# Photoshop Camera Portrait Lens — user reviews > 52 indexed App Store user reviews of Photoshop Camera Portrait Lens by ADOBE SYSTEMS SOFTWARE IRELAND LIMITED, rated 4.80/5 from 30,167 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/photoshop-camera-portrait-lens/id1274204902/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/photoshop-camera-portrait-lens/id1274204902.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 27,113 · 4★ 1,974 · 3★ 579 · 2★ 152 · 1★ 349 ## What do users think of Photoshop Camera Portrait Lens? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Powerful editing capabilities - 👍 Intuitive and user-friendly - 🎨 Excellent photo effects and filters - 💡 Creative lens options by fellow users - 🎉 Fun and engaging photo editing experience **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent crashes and stability issues - 🔋 High battery consumption - 🤔 Lack of customization and advanced editing options - 📁 Difficulty saving and managing photos - 🚫 Mandatory saving to camera roll **Commonly reported bugs** - Photos opening sideways on iPad - Losing access to previously edited photos - Inability to save photos to camera roll - Automatic over-processing of photos - Incompatibility with iOS 15 and newer **Most requested features** - Option to save unedited photos - Bulk download/transfer of photos - Support for Bluetooth camera grips - More lens and filter options - Ability to adjust filter intensity and parameters ## Newest reviews (10 of 52) ### 4/5 — Photoshop camera is great! *2022-08-20, version 1.5.0* I really like Photoshop Camera. The app works well and you can definitely make your photos stand out. The only problem is no one is making filters anymore for this app. The feature it has that people can make new filters for it is gone. I hope someone makes some new filters for this app or Photoshop makes some for it. Otherwise, this app is just going to die and everyone will forget about it and move on to the next app ### 4/5 — Awesome App! PS Camera doesn’t support Bluetooth Grips *2022-01-09, version 1.4.2* I use PS a lot and I love how easy it is to use in the go! The only negative I’ve come across is that it doesn’t support my Bluetooth Camera Grip to take photos. You literally have to hold the camera and use the button on the screen. Weird - but I wish that could be supported in the near future. ### 3/5 — Great app until you use it on iOS 15… *2021-10-07, version 1.4.0* I loved using the app. It helps with adding some flare to my iPhone photography. As of right now, there is an issue with accessing settings for the app after updating to iOS 15. Unable to select flash, ratio, and main settings. When I use it on an iPhone with iOS 14, it works fine. Would like to use the app like before. ☹️ ### 3/5 — On the fence about this *2021-04-24, version 1.2.2* A great tool for those who have little knowledge of design and want to make something cool. A shortcut and obvious giveaway of you are a designer trying to use this. Maybe it would be a good starting point to try to recreate these filters on your own or for inspiration, but true creativity comes from within and learning how to design what’s in your mind. ### 4/5 — It’s fun *2021-03-21, version 1.2.1* Ok so these lenses are better than other filter apps. How ever there are still some features to click on at the top for which I cant find information or directions. What is the + button for?????????????? You want to make this quick and user friendly so we don’t always have to run to the full fat photoshop but then you have things like that. I mean, the least you could do is give a description somewhere. ### 4/5 — Interesting, and learning still *2021-01-27, version 1.2.0* Just started using this and maybe it could use hover text or like some way to know my crop is set. I hope to see where I can add my own patterns to backgrounds, but these are neat filters and could be awesome seasonal things, too! Looking forward to exploring this more and sharing it on social media. ### 3/5 — Good app but... *2021-01-21, version 1.2.0* Great app it’s a fun app with some great filters and edit options. But it would nice to be able to customize a bit more. Especially with the wing edit filter it would be awesome if you could adjust the size of the wings and move them so they are more centered on the photo you are using. If you could also make more Photos work the dark sky and background filters that would be great. Even if there is no sky in the photo but there is blank empty space. But a good app overall just some updates and adjustments would be great. Also being use more lens at once would be good too! 🙂 **Developer response:** Hi Kingstreet2372, thank you for taking the time to share your feedback about the filters, adjusting the size of the wings and edit options with us! The team is constantly working hard on improving the app, taking into heavy consideration your feedback. Have you tried the Lens and Global properties for more editing options? You can learn more about these editing options in the article "Apply Photoshop lens effects and filters" here: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop-camera/user-guide.html/photoshop-camera/using/lens-effects-edit-photos.ug.html We would love to hear your thoughts on improvements and encourage you to submit them to the Photoshop Camera Feedback Forum here: https://photoshopcamera.uservoice.com/ You can also add your vote to similar ideas like the dark sky option you mentioned: https://photoshopcamera.uservoice.com/forums/925282-adobe-photoshop-camera/suggestions/40653997-night-mode-feature