Photogenics

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Photogenics for Pocket PC is based directly on the high end Windows and Linux versions of the software, but packaged with a friendly user interface specifically designed for the smaller screen size. As a result, Photogenics has an incredible amount of breadth and sophistication for a PDA application. See for yourself by watching the videos further down the page, and downloading the trial version!

Screen Shots

Features

• Photogenics allows the manipulation, retouching, and enhancement of digital photographs without the need for a PC.
• Offers the ability to draw and paint with realistic media, such as Airbrush, Chalk, Pencil, Sponge, Watercolour, and Smudge.
• Paint-on Image Processing: You can apply over 60 filters not just to the entire image, but to precisely the area you want, simply by drawing with any of the media tools. Airbrush everything on and off for instant touch-ups without the need for tedious masking.
• Dedicated filters for enhancing photos, including Auto Contrast, Auto Enhance, Remove Colour Cast, Remove Noise, and Remove Red Eye, as well as full manual control over the Hue/Saturation/Brightness/Red/Green/Blue/Gamma levels.
• Standard image processing filters such as Blur, Gaussian Blur, Motion Blur, Pan Blur, Radial Blur, Roll Blur, Sharpen, and Unsharp Mask.
• Creative filters such as Fire Blur, Bump Map, Contour Map, Emboss, Bas Relief, Honeycomb, Pixelize, Randomize, Channel Flip, Tile, Colourise, Sepia, Colour To Grey, plus many more.
• Exclusive Paint Layer Technology: Mistakes can be rubbed out without having to redo the parts you like, using a "fade out" technique.
• Unparalleled Creativity Levels: Real-time modification of colour, transparency, image processing mode, and artwork positioning.
• Stunning Paint-On Pyrotechnics: Lens-flares, fire, and explosion effects can be combined with smear to produce supernovas, waves of fire, and even sunsets and waterfalls.
• Transparency: Photogenics allows you to modify not only the standard transparency of what you have already drawn, but offers fine grained control over the transparency of the individual Red, Green, and Blue channels, and also allows you to specify how much of the effect shows through to the Shadows, Midtones, and Highlights.
• Supports having multiple images open at once, multiple layers per image, plus alpha channels and secondary images for both simple and sophisticated image compositing.
• Standard image editing functions such as scale, rotate, flip, crop, add space, and clone.
• Thumbnail image browser for quickly finding the images you want to open.
• Supports loading and saving in several different file formats, including JPEG, GIF, BMP, and TARGA.
• Built-in time delay screen-capture ability.
• Sophisticated dithering routines to reduce colour banding and enhance display quality for Pocket PC's that only support 12 bit colour.

Videos

1. Intro.avi (4.5MB)

2. Media.avi (4.3MB)

3. FireEye.avi (2.7MB)

(Videos were captured using the Pocket PC emulator, then slowed down to approximate the speed of an iPAQ)

Requirements
Photogenics works well on almost all Pocket PC devices, including the Compaq iPAQ, Casio Cassiopeia, HP Jornada, and Palmax Amigo. The HP Jornada 525 is not recommended due to it only displaying 256 colours. 1.5MB of storage space is required for installation, and 2MB of program memory is required to run. Editing large images will require additional amounts of memory, from 0.5MB for 240x320 images, 2.1MB for 640x480, 6MB for 1024x768, 13MB for 1600x1200, up to 21.5MB for 2048x1536. In digital camera terms, you will need roughly 7MB per mega-pixel.

Documentation
For the Quick Start Guide, select Help from the Start Menu once Photogenics is running. For the complete manual, please download one of the following files. The HTML Help version is for viewing on your Windows PC, and can be viewed simply by downloading and double clicking on it, while the compressed Zip file is in plain HTML format for viewing on your Pocket PC device.

PhotogenicsPocketPCManual.chm (94KB) - HTML Help Version
PhotogenicsPocketPCManualHTML.zip (173KB) - Plain HTML Version

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Limited image type support

by a reviewer   from Cleveland, Ohio
on Oct 12, 2004

Photogenics looks like the best PPC graphics format, but it does not support enough image formats. The program supports layers, but does not support the PSD or TIFF format. It mentions in the help that PNG is a better format then GIF, but does not support it.

Good product, a few flaws

by Etienne B.   from Paris, France
on Aug 18, 2003

Photogenics is a very ambitious program, trying to bring an innovative drawing/picture editing software on the PPC platform. It does quite well, and has some incredible features (like its managing of layers and some very nice neon-like brushes), but sadly suffers from a few bugs. Not showstoppers, but definitely annoying bugs (like the impossibility to draw a filled eclipse). It seems that the designers are working on a new version that will fix the problems, though.

Great program but it has a few flaws

by JHamblen   from Amherst, MA
on Jun 24, 2003

Really nice for editing and sizing digital pictures. Very easy to work with once you get the hang of how it works. However, one of the paint tools doesn't work well. The fill ellipse tool will not make an ellipse. Emailed Idruna five times over three weeks and never got a response. Also, there are limited brushes, unlike Pocket Artist, for which you can download many brushes/textures.

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