As a Black Friday and Cyber Monday offer, all apps by JixiPix Software are on sale for a limited time. The current offer doesn’t only include apps for iOS devices, which are all dowloadable for the special price of $.99, but also the many Mac OS apps by the same developer. Most apps are available for iOS — both iPhone and HD for iPad — and for Mac OS, with the exception of Hand Tint, which is exclusively for Mac users.
The apps by JixiPix Software now available for $.99 are: Vintage Scene and Vintage Scene HD, NIR Color and NIR Color HD, Grungetastic and Grungetastic HD, Romantic Photo and Romantic Photo HD, Simply HDR and Simply HDR HD, Dramatic Black & White and Dramatic Black & White HD, PhotoArtista Oil and PhotoArtista Oil HD, PhotoArtista Sketch and PhotoArtista Sketch HD, PhotoArtista Haiku and PhotoArtista Haiku HD, Moku Hanga and Moku Hanga HD, Artoon and Artoon HD, Aquarella and Aquarella HD, Portrait Painter and Portrait Painter HD, Pop Dot Comics and Pop Dot Comics HD, Kyoobik Photo and Kyoobik Photo HD, Snow Daze and Snow Daze HD, Rainy Daze and Rainy Daze HD.
The Mac OS apps on sale are: Dramatic Black & White, Vintage Scene, Simply HDR, Romantic Photo, PhotoArtista Oil, PhotoArtista Sketch, Hand Tint, Pop Dot Comics, Grungetastic, Portrait Painter, PhotoArtista Haiku, Moku Hanga, Rainy Daze, Snow Daze, Aquarella, NIR Color, Artoon, Kyoobic Photo.
Note that the offer doesn’t include the video app Vintage Scene for iPhone.
JixiPix’s app offers tone adjustment — for the creation of sepia and other monochrome effects –, sharpness, contrast and brightness sliders. The app also comes with a handy spotlight editing tool. Moving and resizing the ellipse over the image, you can shrink, enlarge and find the right placement for your vignette, thus achieving more or less dramatic lighting. The RGB filter editor will help you in fine-tuning the black and white, blocking off specific color channels, in order to perfectly complement the original image. Dramatic Black & White will let you save your custom presets, so that you can use them more than once and you can also use the app’s randomizing button to generate unexpected effects.
Dramatic Black & White comes with a more than adequate collection of presets which can be fully customized for even more variety. The quality of the effects is excellent and the possibility to save custom presets, as in other apps by JixiPix, means greater flexibility than that offered by most iPhone apps devoted to monochrome. The only black and white app that I can think of that truly allows the same level of customization is Monochromia — which is, in fact, one of my personal favorites for black and white on iPhone. The only thing that could definitely be improved is the rendering times, which are, in spite of updates, still on the slow side.
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.
Grungetastic 2.0 is out in the App Store. This is a major update for JixiPix’s app.
Another noteworthy change in the latest release is the new content. Grungetastic now offers 140+ additional items to process photos. The content includes textures, scratches and splatters, which are arranged into four new themed packs: Gritty Grunge, Distressed Grunge, Worn Grunge and Worn Pop Grunge. All packs are available individually through in-app purchase, each for $0.99.