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Photogene2 is the updated version of the classic iPhone photo editor. Photogene2 has been completely retooled and is the ultimate tool for handling your iPhone photos. It’s a full featured photo editor: crop, straighten, color adjustments (including histogram and curves), sharpen and denoise, retouch tools (dodge/burn, heal, localized effects and more). This new version puts it on par with Filterstorm and PhotoForge2. Photogene2 has an impressive, well-rounded set of features.

This powerful image editor for iPhone is on sale now for a limited time for only $0.99. That’s a savings of $1.00 off the regular price.

Current App Store ratings are averaging an impressive 4-1/2 stars for Photogene2 and after using it for a few weeks, I think those ratings are accurate and deserved.

Where the original Photogene was showing its age, this new version is fast, full featured, and has a great, newly revised interface. If you are currently using an all-in-one camera app (such as Camera+ or King Camera) or are otherwise not using one of the high-end iOS image editors, this is a great addition to your iPhoneography camera bag. Grab it now while the price is low.

Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.2 or later. It’ll run on an iPad, but this version is not a Universal app and doesn’t fully take advantage of the larger screen real estate of the iPad.

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It’s been a busy week for photo editor updates. Now, the popular image editor Iris Photo Suite update is in the App Store. This significant update adds many new user-requested features to the already impressive tool set, including 23 new filter presets, noise reduction, improved masking — all wrapped up in a new user interface. Iris gets a great looking new icon, too, with this update.

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Filterstorm
Version 3.0
Price $3.99

Bottom Line: A strong four stars. It’s a powerful image editor designed to do serious work on your iDevice — adjustments that used to have to be done on a desktop.

As more photographs are being shot on an iPhone and as more of those are completely processed on the device never even touching a desktop or laptop, the need grows for a powerful yet workable image editing solution for iPhone. Photogene and PhotoForge were two of the first to put a part of Photoshop’s tool set on the iPhone.

There have been several other dedicated image editors released for iPhone since then. Filterstorm first started as one of the first dedicated iPad image editors before being ported to iPhone. In earlier versions, I’d felt its interface was a little cramped for the small screen of the iPhone and better suited for the larger real estate of the iPad.

Filterstorm 3.0, the new update of this powerful image editor, changes that. With it’s newly revamped user interface and improvements to its tool set, Filterstorm 3 feels at home no matter which device it’s on. Calling it the new “Photoshop for the iPhone” does it a disservice. Filterstorm 3 sets the standard and redefines how image editing apps should work on the iOS platform.

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PhotoToaster
Version 1.0
Price: $2.99, introductory priced at $0.99 for a limited time

Bottom Line: A simple, fast, easy to use photo editor, but it’s layered in its complexity. A well-designed photo app for a wide range of iPhoneographers.

PhotoToaster by East Coast Pixels, Inc. is a new iPhone photo app that merges one-click processing with useful image editing tools and the power of being able to customize all aspects of filter presets. On top of that, it’s wrapped up in a fun user interface that’s really easy to use.

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At the top of the Utilities section of the App Store is a powerful photo editor that gives Photogene and Photoforge a run for their money.

PerfectPhoto by MacPhun has been around almost as long as those two venerable photo apps and boasts a feature set that compares favorably to both — along with some great features of its own. MacPhun is also the developer of FX Photo Studio, a very good filter app. The Perfect Photo 2.0 update is now available and while it doesn’t add many new features to this already powerful app, it has several new features in particular that I think are pretty cool.

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UPDATE: Wow. These went very fast! We have given away all of the PhotoWizard-Editor promo codes. Stay tuned, though. We’ve got some other cool stuff here at the office that we’ll be giving away soon!

While photo editing apps PhotoForge, Iris Photo Suite, and Photogene are getting all the attention, PhotoWizard-Editor by Pankaj Goswami is another good app in this class that’s definitely worth a look at. It’s a full-featured image editor with a complete suite of editing tools as well as some other unique features.

If you want a free copy, we’ve got 10 FREE promo codes of PhotoWizard-Editor to give away below. Click past the jump to find out how.

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Venerable image editor Photogene for iPhone got another update today to version 2.61 — a minor update which removes one of my major complaints about the last update. Photogene no longer requires you to enable location services to view or edit photos.

Photogene is still iOS 4 only and I suspect that’s permanent.

To “celebrate” the new version, Photogene is now on sale for just $0.99 — that’s a 50% discount. This price drop is good until September 1, 2010.

Two updates in. I wonder when the App Store will start displaying Photogene’s new icon….

App Store link: Photogene

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Since its release a couple of months ago, Iris Photo Suite by Ventessa has quickly become one of the more popular photo editing apps among iPhoneographers. The new 1.3 update released today adds a long awaited feature to iPhone image editing apps – layers support and blending at full resolution. The new layers support will blow iPhoneographers away and offers a very powerful new tool for effects and blends on the iPhone.

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The venerable Photoshop-like, iPhone image editing workhorse Photogene for iPhone has just been updated to version 2.6. It now supports all of the cool iOS 4 features, EXIF data, and even FTP uploads. But this new update also has a very annoying feature which will frustrate anyone who prefers to keep their location data private.

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We’ve got a new LoFi Poll this week.

I’m often asked if I could recommend one iPhone photo editor, which would it be. It really is a difficult question to answer as there are a lot of factors to consider, such as level of experience in photography and Photoshop. Which, of course, leads to the question “If I could  choose only one image editor, which would it be?” And thus, this week’s poll.

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