Photolemur - Review 2022

I've seen many attempts at 1-button photo correction software, and I've seen many applications claiming to offer near-magical AI technology. Both apply to photo-enhancing app Photolemur. Like the Auto Tone button in Lightroom or the Car Raise buttons in Apple Photos or the Windows 10 Photos app, Photolemur does its darnedest to bring your digital images to optimal lighting, color tone, and more than with simply one click. While I found that Photolemur did improve some photos, it wasn't significantly improve than what you get free with your Bone. In this day of Instagram retouching, its lack of user-controlled epitome adjusters is merely too limiting.

Photolemur'southward makers merits that information technology applies 11 types of correction. As needed it can perform colour recovery, exposure bounty, face retouching, foliage enhancement, JPG gear up, natural lite correction, racket reduction, raw file processing, sky enhancement, smart dehaze, and tint perfection. Many of these abilities, forth with automatic red-middle fixing, already come up free with the Windows Photos app. And an unreleased Photolemur correction in the works, automatic horizon straightening, is already available in Apple Photos.

Pricing and Starting Up

You lot tin can run across most of Photolemur's magic by installing its free download version. Unfortunately, it's not a modernistic Windows Store app, but rather a less-secure Win32 program. It does require Windows 8 or afterwards or macOS Sierra. You tin can try information technology out costless, or rather for the price of an email address, but that limits yous to exporting i image at a time and puts a watermark on your photos. To remove those limits costs $30 on either platform. The included Window and Mac Photos apps accept none of those limitations. For testing, I installed PhotoLemur on both an Asus Zen AiO Pro Z240IC all-in-one PC with a 4K display running Windows 10 Pro and a 21.5-inch iMac running macOS Sierra.

User Interface

Photolemur starts upwards with one of the simplest interfaces I've seen amongst photograph apps: a small dialog invites you to drag and drop your photos or open its file picker to start importing.

You tin can drag multiple images onto the target, and, subsequently you lot do so, another very simple interface appears with your shots as thumbnails.

When you click into a thumbnail, Photolemur'south optimization processing (with the label "Doing Magic") starts cranking abroad. When it'southward washed, yous run into a version of the image with a before-and-later on line bisecting it. You can't zoom in on this view for a closer look; Photolemur picks a size, and that'due south it.

Improving Your Photos

For well-shot photos, the divergence between before and subsequently isn't huge. The processing normally applies some sharpening and increases color saturation. Conversely, often with very bad photos, non enough correction was applied. But at that place is often an improvement, as this sample shows. As I mentioned earlier, though, the autocorrection isn't significantly better that what you get in Windows 10's included Photos app or in macOS's Photos app.

I understand Photolemur'south wish to exist a ane-stride, no-aligning-required photograph fixer, but the technology simply isn't there yet. Even 1 simple slider similar the Light control in the Windows 10 Photos app would go a long way towards making Photolemur exponentially more useful. Peradventure it'due south just me, simply some color-tweaking abilities would also go a long mode.

Uneven Adjustements

Photolemur's claimed automatic face retouching does not impress. In fact, when I processed face photos, blemishes became more pronounced than in the unedited photograph. It did requite one portrait's skin a healthier glow, however, and I did see some peel smoothing on some face up shots.

With landscape test shots, the app produced something like an HDR effect. For me, the sky and trees were punched upward too much, though the processing did bring out some detail missing in the original. A lot of information technology is a thing of taste: some prefer a more than subdued, natural wait, where others prefer a more vibrant, postcard-like look.

I too tried opening high-resolution raw photographic camera files, which took much longer to process. Even higher resolution JPGs shot with a Canon EOS 6D DSLR took rather long to process. Some raw files I threw at it never completed processing at all. Perhaps the developer needs to add a "file not supported" message for non-recognized raw file formats. The app'due south website claims that it supports a healthy 800-plus camera models' raw formats, but my testing with content from a few DSLRs turned upward several unsupported formats. With the raw files for which Photolemur was able to complete processing, I saw even less improvement than for JPGs, with darkly adumbral areas non brightened and diddled out highlights remaining white.

Sharing and Output

You tin can only consign to disk, Facebook, or Twitter. For some reason, I wasn't able to rename the export filename from the original imported filename. I didn't run into this issue on the Mac version, however, which adds Snapheal as a share target. That app from MacPhun lets you remove unwanted objects such as passersby from your photograph. When I shared a photograph to Facebook, I had to let the Photolemur Facebook app admission to my account, and I could only share it to the timeline, non every bit a straight message.

Monkey With Your Photos

I'm a huge fan of automatic photo correction. In fact, while most professional photographers openly scoff at the notion, they secretly employ information technology fourscore percent of the time, according to data from Adobe. But it'southward usually a starting point, not the whole photo editing story. I similar Photolemur's super-simple arroyo, and if information technology truly made every picture look great with its single processing footstep, it would be the holy grail of photo editing.

Merely I fright that that may never to happen, considering all the years that companies with much deeper resources have been working on it. Though Photolemur somewhat improved my test photos, it could nonetheless benefit from at least basic lite and color adjustments. The app'due south confront retouching and raw processing were besides far from impressive in testing.

Despite all that, there's no reason y'all shouldn't download the trial version and see if it works for you. My feeling, however, is that most people will want to be able to do more with their photos. Software like Adobe Photoshop Elements, our consumer photo editing software Editors' Selection, allows only that, as do the congenital-in Photos apps in macOS and Windows.

Source: https://sea.pcmag.com/software/17138/photolemur

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