A good app that saves photos that the Photos app can
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.
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