Photo App Focus: Effexy

March 30, 2013 – 3:34 pm | 9 Comments

Effexy is a compelling grab bag of effects and image editing tools. Several of the effects are simply outstanding. Others are more subtle while a couple of them are of the WTH? variety. Overall, there’s more than enough here to make it worth a look at a buck or two. Here’s my review. >>>

New Digital Negative App Brings Uncompressed Raw Photos to iPhone — Poorly.

March 23, 2013 – 4:27 pm | 7 Comments

New photo app Digital Negative promises us with a flavor of digital RAW, but stumbles very badly in its initial release, to the point where it’s unusable as a camera for shooting high-quality photos in the iPhone.

Photo App Review: Plastica 2.0 Redeems Itself

March 21, 2013 – 10:17 am | 28 Comments

Faux-LOMO, retro-analog camera app Plastica is back. This new re-release isn’t perfect, but it’s now good enough to make me get over the first time it was released.

Photo App Review: Handy Photo® – Wow!

March 19, 2013 – 11:57 am | 9 Comments

Handy Photo app lets you perform image editing, color moves, cloning, basic retouching, advanced retouching, and about the most advanced clip and paste I’ve ever seen on any platform. Any….

Photo App Focus: Perspective Correct – Easy Perspective Correction

March 18, 2013 – 12:47 pm | 10 Comments

New photo app Perspective Correct helps solve the long-standing photographer’s dilemma — the perspective distortion caused by not being as tall as that building over there.

Photo App Review: Zitrr Camera Lands With a Resounding Meh

March 17, 2013 – 9:37 pm | 17 Comments

Our review of new camera app Zitrr Camera. It’s a good camera module crippled by medium resolution and an underwhelming filter set.

Photo App Review: PhotoNova 2 Is Not All It Says It Is

March 12, 2013 – 11:28 am | 2 Comments

I took a look at PhotoNova 2. It’s a decent app, but far from essential. Unfortunately, the app does not live up to the expectations set overall and especially in one, very important way.

Photo App Focus: HDR Art. Plus, We’ve Got Promo Codes!

March 11, 2013 – 9:45 am | 49 Comments

HDR Art is a pretty broad filter app, but at its core, it’s a single-image faux-HDR effect processor with 50 filter presets. Check out my review. We’ve also got promo codes to give away for the app.

Photo App Review: Fast Camera is Really Fast!

March 9, 2013 – 12:24 am | One Comment

My review of Fast Camera. It starts up fast, shoots fast, and then lets you select the best captures after. It’s basic and it’s that easy.

Photo App Focus: Deco Sketch is Pretty Slick

March 7, 2013 – 5:40 pm | 6 Comments

Deco Sketch is a great modern-style app that creates effects that no other photo app does. It adds everything from a delicate web of geometric shapes to bold, colorful, modern patterns to an image.

Photo App Review: Adobe Photoshop Touch for iPhone

February 27, 2013 – 1:19 pm | 13 Comments

Adobe Photoshop touch is what Photoshop for iPhone should’ve been all along. This initial version has many good features that are very well done. Overall this is a solid new image editor. I look forward to the updates to see what magic Adobe has up its sleeve.

Photo App Focus: Typic Pro

February 18, 2013 – 9:26 am | 5 Comments

Typic Pro creates some of the best-looking captions I’ve seen for iOS. Everything about Typic Pro is very visually appealing, from the fonts to the design elements — even the slick, easy to use User Interface.