Enlight Photo-Editing App – Impressive Even to Photographers

Photo-editing hobbyists won’t want to live without this.  An addictive and creative photographic experience. The only all-in-one iPhoneography app for creating masterpieces.

Photo apps keep getting better and better. Even if you’re not into photo editing, you’re likely to use Enlight over and over if you try it.

Enlight (from Lightricks) launched its product for iPhone last week, claiming “every photo app you’ve ever needed… combined into one.” We took a look to see.  The features are hot, and it does deliver as promised.

On the first launch, Enlight takes you through a brief tutorial that will show the basics of using the app. While it may look like any other photo editor at first, the app provides new features that were previously only available on desktop editing software, according to Zeev Farbman, CEO and co-founder of Lightricks.

There are two different ways to get an image into Enlight: new capture or Photo Library. Unfortunately, it doesn’t appear that Enlight has access to the manual camera controls that Apple introduced in iOS 8, so the camera functionality is a bit limited. If you choose to use an image that you already have, just select it from the Camera Roll ribbon or choose another album from your device. Once you have an image, slide your finger from the right edge of the screen to reveal the navigation menu.

Enlight is best used in landscape mode, while others like Darkroom and VSCO don’t give you that option.  Swipe from the left to access your tools, and from the right to choose which photo you’re editing. Enlight does a great job of helping you see where you’re at in the process. At the bottom you can go back and forward between changes you’ve made, and there’s another button you can press to get a quick glimpse of the original, pre-edit image. You can also pinch to zoom in to the pixel level with no apparent quality loss, which is a big improvement over both VSCO and Darkroom. Some editing of smartphone JPEGs can degrade image quality, so it’s useful to be able to check how the file looks.

Once you’ve gotten used to the interface, you’ll find a ton of tools to use. Like Darkroom, you have full access to your camera roll without having to import files to the app itself. There are pretty advanced cropping, perspective, and refitting options for altering the photo’s framing, and features like text, tilt-shift, and Instagram-ready re-sizing are as robust as what many dedicated apps offer. Enlight even lets you edit using curves, while Darkroom charges money for this feature.

Some notable features advertised: