Description
Photogene is about improving your digital photos and having fun while at it.
This intuitive, easy to use application offers a comprehensive set of professional editing tools:
- Crop and straighten.
- Sharpen.
- Full set of color adjustments (including levels). Correct underexposed photos and add a spark to washed-out ones.
- Apply one of our artistic filters such as sepia or posterize.
- Add text bubbles of different styles, colors and fonts.
- Add frames in various shapes and colors, including shadows and glows.
- Add special effects such as reflection or vignette.
- Multiple undo and redo.
- Resize your photo to a different resolution.
- Supports photos up to 2048*1536 (3Gs’ camera resolution).
- Upload your edited photo directly to Facebook or Twitter, mail it, or simply save it to your iPhone's photo gallery.
Photogene for iPhone has been one of the top selling photography apps for more than 18 months. It was picked as one of Apple’s favorites in the AppStore’s 1 year anniversary and was featured in "there's an App for that" TV commercial.
The application also received PC Magazine editor choice award and was included in O’Reilly’s guide “Best iPhone apps” as best app for editing photos.
It’s not just a one time app. Photogene fulfills a wide range of your editing needs and we keep updating it.
NOTE: We are currently updating Photogene to support iPhone 4 camera resolution (5 MP). A free update will be available once we are done.
What's New In Version 2.5
- New filters & effects: blur, posterize, b&w.
- Upload to twitter & facebook and our new "Hall of fame".
- New localizations: Chinese and Hebrew.
- New cropping aspect ratios.
- New resize resolutions.
- Option to remove signature from e-mails.
Customer Reviews
No resize, enlarges cropped photographs (reducing quality),edits thumbnails.
Great app, but three problems. I saw crop, and I thought that would work just as well as resize, but the picture remains over 120kb most of the time and stays at 800px in width no matter how many times you crop the photograph thus also reducing the quality of the photograph since it saves it enlarged to 800px (width). The app also seems to only edit the thumbnails instead of the actual picture so it appears to cut off any pictures on the bottom/top or sides. If not for these problems, I would have given 5 stars. I mainly purchased this app hoping for the ability to resize photographs so that was a huge let down for me.
app not keeping pace with state of the art
over a year ago, i gave this app five stars. with the 2.5 update i'm re-reviewing the app and dropping the rating to four stars. here is why:
1] the app doesn't apply localized effects. while i can place a word balloon anywhere on the image, i can't place the locus of a blur effect or saturation effect anywhere on the image. this means that the app requires assistance from tilt-shift apps and selective desaturation apps, which butchers the photo-editing workflow. the whole strength of an app like photogene is that it allows for seamless workflow, as the state of the art advances and photogene does not, it reduces photogene's utility immensely.
2] no curves, no "local exposure"/HDR type effects. photogene doesn't have a "curves" interface for fine grained contrast control, as do other current iphone photo editing applications. it also doesn't have sector based automatic exposure filters like iFlashReady and other "flash/HDR" apps. again, this forces you out of the app, and diminishes photogene's utility as a unified workflow.
3] ugly "hall of fame" badge all over the load screen. this makes me unsure if photogene is a photo-editing tool or a wannabe social network. i'd downgrade if only to get rid of this. it's pretty bad.
there are some improvements being shown, however.
4] the save/publish interface is brilliantly executed, well laid out and powerful. it could do with flickr integration and maybe oauth for twitter authorization instead of password based, but on the whole this is a major improvement that enables a unified workflow by decreasing the need to flip leave photogene and open up an uploader or the mail application.
5] while the new filters are generally pretty cheesy and can only be applied to the entire image, the UI for calling them up and adjusting strength is really easy to use. photogene continues to demonstrate incredible polish in its UI.
to conclude:
i used to recommend photogene to every friend i had who bought an iphone. i no longer do. instead i either tell them to buy PhotoForge, which is clunkier than photogene but much more powerful - or i tell them just to buy individual "effects apps" and forego a unified workflow. i'd much prefer to recommend photogene because it is still an extremely slick application with one of the best user interfaces in the app store, but it seems like in the long period of time since its last major update it has been overtaken by other apps.
the strategy i wold recommend to the photogene is to try to replace as many existing photography apps as possible, without sacrificing UI excellence or performance. i'd much rather spend money on an in app purchase in photogene for a decent tilt shift interface than on an individual app, to keep the unified workflow.
I don't buy many apps but this is well worth it!
I have bought very few apps -- found a lot of great free ones. Plus, as an amateur photographer, I just usually dragged my photos into Photoshop and did any re-touching there. I finally decided "what the heck, for 3 bucks, why not? It's not exactly a lot of money." The first time I used it I thought "wow, this is ONLY $2.99?!" OK so it's not Photoshop but then the iPhone isn't my Nikon camera either. However, I do take photos with iPhone when I don't have my Nikon with me and it's amazing what this little app is capable of. Clearly the developer enjoys photography and gave a lot of thought of what would be handy. Great job! And I am sorry I didn't buy this sooner.
One last thing...I read that the latest version resulted in some blurriness. It happened to me, too, on one photo but then I was trying to crop it -- and thus blow it up -- a lot. Probably went the resolution capability of the original photo.
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$1.99
- Category: Photography
- Updated:Dec 22, 2009
- Current Version:2.5
- 2.5
- 1.7 MB
- Languages:English, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish
- Seller:Omer Shoor
- © Omer Shoor
Requirements:Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iPhone OS 2.2 or later.
