Red Giant’s Noir Photo gets a price cut for the weekend. The artistic monochrome converter for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad is now 66% off the regular price.
Noir Photo is designed to achieve beautiful and evocative black and white, sepia and other monochrome effects with no effort. By setting contrast, exposure and vignetting with the help of easy-to-operate controls, Noir will bring dramatic suggestions to your images. The app is universal and thus compatible with all iDevices. Our full review of Noir Photo is available here.
You can currently find Noir at the special price of $0.99/€0.79/£0.69 in the App Store.
Images thus edited can be processed further by adding to them several photographic filters. All effects available are arranged into four categories: Classic, Lomo, Neon and Monochrome. The grouping of effects to fit them in the various categories seems however a little arbitrary and I still cannot fathom why some of those effects appear twice and why in the Monochrome section there are color filters as well. Countless filter combinations can be applied to photos. As a final touch, before saving, sending with email or sharing on Facebook and Flickr, it’s possible to apply a borders. Borders are mostly black and white items in a variety of styles.
Photo Effect Studio is an OK app with a few nice effects, but it definitely looks too much like something we have already seen many times. And with many I really mean many. Some of the filters bear an uncanny resemblance — same names too — to those of other best-selling apps, like Instagram and Camera+.
By tapping and dragging, you place the flare in the right position; by pinching with two fingers, you shrink or enlarge the flare; with two fingers, it is also possible to rotate the flare to the right angle. You can save your image right away to your device or, if you prefer, using the “Render image” option, you can add to it as many flares as you like. In order to use flares generated in LensFlare in external photo editors, you can choose the “Save flare only” option and thus export the flare on a plain black background. The lens dust feature to achieve a more realistic and natural look can be enabled and disabled from the same flares panel.
RomanticPhoto counts 60+ ready-to-use preset styles to enrich photos with timeless and unreal atmospheres. Presets come in several themed categories and cover a variety of effects, from dreamy blur to selective saturation. Colors and overlays are adjustable for even more effects.
The Photo Editor offers crop, rotate, adjust brightness, contrast, saturation and improve definition tools. It also includes effects and borders. Effects — 36 in all — range from sepia to lomo-like filters. Borders come in two different styles, basic and vignette. Most adjustments and effects can be applied simply using sliders to regulate their intensity. Reverting to the original image is always possible.
Bleach Bypass by fotosyn recreates skip bleach processing on the iPhone. The recently revamped Bleach Bypass features 8 different effects plus borders and vignetting for easy and dramatic enhancement of images. Bleach Bypass 1.2.5 was released in the App Store earlier this week and this latest version comes with PhotoAppLink integration, to seamlessly edit photos between photo apps. If you have not tried the app yet, this could be the perfect occasion to get acquainted with it.
The simplified workflow is the biggest improvement in version 2.0 of Retrollect.