7 great photo editors for your iPad

There was a time when there was no other way than to edit photos on a computer, even after the arrival of the first few waves of tablets and phones.

Recent hardware and software innovations have made it so that editing photos - particularly on an iPad - is not only doable, but easy and effective.

Check out this list of seven great photo editors for your iPad.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is the most fully-featured editor I've seen on a tablet.

That being said, it's only "free" for 30 days, and otherwise costs $9.99/month for an Adobe Creative Cloud subscription, which, granted, gives you access to a lot more of Adobe's Creative Suite beyond Lightroom.

As a more analog editor, Pixelmator can adjust everything on local areas of a photo by touching.

While not quite as fully featured or automated as something like Lightroom, it costs a lot less and is definitely effective.

This is Google's mobile editor that focuses on editing one photo at a time.

The app also has a great interface for phones, so this might be a good choice for people that want familiar editing interfaces across their devices.

Facetune isn't a fully fledged photo editor as much as an app specially designed for touching up photos of faces.

It's disappointing that it's not a universal app but its face tuning tools feel like magic, making Facetune a must for those that like to take portraits or selfies.

Photogene⁴ seems like a middle ground between Lightroom and Pixelmator.

It's definitely a less capable (but handily cheaper) editor, but it offers a lot of presets and other adjustment tools that can help the uninitiated edit photos easily, even though the app's interface isn't the best.

Camera+ is a camera alternative for iOS that also has a suite of somewhat simplified editing tools that work great on phones and tablets.

For someone that just wants an ultra-streamlined capture-then-edit workflow on the go, Camera+ is a great pick.

Afterlight feels like what Instagram might make if they released a standalone photo editor.

This is to say that the app is very filter focused, though it also has a lot of more standard photo editing tools to boot, making it a good choice for someone who cut their teeth editing in Instagram and is now looking for a little more.