Your submission will be sent to the team for review. Please also feel free to email us at pscamera@adobe.com if you have any questions or additional feedback to share. Thanks! ### 3/5 — Adobe please explain why so many apps? *2020-11-07, version 1.1.0* I am confused. Adobe creates apps then discontinued them. But what is more confusing is these free apps as separate apps. Why a different app for each when it’s not clear if the other app will do all under one roof? This makes working or even choosing which app very difficult I like or prefer when Adobe gives advice as to stop using one app when it replaces another app. But in this case I will list apps I think are redundant and confusing and not easy to find information about the differences between them to a certain before installing Example Adobe mix Adobe Fix Adobe photo express Adobe Photoshop camera adobe Capture Fresco Draw Spark (what the hell are these?) Then ipad has easier time but still it’s not clear Photoshop might work but healing brush is better it seems in Fix And Mix and Comp seem similar but also similar to fresco But fresco is like draw Which are cross pollination of apps And which replace other apps ? Please help **Developer response:** Hi djcarpediem, thank you for reaching out to us with your question about the list of applications and their differences. We will pass along your feedback to the team for review. Please write to us at pscamera@adobe.com if you have any questions or additional feedback to share with us. We will be happy to address your questions with more details and help links to these products. The team is working hard to improve the app. We’ll be grateful for your feedback and look forward to your email. Thank you! ### 4/5 — Figuring it out! *2020-10-23, version 1.1.0* I was happy to see that you offered these webinars, though they were for those with more expertise rather than a novice. I am working on it. It’s not as easy as it seems. I love all the things this app is supposed to do, but when I went back to try it out, I could not find the features mentioned. I need a class that I can work along simultaneously during instruction. I’m a newbie and require more hands-on, side by side training. I know I can do this with an opportunity for a bit more patient and direct guidance. Where can I get that? **Developer response:** Hi Clever, thank you for taking the time to share your feedback about the using the app with us! Please feel free to email us at pscamera@adobe.com to share details with us what is not easy in the app. We would also love to hear your thoughts on improvements and encourage you to submit them to the Photoshop Camera Feedback Forum here: https://photoshopcamera.uservoice.com/ Your submission will be sent to the team for review. We look forward to your response. Thanks! ### 5/5 — Constantly crashing *2020-08-27, version 1.0.3* It’s been a phenomenal editing app up until recently when it started to crash while editing and saving. I have to let it crash five or six times just for it to give me a little leeway so I can get through the process of editing a few photos. Later when I pull it up to edit more, the same crashing is encountered. Update...I updated my iOS to the current version and the crashing has ceased. Thanks for the prompt response and for producing a great editing tool. **Developer response:** Hi SydneyTiffa, thanks for sharing your feedback! We are sorry to hear that you are experiencing crash issues. Your submission will be sent to the team for review. Please contact us at pscamera@adobe.com and include detailed steps you took and which lenses were used that caused this issue. Could you also share which device model you used? Can you help us retrieve the crash log from your device? Here are the instructions to retrieve a crash log: https://help.dayoneapp.com/en/articles/440759-getting-ios-crash-logs App improvements will continuously be our priority. We look forward to your response to resolve this issue. Thanks! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Make saving to camera roll optional *2022-05-07, version 1.5.0* The primary reason I have this app is so I can take pics that don’t save to my phone’s camera roll. On my phone, photos in camera roll are automatically backed up, and not every pic I take needs to be backed up. With the latest release of this app, saving to camera roll has now become mandatory. The app won’t work at all now without access to camera roll. Please change the camera roll functionality back the way it was (i.e. saving to camera is optional and up to the user). ### 1/5 — Decent camera app, but saving photos is a huge chore *2021-11-27, version 1.4.1* Edit: After I posted this review the app removed all my photos I hadn’t downloaded yet, including some vacation photos that I was in the process of getting downloaded. So after this huge set back I’m changing my review to one star. I like this camera app better than the native app on my iPhone 12 Pro, but I tend to take a lot of photos at a time, and I can’t find any option anywhere to save multiple photos to my phone at once. It’s super annoying to have to go through them all one at a time, take off the filter it automatically applies every time (can’t find an option to make it not do that automatically, have to manual take it off every time) then safe it. Wish they would fix this, other than that I like it. ### 1/5 — Would be awesome if it worked!!! *2020-10-25, version 1.1.0* Seriously!!! Y’all take $4.99 (actually $5.32) each month out of my