Great app, but three problems. I saw crop, and I thought that would work just as well as resize, but the picture remains over 120kb most of the time and stays at 800px in width no matter how many times you crop the photograph thus also reducing the quality of the photograph since it saves it enlarged to 800px (width). The app also seems to only edit the thumbnails instead of the actual picture so it appears to cut off any pictures on the bottom/top or sides. If not for these problems, I would have given 5 stars. I mainly purchased this app hoping for the ability to resize photographs so that was a huge let down for me.

Very well designed app. Slick interface. I like how everything animates. I think it has plenty of functionality for a mobile photo app - I'm not looking for a full Photoshop! ONE big problem - it cuts off the sides of vertical photos. I'm sure this is a bug that will be fixed, hopefully real soon. Until then it will only work correctly with landscape photos.

This is the best photo edit app I've found on the iPhone. What makes it better than others: - Wide selection of text/chat bubbles and boxes. - Ability to rotate, straighten, and/or crop a photo. - Best undo/redo UI around. - Easiest way to frame a photo and best selection of frames. However, it lacks a few things other apps have: - Font selection (TalkBubbles) - Special effects (Comic Touch) - Novelty graphics (Pictems, Sketches) - Finger painting/drawing (Sketches and several others) - Ability to make multiple photos into a minivideo (Flipbook) The price will not appeal to the I-want-it-free-or-I'll-give-you-a-bad-review crowd...

I downloaded picoli before I downloaded this and while the two have different features, I don't see myself using this app as much. The features are a bit quirky and kind of cheap. Would love it if color hue could be changed, but for now, I'll stick to picoli. This app works good in conjunction with picoli, but I don't understand all the hype over this app, as far as photo editing goes.

Should actually probably be 3 stars, but since its the best we've got, I'll give it 4.

There are a few out of date reviews on this app. One states that Photogene doesn't work with "portrait oriented" photos. This is no longer true. Another suggests that Photogene will "enlarge" your image from a low resolution version, like the inferior "Picoli" app. This is no longer true, as Photogene maintains the native resolution all the way through the editing process.

This app. is kinda like comiclife,except it does not have as many features but its defanitly something worth having on your ipod if your a fellow photo lover like me!Enjoy

Delete all your other photo apps. This is the ONLY one to have. Works fantastic. 5 program into 1. Love it!

This is a great application. It just needs an upgrade and I think everyone who has this app already would appreciate a sharpening filter. I gave it five stars though. I hope you guys add a filter soon. Please!!!!

I was looking for a photo editing app where I could crop exactly the sections I wanted, where ezimba only let's you crop 3% or 10%. This is it! I'm so impressed. I love this app, THANK YOU!

When I try to open the application just nothing happens.

This is the closest thing to photoshop for the iPhone yet! Well worth the price!!

Great app. It does every thing I expected it to do, plus a couple more things. I am very pleased with it.

This is a great all in one app. It will crop, adjust, and add fun to your photos. I had comic touch, but I deleted it after trying Photogene. This app has a wider selection of thought bubbles with colors and transparency! Awesome frames too. I may have missed another app, but this is the first one I have seen with a crop tool. The entire program is very intuitive and easy to use. Nicely done!

Some good features either not found elsewhere or else implemented better here: tilt correction, contrast/brightness adjustment with histogram similar to Photoshop "levels", cropping. Comic balloons not as polished and genuinely comic-book-like as Comic Touch. Does not have as rich a set of useful image-enhancement filters as Picoli has.

Love this! Really fantastic app. Would be even better if it would preserve the photo's EXIF data, though.

1 less reason to use my computer

I really like this application. Easy to use, self explanatory and fun!

We a more in depth photo correction interface. Meaning sharpness, contrast, etc... Other than that it's great.

