Lukas Gregor They are hard to avoid. They are everywhere. They fill store shelves. Photo editing applications are experiencing a harvest. It is all the more difficult to avoid unnecessary, not to mention unsuccessful ones. In which crowd to include FX Photo Studio?
I installed it on my iOS devices a long time ago. It's probably been two or three months since I tried and deleted it from my phone and tablet. Back then there was a fee for each of the applications, even if you showed me the Spanish shoes, I still can't remember the price. Anyway, Macphun has now moved to an increasingly widespread model of In-App purchases. As I look at the list of packages (and prices), I assume that FX Photo Studio will end up being a bit more expensive, on the other hand, you have the option to purchase only those features that will make sense to you.
I now know why FX Photo Studio in its iOS and Mac versions had an unsympathetic effect on me back then. In short, there was a lot to know. After all, you have 180 filters and other X frames at your disposal, add to that the ability to edit the basic properties of the image, crop and rotate it, and also play with the color inside, nothing can come out of it as easy as Analog Camera. But I was in a hurry that time. I was scared not only by the quantity, but also by the filters. I wouldn't even dream of using almost half of it with Freddy Krueger in the assist. Although I don't know exactly how it is now with the distribution of these strange filters into individual packages, after a closer examination, you are de facto buying the filters as a set. Their management can protect you from the accumulation of uselessness.
Filters are arranged in categories in the application, they can also be displayed together, while the program allows you to change the order, also delete filters (yes!) or simply solve it by "starring". And if the 180 filters weren't enough for you, you can add more filters to one photo. This can sometimes seem like an overkill, but if you use the other filters only in some parts of the photo (yes, it's possible), you can get interesting results. And to add to the filter functions, a combination of them can be saved (so-called Presets) and used later. And to share them too. Or, oh - I'm already complicating it, get other sets from other users.
A noticeable number of filters are "old school", some imitate Instagram, others simply adjust the color or gray scale to a certain extent. (And then there are a lot of wild filters that I'd rather not even mention.) If you like surprises, tap the button with a cube, the app will choose a filter at random.
There are fewer frames, but half of them imitate wide and wooden frames (ouch!, exclaimed my taste). And although FX Photo Studio has a lot of features, I would have liked to have been able to control the intensity of the filter. After adding, the program only allows you to adjust the brightness and contrast within the filter, not its deployment.
However, surprisingly the application runs very well on the behemoth I described here. In the settings, I set the previews to be in normal (average) quality, but to find out how the photo will look after editing, even the lowest quality can be enough and everything will speed up a bit. In the case of the desktop version, we can already see our own photo in the filter menu, which is an even better feature. In addition, within this version, you can easily compare between the changed image and the original image.
Across all versions, the functions are identical, with the exception of that comparison, of course, that the smaller the display, the worse the editing of colors/filters within the image will be. An iPad is ideal because you control the brush with your finger, but a Mac is also convenient. On the iPhone, you will undoubtedly appreciate on this occasion the ability to zoom in on the photo and also change the brush to make the adjustments as detailed as possible. The desktop version also has its Pro version, which has a richer arsenal of functions for editing, but I can't recommend it because I haven't tried it.
FX Photo Studio also manages the opposite route, viz
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Summarized and underlined. No miracle happens with FX Photo Studio. Personally, I liked Snapseed, for example, a bit more intuitive, simpler and, in fact, not necessarily less equipped as a result. Yes, it seems like it is, but really if you look at the types of filters, FX Photo Studio actually offers roughly the same number of usable ones. But you can read that the results can be nice, for example from of this gallery.
iOS version
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OS X version
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he didn't even address me. many useless/exaggerated effects, the photo effect itself is poor.
What the hell? What does Apple think? That it will be better than Windows? It's hard... A few photo effects from some kind of Apple "Studio" can't be better than a photo editor on Windows with more functions. To hell with Apple :D