I am a big fan of Nik Software’s collection of apps for the Mac or PC for use in Photoshop, Lightroom or my choice Aperture. Special price now at Amazon (See all Photo Editing Software) .  Nik Software has now created similar features in a new app for the iPad and iPad 2 called Snapseed for iPad.

With Snapseed, enhance your photos with one tap. Tweak photos to perfection with Tune Image or selectively adjust only a part of your photo with revolutionary Control Points. Add incredible effects with innovative filters like Drama, Vintage, and Grunge. Share photos with your friends and family with social network support, email, or print your photos directly in Snapseed.

Some of the effects include:  Grunge, Selective Adjust, Drama, and Vintage Films.
Other features include: Center Focus, Black & White, Organic Frames, and an easy to use Auto Correct.
And Tools such as: Tune Image, Rotate/Straighten, and Crop.

I encourage you to check out Snapseed for iPad as it may be the coolest and most intelligent photo editing app for the iPad.

(Source: david-andrew)

Filterstorm Pro is one of the best photo editing apps for the iPad as of this writing.  Now there is truly a mobile photography workflow and to top it off Filterstorm Pro supports RAW images. 

Filterstorm’s tools range from basic cropping and rotating, to more advanced white point selection and curves tools for individual channels, RGB, and Luminance values. Color Balance, cloning, straightening, Black and White (with channel mixing), and even tone mapping are all possible in FSPro and most can be combined with masks for precise effects.  Filterstorm’s masking tools are second to none, including brushes, gradients, color replacement, and new vignetting tools.

Here are the delivery options available:

• Email images
• Post images via FTP
• Send images to Flickr
• Send images to Dropbox
• Save edits as automations to apply to other images

Check out Filterstorm Pro on the iTunes App store yourself and see it is definitely one of the top photography editing/workflow apps for the IPad.  Let’s see your output images from this app.

FieldCam gives your iPad all the functionality of a Victorian plate camera (only with worse photos) There aren’t many iPad photo-taking apps yet, although there are plenty for editing. This may be because the iPad 2 is so new. It may also be because the iPad’s camera is so awful, an embarrassment along the lines of putting a pair of drum brakes onto Alberto Contador’s race bike. One thing is certain, though. The lack of apps isn’t due to Apple’s effort being too good to beat. When people say that the iPad is “just a big iPhone,” they’re talking about the built-in camera app. Even the shutter button is impossible to reach when taking a snap. Enter FieldCam. The app, from the people who brought the square-picture shooting 6X6 to the iPhone, does two things. First, it puts two shutter buttons under your thumbs, in both landscape and portrait orientations. Second, it turns your iPad into a Victorian-era Field Camera.

On Chase Jarvis’ blog, guest poster Scott does a nice walkthrough of converting a photo from color to black and white in Aperture 3 and making the point that the finished product is every bit as good as in Photoshop.

The above file on the left was processed entirely in Aperture. The above file on the right is the Photoshop version that we discussed before the holidays. One can certainly nitpick to find details that are different between the two, I know I did, but that would be missing the point.

Speaking of the point, let me get to it. These two images were processed with different RAW algorithms, retouched, adjusted, smooth, and sharpened with different tools with different abilities and nuances. People will rant and rave ad nauseum online about the differences between software offerings. Yet despite all of the obvious discrepancies between the Aperture and Photoshop methods, the net result is very much the same. The vision is important, the method is not. Join me after the jump to learn more.

More at:  Photoshop vs. Aperture or Lightroom: MORE on B&W Post Production | Chase Jarvis Blog