![]() And its finger-painting-like interface is plain fun to use. In addition to the social sharing, you can simply email your art or save it to the Camera Roll.Ī New Look for Your Pictures Repix offers a lot more in the way of detailed photo enhancement than you get in Instagram, and even fills in the basic photo-editing gaps in that wildly popular social photo app. Using both apps together this way gives you a pretty complete photo enhancing process-Repix for adjustments and local brush effects, and Instagram for the full-image filters. Repix surprisingly lets you open your edited image in Instagram, in case you want to apply a filter in that app. I'm just surprised not to see Flickr in this list, since that's still the largest photo sharing site, according to recent numbers from comScore (Repix even puts their press images up on Flickr!). Sharing Repix offers almost all the modern-day sharing possibilities you'd expect-Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and even presumable competitor Instagram. Some of these are pretty enticing, such as Van Gogh, Hatching (a cross-hatch effect), and pretty much everything in the Light brush set. The app page where you buy these lets you see what the effect does firsthand by trying each brush on a sample photo, so you know what you're getting. ![]() For $1.99 each, you can get the Color, Artistic, Light set, or $4.99 gets you the whole lot. In this way, it offers less control than apps like Snapseed or Adobe Photoshop Touch.īuying More Brush Effects Where Repix hopes to make its money (and there's nothing wrong with that) is through in-app brush set purchases. ![]() One note about all the effect brushes discussed above-there are no adjustment controls for how strong you want the effect, or any other applicable parameters. Finally, the Edger is a different kind of tool, locally sharpening the area you draw on, so it works well for subjects as well as backgrounds.Īnd that's about it for the paint-on effects included in the free app, aside from Undoer and Eraser, whose names make their functions obvious. I'd love to see an edge-detect option for these effects, like you get in Photoshop Touch this way, you could be sure to apply the distortion only to, for example, the background. Bleach lets you de-colorize parts of your image, which can nicely highlight the still colorful part you leave alone. Dotter, Flare, Drips, and Silk also fall into this category, being too distorting to use on faces. The Charcoal tool is smearier, and probably best suited to backgrounds. The first Repix brush, Cartoonize, is an effect that you often see applied to a whole photo, but with Repix, you can leave the background sharp while you make your friend look like a character on Archer. Even the $4.99 Adobe Photoshop Touch app, though it does have brushes for colors, doesn’t have brushes for effects. These, also usually in the domain of higher-end desktop photo editors, offer more detail work than anything in Instagram. These are the only tools in Repix that affect the entire image all at once-there are no full-image "filters" like those you get with so many photo-enhancement apps.įinger-Painting Razzle Dazzle The real difference with Repix, though, is in those lipstick-like, fingerpaint-on effects. There was no need to take my finger off the screen and swipe again to increase an effect, as some apps require. This control method is nicely done in Repix-moving my digit all the way to either side of the screen changed the adjustment from -100 to 100 effect strength. The cropping tool doesn't limit you to a square the way Instagram does, but doesn't offer preset aspect ratios, so you can't easily create a perfect square with it.Īs with Snapseed, you make these adjustments by swiping left and right on the screen. It also lets you apply "vibrance" an enhancement found in most high-end desktop photo editors, such as Adobe Lightroom and Apple Aperture. Repix is more of a full-fledged photo editing app than Instagram-it lets you crop to taste, adjust brightness, contrast, color saturation, and temperature. You can also take a picture from within the app, but unlike Instagram, it doesn't show you effects during shooting, and there are no shooting tools (focus, exposure) like those you get with Camera+. Clicking the menu icon lets you open a photo not just from your Camera Roll, but also from your Facebook photos and iCloud Photo Stream. ![]() Let's first take a look at what Repix can do with your photos without spending money at this Store, though-there's a lot. ![]()
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