Facetune is a fixture on the App Store ’s top 20 paid apps lean , currently sitting at No . 11 . It has grand of rave inspection , because it does something that a mass of people want , which is to fix insecurity . The app smooth out your skin , removes mar , whitens teeth , applies makeup , fills in bald spots , and generally makes you look like a Glamour Shots version of yourself .
It can seem a short silly , but the locomotive behind Facetune is fantastically powerful , and the app ’s fans take it rivals Photoshop for editing images . But , as its moniker suggests , Facetune is designed just to enhance photos of your case . So for its follow - up , Facetune developer Lightricks is back with what it hop-skip will be another big hit : Enlight for Io , which launched today .
wreak on Facetune over the last few years helped Lightricks develop the advanced imagery software it needed to build Enlight , which is “ as powerful as high - end software , but as easygoing to practice as mass - market apps , ” Lightricks cofounder Itai Tsiddon told me .
Photo - editing apps are either implausibly basic or excessively complicated , so I pass a few daytime with a beta rendering of Enlight just forward of its launching to see if it ’s really is as easy to use as promised .
Complex edits with a simple touch
Enlight has every basic tool that your received photo app crack , so you’re able to crop , filter , and overlay text to your heart and soul ’s content . But there are Photoshop - corresponding feature you ca n’t find in other smartphone apps , ones that are n’t nonrational to expend in more complex background photo software system .
Enlight ’s sociable tool rent you seamlessly blend two images with just your fingertip .
you may fritter away a photo in - app or import one from your Camera Roll . Then a hamburger menu yield you a smattering of areas to search : Canvas , Image , Filters , Tools , Artistic , Brushes , and Text . you could tot up some slap-up effects to your figure with brushes , make your photo look like a painting or sketch , or add an Instagram - like filter . There ’s something for every bud photo editor . And Enlight is easy to use , letting you reduce or increase the saturation of each upshot with a swipe to the left or right .
But then you stab deeply . Canvas gives you a skew cock to change the perspective of an prototype , like altering the slant of a building , in a split second . you may also bring objects in a exposure closer together , essentially cropping dead blank , using the Refit tool ( which I ’ve never seen in another app ) . Image > Adjust opens up what Tsiddon called “ Lightroom in one feature of speech . ” It ’s a whole world of prototype manipulation , from direct contrast and vividness to split toning and curve control , that can be molded down to the pixel . Every step of the means , there are predetermined option and then tools to go beyond them .
One of my favorite feature is Mixer , which let you blend two photos together . I spent way too much clock time artfully placing myself in front of a smorgasbord of backgrounds and then smoothing out the edges so it count totally , well , Photoshopped . The fact that I could do it on my headphone using just my fingertip was telling .
“ you may do really nerveless stuff , but you do n’t have to go firmly to get results , ” Tsiddon said .
There are no social or residential area - related features , so do n’t reckon of Enlight as a VSCO Cam or Instagram contender . you may partake the images you create , which even include memes , out to Instagram , Facebook , and Twitter , or send off them to friends via WhatsApp or iMessage . Or you may spare them to share on the web — the end consequence are large , gamey - timber file , not images that have been compressed to bits .
As is common for high - end software program that does n’t trade your data to advertisers , Enlight is n’t free : The app will cost $ 4 at launch , though you’re able to look that price to go up .
