A few days ago, I posted a preview of Snapheal, a new content-aware Mac app from MacPhun which claims to let you quickly and easily remove unwanted objects from your photos.
Snapheal for Mac is now available for download in the Mac App Store. I’ve had a chance to play around with the app. While it won’t fix everything you throw at it, Snapheal fixes a lot more than you’d think. It’s a very powerful tool and it’s very reasonably priced at under $20. Right now, Snapheal is introductory priced for only $9.99 for a limited time. Click past the jump for examples.
UPDATE 08.10.11 @1:15: We’ve given away the promo codes. If you won, you will receive them by email or Twitter direct message within 24 hours. Thank you all for entering. Stay tuned…. We’ve always got more giveaways. =M=
Image Blender is a simple utility that does one thing – blend two images together. It’s a great utility to easily create Photoshop-style blends using one of 16 blend styles between two images.
The 1.3.1 update was recently released. In addition to the enhancements made in the 1.3 update, it fixes the rotation bug as well. I’ve got a few copies of Image Blender to give away – very few. This will be a short giveaway. Click past the jump to find out how you can win a copy.
There are a few of places on the web where resourceful users have created Hipstamatic Photoshop actions which simulate the look of the app’s films and lenses, allowing you to create the look of Hipstamatic on images that weren’t shot with the app. We don’t post those links on the blog, but recently, Daniel Box created some Photoshop actions which let you recreate the look of some of Instagram’s filters, letting you add the look of Instagram’s filter set and save the processed image in full resolution.
Hello, nightowls! If you’re up late this July 4th holiday Sunday night, check out these sales and freebies in the App Store right now.
Iris Photo Suite for iPhone and Iris Photo Suite for iPad are both FREE right now in the App Store. They’ve been reduced for a couple of hours now. This giveaway won’t last very long. Click the links above and grab them now.
Snapseed for iPad, a pro-level iPad-only photo editor, is on sale through July 4th for only $1.99 — that’s a huge discount off its normal $4.99 price tag.
Within the free app Adobe Photoshop Express, the in-app purchase for the Adobe Camera Pack featuring the excellent Noise Reduction tool is now only $1.99 — a savings of $2.00 of the normal price of $3.99. I’ve reviewed it previously and at $1.99 the noise reduction tool becomes a much more attractive purchase.
And the great Halftone app is on sale for $0.99 through July 4th — a savings of $1.00. It’s a fun app and I think the best pulpy, comic-like, halftone generator in the App Store.
If you’re celebrating this weekend, have a safe and Happy 4th of July!
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Thanks to Misshapen Joy for the email that tipped me off to most of these sales.
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.
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.
Photography Bay is reporting that a very slick version of Photoshop for iPad was previewed at the Photoshop World 2011 Keynote yesterday. This is not a larger version of the watered down Adobe Photoshop Express for iOS, but and entirely new build of the app that has more of the powerful features of the desktop version, including layers and some pretty sweet layers animation.
Adobe’s Photoshop Express for iPhone and iPad got a new update this week. The 2.0 update is free. Most of the new features — in particular the good ones — are not. They’re a hefty $3.99 which is a lot for an iPhone photo app. Is it worth it? Click past the jump to see what I think.
Over a year ago, I wrote two stories about The Best Free iPhoneography Apps: Camera Replacements and Image Editors. Since those two stories were first posted, a lot has changed in iPhonegraphy. The iPhone is now on iOS 4.2 (soon to be iOS 4.3). Two versions of the iPhone 4 have been released and these devices have much greater resolution and a much better camera than those of a year ago. The iPod Touch 4th Generation now comes with a camera. Several of the apps originally listed are no longer available or break in the latest versions of the iOS.
Currently, many free versions of the apps are try-before-you-buy versions of their commercial siblings. Many are very feature limited or save at unusably low resolutions.
However, there are still some great free photo apps in the App Store. Some of these apps are ad-supported. Some save in usable but not full resolution. None of these apps add an obstructing watermark. All of these apps are very usable and are normally free. Apps whose price is temporarily reduced to free are not included here.
A few days ago, I posted a preview of Snapheal, a new content-aware Mac app from MacPhun which claims to let you quickly and easily remove unwanted objects from your photos.
