iPhoto: The Missing Manual

Chapter 14. Editing Photos on the iPad

As you learned in Chapter 5, iPhoto lets you edit your photos in myriad ways. You also know that you can undo your edits anytime to get back to your original shot. Happily, editing on your iPad works the exact same way. Interestingly, you can actually do more editing in iPhoto for iOS than you can with iPhoto for Mac.

For example, the edits you make using iPhoto on your Mac affect the entire photo. There’s no way to tell the program, “Hey, I want you to make this edit only in this one area.” It’s a different story in iPhoto on your iPad, where its brushes let you paint edits onto your photo in the areas where you want them. This feature is incredibly useful when you need to lighten, darken, or even sharpen certain spots of a photo. You’ll learn all about iPhoto’s brushes on Using Brushes.

You also have access to far more effects in iPhoto on your iPad than you do on your Mac. As of this writing, there are nine different effect categories, each containing at least seven fun photo treatments. Coverage of these goodies starts on Fun with Effects.

Once you start editing images on your iPad, it’s important to understand how iPhoto for iOS handles syncing those edited photos. You’d think it’d be an easy, two-way syncing process, but it’s not. As you’ll learn in the box on Copying Edited Photos to Your Computer, getting the edited versions onto your computer takes some doing (and in the process, your edits become permanent).

You’ve already learned how ...