Comments on: App Review: Photogene Photo Enhancer for iPhone

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 03 May 2009 20:39:17 +0000

I would never copy an iPhone photo over to a computer to use Photoshop anyway because I'd use a real camera if I wanted a high-quality photo worth touching up in Photoshop on a computer.

That's why this app is so useful. It's perfect for quickly adjusting gritty iPhone photos so they can look their best — nothing more, nothing less.

By: Muero

Muero — Sun, 03 May 2009 18:39:42 +0000

No "free-form crop"? What is this, like making weird jigsaw-shaped images? It can do any size and shape of rectangle. You aren't limited to the aspect ratio buttons. I've never wanted to crop a photo to any non-rectangle shape. I really don't see how this is a criticism of the app.

Of course this isn't a replacement for GIMP or Adobe Photoshop, but I've touched up lots of photos before emailing them out on my iPhone, and it's absolutely great for that. Straightening works great as does the histogram adjustment (which can auto fix or be done manually). I've even added thought balloons and text, and there's even ways to customize the colors on the text and objects (like talk bubbles). Even the outlines around the objects can be customized.

If you ever use your iPhone's camera and want to send out a picture before you go home to fix it in Picasa, this app is incredibly useful.

By: icebike

icebike — Sun, 03 May 2009 17:34:03 +0000

I bought this app too, mostly as a point of interest since I have like two dozen different photo editing apps on various platforms.

Mostly a novelty App, good enough for when you want to do something without sending to my computer first.

Its cute, and occasionally useful, but its really just a toy (sort of like the iphone camera itself).

The Sepia, is sort of cool , especially on Turn Back the Clock night at the ballpark. http://i479.photobucket.com/albums/rr151/icebike/photo-5.jpg

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 03 May 2009 15:59:10 +0000

It seems to me that if the new iPhone is going to have video editing, why would it not have photo editing similar to this app? Maybe later this year?

By: IcemanYVR

IcemanYVR — Sun, 03 May 2009 14:30:50 +0000

I purchased this app because I really wants to fix a photo that was important to me. This really is like iPhoto on the iPhone. I like the levels adjustment and the colour temp tool. I’ve been very surprised with this app, and use it much more than I would have expected.