account for this app. Yet I can’t use it! I can’t restore my purchases. It goes back and forth between expired (which it RENEWS on Nov 20th) and needing to use a different ID to log in. Why would I use a different ID when I PAY for this one???? I’m usually ALL for Adobe products but right now, y’all are letting paying customers down!!!!! If the issue gets fixed quickly I’ll change the stars and update my review accordingly. ### 2/5 — Great Until . . . *2024-04-23* I love all the new filters and various sky replacements. It had four to five stars for sure. For the first two years there was a steady stream of new filters adding to the value of the app. Then about a year ago Adobe seems to have left this app behind. This wouldn’t be so bad as it ended up with lots of outstanding options. However, now all of the sky filters are worthless because it comes up with “No Sky Detected” on pictures that have an obvious sky. The same pictures it had once added clouds, stars, or even popsicles to now get the “no sky” message. I don’t know if any of this years iOS updates have created a need for an App update (haven’t seen any for a while) but as of now many of the app functionality is gone. ### 3/5 — Great, but use more versatility. *2023-01-01, version 1.5.0* We need to be able to add video and also to be able to use on computer and iPad as well. More filters and be to be able to create and add our own. Overall, the best outbreak and best out there but PS is the default, so I expect much more to have. I’m going to check out others and possibly update; nevertheless, test your might! In the words of the MK. Lol #brianryan ### 3/5 — Lacks Image Quality Output *2022-09-25, version 1.5.0* As is the tradition of Adobe, they don’t give you the ability to adjust the output image quality. So while you can import nice Apple ProRAW photos, you have no control of the quality of the JPEG that you’re saving. None. It saves as a massively over compressed JPEG with zero choice on the amount of compression. Come on Adobe. Give us the ability to save higher quality images. Thanks. ### 3/5 — PS Camera Instant Crashing *2022-05-17, version 1.5.0* My app all of a sudden started crashing upon opening. I finally uninstall it and reinstalled. After reinstall and trying to sign in with Facebook, it stated that I no longer have access and the app is under development. I’ve never had any issues with this app before and use it all the time. Please help! I uninstalled Adobe Creative Cloud since I wasn’t using it, could this app have a shared file that may be causing this issue? ### 3/5 — Great for editing, not for shooting... *2022-05-08, version 1.5.0* Used to love PS Camera for taking selfies, as the unedited pics were excellent! Now, with recent update, all I get is the over-edited photo, automatically saved to my Camera Roll. Auto-save is efficient; however, I always saved the unedited photo. The auto-processed one makes me look 20 years younger, which is fine but fake! Also it always makes my face thinner, but my face is already too long and skinny already! Please Adobe, love your app but let us save both versions! Then, back to 5 stars. Editing photos is awesome in this app on iPad. ### 3/5 — Help find my pics *2022-01-20, version 1.4.2* I recently got a new phone (IPhone 13) right after Xmas and after our vacation and when I was switching everything over from my iPhone 11 I lost access to all of my photos that I had on my photoshop camera app. The ones I hadn't saved to my phone. I thought when I transferred everything over that the photoshop camera app would transfer over with my pictures as well but only the app transferred and all of my vacation pics were gone. I can't find them anywhere . Please help ### 3/5 — No bulk download / transfer option *2021-12-05, version 1.4.2* Picked up a new iPhone. Pics stored in PsC Studio on my old iPhone did not transfer to PsC Studio on my new iPhone. Also no option to bulk download photos from the app to camera roll. It’s readies to manually select each pic, download it and then transfer them to the new iPhone. Once pics are downloaded from PsC Studio to camera roll they can no longer be edited in Adobe Camera. Ideally, all pics would transfer in Studio from the old phone to the new. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Not as good as it used to be *2023-04-20* Update iOS16: Used on iPad Pro in landscape mode, my photo opens sideways! Not to mention in the middle third of my screen. Then I need to rotate/edit/save/rotate back to normal in my Camera Roll. In other words, PS Camera is not optimized for photo editing on iPad. Former review: Used to love PS Camera for taking selfies, as the unedited pics were excellent! Now, with recent update, all I get is the over-edited photo, automatically saved to my Camera Roll. Auto-save is efficient; however, I always saved the unedited photo. The auto-processed one makes me look 20 years younger, which is fine but fake! Also it always makes my face thinner, but my face is already too long and skinny already! Please Adobe, love your app but let us save both versions! Then, back to 5 stars. Editing photos is awesome in this app on iPad. ### 5/5 — Truly Amazing Discovery! *2022-12-27, version 1.5.0* I just discovered this app on my phone that is Photoshop Camera and it is awesome! I had Photoshop Express for years but I didn’t know I had this. I clicked on this app while editing some Christmas photos and discovered a dream world of photo editing tools. My camera with photo feed has many options to edit photo while taking it and