Bleach Bypass Updated to 1.2

Bleach Bypass by fotosynBleach Bypass 1.2 is out. The new version of fotosyn’s skip bleach app gives users more control over the final look of processed photos and a more efficient workflow.

Each effect has now a more functional control panel, featuring an intensity slider which can be adjusted for subtler final effects. Likewise, users can now add borders and vignette from within the effect screen, without having to go back to the in-app settings menu to enable, change or disable these elements every time.
Bleach Bypass iPhoneThe newly added frame icon is positioned on the left side of the intensity slider. By tapping on it, one among Bleach Bypass frames is applied to the image. To scroll among frames, all the user needs to do is tapping on the icon: one tap enables the light, two the black and three the retro frame; by tapping once again frames are disabled. Enabling vignette works in the same way: by tapping on the vignette icon positioned on the right side of the slider, it’s possible to enable and disable vignetting instantly.

Bleach Bypass iPhone
Monohint (left) and Cinematic (right) with retro border.

Bleach Bypass 1.2 also brings enhanced previews to non-retina devices.

Bleach Bypass - Fotosyn

VintageScene on Sale!

More price drops: VintageScene is currently 50% off in the App Store. JixiPix’s vintage camera for iPhone is now $0.99/€0.79/£0.69.
VintageScene on saleVintageScene, featuring more than 70 fully customizable presets arranged in three themed collections, plus a number of old-school borders, textures and preset editor, adds an antique look to photos quickly. Choose styles, color themes and textures to create your unique effects.
VintageScene - JixiPix Software

Diptic, Grungetastic & BlurFX on Sale!

Three photo apps now on sale which you should not overlook: Diptic, BlurFX, Grungetastic. All apps are 50% off their App Store price for a limited time and they are now $0.99/€0.79/£0.69.

On saleDiptic by Peak Systems is a universal app that allows to combine photos to create visual mishmash both on iPhone and iPad devices. Diptic comes with a rich selection of customizable templates to mix up to four images together. The offer for Diptic is valid until August 31.
Diptic - Peak Systems

BlurFX helps to simulate out of focus effects on your iDevice. Choose among three styles of blur and use masking and adjustable brushes to selectively apply out of focus on photos. The offer is valid only for the iPad version of BlurFX.
BlurFX - DD Studio

Grungetastic produces basic and vector-like grungy styles to craft images with a dirty and distressed look. JixiPix’s app contains a wide collection of presets, textures and tools which to create both simple and complex effects. The current offer is only valid for the purchase of the iPhone version of Grungetastic.
Grungetastic - JixiPix Software

ProCamera on Sale!

ProCamera is on sale for a limited time: the app is 50% off the regular price and available for purchase in the App Store at $1.99/€1.59/£1.49.
ProCamera on SaleConceived as a powered up replacement for iPhone’s native camera, ProCamera is a do-it-all photo application that combines several capturing features with post-processing tools. ProCamera has burst mode, self-timer and anti-shake; it lets users shoot setting focus and exposure separately; it can record videos; it also comes with several presets to change the look of photos taken both in-app or loaded from the iPhone, and much more.

Our full review for ProCamera can be found here.
ProCamera - daemgen.net

Movie Looks HD Review

Red Giant’s Movie Looks HD is a universal video editing app that offers a collection of polished looking effects and other basic editing tools to spice up your video clips in just a few minutes.

Movie Looks HD is the mobile — and simplified — edition of Red Giant’s renown Magic Bullet Looks, a professional desktop color grading editor.

Main Features

  • Full resolution available;
  • 40 looks;
  • Adjust look intensity and brightness;
  • In-app guide;
  • Send via email and MMS or share to Youtube, MobileMe, Facebook, Flickr and Twitter.

Appotography Opinion

Movie Looks HD doesn’t let you shoot videos from within the app, you can only import previously taken clips to edit them. Before applying the effects, you can trim your videos. Red Giant’s editor, like most iPhone and iPad apps, doesn’t come with very accurate or specialized editing tools, but in any case the trimming feature is still worth having.

Movie Looks HDMovie Looks HD contains several presets (looks) whose intensity and overall brightness you can adjust with the help of two sliders before confirming the processing. There are forty presets in all, which are arranged in five packs each counting eight effects: Quick, Essential, Black and White, Popular Film and Blockbusters.

Movie Looks HDThe looks in the Quick pack are basic color adjustments that, as the name suggests, take less to be processed. The Essential looks simulate well-known and hugely popular processes, like bleach bypass and cross process. The remaining packs, Black and White, Popular Film and Blockbusters, are available as premium material only through in-app purchase. They cover a variery of styles, from vintage monochrome to night vision style.

Movie Looks HDAfter developing is finished, you can review your edited clip and either decide to move on by choosing another video or you can keep on editing the same clip, picking different looks.

Movie Looks HDI have tried Movie Looks HD both on the iPhone and on the iPad: even in full resolution developing times seemed fair, especially with very short clips. Just to be on the safe side, Red Giant warns users that an iPhone is not a supercomputer and processing may take some time. At any rate, it doesn’t take Movie Looks HD longer than average to edit video clips. Effects are well done, but perhaps not varied enough to justify forty different presets. Not to mention that some of the most interesting effects come with the premium packs. On the iPad, for some reason the app stays on “saving” forever after developing is complete, so I couldn’t manage to get past this stage and look at the result. Moreover, on the iPad the app has some glitch and thumbnails aren’t displayed correctly in previews.

