Mobile phones have come a long way in the last few years, and each new generation seemingly features more innovation and integration than could ever have been thought possible. Once merely oversized units that afforded a user the ability to take and make voice calls on the road, the average mobile phone has undergone a transformation worthy of most Cybertronians and emerged a smaller, sleeker and more sophisticated pocket-sized package that nevertheless packs in more functionality than ever before with each new release. Phones such as the Motorola Droid run on powerful Android platforms and ever-increasingly-efficient operating systems, and have similarly powerful music players and high-resolution cameras integrated into their physical frames.
The next step of integration has already been made, with applications now allowing users to customize and edit the music they store on their smartphones – and now the images they take with the cameras their phones bear. To help users do just that, Image editing software titan Adobe recently launched Photoshop.com Mobile for the Android platform. This application gives Android users a fast and simple way to tweak and share the images they store on their phones, with various image-editing tools that allow users a multitude of options when it comes to improving or adjusting the shots they take with the phones’ integrated cameras.
In typical Photoshop style, the app affords a wide variety of image-editing features that users will quickly find indispensable but not impossible to use. Simple tools like crop, rotate and flip functions seem to just scratch the surface of photo viewing options already available on many models, but the intuitive interface allows users to access these simple actions as well as a number of more complex image-editing tools. Color adjustment tools allow users to adjust an image’s exposure, color saturation, tint levels, brightness and contrast, and fine-tune them with onscreen slider bars. A Soft Focus filter is instrumental in adding atmosphere and drama to images by creating a subtle blur effect, and a sepia color mode can also turn modern photos into semi-classic-looking shots.
As with the PC-based version of Photoshop, all changes and edits can be undone, allowing users to breathe easy in the event of mistakes and inadvertent changes. Once the finished image has been edited and adjusted to the user’s satisfaction, however, the user can then upload the photo to a Photoshop.com account, from where they can access and retrieve the photos from any online computer. Easily navigated through the Android API and a user-friendly tab-based interface, Photoshop.com accounts allow users to store up to 3GB worth of images, or over 1,500 photos, making it a valuable archival resource for users with albums and albums worth of memorable snapshots tweaked to their visual satisfaction. The app need not be running for photos to continue uploading, as the program allows users to access other functions of the phone as the uploading continues in the background. The main drawback to this, however, is a notable drain on the phone’s battery, which makes this a feature best taken advantage of when near a charging station.
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