OrasisHD

There is a learning curve. Its well worth the time to master the interface. This app will allow some impossible problems to be over come. When this app does it's thing you have super dynamic range with reasonable resolution of minor movements. Use it for those occasions when there is no right exposure for all the photo. I cannot live without it for that impossible exposure problem. Hoooooaaaaa!

This claims to make an HDR photo out of a regular photo. It doesn’t. What it does do is try to lighten the shadows and/or darken the highlights. In the auto mode there is a shift in colors in the shadows. It also adjust too far. In the manual mode you can slide back the shadows to make them not so exaggerated. In a real HDR photo several different exposures are combined to get the High Dynamic Range. If you have use a simple photo editing program this is just changing the the highlights and shadows to bring the values closer together. In the Gray mode you don’t get the color shift because there is only black and white. This can save some photos but I would always switch to the manual mode to see if you can do better than the auto settings. There are some filters, such as cartoon or gray, that stylizes your photos.

Many others have addressed the functionality of the app and filters, I don't have much to add there. What I do have to add is that there are some basic navigational issues. When composing a photo if the shot isn't what the user is after - the "+" sign allows a new photo to be takenwithout saving the current photo. This was not intuitive to me. Seems more logical if that were an "x" to better indicate the desire to escape or close the current view/window so that I might take a new photo. Also in the "⭐️" filter area, it appears that any selection will immediately overwrite any changes a user might have made manually. A preview mode for filters, or a way to return to cutsom adjustments would be appreciated. Just a little finesse on the interface would push this into four or five star territory.

There are so many photo apps. This is the first that I’ve tried that makes a dramatic change in my close up shots of models, automatically. The app design is not 5 star material but the degree of photo improvement is so dramatic it demands 5 stars for that feature, alone. And to do so automatically is a huge time saver to those of us who are not skilled photographers.

Brings out under exposed, keeps highlights, makes colors pop. I call this app my “one trick pony”. An effortless way to kick life and detail into your photo. Some images it can’t save. Others just look better in the original. But a test try is worth it on the way to an email or Facebook.