I dunno, I'm not knocking it, but it looks (from the demo photos) that it darkens them to the point of losing detail. I've always been happy with "I'm feeling lucky" in Picasa as far as cellphone pics go. Now, if this program was run ON the cellphone, then I could see a reason to use it... anyone know of any Symbian/Nokia apps that can fix photos? (I would mention other phones, but there is enough of the iP***e today)

Al Iguana

Wow this thing's great! Like you said, it's no miracle worker, but it did give most of the 46 pics I ran a large improvement!

eboula

If I have Photoshop Elements, should I bother installing this? Is this actually optimized for camera phone photos, or does it just bundle the most common fixes? I mean, I wouldn't want to miss out on removing "vignetting at the edges".

ankhinc

if you have photoshop, this seems to basically do what, open file, duplicate background layer, change blending mode from normal to soft light, merge. Ta dah.

mnerd

"Windows only"?? You mean, you're actually posting something today that's not about iPhone 2?

;)

moe52

isnt that the chick from superman 2? i guess she finally escaped that sheet of plastic...

sublimnl

Or you could just download Gimpshop, which is essentially the same thing as Photoshop, and is also free...

Gimpshop changed my life. Okay, that's being a bit dramatic, but seriously, it's an awesome program now and it doesn't cost a dime.

ZeGerman

Tried this software and it's veeery slow when processing my K800-pics (3.2MP)...far too slow!

VillageHero

Oh, my bad... didn't see the "click here if you don't want to enter your personal information"... please disregard above inaccurate statement...

kratos76

Must log in to download?!!! Are you kidding me!

kratos76

@VillageHero: Yeah, and it's old software now. The faq state "it will be really show on 3 meg camera images" - implying that - "it is for 640x480 cam pics, not massive 3 meg images like you get in DSLRs... so don't use it on them.." Except my phone as a 3 mpx camera, most of them are do days, so it would take forever.

This isn't a dig at the program, it looks great if you need it. But camera-phone pics are the polaroids of this generation, they're not meant to look like glossy Nat Geo photos. You take them and show them in all their grainy, blurry glory. It's about spontaneity, capturing an image then uploading it straight to the web or sms-ing it to someone. If you're going to be coming home a post-processing them, if the subject is that important, then why not just take a better camera out with you in the first place?

Al Iguana

And a late entry - I just dragged your "bad" photo in Picnik and fixed it (virtually identical to your "good" pic) in a couple of seconds.

Jim (The Canuck One)

I'd say if you already have an image editor installed (Gimp, PS, etc.) then this probably isn't necessary since these photos are likely going to be transferred to a computer, and you can tweak images pretty easily there.

Though, I won't discount that this is still a nifty tool.

chareverie

It was terribly slow and over processed the image when I tried it.

mark187

@Jim (The Canuck One): ah, now THAT is cool. You can upload your photos straight from your phone to Facebook, for example, (so you get the broadcast spontaneity), and then use Picnik INSIDE Facebook to fix colour casts etc if you need to. Brilliant. To keep the phone workflow, you either have to edit photos in-phone, or on your end service. You shouldn't have to download them to your computer at all, unless you want to back them up.

(In fairness, I'm a Canon 20D/Lightroom/Photoshop user, so I spend a large part of my day in front of a computer editing photos. When I take phone pics, it is SPECIFICALLY so I can take them and send them off straight away. I apologise to Lh because my comments aren't necessarily about this app, but on how we use phone-cams.)

Al Iguana

How might one do the same using a different photo editor such as Picasa, Picnik, or Gimp?

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