Oct 13th Ver 1.5 This is a great app and certainly not cheap but ultimately worth the money. This is what I think can be improved. CROP, ASPECT RATIO & STRAIGHTEN FEATURE Once you have cropped an image and then made some other image adjustments i.e color saturation or frame, then decide you want to change your crop, it's not a simple process. Ideally the app would remember your previous crop while also showing the rest of the image beyond the crop tool, instead of having you starting from scratch. This should also ideally apply to the straighten tool. Basically for crop and straighten tools always reference the original after an initial adjustment has been made. It would also be great if there was a checkbox that at the very least allowed you to maintain the same aspect ratio of the original image, or ideally even create new ones. COLOR AND BRIGHTNESS TOOLS The levels slider could benefit from having a 3rd slider in the middle that controlled brightness as the current levels tool only controls contrast. It would also be cool to have RGB sliders so the user could also creatively color their image instead of using the color temperture to achieve either a warm or cool look only. FRAME I would love to have the option of having a white frame of equal thickness on all sides. The Polaroid one is great but doesn't work as nicely for truley square images. I might be missing this one somewhere but a complete reset tool of the current image would be handy too. Great app and will only become better!

I am a real photographer and I was having a problem using my iPhone for any photo fun. The iPhone usually underexposes all but the best lit pictures and I didnt want to share them as they were. Photogene to the rescue. I was a little bummed out that there was no sharpening then I went to bed and woke up to an update. There is always room for growth and I am excited at what will be added. Of course it is not photoshop but it makes my photos presentable for on the go sharing. Good work and thanks for listening and updating.

The additional features in this application make it more desirable than Picoli, in my opinion. The ability to crop, add symbols (including chat bubbles) and use frames makes this a hit with my friends. Great in combination with a social app to get some laughs as well as improving your photos.

I really like this app. Finally I can crop photos and then save them to upload onto myspace. I think it would be helpful if somehow this app was linked to places like myspace, facebook, flicker, etc. But regardless, I do use this app slot and for $5, I'd buy it all over again!

This is one of the best programs I have paid for out of all of the new ones. It is very easy to use and you can do so much with it. I have had a lot of fun working with it as well as sending some of the photos to friends and uploading them to MobileMe. As for the price, thank you for keeping it low. I am not sure at this time what more you can add, but I will have to see as I use it more... This is a winner

I enjoy creating wallpaper for my iPhone using photos stored on the camera roll. This app allows me to trim the pictures and soften the edges making awesome and unique wallpaper. I have even created a screen shot of an encouraging e-mail my husband sent to me. I then edited the screen shot with this software. Now I see his message each time I turn my phone on. What an inspiration! Looking forward to more applications from Omer! Thanks!!!

Not great. Not bad. Crops, has some useless 'toy' frames, color adjust with histo is nice. Nav toolbar is irritating, but functional. Work area too small. I'm sure there's another app better than this. The nav and viewable image size make this a 2 rating.

Now merge the app with colorsplash and face melter and we would be cooking with gas!!!!baby!!!

Worth every penny!

UPDATED REVIEW: after this latest update, this is the ONLY photo editing app I use. there just isn't a need for anything else. it's like a mini PS for your iphone. editing photos with this app is effortless with beautiful results. well done!!

I have bought very few apps -- found a lot of great free ones. Plus, as an amateur photographer, I just usually dragged my photos into Photoshop and did any re-touching there. I finally decided "what the heck, for 3 bucks, why not? It's not exactly a lot of money." The first time I used it I thought "wow, this is ONLY $2.99?!" OK so it's not Photoshop but then the iPhone isn't my Nikon camera either. However, I do take photos with iPhone when I don't have my Nikon with me and it's amazing what this little app is capable of. Clearly the developer enjoys photography and gave a lot of thought of what would be handy. Great job! And I am sorry I didn't buy this sooner.

Used it 4 months now. THE single most *useful* photo utility for iPhone. Great, essential features, yet more stable that any other photo app. Fast workflow too.

I've had this app for a while, and it's quite useful. It has never crashed. The interface is solid and the tools are good.

It helps me make crappy pics better. Love the crop tool

Being that my entire career is built around photoshop, I had higher expectations when I read and heard that this was compared to it. BUT that's like apples to oranges. It definitely beats out 98% of the other photo apps and the other 2% are strong competetors or do something else entirely. Photogene does, however, have one of the greatest, if not greatest, UI among current photo editing apps.