iFlashReady v2.1 – Review
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By: iFlashReady v2.1
Version #: 2.1
Date Released: 2009-06-17
Developer: Bo Yuan
Price: 0.99
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The iPhone does a lot of things really well, but one thing that I’ve never been too excited about is the quality of it’s pictures–often shakey (thanks to my coffee habit) and usually dark. Many of the pictures I take just wind up in the "garbage" can.
One reason why so many pictures are unusable is because the iPhone lacks a flash. I’ve become quite adept at winding around my kids in the hopes of getting adaquate lighting before they move; and while this helps, it certainly doesn’t work all the time.
Often I use 3rd party (computer based) tools, such as Picassa to ‘tweak’ my photos before I email them off to other people. Because I’m inconsistent (to put it lightly) at syncing my phone, this means people will get pictures from a picinic 6 months later.
To try and decrease the amount of time between taking the picture and sending it off, tools, such as iFlash (if they work) are great.
I’m often skeptical of image processing programs that show before and after pictures since, the logic goes, if the image didn’t work well for what they wanted to illustrate, they’d just use another one.
So I used a picture my daughter took and tried iFlash on it.
Here’s the before and after:
WOW! The color is brighter and the scene has more ‘light’. I can definately say that it works as advertised, but if I wanted to do any "serious" picture manipulation such as effects, changing saturation, etc, I would probably still use a computer based (rather than phone based) program.
iFlash is a great quick fix to the dark photo problem, the only problem I have is that iFlash crashed 3 times while I tried using it. I’m guessing it’s an issue with OS 3.0 and I hope that it goes resolved quickly.
Quick Take
Value: High
Would I Buy Again: Absolutely
Learning Curve: Easy to use–but a little slow. (Probably because of all the calcuations it has to do.)
Who Is It For: People that like to email pictures from their phone, but don’t want to email dark pictures
What I Like: It’s easy to use and works well!
What I Don’t: The app crashed…but I’m sure that will be addressed.
Final Statement: iFlash is a must have app if you use the camera feature often–especially if you like to email pictures from your phone.
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