A few users complained that Movie Looks HD won’t read their Camera Roll even when there are videos in it. If this happened to you, it may be a problem with your location services being disabled, so check the device’s settings and make sure the option is enabled.

Movie Looks HD is free until September 1.

Overall

Name: Movie Looks HD
Developer: Red Giant
Compatibility: iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad. iOS 4.1 or later.
Price: £1.99||$2.99||€2.39
Vote: 3/5

Movie Looks HD - Red Giant Software

Lomora 2 Updated Review

Lomora 2 iPhoneIt’s been some time since I first got Lomora 2 and just a little less since I published my review on this Lomo camera for iPhone. Although I wanted to like the app more at the time of the first review — mainly because of its fabulous effects — I couldn’t really get past a few usability issues. I haven’t been using Lomora 2 much in the course of the months, to be honest, but lately I have been rediscovering it. There have been significant improvements to this application and I feel Lomora deserves another chance.

Lomora 2 has matured a lot. A few changes were enough to bring the app to another level. The severest usability issues were fixed with the last updates, from 2.2 to 2.2.3 (the current version), thus in general the app feels less clunky than before. Although some aspects that are not exactly easy to figure out are untouched and still require a little effort on the user’s part to get them right, Lomora’s workflow is now smoother, also thanks to a more intuitive placement of items in the interface.

Lomora 2 iPhoneAdditional features were introduced since version 2.2. Among the newly added elements are the focus, exposure and flash controls. With a tap you can set your focus point, with two you can determine the exposure, while with three you can set a flash point. Combining these three elements together depending on lighting and other conditions, you can produce remarkable results. Moreover, Lomora 2 now remembers your vignette choices so that upon restarting the app after you exit, all your previous vignette adjustments are maintained.

Last but not least, the problem with the light pixels appearing at the left border of each and every saved image, which forced to crop photos using an external app, is no more: photos taken in Lomora 2 are now as good as they can be.

Lomora 2 iPhone
Filters used: R/P, B/W, R/C, Sensia.

Lomora 2 feels more enjoyable now than in the past, mainly because of all the technical enhancements mentioned above and because of all the minor fixes to bugs that may have caused occasional annoyance. For this reason I am happily revising my previous score. Not to forget that the original quality of the filters is intact and, even to this day, photos taken in Lomora 2 still look unique and refreshing and this alone is enough to justify the purchase.

Overall

Name: Lomora 2
Developer: Marvin Lee
Compatibility: iPhone, iPod Touch. iOS 4.0 or later.
Price: £1.99||$2.99||€2.39
Vote: 4/5

Lomora 2 - Marvin Lee

FX Photo Studio On Sale!

The iPhone edition of FX Photo Studio is on sale in the App Store for a limited time at the special price of $0.99/€0.79/£0.69, which is 50% off the app’s regular price. The current offer will be valid only during the weekend.

FX Photo Studio on Sale

FX photo Studio is a comprehensive and yet simple app for editing photos quickly and easily on the iPhone. MacPhun’s most popular photo app comes with 194 ready-to-use effects which you can combine together, masking and editing tools, plus several sharing options. If you are interested in knowing more about FX Photo Studio 4.0, go read our review here.

FX Photo Studio - MacPhun LLC

Silent Film Director Free!

News from MacPhun: Silent Film Director, the vintage video maker for iPhone, will be free through this weekend. The offer will be running in the App Store until Sunday, so hurry up!

Silent Film Director FreeIf you enjoy using your iDevice to record and process video clips, Silent Film director may be what you are looking for, as it offers in a nifty package not only a nice collection of vintage looking effects, but also the possibility to add a custom soundtrack to your footage and make other editing. If you want an in-depth description of Silent Film Director’s features, feel free to read our full review for MacPhun’s app.

Silent Film Director - MacPhun LLC

TtV Photo Studio Free!

Taplayer has just released TtV Photo Studio, now free for a limited time. In the occasion of its launch, Taplayer’s app will be free for three days only in the App Store!

TtV Studio ProTtV Photo Studio recreates the magic of through the viewfinder photography on iPhone devices. The app comes with more than thirty viewfinder styles, black and white, cyan and sepia conversion and a few other tools to give your photos the best possible analog look. Many among the most popular classic viewfinders are included in Taplayer’s app: Anscoflex, Super Ricohflex, Kodak Brownie, Argus 75, just to name a few.

This app is identical to the previously released TtV Studio Pro, which we have reviewed here. I couldn’t spot any relevant difference between the two versions of Taplayer’s TtV app, apart from a fix for the bug that I had noticed with viewfinder #2, the Brownie Dark, which in this new version works perfectly. Since TtV Photo Studio is currently free, this is the right occasion to try it out.

TtV Photo Studio - Taplayer

Percolator & Panoramatic 360 on Sale!

Percolator and Panoramatic 360 are on sale in the App Store. Both apps are currently available at the special price of $0.99/€0.79/£0.69. The offer is valid for a limited time only.

Percolator & Panoramatic 360 on SalePercolator is a fun tool to create fantastic graphics on the iPhone, quickly. By playing with just a few settings, you can conjure stylish retro photo manipulations and outstandingly colorful abstractions. If you want to know more about what the app can do and how it works, please read our full review here.

Panoramatic 360 has announced that a major update is coming soon. It was revealed that in the upcoming version of this 360 photo creator will be added a new feature to shoot panoramas in real time. Up to this day and after having tried several other panoramic photo apps, Panoramatic 360 remains my favorite option to capture images at 360 degrees with ease on the iPhone.