Windows Phone App Review: MagicPhotos

MagicPhotos for Windows Phone

At that place's not much to the Windows Phone photo editing app MagicPhotos but that's non necessarily a bad affair. MagicPhotos is a simple app that allows you to apply four editing effects to your photos. Going a step further, MagicPhotos allows you lot to deselect these effects to requite your images a unique appearance.

MagicPhotos is a squeamish photo editing app for your Windows Phone if your looking for a pocket-sized drove of straight forward editing tools or just looking to expand your editing app library. Information technology's not as feature rich as... say... Thumba, but information technology does a nice job of things.

MagicPhotos

MagicPhotos layout is unproblematic. Just swipe around to the effect you want to utilize to a photograph, tap the Open up Image bar, pick your pic and utilize the upshot. Each effect has a serial of tools that sit down above the image that includes an disengage button. You also take a save and assistance push downwards below to save your masterpiece when done. Effects include:

Decolorize: This outcome will plow your epitome into a black and white image. You utilize the tools to deselect this result and in the procedure select what areas of your photo you want to be in color.

Sketch: Every bit the name implies, the Sketch effect turns your photograph into a pencil sketch. You first must fix the saturation level (how much sketch detail) is involved. From at that place you tin deselect the sketch issue.

Recolor: Recolor lets yous change the colors of objects. Tools include a palette to pick your color and an utilize/deselect buttons.

Retouch: Retouch is basically a clone tool that comes in handy when you desire to erase unwanted content in photos. Y'all also have a blur tool to soften lines or blur the background of photos.

The application of effects such every bit the clone tool or de-selection of effects is done by affect. As you work on editing images, a pop-upwardly window will appear that zooms into the expanse of the photo yous are working on. This will aid with the more than precise editing that you need to practise. Some other trick with the more than precise pick/de-selections is to zoom into your image. By enlarging the paradigm y'all tin be a little more precise in your edits. In one case you are washed with the editing, simply tap the save button downward below and your edited image is saved in your Windows Phone Pictures Hub.

While MagicPhotos does a overnice job of things, in that location are a few things that could improve the app. Beginning, yous tin can't launch the camera from MagicPhotos. Certain, you tin can launch the camera app, take the motion-picture show, then launch MagicPhotosfrom the Apps List in the photographic camera. But that simply feels like the long way of going nearly things. Some other minor nit is that the button controls aren't labeled.MagicPhotos does have a very nice help department to explain it all just labels brand for a prissy, quick reference signal to avoid the need to swoop into the help department.

All in all, MagicPhotos is a decent photograph editing app. It is limited to only 4 editing tools but information technology is a nice option. While there is room for improvement, if you like to tinker with photo effects MagicPhotos is worth a try.

There is a free trial version of MagicPhotos that will permit y'all try things out simply won't let you save the images. The full version of MagicPhotos will run y'all $1.49 and y'all tin can find information technology all here at the Windows Phone Store.

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