Emboss Me Pro vs Photographic Effects
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Emboss Me Pro
Easily apply an embossing effect to your photos with a single tap. Adjust depth and direction for custom results. Share your creations directly via print, tweet, or email.
- One-click embossing effect
- Adjustable embossing depth
- Adjustable embossing direction
- Select photos from album
- Take new photos
- One-tap print
- One-tap tweet
- One-tap email
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Create polished embossed relief in seconds with Emboss Me Pro. Transform photos into dimensional raised-surface artwork with adjustable depth and direction. Designed for fast, visual editing: • Compare the original and edited image with a live split preview • Explore curated presets made for different photo styles • Blend the effect with your original for a subtle or bold finish • Save favorite effect settings in My Looks and reuse them • Share a labeled before-and-after image • Undo, redo, and resume your last edit • Save and share at high resolution • Process photos directly on your device Choose a photo, try a preset, and adjust until the result feels right. The focused editor keeps the image and its transformation visible throughout the process. The paid edition is ad-free, so you can stay focused on your edit.
Photographic Effects
This app allows you to apply unique artistic effects to your photos. Choose from bass relief, contour, pseudo colors, or deformation to transform your images. Save your creations or take new photos to process.
- Apply Bass Relief effect
- Create Contour drawings
- Generate Pseudo Color images
- Deform images with barrel distortion
- Select images from archive or camera
- Save processed images
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Effects is a Digital Image Processor (DIP) for iPad. It allows to select an image from the archive, or to shot a new photo with the internal camera, then process it using one of four different image processing algorythms. The four processing effects are: 1) Bass Relief: creates a new gray scale image with an Embossing effect. It is suitable for any kind of image, provided it has a good contrast. 2) Contour: creates a drawing obtained detecting the border lines between areas with different brightness. Best results are obtained with images with a strong contrast. 3) Pseudo Colors: creates a new colored image, converting different brightness levels of the original picture into different color hues. It can produce many different color combinations on the same image, giving a kind of Kandinskij effect. 4) Deformer: introduces a barrel distortion, compressing some portions of the original image, and inflating other ones. This effect is specially suitable for close-up portraits, and creates very funny variations. When the application starts, you are prompted to choose the image source: archive or camera shot. Once you ha picked an image, you are prompted to choose one of four processing methods. Touch one of the four sampling images to select the type of effect you prefer. When selection is done, the desired effect will be applied to the picked image, and the result shown. If the selected effect is Pseudo Colors, you can change the brightness-to-color translation, simply touching the resulting image one or more times. At this point, if you like the image produced, you can save it in the local archive, pressing the Save Image button. Then, you can get a new image to process.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Emboss Me Pro at 2.0 against Photographic Effects's 1.0. Emboss Me Pro also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 38 months) and review sentiment (29% vs 0%). Photographic Effects's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Emboss Me Pro costs $0.99 and Photographic Effects $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Emboss Me Pro holds the better App Store score, 2.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 29% of Emboss Me Pro's written reviews are positive against 0% of Photographic Effects's.
Emboss Me Pro ships an update every 2 months, Photographic Effects every 38 months. Both last shipped on September 7, 2026.
| Parameter | Emboss Me Pro | Photographic Effects |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | $0.99 |
| Rating | 2.0 (3 ratings) — better | 1.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 28.6% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 38 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 福恩 毛 | Luigi Fonti |
Customer experience
Emboss Me Pro
Photographic Effects
In-app purchases
Emboss Me Pro
No in-app purchases
Photographic Effects
No in-app purchases
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