The application also lets users save their favourites images, and share them with their contacts via email or Facebook. "Each image is also accompanied by a 'pro tip', to give professional insights into the composition or technical specification of a particular image," says The Guardian.

Roger Tooth, head of photography at the Guardian, comments: "Guardian Eyewitness is a daily showcase of some of the world's best news and features photography, and each day the app will display a new image in a brilliant, large, electronic format. Guardian Eyewitness isn't just another newspaper photograph - we want to hold the user's attention for more than two seconds. We want them to study the picture, look at the detail and appreciate the work that the photographer has put into the image. We've been waiting for a chance to replicate the scale and the impact of the newspaper's Eyewitness spread on other digital platforms, and I think this is it. Each Eyewitness picture will be accompanied by a few words written by our photographic team that we hope will give users an insight into the creation of great photography."

The application has been designed in collaboration with Canon.

For more details, visit www.guardian.co.uk/ipad.