14 DAY TRIAL // Apple today offers a new version of its iPhoto application for mobile users, adding new fixes and improvements to the $4.99 / €4.49 application for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Customers continue to praise the interface and the editing tools that were added in recent updates.
iPhoto 2 for iOS users features a new design that fits the minimalistic iOS 7 on both iPhone and iPad, and includes powerful features to browse, organize, edit, and share photos instantly.
“Enhance your pictures with Multi-Touch tools that let you adjust color, exposure and apply beautiful photo effects. Create custom slideshows that you can pause, rewind, and fast-forward using touch gestures. Share your favorite photos by publishing them as web journals via iCloud,” Apple explains.
In addition to editing and keeping their photos organized, customers can also use the mobile version of iPhoto to order professional-grade photo books, as well as individual prints in all shapes and sizes, square, poster, wide panoramas, etc.
Users can share stories in beautiful photo journals. iPhoto automatically flows pictures into a customizable layout and enables users to create slideshows. On the newest iDevices, you can edit high-resolution photos up to 36.5 megapixels in size. Apple TV owners can use AirPlay to stream photos and slideshows to the big screen.
In version 2.0.1, Apple adds a white border to photos when ordering prints. Some bug fixes and other improvements are included in this version, although customers are generally satisfied with the software. Feedback on the App Store is mostly positive, with most reviews praising the intuitive interface and its attractive design.
Some, however, are finding that the slideshow function is broken. While this doesn’t affect all users, apparently there are a few who desperately crave a fix.
User woodcarve writes, “I thought it was good at first, but after trying to make some slide shows it corrupted my photo collection and when I loaded more photos from my computer to my iPhone it broke all my other slide shows.”
“Now when you look at any of them it presents one group of pictures and you turn on the slide show and it shows a totally different group of pictures. Some of my pictures were also stretched all weird.”
Hopefully, one of the included fixes in 2.0.1 addresses this issue, as well as others mentioned by customers in their iTunes reviews. To download iPhoto 2.0.1, you’ll need iOS 7.0 and a compatible iDevice.