This looks to be a really good image editor for the iPhone. Has a lot of "PhotoShop"-like features. The most important thing is that the picture quality at the end of the processing is really very good. Much better than the original iPhone camera image. Also, when it recompresses it, detail is not lost. It does need a crop tool and a way to soften the edges of the brushes, but otherwise, a worthwhile investment.

Really great app, I have played around with it a little bit but I already love it. Especially the clone tool, I have tried others but they were a little confusing to use. This one is really easy ... Could use a how to section like at the beginning .

Best ever

The magnifying tool works very well extremely responsive. Smudge works well and so does clone. The curves is a nice touch, it acts similar to photoshop so if you like that type of control than you'll like this. Unfortunately the filters are not adjustable but they are interesting. One thing I don't like is the eraser is hard edge and erases only at 100%. There is no adjustment for this and it only works when you import a photo. If you paint with no photo the eraser does not work at all. You can probably work around this by opening a blank photo so it will work if you need it. The undo is at least a substitute, but there is no redo. The fill tool only fills a rectangular shape, (the visible screen). The contrast/brightness/exposure settings work well with adjustable sliders. Also the painting tools have a variety of textures but still paint fairly solid (untextured) even when transparency is toned down. Overall this program work smoothly and fairly well. I'd like to see adjustments in filters and adjustable transparency on the eraser and better brush textures. One last thing, it's nice that the filters include noise reduction and sharpening. What I think would help is a add noise and unsharp mask filter and substitute an adjustable color vignette filter for the blue sky and sunset filters.

This is great, It has great features. One thing I wish they would add is layers.

Really a great program and I would be giving it 5 stars if not for a few (major) issues. First, is this app causes my 1st gen iPhone to crash literally every other time I use it, forcing a total re-boot. The last re-boot I had to do caused the phone to become inactivated for some strange reason, requiring it to be reactivated, which it did automatically when it finally restarted and found a signal. This is a big NO-NO for me. I don't mind needing to reboot the iPhone to free up memory from time to time, but this is nuts. And when I saw that activation message, I almost panicked. Not good.

This is great, It has great features. One thing I wish they would add is layers. Also being able to choose brush type and opacity for the eraser.

Drawing - color wheel (like in colors!) - cursed combined with finger offset - more zoom - crop - Flip and more tools I'll pay for it!!

This app crashes whenever I try to save a 1600x1200 image with noise reduction applied. After setting the app to save in full resolution in settings, this problem appeared. Photocleaner by this developer has the same issue. This has the potential of being a good app if they can fix crashing issue. I also have another app for noise reduction and it handles full resolution images without problems. I frankly have no use for an app that has to downsize an image for it to work.

The image quality is extreemely low when saving a horizontal image. Make sure you rotate the pic vertically before use. The drawing interface could work more similarly to Colors! but this Is The Best Photo editor

This app crashes whenever I try to save a 1600x1200 image with noise reduction applied. After setting the app to save in full resolution in settings, this problem appeared. Photocleaner by this developer has the same issue. This has the potential of being a good app if they can fix crashing issue. I also have another app for noise reduction and it handles full resolution images without problems. I frankly have no use for an app that has to downsize an image for it to work. Update... Version 1.3 seems to have solved the save problem. It also added some new features. I'm liking this app now. Update 3... App is still crashing when saving 1600x1200 images. Back to 3 stars until they get this fixed. I was able to save one high res image, but then the app started crashing again with subsequent saves, even after a reboot. This app apparently still has some memory issues.

I really like this app, however; it does need a brush adjustment slider with transparency and edge adjustment ( softness). I am professional photo retouch artist, and this app has the most potential I have seen yet in a photo app. I hope the developers make this update, they could be the best with a little effort. If possible, layers, or a memory purge would also be nice Thanks

The magnifying tool works very well extremely responsive. Smudge works well and so does clone. The curves is a nice touch, it acts similar to photoshop so if you like that type of control than you'll like this. Unfortunately the filters are not adjustable but they are interesting. One thing I don't like is the eraser is hard edge and erases only at 100%. There is no adjustment for this and it only works when you import a photo. If you paint with no photo the eraser does not work at all. You can probably work around this by opening a blank photo so it will work if you need it. The undo/redo is at least a reasonable substitute. The fill tool only fills a rectangular shape, (the visible screen). The adjustable filters work well with sliders to tweak your image and work very nicely. Also the painting tools have a variety of textures but still paint fairly solid (untextured) even when transparency is toned down. I'd like to see adjustable transparency on the eraser and better brush textures. This app contains some of the best filters on the ipod/iphone such as Hue/Saturation/Lightness, Noise Reduction, Unsharp Mask and Curves. What I would like to see is an adjustable color vignette filter substituted for the blue sky and sunset filters. One last thing, Photoforge responds to drawing and filtering images fairly quickly without too much slow down as compared to some of its competition which tend to crawl after applying a few effects. Good job GhostBird.

This is great, It has great features. One thing I wish they would add is layers. Also being able to choose brush type for eraser, eraser is hard edge wich makes it difficult to use.

The image quality is extreemely low when saving a horizontal image. Make sure you rotate the pic vertically before use. The drawing interface could work more similarly to Colors! but this Update: horizontal and drawings using brushes save very badly. Taking screenshots works better

There are a few tweaks needed for a 5 star review. I'm a full-time concept artist and spend my entire days in Photoshop and Painter as well as time away from the computer in Brushes or Colors. I know what I need in a paint app and this one is close to taking over the iphone for me. But first I need: 1)automatic eyedropper control - can't be going to the menu for that and then go back to the menu to select my brush again. Just can't. Has to change. 2)Zoom control - can't be going to the menu for this every time either. Needs to be automatic when I use two fingers. 3)Transparency - this resets to opaque when the eyedropper is used. Needs to stay the same level after a selection. If there was accelerometer opacity control I would probably delete every other paint app on my phone. 4)Larger file size export. Other than those, and perhaps a stroke playback feature, this is a fantastic app and I will recommend once those changes are implemented.

