Photoshop Express used to be a frequently used app I used to help with cropping and rotating photos when needing to customize pictures for AAC apps, story creation or when customizing in educational apps such as the Grasshopper apps. I also have started using a photo album app like Phoder or Photo Privacy to help organize the numerous photos collected on my iPod or iPad.
It all just got easier – iOS5 Photos app includes edit photo tools such as rotate, crop, enhance and removal of red-eye.
Another feature provided in the new iOS5 Photos app is the ability to create and name a New Album to help organize photos within the Photos app. You can move photos between albums to help with organization.
Only single photos can be selected to copy, delete or share by email, print or Tweet, but the new tools provides a the convenience of editing within the Photos app.
To add text to a photo you will still need to use another app. Apps such as Caption Plus (free) provides tools to add text on pictures. Importing photo into apps such as Doodle Buddy (free) or Writers Studio ($.99) to use text or drawing tools to add words, captions or dates to imported pictures are other options to add titles or captions. I am sure there are many more caption tools available.
Enjoy the ease of photo editing in iOS5! Just one of the many great changes you’ll find!
Carol
iOS 5 does allow you to name a new album, but you can’t change it’s name later if you decide to. Also, any changes you make to a photo in any album (crop, rotate, enhance, etc.) are automatically applied to that photo wherever it appears in every album, so you can’t have multiple views of the same photo, even though it appears in multiple albums. You also still can’t delete photos synced with iTunes, or delete albums synced with iTunes, or organize or delete any system albums – such as Last Imported, All Imported, Camera Roll, etc.
I guess iOS 5 photo management enhancements are okay if you’re not that into photography and don’t have that many photos. But there are some really good 3rd-Party apps (like Photo Shack Pro) that do a much better job if you are.
Thank you for your clarification! That is good information to know- I can see that is is not yet time to remove other apps that I have been using to edit my photos!
Carol