Pros:
-Numerous options to choose from
-Fun application to personalize your photos

Cons:
-Lag time on more than about 10 objects placed on the photo
-Bad placement of developer’s website link
-limited to 14 objects
-lacking objects from running sports (marathons, track, ice skating)

Sports Brush is a simple photo editing application that allows you to add multicolored, multi-transparent, sport-themed shapes on top of your photos.

There are a total of 14 shapes (a baseball, a basketball, a bat, a bocce ball, a bowling ball, a football, soccer ball, a helmet, a hockey stick, a ping pond paddle, a rugby ball, a tennis ball, a volleyball, and a solid circle) and several colors for each one.

Layout:
When you first open the application, you simply select a photo from you photos or take a picture with the iPhone camera. After selecting a photo, you will view the photo and in the bottom left-hand corner you can tap in the brush-icon as this will take you to the object-select screen.
Here you can select the object of the left side and the color on the right side. Below that are a set of sliders. The top one controls the diameter of the object and the second slider controls the transparency of the object(s) being placed on the photo. Below the sliders are to on/off buttons. The left one allows you to randomize the shape and the transparency of the object (overrides the sliders) and the right one, allows you to randomize the colors. I personally found that having the these two on as the results were quite neat. Once you have finished selecting you options, tap the “sketch” button at the top to return to your photo. You can then use your finger as the brush on the photo. You can always return to the objects and color by tapping the brush in the lower left corner. To save the picture you tap the save icon in the lower right-hand corner of the screen.

Issues:
The first initial objects came out very quickly, but after subsequent objects were placed on the photo there was a considerable amount of lag time. This isn’t really a problem if you are placing the objects one by one, but if you are trying drag your finger across the image- the lag time is very frustrating.
The undo button is okay – it undoes the objects one-by-one. If you are wanting to remove several or completely, it is going to take you some time to complete.
The screen where you select from the pictures or the camera, in the bottom right-corner is an info screen (nothing wrong with this). In the bottom left-hand corner, is an icon that take you out of the app and into Safari.app to take you to the developer’s website. While I am not opposed to having a website link, I think it should be in the info tab, not on the main interface because it can catch people by surprise and ruin the user experience.

Overall:
I think this is a nifty little application, but I really would like to see more objects added to the list. At $0.99 , this not a bad application to get started with.

More screenshots here.

Mobile Version

ePhoto is an ingenious application, it allows you to send more than one photo via email to whom ever you wish.

Layout:
You begin in the program by selecting the photos that you want out of you photo album or camera roll. After each selection of a photo you can either add another photo, clear your selection, clear all your selection (start over) or continue to email. Also if you go to select another image and realize you didn’t mean to do that , then you can tap cancel and it will take you to the e-mail screen

After tapping the email button you will be asked to whom you want to send the pictures to and the subject line. You also have the ability to add a message to the recipient underneath the subject line!

After that, if it is your first time you’ll have to set up some email settings. The application works as an email app so you’ll have to know your email settings. If you have a gmail account, the only thing you need to do is set up an user name and password. Also in this screen you can change the compression settings. Most of the time I keep them at their full resolution, You can compress the picture by 50% (.5) and still have a relatively good picture to send and it really cuts down on the file size.

Once you have completed the setting , they will be saved for when you return to the application and you can change the setting at any time. After the setting screen, tap Send and you will receive a pop up notifying you the progress of the pictures that are being sent and also a confirmation that the email sent.

Overall:
This is an incredibly handy application and I really recommend it for anybody that likes to send photos via e-mail to friends and family and especially for those that like sending multiple photos to themselves without having to go through the whole routine of syncing with a computer or sending it to themselves via the email.app and have small compressed images.

Pros:
-Send original uncompressed photos
-Optional compression settings
-Acts as an e-mail client (outgoing only)
-Send multiple pics at once

Cons:
-Only one receiver at a time
-Must clear images if selecting a new group after sending photos
-Setting up email settings can be intimidating for some.

Wanted is a simple picture editing application that turns a picture of a person into a wanted poster. The poster can then be printed out onto a piece of paper for the office. Don’t worry the output file is much larger than a normal iPhone picture.

Pros:
-Large resolution final pic
-Interesting Concept
-Music goes good with the theme of the app (a new one for costuming)

Cons:
-Sometimes placement of objects is hard
-”wood” behind the “poster” I feel, shouldn’t be there.
-Only a few objects available

The app begins with a menu and “wild-west” type music. You have the option to turn the music on and off as you wish. I found listening to the music relevant to the app, but turned it off after awhile.

In the menu you can select whether you want to use the camera to take a picture or if you want pick a picture from the camera roll. Here I picked a random image from Google…

The next screen you’ll see will have places to edit the title, in other words it doesn’t have to say “Wanted” also you can edit the reward, the status and the name in the poster. You can also edit the picture by tapping on the items next to the picture you have picked/taken.

You can then add pieces to the picture such as a hat, a revolver, a mustache, and/or a sheriff’s badge by tapping on it, it places is it on the picture. You can re-size the objects by using two fingers to rotate and re-size the objects. I noticed that after placing one object, then placing another that the 2nd objects was not automatically selected and threw my previous placement off until I realized I needed to select the second object, I also found that one of the hats, that has a curve to it on the bottom of it.

The below photo is the final picture. You can click on it to see the actual resolution of the photo itself. The developer claims that it is a printable photo, however, I have yet to do this, but when I do, I will say so below.

Overall this is an interesting app and I can see a fit for this app. I would like to see more objects added or more so more options of each object. While I like the final photo, I am not sure I quite like the wood background behind the “poster” within the final pic. I would like to see a default selection tool when placing the objects in the photo also a list of ideas for what to put in the title to make different posters. I really like the large file it exports to (noted above). Overall for the price tag of $0.99, this is a functional app for whatever purpose you plan on using it for…