In one corner: PhotoGene, our current Editor’s pick for iPhone photo editing. In the other corner: PhotoForge, the challenger.
Curve adjustment in PhotoForge
But here’s my problem with PhotoForge: I don’t really do advanced photo editing on my iPhone. If I really need to do heavy-duty editing, I download the image and use Photoshop on my Mac or PC. The iPhone’s screen real estate is just to small for precise editing, at least to me.
Level adjustment in PhotoGene
PhotoGene also has additional features such as framing which I don’t use, but come in handy if you want to pretty up a photo before posting it online.
When I bought my current car more than 8 years ago, one of the leading car magazines ran a comparison test with 9 other cars in its class. My car came in 6th. In the story, they ran a sidebar where they asked the test drivers which car they would prefer for everyday driving. The drivers all pointed to my car. The same is true with PhotoGene. While PhotoForge outshines PhotoGene in the depth and breadth of editing tasks, only PhotoGene handles all the tasks that I need to perform during everyday photo editing, especially if I want to upload the image from my iPhone. And that makes PhotoGene retain its crown as IiPhonePhotoVideo’s Editor’s Pick for photo editing!
PhotoForge: $2.99 in iTunes (currently on Sale)
PhotoGene: $2.99 in iTunes
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I did a a little more indepth review of PhotoForge and I now prefer it over PhotoGene.
http://brianhancockphotography.blogspot.com/2009/07/photoforge-image-editor-review-for.html
” It includes resizing, straightening and cropping, all of which are sorely missed in PhotoForge.”
I guess you didn’t use PhotoForge enough. Those features are definitely part of PhotoForge.
In fact they are even better. You can choose several aspect ratios to crop by, i.e. 4:3, 2:3, etc… and straighten 1 degree at a time left or right.
Brain, thanks for the feedback. At the time of review, cropping, resizing and straightening was not available in Photoforge. It has been added since (in their update from July 3). Thanks for pointing it out.
I just purchased PhotoForge on sale. It is an incredible app for editing and cleaning up photos and also has cropping and resizing capabilities. The developer also noted that the 3GS camera resolution will be supported in the next update already submitted to Apple.
Thanks, Jason, for the quick note. We, too, like PhotoForge and it keeps growing on us. Actually, it’s probably the only app that has a chance to unseat PhotoGene as the Editor’s Choice for Photo Editing. But then, I expect PhotoGene to improve as well. Additionally, as Zipix proves, people always come up with even better ways to do things. This will be an amazing space to watch.
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