Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

First, for those of you who tend to be 1-star whiners (you know who you are...) keep the following in mind: A- This is a ten dollar app for tablets not the multi-hundred dollar grandpa (or grandma) version namesake that is targeted for use on 'real' computers (desktop or laptop), B- Think about the real-estate you have to work with (a phone's tiny screen, no way) before you slap down money and then cry to the rest of us about your judgement, C - While this is not full Photoshop it is not your basic stickers, hearts and speech bubbles image enhancement tool either. So please if you spell badly and think you will get frustrated with an app that takes some brain energy and more than a 5-minute attention span to master, please back away from the apps Store - don't give the app a 1-star rating. Honestly, I suggest that anyone who is considering this app and who might be heartbroken over spending ten dollars then not being able to figure it out, first watch some Adobe TV or YouTube video tutorials to see what you'll be getting and getting yourself into. I think you will be ecstatic to see what robustness you can get functionality-wise on a tablet device for processing photos. Because there is always room for improvement I'm rating the app in its current form 4.5-stars. There are no earth shattering flaws that I've detected yet. You will be able to create layers to overlay and blend effects (for those who do not use Photoshop it is the moral equivalent of having a bunch of images or effects on sheets of transparencies then stacking those transparencies to merge photo elements in flexible ways - including putting people onto different backgrounds, blurring backgrounds, etc.), you can do traditional digital darkroom type effects such as burning and dodging or applying gradients or photo filters, or even convert color shots to black and white. Selection tools exist (reminder to those salivating in a post-processing high, do not get greedy, the app is ten dollars...) or use transformation tools. The one vital tool from full Photoshop I have not yet discovered is a Red Eye Reduction function - hey Adobe, what gives? Perhaps they assume all cameras now eliminate that satanic scourge. You can also transfer files between Touch and Photoshop (and perhaps Lightroom, but I'm a Ps bigot so don't know) with some restrictions. Sources for images to edit can be your tablet, Google, or your Creative Cloud account - your smart phone or other cameras too if you can get your images to your tablet with Dropbox or some other cloud-based program. I am hoping it is not necessary to have a Creative Cloud, Facebook, Twitter or any other invasive social media membership to get the full use of image transferability between programs. I'm still just dipping my toes into the functionality, so beware I may be back here whining myself if Adobe is playing games trying to force those who do not want to partake of privacy-draining social media to use such media. BTW, for those who are gadget freaks among you I am typing this on a ZAGG bluetooth keyboard used with my Kindle Fire HD. Much faster than hunt and peck. A great little device.