.

Brushes

Selection panel selection tool

Separately tell you about a very steep, but the nuances of the opportunity - Adobe Creative Cloud . This is a cloud service that allows you to synchronize projects between mobile and desktop versions of Photoshop. That is, start editing is possible on the iPhone, and finish the procedure on a large screen iMac or slightly less than the big iPad. The idea is cool, but its spread among our people rests on two things - Cloud now available in Ukraine, and costs $ 20 per month.

Outcome / verdict

When you select a photo editor is very important to understand the purpose for which you intend to use it, as described products represent radically different approaches. Snapseed - it's very convenient in many automated tools for primary processing of the image and overlay effects artistry. Photoshop Touch may well be attributed to the professional tools, as even a third of its capacity will not be a simple user demand. It is seen as a great companion to Photoshop and Photoshop Touch for iPad, in that its use is logical conjunction.But very few will be willing to pay rent for the Adobe Creative Cloud, without which such a scenario is impossible.

It makes sense to choose Snapseed, if:

• need easy to use photo editor
• there is no need to make changes in the image, clean or restore its fragments, superimpose text
• critical speed and performance and comfort control with a small screen
• artistic filters like and want to monitor their impact

It makes sense to choose Photoshop Touch, if:

• know Photoshop
• on the iPhone need an editor with the opportunities as close to a desktop Photoshop
• already use or plan to use a bunch of desktop Photoshop + Photoshop Touch sync projects through Adobe Creative Cloud
• willing to put up with not the most user-friendly controls, delays in the processing of commands

Why and how to remove the shadow of the screenshots in OS X [Guide]

This very brief statement can be useful for users of OS X, which periodically makes screenshots and then use them for publications, for example, in my personal blog.

And what, in fact, we solve the problem? OS X default settings given that the keyboard shortcut  command + shift +4 + space bar  to take a screenshot of the active window, framed shadow on four sides. This, perhaps, is beautiful, but not always justified - the shadow is part of a decent storage space screenshot.See for yourself.

Previously, when writing instructions , I had to handle screenshots in image editor, or even cut them when they are created ( command + shift four) , depriving the image rounded edges of windows. My colleague Jonas suggested a simple and effective solution to the cleaning shadow, leaving only the window. It looks like this:

To "teach» OS X to take screenshots without a shadow, you type in "Terminal" command (you can copy and paste):

defaults write com.apple.screencapture disable-shadow-bool true && killall SystemUIServer

To return to the shadows to perform the command:

defaults write com.apple.screencapture disable-Shadow-bool false  && killall SystemUIServer

I would be glad if someone has this trick useful.

Check out our " Instructions for iOS and OS X "and find something interesting for yourself.

Apple patented a magnetic mount for iPad

A few days ago Patent and Trademark patent application U.S. confirms Apple, which refers to the unique development of American corporations - the device with magnets to attach iPad to different surfaces.

Special stand with magnets will be installed on the tablet treadmill stand, music stand, etc. In addition, it can help you to connect the two devices via a hinge, which will create a sort of book. The comparison is with the book is not accidental: the loops Mount the wireless chips, which will link the two tablet in a single unit, and features like page turning will be displayed simultaneously on both devaysa.

Apple plans to connect the attachment device with shielded magnetic component, which will be placed in the iPad, which guarantees an additional bond. Unshielded powerful magnets may affect the electronic components inside the device, so the usual focus of such passes.

As filed, by the way, is detailed iPad mounting system in the car: you can use the rotary encoder to enable and disable the tablet. Probably the connection machine to the plate will be made possible by identification with a "magnetic signature". Motorists (and not only them) will appreciate the useful and convenient functionality in combination with wireless data transmission.