Digital Photo Tips

The very recommendation of Photoshop on the iPhone seems almost too high concept. However, considering that the iPhone already hosts an impressive array of simile editors--used to quickly fix pictures taken with its low-resolution camera for e-mail or uploadMostlyto social networking or photo Web sites--news of competition from the sovereign of image editors can't help but masher expectations. The good part about Adobe's new Photoshop.com Mobile app is that it's free, easy, intuitive, fecklessly, fun, and does what it says it will do. The bad part is that it doesn't do that much.

The interface is simple enough to master the first time you use the app. You can elect to show contraption tips with instructions, but after a couple of minutes, you won't need them. The first tap gets you to the Edit screen where you can select a photoOn the wholefrom your camera roll or shoot a new one. At the bottom of the screen, you can choose from three other screens: Online, which goes to your Photoshop.com account; Upload, which lets you automatically send an epitome to this account complete with a caption; and Settings, which lets you control whether or not to show tool tips, reveals your Adobe ID, and lets you token in or out.

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Editing features in the versatile app are organized under four buttons: Basic: crop, rotate, flip Color and Tone: exposure, saturation, stain, black & white Interactive effects: Sketch, soft focus Effects: vibrant, pop, purfle, vignette blur, warm vintage, rainbow, white glow, soft black and ivory

For cropping, the app displays a crop rectangle with " rule of thirds " grid, and you simply drag the rectangle to move the crop, or straggle corners to adjust the size. You can choose to lock the crop to preset aspect ratios (1:1, 3:4, or 4:3) or do a unceremonious crop. To rotate a picture, you just drag your finger in the direction you want it to go. To flip, you pay no heed your finger up, down, left or right. For the color/tone and interactive effects, you slide your finger left side or right to increase or decrease the amount of the effect. The last group of effects are one-tap effects with no adjustments.

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The allowable news is that scanning can help rescue and revive those treasures from the days of analog. The bad news is that digitizing those old photographs yourself can be a prodigious task. Scanning and retouching each photo, slide, or negative would take an untold amount of your time and energy. Thankfully, there are now proficient scanning services that will do all the tedious work for you. I tested three different scanning services to see how they stacked up.

I placed orders with these three scanning companies: ScanDigital.com , DigMyPics.com , and ScanCafe.com . All three services have nearly the same approaches to customer service, and each successfully completed the orders I placed, delivering scans and returning the source materials to me in good condition. However, the services did have varying strengths and weaknesses in the following  areas: placing the body, ongoing communication, turnaround time, scan and retouching quality, after-order support, and pricing.

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