also is connected to Photoshop Express with many exceptional editing tools. It’s all I’ve ever wanted and more in a camera and photo app and I finally found it! Better late than never! Thank you! ### 5/5 — Default open to editor *2022-05-01, version 1.4.4* Love this. The auto adjust magic this app does is amazing. I would like to see the option to open the app directly to the editor instead of the camera. Camera is nice, but I’m usually editing photos I’ve already got in my camera roll or from Lightroom. ### 5/5 — Wow, great free photo effects *2022-02-03, version 1.4.2* Unlike most of the other Apple apps, this APP (and many of Adobe’s other apps) do amazing things with your photos, and mostly for free - no ads, no nagging, and nearly no limits. You can actually create fantastic effects and save them to your device or share them without having to upgrade or pay. I’m not sure what their business model is, but what their app(s) can do for you for free is amazing. I recommend this PS Camera app for interesting & creative photos. ### 5/5 — The Greatest *2021-09-22, version 1.4.0* Titles says it all. I paid for the PS App and I only used Lightroom for my photography. Found out I had access to all these cool apps for the phone such as this PS Lens and it’s absolutely amazing. I love playing with the photos and using the filters. 6 stars if I could ### 5/5 — App ascending 'heights of glory' as it were *2021-08-14, version 1.3.1* I had Ps when they first did it in '90's. It soon got out of my price range, though, and wow was it easy to use. Then it got REALLY complicated and pricey at $600. So I moved on. I got an iPad along with iPhone and the first PS (elements?) worked GREAT. Then support dried up and it was discontinued. So I moved on again. Then I saw that it came back so I thought I'd check it out again. I detest mice (and Wacomm peripherals) so I never wanted the Windows version again. But Apple stepped up with a great Pencil that worked as good as Gateway tablets and Acer stylii. i upgraded my iPad to Pro and with the Pencil now everything is just dynamite. I find the 'subscription' thing a great alternative to $600 upfront and I can limit it to just what I do which is primarily Ps and Fresco. Once I finish a piece, I put it on a site I like and can forget it and move on keeping just the final in my archive. The iOS version is just wonderful nor do I need all the bells and whistles of Windows complication. Even Elements was too much so I long ago got refunded for that. I WOULD like to see more of the descriptive dropdowns when you hover over an option because icons bother me. I like text and plain simple English to guide me around till I get super-familiar then it is ok to turn off with just an icon. So let's see Adobe do a 'full' version for iOS, it's just the best! ### 5/5 — So much fun *2021-05-04, version 1.2.3* This app is a blast. It’s not much good for taking photos for the most part, but for goofing around with friends or ones I’ve already taken it’s amazing. There are so many different filters to choose from and most of them have three or four (or even more) variants! If you’re looking for a pro camera, look elsewhere, but for an entertaining camera, this is the app. Occasionally it will crash when trying to save an image with a moving filter to the camera roll, but that might just be an issue with my older model iPhone 8. **Developer response:** Hi Frog, thanks for sharing your feedback about the filters! We're sorry to hear that you're experiencing crash issues when saving an image with moving filters. How can we make this app better for you to take photos? Could you share more details at pscamera@adobe.com? When does the app crash? Which lenses did you use that caused the issue? Does editing a photo cause a crash? And any relevant screenshots would be immensely valuable. We'd certainly like to work this through for you. Thank you. ### 5/5 — No iPad Landscape, sigh *2021-03-13, version 1.2.1* This is simply a fantastic app for adding special effects to boring photos. But. It’s designed to work only on the iPhone screen. It’s virtually useless on a landscape iPad/keyboard setup. Please add this option—a bigger screen is easier to work on. ### 5/5 — PS Camera is a MUST *2020-11-11, version 1.1.1* I was playing around with the PS camera app in Zion NP on a snowy, November day and let me tell you, 🤯. I took a photo with the Apple camera then remembered I had downloaded the PS camera app so I opened it up and just took the same picture. At first glance I wasn’t impressed but when I got home and pulled the PS camera app photo up, I was blown away at the level of detail compared to the shot I took in the Apple camera app. It honestly rivals some of my favorite photos taken on my very expensive mirrorless setup. Plus, I was able to quickly and easily get the camera into my favorite Adobe editing app and boom- professional looking shot achieved. Fill disclosure, I do pay for the Adobe suite subscription so I’m not sure how this would work if you only have the free version. If you are like me and pay, there is absolutely no reason not to use this app on your phone, imo. ### 5/5 — Am I getting this? *2020-10-15, version 1.0.5* I’m pretty sure I love this app, I just don’t know how free is free supposed to be? The app description says it’s free except for one in app purchase which is creative storage. I guess I’m not sure can you download whatever filters for free and that’s it or am I going to get a surprise charge? --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-06-10.*