Noir Photo User Reviews

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  • Great.

    Wow love this app. Photos come out really nice. Only minus thing is the price. Bit high for the functions.

    Having no problem on iPhone 4 OS 4.3.3
  • Fantastic!

    Fantastic, classic Film Noir effects a few clicks away. Very well executed, great results and damn easy to use, well done!

    Ps. I don't understand the requests from people wanting to do this to colour photos, the whole point is to emulate the classic, arty, black & white film noir look.
  • Excellent Results

    This app produces some excellent results. It's a specialty app, so bad reviews for not providing functions outside of this specialty should be taken with a grain of salt. True, there's room for improvements - the ability to add multiple "points of inclusion" would be great, as well as the ability to use the color picker rather than just the four presets.
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  • Good App but needs some tweaks

    This is pretty well inspired and is a must for any serious monochrome iPhone editor. It's a shame it can't crop and straighten images though. Also rather oddly it doesn't always output the effect in the same place you see it on the edit view, this needs fixing. I've grown to love it and not found anything else out there with the same level of control for B&W vignettes. If it could add blur as well it would be knockout.
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  • Some good results

    This is an excellent little program. Easy to use and with the right photo can produce some really impressive results.

    Try using the output into a program such as ToonPaint for some line-art type effects.
  • Lovely effects, but resolution too small for impressive prints

    It does accomplish many of its lofty goals, but falls flat on delivering sufficient resolution. Not only does it downsize photos, it doesn't deliver resolution as great as claimed. Once they upgrade to keep the native resolution of the original photo, this will be a five star review.
  • Slick interface, cool results

    I really like the look I can get with "Noir Photo". The control is easy and intuitive. It does need an iOS 5 update as it gets confused with orientation sometimes.
  • Almost perfect

    It would be perfect but won't let you save in original color. You will only have the choice of monochrome. Hopefully an update is coming.
  • Not full resolution

    Terribly overpriced and overrated.

    Essentially, Noir is a vignette manipulation app. It offers 6 preconfigured vignette modes. Each has a slightly different color or tone all with a vintage feel.

    Once you've chosen a vignette mode, you can place the vignette wherever you like and expand or contract it. You are limited to an oval vignette profile.

    Other then vignette size, you can only make three modifications to your image, contrast inside the vignette oval, contrast outside, and overall contrast.

    No independent white or black levels, no ability to add grain. These basic features are strangely missing from an app billed as a "black and white" powerhouse.

    Ultimately, if you're looking for a monochrome app, you'll get broader tools in most other apps, including free apps.

    The worst part is that Noir does not save images at full resolution. Max res is 3m. Nowhere in the description is this listed.
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  • Nicely done

    Nicely done, but would also love the same control to vignette colour images.

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