App Shopper: ePhotopad (Photography)

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Feb 03 '11	$1.99 -> $4.99
Feb 02 '11	$4.99 -> $1.99
Feb 01 '11	Version 1.4
Jan 27 '11	Version 1.3
Oct 24 '10	Version 1.2
Sep 08 '10	Version 1.1
Sep 01 '10	New App: $4.99, v1.0

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ePhotopad

iOS iPad

Create a Valentine's day message to your love one using ePhotopad this Valentine's day. Create a Valentine's rose entirely from ILoveU message (See screenshot) and email a personalized message to someone special.

Ever wanted to draw but are not good at it. Don’t worry; with thousands of font -based shapes in the ePhotoTouch database to choose from, you can create beautiful pictures for a wide variety of topics quickly and easily. Just select the appropriate shape, long press and rasterize, fill in the color using the flood fill tool. That’s how some of the screenshots are created in less than 5 minutes.

ePhotopad is a general purpose drawing tool whose capabilities include

Full screen drawing in two modes
-Landscape
-Portrait

Photo editing
- Crop
- Rotate
- Scale
- Filters
-Gray Scale
-Motion Blur
-Soften
-Lomography
-Fish Eye
-Polar
-Sharpen
-Emboss
-Edge Detection
-Gaussian Blur
-Alphabetize

Sketch
-Different Brushes
-Smudge
-Flood Fill
-Gradient Fill

Text
-Rotatable in any angle
-Color transparency
-Scalable
-Shadow

Font based shapes
-Can be easily extended to include any shape fonts in the public domain.
-Marquee can cut shape out of photo.

Multiple layers as in Photoshop with many blend modes and adjustable opacity
-Normal
-Multiply
-Screen
-Overlay
-Darken
-Lighten
-Color Dodge
-Color Burn
-Soft Light
-Hard Light
-Difference
-Exclusion
-Hue
-Saturation
-Color
-Luminosity
-Source In
-Source Out
-Destination Over
-Destination In
-Destination Out
-Destination Atop
-XOR
-Plus Darker
-Plus Lighter

Quick Start

Select either Landscape or Portrait mode in Setting (Left most tool in toolbar)
Open your Photoalbum via Open (2nd left in toolbar)
Select a photo. Most photos should fit nicely into either the Landscape or Portrait mode.
Pinch to zoom if required and select OK when finished.

Typical things you can do are

-Add Text via the Text tool (3rd left in top tools)
-Apply the appropriate Filter (2nd right in top tools)
-Extract sub image with the marquee tool (4th right in top tools)
o Long Press within marquee to extract..

Tips
-Double tap with two fingers near the top to hide/show top tools.
-Double tap with two fingers near the bottom to hide/show toolbar.
-Double tap with two fingers in the middle to hide/show both.
-Two finger panning in zoom.
-In pointer mode for Shape, Image and Text
otouch within non-transparent part of layer and drag to move.
oTwo finger (middle point in non transparent layer) to pinch (scale) or rotate

-In brush/eraser mode
oPinch scales everything
oBrush/Eraser and Flood Fill only works if current layer is Canvas. (Select current layer via layer tool (2nd right in tool bar).

What's new

Added Color Senses Canvas (See screenshot)
- Enable highlighting of photo in original or tinted color
o Select Layer Tool on toolbar to bring up the Layer View
o Tap on New Layer (top right) and select "Color Senses" to create a new Color Senses Canvas
o Tap on Open tool and select a photo from the photo album
o Select WHITE for foreground color and Flood fill the Canvas, the picture should turn to gray scale
o Use the erase to erase part of the photo, the part will return to original color
o Use the brush with WHITE foreground to return to gray scale.
o Use the brush with a different color to tint.

Summary
*** FLOOD FILL IN WHITE TO TURN PICTURE TO GRAY SCALE
*** ERASE TOOL TO RETURN PART OF PICTURE TO ORIGINAL COLOR
*** BRUSH TOOL WITH WHITE TO RETURN PICTURE TO GRAY SCALE
*** BRUSH TOOL WITH COLOR TO TINT PART OF PICTURE
*** BEST TO USE SMOOTH BRUSH FOR BRUSH/ERASER WITH 0 SOFTNESS

Note: Color Senses Canvas cannot be merged currently. This will be enabled in future releases.

- Added Steam canvas that will steam up after a given period of time
o Create a "Steam Canvas" as above but choose Steam instead of "Color Senses".
o Use eraser tool to wipe the steam.
o Can move above any layer to steam what's underneath.