The Best Of Mobile Apps

There are already plenty of iPhone apps that allow you to make simple adjustments to your photos, such as adding filters and effects, tweaking the color and brightness, etc. But there are few apps designed with professional photographers and artists in mind.

That's where Astropad comes in. The full version of Astropad lets you use your iPad as a graphics tablet, and now the company just launched a new version of the app for iPhone too.

The new app is called Astropad Mini, and it's going to cost $4.99 as part of its launch promotion on Thursday while the full price will be $9.99.

A graphics tablet is a pressure-sensitive slate that photographers and artists use to easily edit photos on their computers. It allows you to control your computer mouse with a stylus on the tablet so that you can touch up photos with more precision.

So, for instance, if you're editing an image in Photoshop, you'd be able to move the cursor to edit intricate details of the photo using a pen rather than a computer mouse or trackpad.

These tablets are usually pretty expensive, however. High-end graphics tablets, such as those made by Wacom that come with displays, can cost around $1,000.

That's why Matt Ronge and Giovanni Donelli, Astropad's two cofounders who previously worked as engineers at Apple, decided to make something cheaper that would work directly on your iPad. The iPad app debuted earlier this year, but the company said it heard a lot of requests for an iPhone version too.

"It's going to open up access to a lot more people," Ronge told Business Insider.

Like a graphics tablet, Astropad works by connecting your iPhone or iPad to your Mac so that you can mark up images using the touch screen on your iPhone or iPad. And, since the Astropad app mirrors what's on your Mac's screen, you don't have to keep an eye on your Mac's monitor while drawing on the tablet like you would with a cheaper graphics tablet.

Source: entrepreneur

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