New iPhone Photo App: Palm Lab for iPhone
Thursday, September 2, 2010 at 8:26PM | Glyn Evans 
App Store Description: Palm Lab is your personal photo processing facility on iPhone or iPod Touch! It not only makes photo effects, it shows you how they are made. Load your photo into the developing tank, and watch your film gradually develop into a masterpiece art in the water as you are immersed in the ambient sound of a photo lab. In just a few seconds, the picture is ready and you can save it or share with others.
Feature highlights:
Dynamic waters simulation, touch reactive. You can stir the water and that will speed up the developing process.- Multistage developing. You can watch the development evolving into different stages before achieving the final effect.
- Process control. You can watch the progress on a ticking stopwatch or drag the watch arm to fast forward or rewind the development. You can also press the "Stop" button to pause to process.
- More than twenty processing chemicals. You can use them to turn your pictures into old photos, canvas painting, or halftones, make fantastic hot-mix, x ray, or negative effects, or even add rain, snow, rainbow, or fog to the images. Other effects include sepia, emboss, puzzle, blur, etc.
- Share your creativity. You can send the final images by email or upload them to Facebook or Twitter.
- Laboratory sound effects.
- In-App help.
App Store Link: Palm Lab for iPhone; Price: £1.19/$1.99/€1.59
Editors comments: WARNING, this app is Vihgo [App Store Link] in disguise. It may have some fancy animations letting you slosh the chemicals around in the developing tray, and have chemical bottles like SwankoLab, but the bottom line is the results are straight out of Vihgo, very disappointing.
My advise is, give this app a miss.
Reader Comments (3)
How unfortunate. I guess I won't be getting this one. I'd never heard of Vihgo before today.
Seems somebody wanted to quickly cash in on the success of SwankoLab. I stay away from this!
These developers blatantly stole the swankolab concept. A rip-off. Like a fake Rolex watch. I will keep my money and keep rocking with Swanko. Can someone please put up some representative photos that were processed using this app???