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THE BEST PHOTO EDITORS FOR iPAD

ON TEST…

Adobe Lightroom for iPad Free (offers in-app purchases)

Affinity Photo for iPad £19.99

Darkroom Free (offers in-app purchases)

Pixelmator Photo £4.99

Snapseed Free

Along with photography, photo editing has become something we do every day. Doing it properly, though, still takes specialist software that‘s quite demanding of computing power and can be complicated to use. Fortunately, the A-series processors in today’s iPads are up to the job, and touch screens help developers make interfaces simpler. That means your choice of image manipulation apps now ranges from freebies that can pep up pics with a few taps to paid packages with desktop-class professional tools.

For this test, we’ve picked five options that promise more than just one-click filter effects. All of them have versions of the essential tone

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