Photogene2 has been around for quite a while. It's a "must have" for any serious iPhone photographer. It's simple to use and it only cost .99 cents at the iTunes store.
If you haven't used a photo editor and dread the expense and the steep learning curve for the complicated processes in Photoshop, you will be pleasantly surprised by how quickly you'll pick things up in Photogene2. In fact, using this app is a good introduction into the photo-editing world. And, if you are one of the millions of photographers who use your smartphone as your primary camera, then you'll be surprised at how much better your photos will look once you edit them in Photogene2.
I started using the Photogene2 in earnest once I began my Project 365 for 2013, but in less than a month I developed an appreciation for many of the sophisticated editing tools. You can crop, change aspect ratios and rotate or straighten horizon lines. You can adjust clarity, brightness, color saturation and vibrancy, white balance, shadows and highlights, sharpen, remove noise, view a histogram, adjust RGB values and adjust curves.
If you go to "Presets" you'll find automated pre-configured adjustments, for color, b+w, vintage photography looks that add that old-time flavor to your images. You can make you photos look like they were taken in the 1920's, or give them that lomo, cross processing, and old pink look that adds mood and texture to your photos. If that's not enough, try preset frames to help make your photos pop even more. Or, try some fun presets that make your image look like a painting or a pencil sketch.
Photogene2 doesn't stop there. You can remove red-eye, and you can heal and clone to get rid of unwanted elements in your image. You can dodge and burn like the big boys and girls do in Photoshop and you can use a brush to localize an effect. And, you can make all these adjustments non-destructively as Photogene2 leaves your original image intact.
Add to that, the cataloging functions like the recording of EXIF data and GPS coordinates, and a tab where you can add keyword tags, captions and other supplemental information that can help you retrieve the image some time in the future when your photo library becomes very large.
Once you finish adding your edits, you save the corrected image to your camera roll or photo stream and then automatically export to your Facebook page, your Twitter feed or your Flick'r portfolio. You can even send the photo to your AirPrint compatible printer. (See a List of compatible printers.)
This is a fully loaded photo-editor that can take average smart-phone photos and make them pop. At .99 cents it certainly makes Photoshop look like a Hummer in a world of zippy Fiats.
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