Tech Friday – Filterstorm Pro Review

Filterstorm Pro was released last month as an iPad solution to editing photos on the go when you don't have access to Lightroom and/or Photoshop.

 

I did a side-by-side edit on two different photos from Mardi Gras.

 

Here are the original RAW files straight out of the camera:

 

 

 

Adjustments Lightroom: Slight White Balance, Fill Light, Sharpening

Adjustments Filterstorm Pro: Curves (Brightness), White Balance, Sharpening

Synopsis: Lightroom's Fill Light adjustment can't be under estimated, You can easily see the difference between Brightness and Fill Light. The sharpening and White Balance adjustments with both programs are fairly comparable.

 

 

 

Adjustments Lightroom: White Balance, Sharpening, Vignetting

Adjustments Filterstorm Pro: White Balance, Sharpening, Vignetting

Synopsis: The White Balance adjust does not have even half the range that Lightroom has, although the Sharpening and Vignetting are fairly similar.

 

 

Filterstorm Pro Strong Points:

Zooming is incredible fast and easy (much easier than Lightroom)

Lots of IPTC options

Ability the edit photos on the go

Multiple export options: Email, Flickr, Dropbox, etc…

 

Filterstorm Pro needed improvements:

Ability to see individual before and after adjustments

Ability to save adjustment slider for each filter – after you make a filter adjustment and save that adjustment it does not save position of the slider

Add a zoom percent when zooming into a photo

Lens Correction, like in Lightroom

Higher range for white balance

Fill light and Recovery adjustment – using Curves is way to complicated for a program like this.

 

Conclusion:

It isn't Lightroom, but it is a great app for what it does and can only get better especially with the updating ease through the Apple App Store.

 

 

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