Picoli review

Verdict:

Review Date: 4 Sep 2008

Price when reviewed: from the App Store

Reviewed By: Alan Stonebridge

Our Rating 3 stars out of 5

Review
Specs

At times we're underwhelmed by the results of the iPhone's camera, as shots sometimes don't look as vivid or bright as we'd like them to be.

Happily, Picoli enables you to make basic corrections to photos before sending the tweaked versions to friends without having to first transfer them to iPhoto.

There are 12 filters, including practical ones such as brightness, sharpness and contrast, as well as quirkier ones such as night vision. Photos can also be rotated 90° and flipped on either axis.

The filters offer very basic control, either as a sliding scale or simply being toggled on or off with no numerical values, as with posterisation. They're also applied across the whole image and can't be restricted to just shadows, midtones or highlights.

The sliders are functional, but we'd have preferred looser control by sliding a finger up and down the screen. Sadly, Picoli misses the same trick as Apple by omitting a crop tool, so you'll have to resort to other tools or taking a screen grab of a zoomed photo to reframe it.

Picoli also leverages the camera without having to swap between applications to take new photos, but the same isn't true of email, and you'll have to fire up the photo browser to forward photos. Yet its price makes it easier to overlook these basic criticisms. While Picoli can't overcome the lack of a flash, it goes some way to redeeming the iPhone's sometimes gloomy snaps.

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