
My first encounter with Magic Touch has been “less than pleasant.”
After meeting many bugs on version 1.0 (most who crashed the program), I contacted the developers iMapl to see if I could test the demo update their version (Magic Touch 1.1) , Which will be available on the app store (until Apple ’s approval).
Although I do expect the iMapl (at least) fix many bugs plaguing the soft, I did not expect to surpass most applications photo on the Apple Store app (especially against their main rivals, which will be highlighted in this review).
Magic Touch (Le Bon)
In addition to being much more stable than the previous version, the first thing I really appreciated about 1.1 Magic Touch was the ability to reach portions of the image, instead of just the whole image .
For example, while their iPhone are many photo editing applications that can turn any photo into a color image into black and white, Magic Touch lets you specify certain areas, allowing you to focus on objects , Animals or people (which is ideal for blogs).
You can also Clone Stamp areas, giving you an “alternative 4th dimension” look (note: yes, it’s early in the morning, my / Look tired, less glasses).
Other features include refining capacity (or blur) sections, a question I will be very useful when taking pictures of friends (like many people do not want their faces shown online frown and governments on children under 13 being displayed without parental permission).
Although Magic Touch is a bit more complex compared to other photo editing applications, they provide a brief explanation of what each tool does publishing in the menus (which makes it a little more friendly).
Magic Touch (The Bad)
Although I did enjoy the new version of Magic Touch, I did encounter some Anoia.
The first was to decide after photo where you want to use, after selecting a tool for editing your image sometimes “to gray” (or what I call the “gray screen of remorse”).
Although the screen reloading back photo of your beloved, there is no way to continue publishing (a bug?), Forcing you to restart.
Another irritation was the inability to change in landscape mode, despite the fact that you can display your image in this framework (other applications or disable the landscape mode, or you can modify with the landscape) .
Last but not least, if a user is moving between too many editing tools too quickly, Magic Touch tendency to crash on you.
Aspiring Rival
Magic Touch has few competitors, the largest being photogenic, an iPhone App created by Omer Shoora.
While photogenic does not have the possibility to modify parts of an image, it does boast some features that lack of Magic Touch, the ability to harvest and easily add filters to an image not to mention the ability to insert text.
You can also add forms to images too, either in the form of bubbles of comic books, hearts, arrows and squares (and insert them too).
The best part is that all these characteristics can be done by either portrait to landscape mode, although not photogenic not able to take a picture within the APA (a common feature among the applications of photo editing).
Conclusion
Magic Touch is perhaps one of the three applications, I recommend purchasing for users about $ 5 (the other two applications being photogenic for $ 5 and Melter face is on sale now for 1 $).
Hopefully we will see the new Magic Touch to the Apple unveiled soon appstore, it is a cheaper alternative than Photoshop (which can cost up to $ 1000).