From forming your own digital masterpieces, enhancing photos and shooting video,
here are our favourite apps thatwill enable you to unleash your creative side
Autodesk SketchBook
Pro for Tablets
Price: £3.35
While there are plenty of doodling tools
available on tablets, Autodesk SketchBook
Pro takes things to the next level with a
customisable UI, 60 preset brush types and the
ability to export to files that can be edited using
Photoshop. It also supports a “pen only” mode
for devices that come with special touchscreen
pens, which increases accuracy dramatically and
allows you to create some truly amazing digital
masterpieces. SketchBook Pro serves as an able
companion app to Photoshop Touch.
Adobe Photoshop Touch
Price: £6.99
Adobe’s world-famous Photoshop desktop
application is a market leader in image
manipulation, and it’s now available in tablet
format. It comes with many of the same
features of its PC-based relation, including the
ability to work with different tools, add layers
and edit large-scale images. It doesn’t end there,
either: if you’re signed up to Adobe Creative
Cloud, you can also make use of 2GB of free
online storage to sync projects between your
tablet and desktop, allowing you to work
effortlessly while on the road and then transfer
your work to your PC when you get back home
Glimmr Pro
Price: £1.62
You might assume that it’s always
best to go with the official option
when picking apps, but Glimmr
disproves this theory: it’s a Flickr
client that bests Flickr’s own app
in every way imaginable. Not only
is it easier to use, it features better
notifications, a homescreen
widget and the ability to use
high-resolution thumbnails
(especially useful on tablets). The
developers also have a user forum
where you can suggest new
features, so the app will only get
better over time.
Snapseed
Price:Free
These days, taking a decent
photo isn’t just about pointing
a camera at something attractive
– there’s so much more you can
do in post-production to make
your snap look like something
David Bailey would be proud to
put his name to. Snapseed is
arguably the best photo-editing
app available for Android
tablets, allowing you to turn
almost any image into a work of
art: you can enhance shots and
add funky filters to suit your
personal taste.
Floating Video Player
Price: 64p
If you’ve used a Samsung device
recently then you may have
noticed the brilliant “floating”
video player, which allows you to
watch movies while performing
other tasks. If you don’t own a
tablet with this feature in place
then don’t worry: Floating
Video Player offers the same
functionality. You can send
emails, browse the web or post
on Twitter, all at the same time as
enjoying a movie or an episode of
your favourite TV show.
Google+
Price:Free
Google+ is Google’s attempt to
unseat the likes of Twitter and
Facebook, but it comes with
a handy feature: automatic
uploading of your photos to the
cloud. Once uploaded, you can
view them from within your
Google account (and your tablet’s
Gallery app), sort them into
albums and share them with
people online. Google+ may not
have the same traction as its
social networking rivals, but this
feature alone makes the app an
indispensable download.
