Fotogenic : Photo Editor for PC and Mac

Software Reviews and Criticism

• By The Membership

  Poor-quality app

  Some of the features look to be worthwhile, but they are locked and unusuable in the free version. Nevermind that, however, as what will drive you crazy is the user experience. First issue: this app was designed strictly for phones and it is a direct port from there. Microsoft never should have allowed this in the Windows App Store, because it is not a Windows app. There is nothing about the user experience that is remotely Windows-like and it doesn’t even fit a desktop monitor properly. The person who pushed the button to release this should be retrained. There is no menu up on the menu bar, except for Quit. There is no open, and no save. Second: everything is designed to be bouncy. As the app moves between views, everything bounces in and out. On my big screen, that means multiple graphics going bonkers bouncy everywhere. It’s a headache and very unprofessional —even for an app intended to be a laugh. Third: many of the edits don’t seem to do anything. I used the Smooth tool on a butterfly pic and nothing happened. At all. It was totally indistinguishable from the original. Don’t spend $3 here until they make this into a proper app.

  
  
• By Something2thinkabout12345

  Not worth your time

  It's not even worth your time to watch and learn how to use this editor. After spending an hour learning how to use the most basic parts, I learned that it doesn't even work like it claims. 1) Most of the items you would want to use are the PRO version that you will have to pay to upgrade to use 2) The features don't work like the video tutorials claim. Ex: "Smooth" feature claims you can select and smooth specific areas on your photo. But in reality, it just blurs your entire photo to "smooth" the one wrinkle or flaw you tried to smooth out. Then your entire picture looks crappy. Not worth the time. There's a million other free apps that work quick and easy and do what they say.

  
  
• By Northwest_ELF

  Unreliable and clunky

  Poorly dopne. While the bouncy effect might be cute the first time, it gets stale very fast. But the difficulty of use is the real downfall: Just trying to add a soimpe, word to a photo: how many times does one have to click on the each of the three color effects, and then to try to choose the color propeorly is even more time consuming Some have commented that this looks like it was designed for iOS. I agree that it certainly is not designed for a desktop user with a mouse. The effort to add one word to a photo is too much to make me want to try this again. Looks like an app headed for the Trash.

  
  
• By LinkedInExpert

  A good alrternative to FaceTune for the Windows

  It’s not the prettiest or easiest User Interface - but after trying out about 5 photo editors (I am useless at photoshop and adobe) this was by far the best - and cheapest one. If there were an erase feature that eraed section (as opposed to eraing an action you just took) I would have given it 5 stars. If you are looking for a Windows version of FaceTune - this is it!

  
  

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