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[UPDATE: From developer Renzo Verleysen, there was an issue with Apple's price change automation system. The free promotion has been reset manually and should show up as free in the App Store in a few minutes. FlashPhix 2 should be free for another 24 hours, until about 2:00 PM CDT on Monday, November 1. =M= ]

FlashPhix 2 by Phoenxsoftware is FREE for the next day or so in the App Store. It’s one of the many exposure enhancement apps that were developed to compensate for the older iPhone’s lack of a hardware flash. I think this is one of the better ones. The app normally sells for $0.99.

This promotion is for the full version of FlashPhix 2, not the feature-limited Lite version. FlashPhix is from the developers of MonoPhix — an app we highly recommend here on the blog.

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FlashPhix 2.2 by Phoenxsoftware is on sale now for only $0.99 USD. The app is 50% off until the new update is released. FlashPhix provides you with a set of features which enable you to control a picture’s exposure, colors and contrast to the detail.

This is the full version, not the lite version, and it recently sold for $1.99. The app is from the makers of the excellent MonoPhix app, which produces some of the best color-to-monochrome conversion available on the iPhone.

While I haven’t reviewed FlashPhix 2 here yet, I do use the app. FlashPhix often produces very good results for me when I use it to fix the exposure of an image. It’s easy to use, but also offers enough additional controls to make purchasing the full version worthwhile especially now that it’s on sale. This also gets you into the update path.

I’m unsure how long before the update will be released and FlashPhix returns to its normal price. If you’ve been considering buying this app, hurry to the App Store now.

App Store link: FlashPhix

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Flash Hero
Version 1.2

Bottom line: Two of the three filters work poorly.

Flash Hero is a new “flash fixer” app from Asasa Software which uses three different kinds of exposure enhancements to fix the lighting of a photo.

No two images are the same and many times an exposure enhancement app that does a great job on one image works poorly with another. That’s why I keep several exposure enhancers in my iPhone. Flash Hero attempts to give you three different types of exposure enhancement in one app. The idea is that of the three, one of them will work best to fix your image. It’s a great concept. Unfortunately, two of the filters work poorly and the third is redundant and unnecessary if you already have another slider-based flash fixer, such as Perfectly Clear, Auto Adjust or FlashPhix. All three of these apps produce better results more easily.

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