PC World camera columnist, Dave Johnson, says he likes VicMan Software's Mobile Photo Enhancer, except that it costs too much.
Johnson writes:
"Just load a picture (you'll probably have to e-mail the photo to your PC from your phone), and the program automatically reduces digital noise and performs an automatic color enhancement.
"You can fine-tune the amount of correction and also make some other simple fixes, such as brightening the corners of the photo; often, camera phones do a poor job of illuminating corners. You can even batch-edit several pictures at once.
"The only downside is Mobile Photo Enhancer's price. It costs $30, which, in my opinion, is simply too much money for a one-trick pony like this -- unless you take a lot of camera phone pictures and plan to use the program frequently."
Test it
A free trial version is available on VicMan Software's site and you may view a gallery of "before" and "after" images (see below).
You can do much more than enhance. You can undo the blur if the image is focus or motion blurred. See www.picturesolve.com to see examples
Posted by: alex | Tuesday, August 21, 2007 at 08:26 PM
I'm betting this software is for Wintel boxes, so Mac users are SOL. On the other hand, it appears the iPhoto application does a lot of the same thing as Mobile Photo Enhancer (adjusts contrast and color), plus also handles cataloging and arranging and more.
There's also the thought the life-span this specialized product could be short, as camera/cellphones improve. The photos out of my old T300 persistently needed tweaking of contrast, no matter the composition or lighting; the photos out of my S710a just don't. (The only mod I now make of my photos has been to convert some images to black-and-white.) I might hazard the speculation that MPE could be largely done by the third generation of camphones.
Posted by: Tychocat | Thursday, April 14, 2005 at 05:08 AM