You can search for apps to do it in the Apps store and Apple apps store. The iPad lets you move images to your iDisk or your .me account. You can also email them to yourself (make certain you email at original res). You can move photos to and from your iPad using iTunes.

Memory cards are not hard drives so they don't deteriorate in the same way. SD Cards use Flash memory which is electronic memory. They don't wear out. There are no moving parts. However things like the leads where you plug it in, or being hit might jostle the insides, might cause problems. Never touch the leads (the part that pushes into your camera or reader) with your fingers. The oils from your skin will corrode the leads (unless you have gold-plated leads).

However, you do occasionally have to reformat the card or you'll lose space. This happens because a lot of people just delete photos but never reformat their entire card. Those deleted photos are still there, just haven't been deleted from the internal directory. That's why if you accidentally delete a photo you can recover it as long as you haven't taken any additional photos. Remember that if the police ever ask you to delete a video or photo. Don't use that card again till you can get to your computer and download a recovery program. If you haven't reformatted the card and merely deleted something you have almost a 100% chance of recovering the files. This does diminish somewhat if you've never reformatted your card, only deleted individual photographs.

Reformatting rewrites the database so the images are no longer there.

After I've uploaded photos to my computer and a copy to cloud storage I then reformat the SDcard to keep it working properly.

And don't store an SD card with images for long periods of time and expect the images to be okay. It is electronic storage. There's a little rechargeable battery in your SDcard. If you don't use it for awhile the charge goes away and your electronic storage goes away. This is also true of USB drives. They are not meant to store data and be put away for six months and not be used.

It's like comparing apples and oranges.

If you are thinking of buying Corel because it's cheaper than PhotoShop then you're going to be disappointed because PhotoShop plugs will not work with Corel. And Corel is not very good and image editing, which is probably why you want PhotoShop.

If you want a PhotoShop like program, but free, go to gimp.org (org not com) and download gimp. Fairly identical to PhotoShop, and uses PhotoShop plugins. This program was original developed with taxpayer money for the NIH, so has always been free. Great program if you can't afford PhotoShop.

You set your basic iPhone image quality in the settings. This should be set to the highest quality possible. It does not change unless you reset it.

However, if you upload photos from iPhoto or use an app to upload photos they will change the resolution of the photo to lower res as the default so they take up less storage space on your iPhone. This does not change the original photo on your desktop, or the one you uploaded from another source. If there is a preference option then select the option to upload the photo in it's original size.

I'm new to this forum and this is my first post. And I'd like to say that now most of the people in this country use their smartphone as their main camera. And in rare circumstances I've had to use my iPhone to take a primary shot.

Photography is photography whether one uses the most expensive camera in the world or light sensitive paper placed out in sunlight with objects placed on top to make photograms. When I look at a photo I look at that image and only peripherally care about the camera, f-stop, or exposure length. I've seen amazing images result from a $5 plastic camera, and crappy images from a high-end Nikon. I'm never going to denigrate someone for the camera they use. It might be all they can afford. As more and more people use smartphones, iPhones, iPads, etc., I hope this forum will recognize the legitimacy of the images. BTW today's 8mp smartphone cameras have higher res than the 6mp cameras of five years ago which were being praised for being so cutting edge.