To add a bit to my earlier note:
Though it's pretty easy to upload photos from a mobile device to an application
like Facebook and so forth, my way of operating is do a little PP on an image,
save it to a cloud, and then upload it to whatever application I want later.
I have had a meager presence on Flickr for a number of years. I was shocked to
discover that Flickr apps don't actually allow uploads. Several third-party
apps help with this, and FlickrStacker is good one.
I have a more signIficant presence on Jalbum, but there is no Android app for
it. Bah humbug.
I've run into a couple instances in which I've actually needed to remote to my
office desktop machine to do some things like move or delete files in Dropbox.
Not sure why file management needs quite that much protection.
Joel W.
On Dec 26, 2012, at 9:32 AM, jfwilcox <jfwilcox@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Much of my vacation time has been devoted to learning to use my phone
> adequately and to continue getting some use from my iPad 1.0. There had been
> a thread on photo apps a month or so ago. I guess I have a little to add to
> the subject.
>
> It appears that the trend in photo apps is 1) to make it easy to "lomo" your
> cellphone pics, and 2) to become your "cloud." I don't want either of these
> things, and so my evaluations are colored by that. I was intrigued to
> stumble on Photoshop Express, which is free I think because it wants to suck
> you into its own cloud structure. Disappointing to me is that the iPad
> version is different from the Android version. That is axiomatic, I suppose,
> but they have made no attempt to make the two versions work essentially the
> same or even to offer all of the same features. PS Express lacks several of
> the features that keep me in the PS stable otherwise: highlight/shadow tool
> is one of the key ones. Despite offering its own cloud, PS Express works
> well with my cloud of choice, Dropbox. I have Dropbox set up so that I have
> a special email address to send photos from applications to a special folder.
> (One of the apparent limitations of Dropbox is that one can only do file mana
ge
> ment such as deleting or moving files from the host computer, not from a
> mobile device. I don't know if that is absolute or if I just haven't probed
> enough.) I have not yet explored Google Drive, which I will pursue when I get
> a Round Tuit, nor Picasa.
>
> Snapseed is now owned by Google and is free, which accounts for its
> three-star rating, as it is now slammed in the reviews by people who paid
> good money for it a week before Google made it a free app. Otherwise people
> seem to love it. It is more oriented to "effects" for the lomo-instagram
> crowd IMHO. All of these programs offer to tools to change hue, saturation,
> brightness, contrast and work fine for basically unproblematic images.
> Within Snapseed's "tune image" menu are most of the controls I am interested
> in, and I like the "ambience" control, which is a lot like the controls in LR
> and Bridge which enhance and intensify color without ramping up actual
> saturation. Recommended if this is all you need.
>
> Filterstorm has the greatest flexibility of all the apps I've tried, but it
> is also more complex and has an actual learning curve to use its masks and
> layers features. It doesn't work anything like PS on a computer, but it
> offers more tools to match it than other apps. Still lacks highlight-shadow
> correction, but offers levels and curves tools, which work well, even if they
> are a little fiddly. If I could have only one program, it would be this.
> Bear in mind that I am the type that prefers PS to LR and have never done a
> batch correction on a series of photos in my life. Simplicity and
> convenience are not the primary things I am looking for.
>
> Speaking of which, there are some Android apps that get raves, like Camera FX
> Zoom. This sort of app is not just for photo manipulation but takes over
> your camera operation as well. I am not too interested in this. The Galaxy
> S3 has a decent camera. Getting good photos with it is more dependent on
> technique than apps IMHO. These apps are useful if you wish to shoot,
> manipulate, and then email or text the result right there on the fly. Not my
> thing.
>
> Finally, it is a challenge to attempt to make the output from iOS apps work
> with Android stuff and vice versa. Naturally, Google has done more to make
> this possible than Apple, since Google has been catching up and drawing the
> public away from Apple. In general, I like the wild and wooly world of
> Android as I have the plug and pray mentality of an inveterate Windows user.
> It would have been easier just to have gotten an iPhone and stayed in the
> Apple ecosystem. My experience makes me appreciate the maturity of Apple in
> this area, but I like life outside the hive, so to speak. I am not trying to
> instigate a platform fight, but to provide disclosure, as my opinions are
> shaped by my eclectic experience and may be worthless both to Apple and
> Google partisans alike, assuming they are of any interest to anyone at all.
>
> Joel W.
>
>
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