Gadgetory

welcome to tap that app i'm jason parker and this is the show where we cover the hottest apps in the mobile space at the apple event last week the big news was the announcement of the new ipad but apple had some other software announcements including a brand new app for iOS devices I photo was already used by many Mac users to edit and organize photos and share them with friends and family though the iOS version is not as feature rich as its desktop cousin there's plenty of useful things you can do with iPhoto on an iOS device the touchscreen interface is a joy to use but definitely takes some practice to get used to while the tools are available in only a couple of taps it's not immediately apparent how to use them fortunately Apple included an excellent help interface that calls out each interface element with more information should you need it once you've got the basic controls down you can start improving and playing with your images I'll grab one I took earlier today on Second Street the picture is a little drab and the grey skies aren't helping so maybe i'll start by cropping the image after touching the cropping tool i can drag the sides of the image in to make it smaller I'll try to get rid of that gray sky first now with that finished maybe I want to adjust brightness and contrast to bring out the details use the sliders at the bottom to adjust both brightness and contrast simultaneously or grab just the contrast slider to adjust it independently next all just colors iphoto separates the colors into real-world terms so after adding a bit of saturation I can adjust the tones for blue skies greenery there's not much here obviously and skin tones this photo is starting to pop out a bit more to bring out specific areas of the image I'll use the brush tools these are a little confusing at first because people generally think of brushes as painting tools but it helps to think of it as painting the effect onto the image maybe I'll saturate the color on this building a bit more there are several brushes to play with to brighten darken and sharpen your image finally we can add effects touching the effect button makes affects fan out on your screen you have options for warm or cool effects duotone black and white vintage and others but i'll choose artistic to take this image to the extreme oh and traded so much on the building that maybe I'll apply it the tilt shift effect to make sure the focus is on the building finally to really go to extremes I'll add the oil paint effect at any time during the process you also have the option to reference the original image by touching the show original button at the top one of the great new features for iOS devices is the ability to make journals with your photos journals arrange your images into a collage once you've assembled the journal you can move and resize images to get them just where you want you also can add in a map using your gps location for the image or add in the date to show when you took them when you're finished you can watch your collection of images as a slideshow export them to itunes or publish to iCloud which lets you send a link to family and friends the finished product this was made from a trip to Maui recently lets you touch an image to see it full screen great for setting to family so they can see your adventures your family member will receive a link and you're finished journal will show up full screen in their web browser certainly we haven't covered everything here but with a unique set of tools cool projects to make with journals and tons of effects and image editing options I photo is a great value at 499 well it's not as feature rich is a desktop version we still recommend you tap this app immediately that's it for this week's show if you have any suggestions for tap that up please send them to tap that app at cnet com i'm jason parker for CNN thanks for watching