Intensify App Reviews

Hope you people looking for a great app ignore the jerks. I own photoshop, and I also own all the Mcphun apps. Guess which I use most? Since i bought these, I hardly ever crank up photoshop. For the kind of editing most people do, to their own photos, these are perfect. They do the job, they have lots of control, there is hardly any learning curve, and they are very intuitive. They let me quickly correct simple edits like exposure, white balance, sharpness, etc. They save me tons of time, because I am not creating an artwork to sell, I am simply improving my own photos.

Thanks appeared batch, very helpful for my photo sets.

Context: I use Photos only with my iPhone 5s and Mac. Intensify has a moderate learning curve and very good presets. In general, I was able to achieve my goals of bringing out shadows and color in shadows. It did “crash” twice after leaving Intensify and going back into Photos, but it had little to no impact on my user experience. MacPhun is clearly committed to the Mac and iOS, thus I can only assume this software will get better, particularly as more and more people use Photos. The convenience of Photos integration between iOS, Mac and iCloud is pretty awesome.

Saves time trying to put a creative twist on a photo. The preset options have become my new best friend.

Downloaded Intensify last evening and ran into a snag getting it to open. Within 2 minutes of emailing MacPhun I had the issue resolved, It has operated flawless since. It offers all the tools needed to turn a good photograph into a great photograph for a beginner and even a seasoned vet photographer. This is a great investment for someone who is learning photography but is hessitent on dropping $99 on Adobe Photoshop or other more expensive programs right away.

Bought this because HDR was in the main description. Be aware that it is extra $89.99 pre-order to get this capability. In my opinion this is deceptive marketing. Why can’t these software companies be honest? It would go a long way. I haven’t even used the interface yet because I am livid about the misrepresentation. It seems slick but who knows I bought it for the HDR like it says in the description!!! Color me not impressed...

It’s a really good photo editing app!

First of all to get the bona fides out of the way, I am a professional photo retoucher with more than 20 years experience. I spend most of my day in Photoshop and Bridge, and my work has appeared in most major magazines including Glamour, Time, Marie Claire, etc. I was a huge Aperture fan and was very disappointed when Apple discontinued the product. While I am a big fan of Photoshop, Lightroom gives me fits with its terrible user interface. So I exported my thousands of photos out of Aperture and have been using Bridge and Photoshop for the most part for my pro work. For my personal photos I switched to Apple Photos, but have missed Aperture’s ability to do quick, easy edits on images right in my organization tool. I bought Intensify a few days ago basically to try out the Photos extension capability. Initially I tried a few presets and was not impressed. Then I switched to the “Adjust” mode and WOW, there is a lot of power packed into this inexpensive app. With layers and masking, I can apply my color corrections and adjustments selectively, and the tools give a pro-level of control over all the settings. The UI is very well done, and it is easy to apply the edits, which is important to me. While I will still always use Photoshop for complex retouching, when adjusting my personal photos I want something quick and easy but gives me pro-power. While you can use this as a stand-alone app, I really bought it for the Photos extension capability, and in that respect it excels. I love how you can preview the before after with one click, add vignettes easily and everything can be customized. I really feel like I have my Aperture replacement at long last with this combination of Intensify and Photos. No, Photos doesn’t give me the organization capability that Aperture had, but nearly all the photo editing power is here with Intensify. Looking forward to seeing where MacPhun takes this product in the future.

I got this app for Batch processing of files, however that feature is an extra $5 on top of the $15 original fee. I dont know about anyone else, but I am sick and tired of these in-app “micro transactions”.

I edit all of my DSLR photos in Lightroom, but I store all my iPhone photos in the Photos app. I never had good luck with the Photos edit settings. Adjusting the Highlight and Shadow sliders only made my photos look flat, and the denoise feature is simply not strong enough. I could use Lightroom, but the workflow is inefficient as I duplicate and delete Photos, and I like the native integration of Photos for all of my Apple devices. Intensify allows me to make non-destructive edits to my photos to my iPhone photos that are far superior to the native adjustments in Photos. Intesify does an excellent job of bringing out shadows without making the photo look flat, adding/finding detail and has a far superior denoise feature. While I don’t edit all my photos in Intensify, I find myself saving a lot of photos that I just assumed were beyong hope of making good. I highly recommend this product, but there are a few things you should know before buying; 1. A basic understanding of layers and masking is useful (like in Photoshop). The only way to stack presets is to add them to individual layers, which is powerful, but no necessarily intuitive. I recommend finding online tutorials if this work method is unfamiliar. 2. The edits are “non-destructive”, but the edit history is lost as soon as you leave Intensify. In otherwords, if you re-enter Intensify, the picture will look as it does now and you cant see the previous adjustments/settings. Your only options are to continue adding presets/adjustments or “Revert to Original” in the Photos app. 3. Be sure to read up on how to use extensions in Photos, as it’s not intuative on how to access Intensify once downloaded.

I’m an intermediate photographer, I mean casual. But I know good photographs and generally how to get them. Intensify adds an easy-to-use tool to fine tune my images to something special. This app has not crashed or been a problem at all, not once. Of all the various photo apps I’ve used and discarded through the years, this one’s the best so far.

This is the best app that I have ever used for photo editing!