FX Photo Studio – Review

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On March 19, 2010

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FX Photo Studio – Review

Our rating:

By: FX Photo Studio

Version #: 2.0.0

Date Released: 2009-10-31

Developer: macphun.com, LLC

Price: 0.99

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Currently undergoing a half-price sale at $.99, FX Photo Studio is something of a neat app to have on hand.  Simply put, it allows you to take a picture either from your iPhone camera or your Photo Library and do an array of neat tricks with it.

When the app opens, you are given three simple options: Load Photo, Options, or see the list of other programs we make.  Ignoring the third option, the Options menu allows the user to control the screen where the program starts (either the aformentioned menu or the Photo Library).  You can also control the maximum resolution of your photos and activate or deactivate other app capabilities.

The important option is the one that says "Load Photo".  From there, you pick a photo from the Photo Library and load it.  A toolbar is visible on both the top and bottom of the screen.  From the top toolbar, you can select another image, undo the last change to your photo, select an effect to put on your photo, or save or upload the photo.  From the bottom toolbar, you can crop, rotate or change the gamma on the photo.

Thus far, my favorite effects are vintage and art.  You can make the photo look like an oil painting or an old photograph from those.  You can also do effect like change the hue, blur, distort or simply add a frame.

Overall, it’s a cute but underwhelming app to have if you enjoy photo manipulation on a simple scale.  To do real photo manipulation requires a Mac.  However that’s a bit of an investment.  For simple stuff, it’s certainly worth the buck.

 

Quick Take

Value:Medium to High.

Would I Buy Again:Possibly.

Learning Curve:Medium.

Who Is It For:Those that enjoy making photos look like other things.

What I Like:Variety of effects. Simplicity of use.

What I Don't Like:I prefer more robust photo manipulation, but it's good for what it is.

Final Statement:For photo manipulation, it's definitely worth the buck. Maybe two.

Read the Developer's Notes:
The Biggest Collection Of Photo Effects On App Store!* 105 Photo Effects (This number continues to grow with regular Free updates!)* Undo* Crop image* Crop area rotation* Rotate and flip image* Brightness adjustments* Random filter selection* You can add any filter to favorites* Compatibility with iPhone OS 3.0* "Take instant photo" Feature (for iPhones only)* You can easily import pictures from Photo Albums on your device* Intuitive, easy to use user interface designed by usability professionals* Automatic rotation of picture imported with wrong orientation* High resolution support up to 2048*1600 pixels* Portrait and landscape modes supported* All resulting images can be saved to "Camera Roll" or "Saved Photos" * Upload resulting images to Twitter and Facebook* E-Mail image* Filters previews* Detailed user instructions included* You can easily combine all filters with each other, creating infinite numbers of your own unique effects!Besides Photo Effects, this App provides set of professional photo editing tools, including: Rotate and Flip image, Brightness adjustments, Crop image (with crop area rotation) and others.You can take an instant photo or choose pics from your albums and than easily apply any filter in just three taps!You can choose one of many filters like: Vintage, Night Vision, Pencil Paint, False Mirror, Ghost, Neon Light, Hue Green, Rainbow Palette, Scary Face, Ancient Canvas, Steamy Window, Stardust Frame, Mosaic, Burnt Paper, Explosion, Old Film Frame, Bump Mapping, Old Photo, Old TV, and many but many others!The selection is really enormous!And don't forget that besides using basic filters, you can also easily combine each filter with any other, as many times as you want!This way you obtain thousands of different possibilities for amazing experiments with your photos!After applying filters, you can save obtained pictures to your iPhone/iPod touch albums in high resolution quality up to 2048*1600 pixels.
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