Monday
06Jul2009
New iPhone Photo App: EffectsLab
Monday, July 6, 2009 at 10:00AM 
EffectsLab is the photographers pocket knife, giving you a powerful image filtering suite, putting the highest end photo editing techniques into your pocket. With EffectsLab, you will be able to apply and layer a multitude of the most popular photo color adjustments. You can stack multiple photo adjustments in layers, modify and rearrange the already applied layers, then compile them into a custom filter which can be saved and applied to other photos later on.
Adjustments available are the following:
Hue- Saturation
- Saturation (RGB specific)
- Luminance
- Brightness
- Darkness
- Color Balance (RGB specific)
- Contrast
- Grayscale
- Grayscale (RGB specific)
- Invert
- Rotate
- Histogram Input
- Histogram Input (RGB Specific)
- Histogram Output
- Histogram Output (RGB Specific)
- Gamma Correction
- Tint
AppStore Link: EffectsLab - Price £1.19 ($1.99)
UPDATE: Due to a bug in this app the developer has temporarily removed it from the AppStore, but as soon as it is back we will update the post.
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Reader Comments (14)
Hmm. I wonder how this compares to Photo FX, which I already have? The one omission I can see already is cropping.
Although Photo FX can do some of these adjustments, it's really a totally different kind of app. Photo FX simulates real optical filters designed for creative adjustments. This one seems to be another "fix the brightness" kind of apps.
Sounds like it would be fun to try but it is just not available in the US.
greg, this app should be available in the US AppStore
I can't download from Italian AppStore... only US... why?
Hey guys, I am the developer of EffectsLab. EffectsLab was removed from the App Store by me because of a major bug I accidentally submitted. It will be back up in a few days, so watch out for it.
Chris, thanks for the feedback.
Thanks Chris! Wait the new update!
Glyn, I tried it again today and I got a message that it is not available in the US store. That stinks.
greg, EffectsLab was removed from the App Store because of a major bug accidentally submitted, but it should be back in a few days.
Thanks Glyn.
This is next on my "to get" list. Looks great.
Fortunately & Unfortunately I have tested EffectsLab & Photobox.... The results are not what I had hoped.
I tested them when first released & now again after the updates & same results & conclusions. These two apps honestly have made every photo I tested it on look worse than before any edit. Testing on unedited pics the results were truly horrible. Yet testing on already edited photos from other apps & then applying EffectsLab or PhotoBox on top of... The results were considerably better but still not good at all. Being better than worse still isn't good. I truly hate to bash an app/apps considering the developer made one of my fave apps... "Polaroid Project aka Polarize" iPhone app. But these do not compare in quality results in the least. I highly, highly, highly recommend Chris redo the apps & tweak them to perfection as well add beta testers like Glyn, myself & others before another update.
The apps have great ideas, concepts & overall styles of effects it is just the saved results are very unimpressive.
I looked forward to these apps blowing me away with amazing results & so when the opposite happened I was not expecting it to such a degree.
As of v.1.1 I do not recommend EffectsLab or PhotoBox
I am a little confused as to what you were expecting from EffectsLab. EffectsLab does not impose any particular effects on the user, it just simply gives you image adjustments to play with.
As for Photobox, I am always open to adding/tweaking effects. If anybody feels that they do have a good effect, or can enhance a current effect, they can submit the effect to me (as advertised in the applications), to be included in a future release.