New iPhone Photo App: Iris Photo Suite
Wednesday, July 14, 2010 at 10:00AM | Glyn Evans 
Description from the AppStore: Iris Photo Suite gives you the power to easily and quickly edit your images, right on your iPhone/iPod Touch. “Iris” is a collection of highly optimized set of tools and actions(filters) that are commonly used in the industry to correct and enhance digital images. With all features optimized to juice out the maximum performance from the iPhone's processor, it ensures a rich & smooth photo editing experience. Iris has been designed keeping in mind the problems faced while using a mobile camera, and thus these tools allow you to overcome these drawbacks and let you create that perfect shot that you had been wanting click!
LIST OF FEATURES AVAILABLE INCLUDE:
- Simultaneously adjust the image parameters like Brightness, Contrast, Saturation, Sepia, and Temperature.
- Automatic adjustment of White Balance, Image Levels, and Gamma.
- Complete Histogram Control with Input Levels, Output Levels, and Gamma Control.
- Adjust the Shadows' and Highlights' Level.
- Dedicated Color Balance control that works independently on the Shadows, Highlights, and the Mid-tones.
- Crop and Horizon Correction.
- One Touch Color Splash based on selective color.
- Sharp/Blur.
- 10 step undo.
- Restore.
24 ONE TOUCH FILTERS
- Polarizer, Cross-Process, Vintage, Retro, 2 Strip Technicolor, Dyna Range, and 3 Strip Technicolor, Black 'n' White, Sepia, Split Tone, Dramatic BW, Red Filter, Infrared, and History, Sketch, Color Sketch, Solarized, Blueprint, Negative, and Artificial Flash.
ONE TOUCH COLOR SPLASH
- With "Iris" you can create stunning color splash images, by simply selecting the color you want to retain. Colors can be easily selected by sliding a slider across the color spectrum. The software ensures smooth blends between the color boundaries, and ensuring that there are no color leaks or abrupt color edges.
SMOOTH CONTROLS, WITH LIVE PREVIEW
- All the filters and the controls in Iris have been optimized to provide you with one of the smoothest UI Experience available on iPhone/iPod Touch.
- Sliders move smoothly without showing any erratic behavior and the effects would be visible live! as you use the same.
AUTO GAMMA, AUTO LEVLES, AUTO WHITE BALANCE
- Iris Automatically corrects the above parameters for you, with a click of a button, saving you tremendous amount of time correcting your images on your PC/or MAC.
- It automatically finds the appropriate black and white color point for your images, and thus corrects the white balance of your images.
COLOR BALANCE WITH HIGHLIGHTS, SHADOWS, & MID-TONES
- You can selectively adjust the color balance(R,G,B) of the individual tonal ranges of your images giving you the complete freedom while correcting your images.
LARGE NUMBER OF PREDEFINED FILTERS
- High end photographic filters like the ‘Polarizer’,etc can be applied to your images with a click of a Button. Unlike most softwares available, the filters are not merely preset values for the manual controls provided.
- Each Filter is set of highly complex actions, that are applied pixel by pixel on your images giving them the desired effect as needed.
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Reader Comments (15)
App is simply great!!!.. Really loved the Color Splash effect!..
Fantastic value for 59p. Easy to use, nice interface too
I like the manual controls in the app and +1 for the color splash...!!!
I didn't need another photoapp but was tempted & bought this one. Is good with editing from your library but when I take a picture it squishes the image and looks weird & stupid. :-(
(I have a 3G)
I bought and tested this app on a serious of images I usually test new photo apps with and I'd say this app is now my #1 post-processing workflow app! It's streamlined the workflow from having to use several apps (thus polluting my Photo library with various versions of an image) and instead, I now just have to go into this single app. At $.99, with every penny and more!!!
What impresses me most is the level of control in the various functions of this app AND the responsiveness of the sliders and realtime results. I spend my days retouching photography and almost everything I use in my workflow in Photoshop is available in this app (to a degree).
One thing I did note — the resulting image balloons in file size — an original image taken on a 3GS clocked in a little over 1MB and the resulting image after working it in this app, clocked in at 4MB. Not really a big deal unless you're emailing (and even then, with iOS 4, you can have the email program resample the image to a smaller size for emailing).
The other thing I experienced was when bring in portrait oriented shots — they'd show up as "squished" to a horizontal format — it doesn't happen to all images though, it seems random? I figured out a workaround to correct this though — apply a filter, then undo. It'll bring the image back to the correct proportion, though the image is now marked as being horizontal — you can quickly correct this with a 90 degree rotation. Not ideal, but something I'm sure will be fixed in the next update.
All-in-all, an amazing app — especially for a v1 release!
Regards,
Kristin.
I got this the moment it was released & tested it as usual... It has lots of potential but is far from being great or ever a go-to app. It has froze on me a number of times during processing & other numerous tasks. There is only a few filter effects that are interesting... Majority of the filter effects are complete rip-offs of Tiffen's Photo fx. Honestly the entire app is a carbon copy imitation of Photo fx... which is truly far superior in ever way. I only recommend this to anyone who doesn't have Photo fx & or wants to spend extra money they don't need to. Until Iris Photo suite fixes some bugs & actually develops some unique filter effects that aren't copies of other apps.... I'd wait to see what other updates bring before buying this app!
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Well, I have to admit, I didn't play around with the FX/Filters that much as that's not what I was looking for — an yes, compared to Photo FX in that respect, Tiffen's app is far superior. But, if you're looking for an actual workflow app for sharpening, colour balance, individual colour channel adjustments, shadow & highlight recovery, histogram correction and other digital imaging adjustments, and you want fine-tuned manual control over these things, Photo FX doesn't even come close to Iris.
That's just my unbiased opinion, from a retouching and digital imaging/correction point of view.
FYI — I've already been in contact with the developer regarding the image rotation bug and working with them on a fix for a future update.
Like the app so far, few bugs and crashes though... I assume Kristin has brought that up to them?
Someone needs to email them and tell them to change the name of the app so it displays better on the iPhone. I can't stand when developers don't do that, it looks horrible!
Not experienced any crashes on the Iphone 4 yet. It does scrunch the image down as reported above
Thank you for your feedbacks regarding Iris Photo Suite.
There were two major bugs in the app, which have been corrected, and I will submit an update in an hours time. Hopefully, it should go online by tomorrow!.
Do send me your feedbacks at :- pranavkapoor@ventessa.com
Thanks, and Regards,
Pranav Kapoor
Hey guys dint u noticed that filter fx is only dedicatd to filters not image editing so the comparison is not apt.. And iris is providing one of the best editing options which are not present in other apps..the histogram auto wb and midtones shadows features are real good..
Hey guys dint u noticed that filter fx is only dedicatd to filters not image editing so the comparison is not apt.. And iris is providing one of the best editing options which are not present in other apps..the histogram auto wb and midtones shadows features are real good..
Comparing the app with Tiffen Photo Fx, is not right. Photo Fx offers no manual adjustments over the images! and also compare the difference in the cost.
I own an iPod Touch 2G, and the Photo Fx works so slow on my device, so do most of the other photo apps.
I hight rate this app for the fluid controls and the interface it is able to provide!
Your post was very informative and was a learning experience for me. I am much interested in iPhone Photo App and about its features. I will definitely keep coming back to read interesting updates about iPhone Photo App.
Nice Work!!..I am glad that the bug related to squishing of images is being fixed. Really liked the Auto WB,Gamma, and Levels Feature.