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Photomizer
Version 1.0
Price: $3.99 (on sale for $0.99)

Bottom Line: Decent image correction quality. Has trouble with larger sized images.

[UPDATE]: I am updating my review of the app. I owe the developers an apology for the unnecessarily harsh review I wrote previously. I had erroneously reported that the app only saves at 320×240 pixels. I had looked for a setting to allow large file saves. In the settings screen there isn’t one — or so I thought. The setting which determines file size is deceptively hidden as the “Allow Image Editing” setting. This is turned off by default. I had turned it on when I tested this app for my review. Leaving it off allows for full size image processing. I highly recommend that they change the misleading “Allow Image Editing” setting to something more descriptive, like a toggle between small and original image saves.

Photomizer by Engelmann Media GmbH is on sale this week for $0.99. It’s a Dynamic Range Correction app that is supposed to help  compensate for weaknesses in the iPhone’s camera. It does an acceptable job of correcting images, but not an outstanding one — no better than many of the other apps which process an image on the iPhone itself.

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Photomizer is a new Dynamic Range Correction app from Engelmann Media GmbH. It’s the iPhone/iPod Touch version of their DRC software for Windows, so they definitely have knowledge and experience in this area for creating an app that should do a good job of photo enhancement on an iPhone.

Photomizer is in the same class of apps as Perfectly Clear, imphoto, and TruSight Pro.

However, the description that accompanies this newly released app in the US Store is in German with no English translation. I don’t speak German myself, but Google does. Below is the Google translation of Photomizer’s App Store description.

I won’t be reviewing the app here. Although it’s attractively priced at $0.99 USD, it also does its magic off the iPhone and on the Photomizer’s servers. An internet connection is required to use the app. Although the fast 3G network speeds may minimize the delays in transfer time, I prefer all of my processing to be done on my iPhone. This app would not be usable in Airplane mode and I do a lot of my post-travel image processing while in flight. Your workflow may vary and the connectivity requirement may not be an issue for you.

Until an English version of the description is posted, read on for the translated version:

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