Revisited: Lighten up your photos with ACDSee Camera Flash

Above: Before and after ACDSee Camera Flash.In this second instalment of "revisited" apps, I take another look at ACDSee Camera Flash, which is an easy to use 1-click quick fix app jointly developed by Eikonsoft Limited and ACD Systems International, and designed and to correct your dark, poorly and underexposed photos, using their patented LCE technology*.

To correct any of you photos, simply launch ACDSee Camera Flash, load a photo from the camera roll, and let the app do the rest. By default the app will apply 50% of its maximum brightness to the loaded photo, which in most cases is all that is needed, however should you need to make further adjustments (lighten or darken), then this is easily done by moving the slider control up or down, then when happy, save back to the camera roll.

If you are an experienced iPhoneographer, then you will know that the iPhone is not perfect when it come to correctly exposing your photos, and if you're new to iPhoneography, then you will soon discover the iPhone (even the 4S) does not always get it right, and whilst there are many apps that allow you to correct these exposure imperfections, ACDSee Camera Flash does it very quickly and very easily, and at just £0.69/$0.99/€0.79 (current selling price) is well worth having in your iPhone camera bag.

App Store Link: ACDSee Camera Flash; Price: £0.69/$0.99/€0.79

*Patented LCE (Lighting and Contrast Enhancement) from ACD Systems International Inc is the same driving force behind the Lighting tool in the ACDSee photo editing products.

Comments

[espekayen]

This app is excellent and I use it all the time. I don't know what LCE technology is, but it works a treat. The app is unique in that it doesn't just simply brighten your entire photo like a standard brighten/gamma correction tool would; it lightens shadows without overexposing already well-lit areas. In short, this app somehow knows which areas of a photo need brightening and which do not. It's brilliant and totally worth the asking price.

[PeterB]

Brilliant! I compared it with my results manipulating brightness and contrast - way better. Thanks for the tip.

[Josh wardell]

I just started using it a week ago, realizing it did in one step what would take me several in one or more apps, and with less noise to boot.

[Andy]

I know this is going to make me sound incredibly cheap since it's only 69p, but are there any free apps that perform a similar function? I can't see myself using it particularly often so if there were a related app that didn't use LCE technology I'd like to try that first.