By Matt Bolton We love “create your own filter” apps for giving you a way to add individuality to the barely navigable torrents of photos uploaded to social networks each day. Darkroom lets you create filters through a combination of sliders for things like saturation and contrast, but also levels curves, with red, green, and blue all available individually. (Accessing this ability is the app’s IAP, incidentally, and you really need to pay if you’re going to get anything unique out of it.)In theory, this is great — combining this level of control with other, simpler tools makes for a vast range of options. In practice, it’s merely good. The levels adjustments aren’t as fine-grained as you’d think. The curve is divided into five columns, and you roughly adjust it by swiping those columns. It simply doesn’t compare to being able to add your own adjustment points, as you would in Photoshop. You can still do lots of cool stuff, but it’s disappointing.The app has other tricks, though, such as the infinite Undo list. This is confusing at first, but basically lets you revert your photo to any previous point instantly, so is fairly powerful. However, there are other frustrations, such as not being able to zoom in on the image at all when editing, so you can’t check how much noise is being added by the Sharpness effect, say. Sharing is basic — save to Camera Roll, send to Instagram, or use iOS’s wider sharing options for other apps. Cross-posting to multiple services would have been nice. The bottom line. We like Darkroom, but it feels just too limited in parts for its ambition.Review Synopsis
Product:

Darkroom — Photo Editor

Company:

Bergen Co.

Contact:

usedarkroom.com

Price:

Free ($2.99 IAP)

Requirements:

iPhone or iPod touch running iOS 8 or later

Positives:

Adds personalized individuality to photos. Neat infinite Undo ability.

Negatives:

Not as much control as necessary.

Source: Maclife