This is love at first touch for photo editing freaks because this iPad application has an astonishing number of effects to choose from – borders, vintage or sketch styles and a whole lot more.FX Photostudio HD has different tools for quick photo editing such as crop, rotate, resize as well as modifications in brightness/contrast, hue/saturation and gamma. You can also reset your adjustments with just a touch of a button, or perhaps, undo or redo if you don’t feel the aftereffect with this iPad app. You can even create a mask for position-specific coloring. Here is our complete review:
As soon as you start the app, you’ll have an option to take photos (iPad 2), choose from your camera roll or import pictures from Facebook. After you chose your desired photo, you will go directly to the editing area. And from there, you will see a variety of options and the real editing begins.
Fill effects and touch the star to add special ones to your favorites. This app also lets you make presets which allow you to view the effects real time. Try to combine different things and experiment to achieve the look or impression that you want. You can adjust the position of the category as well as hide certain effects. Not sure what happened? You can compare your adjusted image to the original image by clicking the eye at the bottom of the screen.FX Photo studio HD also has 5 categorical effects that you can purchase for $0.99 each. After the editing is done, you can e-mail or share your edited image to your favorite social networking sites such as Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, Instagram and Tumblr. You can also save it to your camera roll.
FX Photostudio HD brings the level of photo editing application to another level. It is available on iTunes for $1.99.
Pros
Numerous number of effects; basic photo-editing tools (crop, resize, rotate); social sharing; default picture comparisonCons
Landscape mode only; DLC should have a trial or demo; no search bar for effects searching
Bottom-line
The main advantage of FX Photostudio HD against its rivals is that it is an all-in-one app. You can do basic photo editing plus you can add various effects as well. Although it is very minimalistic, it gets the job done quickly, beautifully and effectively.
