Painting Layer Masks on iPad

I love using layer masks in Photoshop, it’s probably one of the most used features when I’m editing photos. When I started looking at iPad photo editing appsI wanted layer masks to feature.

Here are a few screenshots of the apps I’m now using. The above image is from an iPad app called Fotolr Photo Studio Pro HD (£1.99) – it seems to be mainly for touching up faces, but I found it could be used to add colour masks within the “photo colouring” section.

This image is from FX Photo Studio HD (£1.49) and clearly shows quite a powerful use of masking to allow ‘pre-defined’ special effects and filters to show through from the layer below. The main limitation here is that you are currently stuck with the filters they provide.

Here are a few screenshots from PhotoForge2 (£1.99) and this is actually the DADDY. It has the ability to add multiple layers and set their opacity as well as add fully paintable custom masks. This is the most powerful of the apps that I have seen so far.

Oh, and not forgetting … I grabbed a cheap iPad stylus from Amazonwhich greatly improves accuracy when painting layer masks.

I’ll post more when I learn more.

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