Filed under: iPhone, App Store, iPod touch, App Review
Photogene is a photo genius for your iPhone
In my recent review of AutoStitch I mentioned Photogene [App Store] which is kind of like a miniature Photoshop for the digital pictures you take on your iPhone.It has a boatload of functions, which will let you fix and enhance your digital images without having to offload them to another image editor on a Mac or PC.
Here's some of the functionality:
- Enhance photos with color adjustment and sharpen tools
- Crop and straighten photos
- Add text balloons
- Create a variety of frames
- Adjust Histogram
- Correct Gamma
- Increase/decrease saturation
- Adjust color temperature
- Multiple undo and redo
Some of the icons are not obvious in function, but they are quickly learned. I would have liked to see noise reduction among the features, but the developer has created a separate app called NoiseBlaster [App Store] that removes noise from iPhone images. It's an additional $0.99, but I would have liked it included in Photogene.
Photogene works on the iPod touch as well, but you'll have to import images since the touch has no built in camera, at least not yet.
At US$2.99 it's hard to go wrong if you use your iPhone camera as much as I do.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
eyezberg said 2:55AM on 6-14-2009
There's 2 Apps I use on most photos: a/iFlashReady because it's so simple to use for light correction and b/Photogene because all the rest like cropping out just the right part is easy to do
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papsonette said 3:37AM on 6-14-2009
I use iRetouch. It is way better then Photogene + MUCH more features (clone stamp, smudge, all blending modes)
The best thing: iRetouch it's just 1.99$ not like 2.99$ for Photogene
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eyezberg said 5:43AM on 6-14-2009
$1 less (or 30%) bid deal.. Will try this. Compared to software prices like Photoshop (Elements) or Paints Shop Pro etc.. it's still cheap no matter which one you go for ;-)
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Think Adrian said 6:38AM on 6-14-2009
Too bad Photogene isn't photogenic itself. Ugly program.
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malte said 6:48AM on 6-14-2009
i like photogene...but as i prefer to make just quick enhancements on the phone i would recommend photo hype. autoadjust and straighten (as seen in iphoto) do the job most of the time...
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malte said 10:27AM on 6-14-2009
forget "photo hype"...it is not using the native iphone-resolution!
billcondie said 10:13PM on 6-23-2009
Just a quich look at the Crop and Sharpen functions:
http://billcondie.com/imgs/cans3.jpg
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