The iPad can do some amazing things, from getting you organized to keep you entertained. It may already be a cliche, but there truly is "an app for that" - the problem now is finding the right app for the job. Over the last three weeks, I have reviewed a large number of photography apps for the iPad. Now it's time to highlight my favorites so you can easily edit, enhance, and share your photos with all of your friends and family.

1. Photoshop Express
A very pared down version of the ubiquitous photo-editing tool, yes, but handy none the less for making basic corrections such as rotating photos, cropping, straightening and even more creative functions such as saturation, tint and convert to black and white.

2. LIFE for iPad
Galleries compiled from the LIFE archives along with contemporary photos. You can browse through popular galleries, editors picks, news, celebrity, sport and also search for something more specific.Although the odd advert will pop up, the sheer vastness of the archive means that this is a great resource to have at your fingertips for free.

3. Photobucket
This a great app for users of free photo-sharing site Photobucket. You can browse the images of others, search for specific images, login into your own account and upload straight to it. It's nice and quick to use, and great for sharing as you can grab image URLS to email/social network with. With Flickr not yet releasing its iPad app (although it does have one for the iPhone) this is a great free way to share photos.

4. Foto Editor
This photo editor doesn't come with the myriad of options that a paid for app like Photogene boasts, but it does include some fun filters that are nothing special but are very quick to apply. You can also make simple changes to the brightness and contrast, but it's missing some vital tools such as crop that would have made this app a lot more useful.

5. PhotoPad by Zagg
Yet another free photo editing tool, this one comes somewhere between paid for app Photogene and free Foto Editor for its usefulness. It does include basic essentials like crop, rotate and scale, but they aren't as easy to use as Photogene's. Image properties displays a handy histogram, but without the ability to edit properties like Levels within the app it might seem a little redundant. Another dose of fun filters are added on to this as well, but again there's nothing amazing just a simple bit of colour adjustment.

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There are a few different ways to get photos from their source to your iPad. You can buy an accessory to import them from your camera or iPhone, save a photo you find on the Web or receive as an e-mail attachment, or sync to your computer to download photos you've saved there.

To efficiently import pictures from your digital camera to your iPad, follow these quick simple steps:

1.Attach the SD Card Reader or USB Camera Connector (found on iPad Camera Connection Kit) to the connector port of your iPad.

If you're using a digital camera or an iPhone, use the USB cable that was originally purchased with the device and attach it to the USB port of the Camera Connector. Check if the iPhone and camera are turned on and make sure that the camera is in transfer mode. If you have any difficulty setting the camera in transfer mode, refer to user's manual for guidance. Take note that the USB port located on the iPad Camera Connector is specifically designed to fit cameras only and won't work on other devices.

If your photos are in a SD memory card, the iPad Camera Kit also have a SD Card Reader. Insert the SD Card Reader to the connector port of your iPad and simply place the memory card on the SD Card Reader. Remember not to force your memory card into the card reader. If it's correctly inserted, it will readily fit into position.

2.Make sure that your iPad is unlocked.

3.Following a successful connection, a Photos application will instantly appear on your iPad screen and the stored photos on your device will be displayed for your selection.

4.Choose the photos you want to transfer to your iPad. If you want to transfer all photos in your digital camera or iPhone, click Import All. If you want to import chosen photos only, you can pick the desired photos by tapping the small boxes on the photos you want. You would then see a checkmark on the box of the photo you have chosen. After selecting all the photos you need, the next step would be to click either Import or Import All.

5.Once your chosen photos have been imported, you may opt to erase or save the photos in your camera, iPhone or memory card.

Once you have finished your transfer, you can freely view your photos organized in the "Last Import" album. To download photos to ipad to a personal computer, connect the two devices and transfer the photos using an appropriate photo program like Adobe Elements or iPhoto.

6.Safely remove the USB Camera connector or card reader.

7.Turn off your device. Now, you have successfully transferred your photos!

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