New iPhone Photo App: FotoMaster

Description from the AppStore: FotoMaster is a multifunction Camera & photo processing application for the iPhone & iPod touch. It combines the most popular camera and photo editing features into one. All the included features makes FotoMaster the swiss army knife of the iPhone photography!

FotoMaster has many photo editing and camera features that enables you to create unique pictures quickly and easily. 

Photo Editing Features(iPhone and iPod):

• Add captions(text, emotions, scribbles, sketches, clip arts)
• Apply filters(black and white, sepia, inverted)
• Adjust brightness, contrast, hue, or colorize
• Create cutouts that selectively brings back the original colors of parts of your photo after applying filters
• Combine photos
• Crop
• Stretch horizontally or/and vertically
• Make a collage

Camera Features (iPhone only):

• Zoom: Digitally zoom your photos up to 5x using pinch gesture
• Big Button: Use the whole iPhone screen as camera button
• Anti-Shake: helps reduce blurry pictures
• Date Stamp: place date on your pictures
• Timer: take multiple delayed photos at 1 second to 5 minute intervals
• Preview: Automatically save your photos or set a preview delay of 2 -10 seconds where you can preview your photos and decide whether to delete or keep them
• Guide: helps align your photos
• Saves original pictures taken by iPhone at full iPhone resolution
• Take multiple quick shots while previous shots are being processed & saved
• Share photos via email
• You can browse up to 20 photos after taking shots

Video Features:

• Record videos (iPhone 3GS only) at 3 different resolutions: LQ: Lower resolution than the  iPhone 3GS Camera app resulting in smaller files; MQ: Medium resolution that is the same as the iPhone 3GS Camera app; HQ: Higher resolution than iPhone 3GS Camera app but results in larger files
• Playback videos from the Photo Album

AppStore Link: FotoMaster - Price £1.19/$1.99

Update on Tuesday, March 9, 2010 at 7:12PM by Glyn Evans

WARNING:  I have taken a brief look at this app, and it is not very intuitive to use, with a poor interface, and despite some of the comments below I do not recommend this app.

Comments

[Sab Will]

Definitely going to check this out - thanks a lot for the excellent review. I've been using a combination of other programs like Photogene, Photo Filters and Camera Bag etc. up till now on my new iPhone Paris photo blog, but I'm still looking for the holy grail - maybe this'll be it!

[Promotional Printing]

Wow this is really cool and you can even cut out your self from the picture and combined it with other pictures. It's like having basic photoshop in your iphone, I would really like ot buy iphone now. Also the executions of the editing are really good.

[Minaz]

Thank you so much for recommending this app. I was looking for a good photo app. and downloaded it yesterday. It's like having a fotoshop on your iphone!! I think it's very cool that you can cut a person and put it in different places and it looks sooo real. Another very cool feature that this app. has is the "Stretch" feature. I took a picture of myself and streched it vertically to make myself thiner and taller!! I also love all the different emotions that they have... you can put diffrent shape hats on your pictures. I think to get all the features that this app. has you have to buy 5 or 6 seperate applications. Very happy with this purchase!! Thanks again:)

[Glyn Evans]

@Promotional Printing and @Minaz. Have either of you really used this app? as whilst I have not bought or tested this app a friend of mine has, and this app is most definitely not a photoshop style app, in fact if I were to review this app, and based on what I've seen , it would be lucky to get 2 stars out of 5. If you have used this app, then please share some images with us.

[Leon]

I bought this app on a whim and severely regretted it. The interface is just impossible to navigate, every time I tap on a button it brings up a hints window that seems to be paragraphs long sometimes. Just about every button I tap brings up a new hints window. You can turn the hints off....if you have the ability to memorize the ridiculous amount of combinations the various buttons perform. I gave the app a solid eight minutes before surrendering and will probably not use it again. If the interface were more intuitive then maybe a three....but right now this app is a one out of five for me.

[hiya]

Yeah...this app really isn't good. Bad interface and I never really even got to a point with a decent result.

[Minaz]

Yes, I have downloaded this app. and have been using it alot. I think the tips are kind of necessary to be there for the first couple of times when you use it just to learn the different functionality. But as you said you can easily turn it off if you feel that you don't need it. If you want to see the tips again all you need to do is to tap 4 times on the screen and it comes back. I've used so many other camera/picture apps. for the past couple of years but non of them even come close to this one. It has all the popular features of pictues taking: Zoom, timer, time stamp, big button, video, multiple shots... and all the popular feature for editing: combining pictures, cut and pasting different parts of different picture, stretching, crop, emotions, borders,.... and for a single app. with all these wondeful features don't you think tip windows are necessary to just show you how to take the maxium advantage of your app.?! I found them to be very useful and if you don't agree, just hide the tips! Enjoy:)

[kiki]

I REALLY DONT RECOMMEND THIS APP. THERE IS WAY TOO MUCH GOING ON AND THE RESULTS AREN'T THAT GREAT THERE ARE MUCH BETTER PHOTO APPS OUT THERE. DONT WASTE YOUR MONEY.