Voorhees has done a great job of investigating the uses of Darkroom and concludes:ĭespite a couple of rough patches, I’m impressed with what Darkroom has become. There’s a lot more to this app than fun filters. With RAW support, a wide range of tools, and iPad support, Darkroom is a full-fledged photo editor. Darkroom also scales nicely from the smallest iPhone screen to the biggest iPad and takes advantage of the unique hardware each iOS device has to offer.Įspecially on an iPad, Darkroom does an excellent job of offering the tools you’ll want to edit your photos without getting in the way, allowing the photos room to breathe as you edit. I’m glad I have the ability to edit in Darkroom on my iPhone, but the iPad is where the experience is best, which is why it’s great to have that option with the release of Darkroom 4.0. I haven’t yet had the chance to try out Darkroom 4.0 but an endorsement from MacStories is all the incentive I need, especially now I have my new 12.9in iPad Pro, Smart Keyboard cover and Apple Pencil (which is convincing me that writing on glass isn’t such a bad idea after all). I’ll be telling you more on that in a future article.ĭarkroom is free but advanced features require in-app purchases, most of them reasonable, ranging from £1.99 to £9.99. The £9.99 deal, Pro Tools and Premium Features, seems to include most of the other options which can be bought separately. You can read the full MacStories review here. I edit pictures on a 2013 13” MacBook Air. I don’t use Lightroom, and I don’t use Photoshop – though I did subscribe, for a while, to Ming’s Photoshop course. but that seemed to consist mainly of “drop a gradient from here to here.” and so no wonder, then, that most of his pictures look (.to me.) unnatural – and identically unnatural. I use Viveza 2 (it was advertised in an old issue of LFI, so I bought it) and that allows tweaks at any place in a photo. for example, for lightening a face that’s in the shade. I use PhotoNinja 2 (.which is derived from NoiseNinja, for reducing ‘noise’ in photos.) and that allows geometrical corrections (to correct converging lines or curved ‘fisheye’ lines) as well as dozens of other corrections and adjustments. I use Apple’s iPhoto (not the newer ‘Photos’) to catalogue everything, and to make overall corrections if need be, but it can’t do targeted corrections like Viveza does. I used to (occasionally) use FocalPoint 2, but that got absorbed into ON1 Photo (or ON1 Photo RAW) but without the same flexibility and facility to paint-in blur or sharpness. I still use ON1 for defocusing, occasionally.įor occasionally painting out obtrusive bits and bobs – like electricity cables or fence-posts – I use the simple but very effective ‘Retouch’ facility in iPhoto. I’ve got a whole pile of DxO OpticsPro and Photolab versions and updates, but hardly ever seem to use them (can’t remember what they do) and ditto Adobe Photoshop Elements. which I’ve used mainly to handle plug-ins which I’ve sometimes bought, such as ‘PearlyWhites’ to improve the look of teeth in digital photos, and a fisheye-straightener.īut most of what little I do, I do in iPhoto. How many pics have I got in my main iPhoto Library?. 43,028, and 1,131 little videos shot on various stills cameras.
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