Recently Adobe realesed Photoshop Touch for the iPad 2 and today I had the opportunity to try it out. I was very sceptical at first, premusing it would have been limited as Photoshop Express but I was immediatly intrigued by the features and the power of this great App. I’ve always dreamt of the ability to bring only my iPad in my travels, using it for focused work and to update a trip journal with content and photos. With the use of a few Apps now this is finally possible.
Adobe Touch gives me all that I require to do the minor edits I usually do with travel photography, and does an excellent job creating a fast workflow.
While playing around with the App today, I decided to create a very simple and quick tutorial to obtain a vintage effect on your photos.
I hope you find this tutorial useful and that it will help you understand the power of the brand new Photo Editing app by Adobe.
What you will need
The Process
1. After importing your photos with the Camera Connection Kit, open Adobe Photoshop Touch and select the photo you want to edit.
2. From the Adjustments panel, select Levels. Levels is a tool in Photoshop and other image editing programs which can be used to move and stretch the brightness levels of an image histogram. Add some contrast to the photo moving the sliders to the edges towards the center. Once satisfied, press Apply.
3. From the Adjustment Panel, this time press Curves. The Photoshop curves tool is perhaps the most powerful and flexible image transformation, yet it may also be one of the most intimidating, this is way you need patience to play around with this tool to master it’s full power. To gain a vintage look select the blue Channel and higher the position lower-left slider and drag down the top-left one. My suggestion is that you experiment tweaking with the other channels as I did with the green one as shown below. After a few tries you’ll see that you’ll master this tool without any difficulties.
4. Crop the image to enhance the composition of the photo. I decided to give more focus to the top of the pen using the golden spiral method. 
5. Save the photo as a Jpeg and open it in Snapseed.
6. Apply a Tilt-Shift filter to add even more focus to the top of the pen.
7. Snapseed’s built-in Vintage filter look great but in my opinion are too strong. Lower the intensity of the one you choose to use to equilibrate the look and feel of the photo. Save and exit.
8. Open the photo saved from Snapseed in Photoshop Touch again. This time create two empty layers. Select the first empty layer and from the “&” top menu select Fill&Stroke.
Select a dark-beige color and from the layer menu found in the bottom-right of the screen set the Layer blending mode to Darken and lower it’s opacity to 25%-40%.
9. Repeat the same process on the second empty layer but this time select a dark blue/purple color and se the blending mode to Lighten and lower it’s opacity to 40%-45%.
10. Sharpen the image from the filter menu and save your work and enjoy your faux-vintage photo.