Everything is super, but it's only missing a cropping tool!! Needs update with that in it)))

Good basic editing app. Definitely worth the money. I use photoshop on my Mac for heavyweight digital editing, but for a lightweight quick-fix app, this does almost everything I need. The ability to clone and use curves is worth it alone. Being able to select a region with a lasso tool would be a nice addition as well as a crop tool, but this is a nice app nonetheless.

Great interface on this program. Closest thing to photoshop I think there is for iPhone. That said, just need a few upgrades to be "perfect"! :) A Crop feature (I hear that's coming "soon"), a Picture Straighten feature (similar to iPhoto), and please, Please, PLEASE upgrade it to save photos at native iPhone 3G s resolution! (2048 x 1536!) Other than that, BEST iPhone All-In-One Photo App in the entire App store. Beats PhotoGene UI by leaps and bounds! Thanx and keep up the great work!

Only 3 feature requests. A real paint bucket tool. Not a total fill command. Just a paint bucket for enclosed spaces.

The picures taken with the 3gs camera start out pretty good. Once you import them into photoforge they are half the quality. That would have been nice to know before purchasing.

Despite another review saying quality of 3GS was reduced, I bought it anyways because it offered so much. I do alot of shooting and editing on my iPhone. I figured it could still be useful. It's not. Once my 3GS images are imported, they are significantly lower quality making the app useless for me. No other image editing app I have does this and I have many of them. For now I'll stick with Photogene and CameraBag as my main editing apps. Until this app is updated to be compatible with the 3GS images, 3GS owners should aviod this app.

I love this ap. I hope it keeps improving. It has replaced my Photogene and Brushes aps. One ap that combines the power of these two aps.

Exceptionally comprehensive app that now processes more quickly, plus welcome new cropping capability, on my 3gs. One question remaining... do save options include full 3gs resolution?

At first i was doubtful about this app, but once you play with it it is amazing. Like i said above: Real Photoshop Suite for iPhone 3G S. Love it

And I don't take that lightly. I bought iRetouch... which just made it hard to use. But PhotoForge makes the work clean and logical. I just wish I knew in the first place.

It really is alot like Photoshop for the iPhone. So far it is so easy to learn also. I can say I have never seen an ap on a phone that can manipulate images like this app !

Amazing functionality for an iphone app. I still paint a little faster in Brushes and there are some odd edges to the brushes in PhotoForge where strokes of the same color show color changes in the overlapping edges when you build up the area. I agree that zoom should be a simple two fingered pinch gesture without having to select the zoom tool and the eye dropper should just be a press and hold to speed the process up.

Definately needs an upgrade. + filters and increased image quailty would make the app worth the money.

Ok I just got this app and I love it.It works really well if you want to work on pics taken with the iphone this is it.It really comes in handy with pics taken in low light

If you are going to buy a photo app, this is the one to get. Simply amazing that one can do all this on a phone!

The app is very detailed, very profesional, and has a decent interface. I was able to delete 2 other apps because this dose all together. But... It is extremely slow, I mean epic fail slow. Fix and I give 5 stars ez!! PS:: when cropping allow the image you crop to be able to be used in another picture.

I have used Photoshop both professionally and in leisure for 4 years now - a sometimes torturous time punctuated by exciting jobs such as removing a hairy person from a leafy background, squishing people’s big head to fit into graphical directories; in short, nothing glamourous.

I like this app, but it is missing a feature that would make this app huge! Make it so you can adjust the eraser's opacity and soften the edges. What if you want to add an effect, but then only have it appear in certain areas. Currently, it seems you have only a hard edged eraser tool that erases 100% strength. This makes it unusable for getting seamless blending. Also you should work up a way to allow for compositing of at least 2 image layers. This may be a tougher addition, but is something I would like. Juxtapose does this, but resizes the top layer to be smaller. Even if you load the same image twice. Thanks for a great app, otherwise!

I very much enjoy photography and if you like photography but just can't seem to take a picture correctly well just get this app and edit your photo.

I downloaded Photo Hype, Photogene and PhotoForge at the same time. Photo Hype is much more basic than either of the others. But it isn't bad when you just need to do some quick editing or enhancing. Photogene is a nice program with some limitations. Photo Forge is full featured and probably as close to Photoshop as you are going to get on the iPhone. However, the biggest limitation is that the iPhone isn't a great platform for photo editing. I tried touching up some images and sending them to my e-mail account only to find that they were overprocessed (too saturated for one thing) when viewed on the computer screen. Another beef I have is the sliders for things like sharpen and saturation. They seem to do a lot fast, so that there isn't a lot of fine tuning available. Furthermore, since there are no numbers or saved templates, it is hard to do the same thing to each photo in a set. I'd also like to see a good white balance tool. In fact, an app with a good white balance tool would be worth the price of this or any other photo editing app alone. We need something with an eyedropper that will let us choose gray or neutral and balance accordingly. I wasn't certain that the white balance in this program was better than the original picture.

Well done app with more tools than you can count! I have dropped most of the other photo editing apps I bought for this one.

Seems that MacWorld reviewed this app so I bought it. I played about 20 minutes and was very disappointed.

It loads the pic at the resoltion kf te iPhone screen, not the actual resolution, so that when you try to zoom in the image becomes immediately pixelated. Which makes the clone tool, etc. worthless. PhotoGene zooms to 100%, iRetouch to 200%. Why can't photoforge do something so basic and necessary?