I’m just a “hob­by­ist” but love tak­ing pho­tos — par­tic­u­larly live event/candid pho­tos — whether it’s at a con­ven­tion, a cir­cus, a con­cert or just around town. Often times these are out of town, or have some “down­time” that could be spent edit­ing pho­tos if you had a lap­top. The prob­lem is that car­ry­ing a lap­top can be bulky, heavy and a bit overkill if you just wanted to do some quick edits. Since get­ting the iPad, I bring it with me nearly every­where — when­ever I have a few min­utes to spare, I can quickly down­load my RAW pho­tos using the cam­era kit, import them into a num­ber of apps and even upload them to Flickr all while “on the go.” A lot of the apps out there are VERY full-featured, espe­cially con­sid­er­ing the low price. FilterStorm(and Pro), Pho­toPad, Pho­to­shop Express.. and then of course the ‘fil­ters’ and effects apps like Plas­tic Bul­let, Pic­tureShow, Tiffen’s Photo FX Ultra, Tilt­shift­gen and Lens­flare HD. For $20, you can have a huge selec­tion of tools at your fin­gers that would oth­er­wise require an expen­sive desk­top appli­ca­tion. While they’re not quite a replace­ment for Pho­to­shop and Light­room, they’re VERY good for those times when you just don’t have access to those other applications.At Comic-Con 2010, I was able to take pho­tos, edit them and have them online in min­utes while wait­ing in line.. a task that oth­er­wise would nor­mally have me just wait­ing in line and have to deal with edit­ing at the end of the day.I’d love to try the FX Photo Stu­dio HD app — it’s one of the “FX” apps I haven’t had a chance to use.