This application does what it says it does, so it’s fully functional in that way. It’s designed well, it’s pretty intuitive - based on the limited time I’ve spent using it so far, my experiences from which are the reason I purposely opened the app store to specifically write this review for this specific application.
The filters in this application are severely lacking. I paid for an application I could use to edit my photos. More directly, which could apply filters to my photos I could not easily apply and/or create myself. Let me put it bluntly to potential purchasers:
I am fully capable of turning my photos completely green, or completely blue, or completely red, or completely yellow. I’m completely capable of blurring my photos, or using instagram and using a radial blur, or iphoto and applying a vignette. I guess what I’m saying is, there should be a wider variety of more professionally tailored filters available to the user for an application that costs $20.00+ . There really aren’t any simple filters which a user can apply to a photo of a person which will make minor, but necessary, edits. Edits like reducing shadows, or reducing over-exposure issues… filters that would be more practical and useful. Barely any of these filters can be simply and easily used when there is a person in the photo.
For landscape photos, or photos of inanimate objects this application is much more useful. I won’t be giving the application a 1 star rating. It’s not useless. It definitely has value, and I hope the coders work to improve the filter selections for more practical uses. The application is just really not all that useful, at this point, for family photos or photos when people are the main subject(s).
What I like about the application, aside from its general design and overall presentation, is the “edit mask” option. That’s really smooth. I got to know that option during my last edit and I have to say… this is a fantastic function! Drag and drop from iPhoto is pretty fantastic, also, as not all applications allow this.
Overall, it’s a useable application I can put to use when editing my landscape photos. But if you’re looking to edit primarily “people” as your subjects you may want to head into this purchase informed about what these filters provide for editing capabilities and what they don’t… and how easy, difficult, or time consuming it could be to get these filters to function inthe capatity you may need. Once you get a filter set to your specifications you can “add a filter”, and that’s a pretty great function, too.