FEBRUARY 2020 MACWORLD 79on an iPhone. The new layout works far
better in any view.
More editing adjustments. If you’ve
used the adjustment options in Photos for
macOS, none of the tools in Photos for iOS
and iPadOS will be new, but several make
their first appearance here. Those are
Definition, Noise Reduction, Sharpness,
Tint, Vibrance, Vignette, and Warmth.
Zoom for details. You can use gestures
to zoom and pan within an image while
you’re adjusting it to see the effects of
your changes close up. You can zoom to
fill the entire screen, as shown above.
USE THE NEW EDITING TOOLS
Tap the dial icon, and the general editing
tools appear, which you swipe through.
An all-caps label appears below the
image, identifying which of the 16 tools is
selected. The intensity slider appears
below the tool when your iPhone or iPad
is in portrait orientation and to its right in
landscape.
You’re familiar with the Auto tool, which
is like the legendary “make better” button.
Tap it, and Photos analyzes the image and
applies a number of corrections to make it
pop. In this update, however, you can use
the intensity slider to increase or reduce
the overall enhancement.
You’ll also notice that each editing
control shows the amount of adjustment
applied as a filled portion of the outline of
the circle surrounding its icon. Positive
values—increasing the setting—show as
yellow in the circle, while negative values
show as a white line in the perimeter. This allYou can now zoom for details while adjusting a photo.