Adobe’s already graced the iPad with Photoshop Touch, a simplified version of its venerable desktop photo editing application, Photoshop. Now the company’s offered a sneak peek of an iPad app that promises many of the most powerful capabilities of Lightroom, Adobe’s professional photo image editor.

Adobe product manager Tom Hogarty, who is in charge of Lightroom and Bridge, showed off the app on The Grid, a web-based video program. Hogarty said the iPad app will let photographers accomplish many of the advanced image editing tasks of Lightroom on their iPads, including processing raw images. Photographers prefer raw images, because they include all the information a camera’s imaging chip has gathered, rather than processing the images into a JPEG file inside the camera.

In the video, Hogarty edited raw image files from a Canon 5D Mark 3 digital SLR on an iPad 2.

In the video, Hogarty edited raw image files from a Canon 5D Mark 3 digital SLR on an iPad 2. The unnamed application is in its early test phase so far, yet it was already able to adjust some photo parameters. In the video you could see many favorite raw-processing tools such as clarity, vibrance, and the ability to adjust highlights and shadows. However, only a couple of the tools were actually demonstrated.

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