Pundits and the uninformed say the iPad isn't for content creation - they are so wrong. Photogene gets kudos for showing how content creation can be easy, intuitive, fun, and elegant. All the tools you need are easily accessible. If you spend time in iPhoto you'll be up to speed in no time. The addition of bubble text is perfect in creating images for eLearning courses or blog entries. The one area the developers spent quality time on is the tutorial. The vast majority of developers spend so little time in developing this important feature - the Photogene folks didn't skimp on it and it is very much appreciated. Tap the i-button (information) and boom, you get access to communicating with the developers, a link to their web site, and one of the best tutorials I have seen in any iPhone or iPad app. It's engaging, compelling (who would say that about a tutorial), concise, and informative. Crisp images describe in a pointed manner the feature and what it does. How I have so wanted this in other apps where the developer's think that since the app is intuitive for them it is for everyone when it's not-go figure. Given Photogene's tutorial, I suspect I'll be deducting points in other app ratings if this benchmark isn't met or exceeded. Thanks Photogene for a terrific app. I am really looking forward to putting it to good use in my content creation workflow.

First review!!!!! I love the iPad!!! Have used photo gene on my iPhone oft. Works wonderfully. Makes great uses of the additional space on the ipad.

Yeah this is the photo editing app you need. Great feature set including captions and basic object drawing, curve color editing. Really intuitive too - I just wanted to rotate and crop an image and it worked great. Kind of pricey I guess, but your getting everything you need.

Great all around functionality and tools. However, needs red eye correction. Also, I get a few random force closes when going to upload to Facebook. Not often, but a few times today. Well worth the $3.99 though for sure... That's cheaper than lunch at mcdonalds and you can do much more with this than you can a big Mac anyway. Would be 5 stars if it had red eye correction and no force closes. Otherwise, perfect.

Had on iPhone and liked let's hope the same for this one. After using more than a few time I can say it's worth it!

wow! thats all i can say.

This in a nice application but still needs a little work.

Yes it's quick and does the basic cropping and rotating, however, it has crashed on me nearly 30 times when attempting to email the photo. I had to resort to saving the image to photo library and emailing it from there. But it restores from last session though so don't have to start over your work right? Wrong only about 25% of the time will it restore previous session correctly. For $4 for a basic photo editing app I was hoping for a little bit of stability.

You saved my life, all I wanted to do was rotate and crop photos on my iPad, these basic features were missing in the Photos app. It seems 'we're' is so fixated on simplicity that 'we' sacrifice important features. It's developers like you that really make iPad a truly magical and revolutionary computing platform. Thanks again for your fully featured yet simple to use app!

I was looking for an app that would let me rotate photos in 90 degree increments and this one delivered so much more. The ability to crop images, and then to apply frames and borders was a nice touch. The macros that allow you to apply a fairly large number of modifications to your image are nice as well In short, you can; Rotate & Crop, adjust various image properties (RGB, Brightness, Contrast, etc), apply frames, and even add stamps and text to your photos. Well worth the $3.99.

Great app for the iPad. Even better than the iPhone version!

Nice app. Good interface. But crashes every time I try and upload to Facebook. A bit disappointing.

I was told about this from a friend, really impressed. I would recommend this, well worth the money.

The app is quite good, especially when $4 is considered a low price point for the ipad. Just get it already. You know you'll need it eventually.

Fix the UI on the controls for exposure, brightness,RGB, etc. You always get the scroll down control rather than the lever for the value you are trying to change. This is very annoying, I'll give 5 stars when they fix this, shouldn't be hard...

This is an incredible app for editing photos that you already have approved as good. This app would be much more effective if you could do ratings and then delete or show photos based on ratings: stars, numbers, even a thumbs up or thumbs down would be a step up. When the camera adapter for the iPad comes out I will be looking for an app with ratings so that I can do the first step of the editing on my iPad. I think that is the most important.

I looked through all the existing iPad photo apps and I couldn't find one that would do basic cropping and rotation! This app has no problem with that, plus it seems capable in its more advanced features.