New Universal App: Noir Photo

App Store Description: Don’t just take a photo. Tell a story. Noir Photo lets you transform your photos with beautiful, dramatic lighting and instant results. Peel away the color to a cinematic black-and-white, apply a lovely tint, and then light up your subject. Touch and pinch the brightness Vignette and spin the Contrast and Exposure dials for white hot thrills and shadow-rich drama.

You tell a story in your photos with the glowing smile on your daughter’s face, or a moody skyline under radiant street lamps. Focus on the part that you love, massage your Noir Photo settings, and come up with something amazingly cool in a few seconds. Use Noir Photo to create bad-ass black, white & light in a color world.

The Artsy Details:

• Simple & fast formula: Noir Photo is a fun and easy way to create images that tell a story --- with instant, beautiful results.
• Strip to cinematic black & white: Use Noir Photo to replace the color in your photo with a rich, cinematic black-and-white.
• Re-light the photo: A touchable, customizable Vignette lets you re-light the photo to show what’s important and shade out the rest.
• Tint the mood: Apply a sepia, silver, blue-gray or chartreuse tint to further set the mood. Choose from six presets to get started quickly.
• For your inner artist: Battle tested by artists, filmmakers and the geek dad next door, Noir Photo gets your creative ideas out fast.

Fast & Fun Controls:

• Designed for play: Noir Photo’s fun dials and buttons look like analog spaceship dials, hi-fi fader controls and vintage stereo knobs.
• Vignette at your fingertips: Touch and pinch the Vignette to quickly highlight and light up the part of your photo that you care about. It’s fun and easy.
• Dial in high contrast: Use Contrast, Outer Exposure and Inner Exposure dials to massage the darks and lights around the Vignette.
• Stay in one place: Noir Photo’s preview area is huge and the controls are minimal so you play fast and never have to open a second panel.
• Works with every photo: Even if you are using low quality images, our specially-built controls protect important details and fight digital artifacts.

The Geeky Details:

• Universal app: Your purchase enables iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices. Supports iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, Gen 3 and Gen 4 iPod Touch, iPad, and iOS 4.2 and higher.
• iPhone 4 resolution: Render has been developed to support 4 Megapixel output on iPhone 4. Support for high resolution 2592x2592 maximum output.
• iPad resolution: Render has been developed to support 4 Megapixel output on iPad. Support for high resolution 2048x2048 maximum output.

App Store Link: Noir Photo; Price: £1.79/$2.99/€2.39

Editors comments: Whilst a bit pricey by App Store standards, this looks an interesting app, which I hope to review very soon.

Comments

[Stephan]

Noir Photo is well worth reviewing and—in my opinion—a must-buy. There are a couple features missing (ability to specify any tint color or saturation level), but its effect is beautiful. It allows you to light a 2D photo like it was a 3D model, and it does it quite well.

While I'd prefer a $1.99 price tag, I think $2.99 is appropriate for a universal app. I've picked up too many "HD" versions of photo apps to not appreciate one that comes out the gate Universal.

[Periculum Vitae]

Thanks for the test, Stephan. I`ll give it a try.

[Geoff]

Bought this app last night and love it,bit pricey but it's worth every sent,well done

[Periculum Vitae]

Bought it and like it very much. I love heavy vignettes and this is the right tool. It could have some more options like sharpness or grain, but this is a must buy imho. Great app. Thank for the tip.

[decaspert]

Imho absolutely worth the money!