Windows Phone App Review: Photo Light

Photo Light

Nope. The Windows Phone app Photo Light isn't a flashlight app to employ when taking pictures. It's a low-cal photo editor for your Windows Phone that isn't also shabby.

The main bill of fare of Photo Light has 5 tiles that give you options to load an existing image from your Pictures Hub, launch your camera to capture a new epitome to edit, display the EXIF file data on images, admission the app's settings and view the Well-nigh screen.

Just a quick note near the EXIF information is that not only volition Photo Low-cal display the data contained in the prototype's EXIF file but it will likewise map information technology out if GPS data is present. For those non familiar, the EXIF file is short for Exchangeable Image File that is a metadata file that contains all the data your camera collects as information technology takes a picture. The corporeality of information varies from camera to camera but in full general, the EXIF will contain photographic camera settings, paradigm size, date/fourth dimension taken, and more than.

Now back to Photo Light.

The editing folio for Photo Low-cal is laid out nicely with your image size displayed at the top of the screen and your controls lining the right side and bottom of the screen. You can move your photograph around by touch too as pinch to zoom.

Editing controls include:

Viewing the EXIF information
Convert prototype to grayscale (blackness and white)
Rotate the image
Undo editing event
Ingather the image
Adjust Contrast and Effulgence
Resize the image
Acuminate the image
Racket removal
Capsize the image.

There is also a collection of filters y'all can apply that include sepia, pligra (looks similar it dials down the saturation), 1989 filter (Polaroid way), dark times, vignette, emboss, and mistiness.

Photo Light

Once you get all the edits finished you tin relieve your edited image to your Pictures Hub every bit well as share it on Facebook or Twitter.

I really can only bespeak to ii nits with Picture Low-cal. Kickoff, the undo push button doesn't always work. You lot can apply filters or adjustments and when you striking the Undo Button you volition see a "Unable to undo anymore". Granted you e'er take the option to re-open the image and start from scratch simply why have an undo push if it won't disengage?

The other nit is that if yous enlarge or position the photo yous're editing the full width of the screen, it can hide the side buttons labels. Until yous get accustomed to Photograph Light this can make navigating around things a little tough.

Still, fifty-fifty with the app'due south small quirks Photograph Light is a really nice photograph editor for your Windows Phone. If all you demand is the basic editing tools, to share the edited images, to view the EXIF file and see where the image was taken on a BING map, Photograph Lite is worth considering.

There is a free trial bachelor for Photo Low-cal, which is basically an ad-support version. The total, advertising-gratis version of Photo Light will run you $.99. You can notice it all here at the Windows Phone Marketplace.

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