test: Photogene – the ultimate photo editing tool ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Introduction and Perspective: For iPhones & iPads, miracelous Apple devices, there are literally over a million unique Software Applications, Apps, that operate on Apple’s iPhones and iPads.

As an iPhone and iPad owner, these articles are written from the my Apple device user perspective. With such a vast number of Apps available, our friends, family, followers, and readers want to know which Apps may be of interest in their world. Having downloaded hundreds of Apps over recent years, roughly 30% are Free, 70% are paid Apps, from $0.99 to about $19.95 with most under $5, highlighted here are our favorite Apps. As we are constantly reading about the new Apps that are published and editorialized, having experimented with many, have an inventory of over 400, regularly using 50 of so, these articles highlight the most effective Apps for our busy personal and business lifestyles, which may be useful for you too.

Photogene unquestionably, the ultimate tool for photo editing:

- It’s an amazing collection of editing tools for a full featured photo editor App. 

- Contains a Powerful collage-maker.

 - Supports a huge number of Exporting avenues, including multiple photo uploading. 

With Photogene you can easily browse, improve and export multiple photos.  It’s a great companion to the camera connection kit plug-in adapter for SD camera data-cards. Photogene is capable of opening very large picture files and supports an export resolution of up to 21 MP on iPad v2, v3, and v4, the new iPad, Maximum export resolution on the original iPad v1 is 8 MP, due to the limited hardware capacity of the original iPad. This App is designed expressly for the iPad with its large display canvas. Photogene has a special iPhone version for its compact screen. 

WIRED Magazine: "Photogene has long been one of the better photo-editing apps for the iPad, but a new update — version 2.0 — turns it into arguably the best around."

  Principle Features:  - Full featured photo editor: crop, straighten, color adjustments, histograms, curves, sharpen, denoise, retouch tools, dodge, burn, heal, captioning, frames, contrast, brightness, vividity, brighten shadows, darken highlights, localized effects like frames, outlines, shadow-box, to name a few.

 - Export or upload several photos at once. Photogene supports a wide selection of export destinations, including Flickr, Dropbox, Facebook, Twitter, Picasa, FTP, e-mail, Photo Library.  

- Special effects: center focus, tilt-shift, vignette, frames, reflection, text boxes and much more.  

- Presets: large collection of predefined presets. Instantly give your photo a new look and then tweak it yourself.

 - Collage maker: combine several photos into one piece of art using a variety of templates.

 - Metadata viewer: visual display of all the information stored in your photos. Including location on a map, date, time, file size, etc and IPTC editor included.  

- Resize (reduction only) your photos as you export them.   

- Photogene works directly with your iPad’s photo library and albums. No need to import your photos.

 - The user interface is quick and responsive. Most actions happen in real time.

 - Photogene offers a wide selection of photo editing tools, Actually make your photos look better.

 - Improving your photos is easy, even if you’ve never used a photo editor before. If you’re a seasoned photographer, you’ll find all the professional tools you need.  

- Photogene offers a unique photo browser that can show large thumbnails (requires location-services permission).  

- Nondestructive editing. Your edits are saved, but the original photo is preserved, and not written-over.

Photogene updates the App frequently, adding new features users asked for, self included. This App is incredibly powerful and eady to use.

As a Photoshop Professional, the one tool missing from Photogene’s huge list of easy to use tools is the SKEW Tool which adjusts the image so that buildings for example have parallal lines. I have to go to JotNot Scanner App to accomplish this task.

Photogene for iPad.

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Five Star Rating.

App Store Priced: $2.99

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Notice the beautiful layout of the work-canvas. The tool-bar on the right-edge, moves up and down, sliding your finger applied onto the iPad’s screen, exposing the huge array of image adjustment tools.