photomyne.comReviews of photomyne.com

Excellent product, I don’t know what else is out there but for me it does the trick!

Ive been using Photomyne, on the phone app, desktop, and PRO for a little over a year. Heres my review. In the beginning, I was in love with it. The ease in taking pics of photo prints -- that were automatically cropped, rotated and sharpened/enhanced -- was a mind blower. Still is. But as the work progressed, Ive realized many shortcomings along with these revolutionary features. First let me state that I am a graphic designer well versed in image retouching and processing with 35 years of photoshop behind me. Photoshop is much better at it than Photomyne, but each photo and action must be taken manually (batch processing is an option but not for a wide variety of exposures, off colors and subject matter) So Photomyne initially -- and still -- impresses as a quick, sophisticated solution to digitizing our loose prints easily up to a certain level of quality from the usual poor state of 30 year old photo prints taken with non-professional cameras back then. As Ive been using the app, Ive been frustrated with many features. Here are my notes on problematic aspects of Photomyne that need to be -- or should be -- addressed, for you to stay ahead of all the other AI driven photo enhancing apps now available. 1) Sharpy only does the faces. Why isn't there an option to sharpen the entire image? or everything except the faces? 2) Sharpy too often goes too far and relies too heavily on AI, resulting in faces that look weird, over processed, plasticcy and often no longer look like the actual people in them (which is a problem because this is a family photo project tool and we who know each face intimately and can see when the AI makes them unrecognizable or with way too much makeup, etc. Other apps like Topaz have addressed this plastic look by adding back grain and grime making images more realistic. 3) Sometimes Sharpy leave an "outline" around the face area, like a rectangle shape.. that has to be fixed. 4) You need to add a manual "spot healing brush" to fix spots and other issues in the images. And also a feature that retouches the entire image, fixing rips, tears spots etc. Many apps already have this. It's not perfect, but as is, we have no control over these defects. 5) Sharpy is brilliant in fixing all faces in each image it finds: BUT it too often fails to recognize all faces in each photo unless they have all features and are looking at the camera. In these images we get two or three faces in focus -- but people right next to them with heads turned a bit are unchanged, which is not a realistic outcome. With these images, I have to reverse out Sharpy and leave them as is, 6) Colorizing: This is brilliant much of the time! Especially with flesh tones in old BW photos. Really brings them to life. But far too often, your AAI shape selection algorithm missed an arm, or a leg etc, leaving them grey; as well coloring garments in more than one color. Or hallucinating colors that arent realistic. So Colorizing is unreliable and hit or miss too often. (other apps are also having this problem, but Photomyne would do well to fix it first. 7) the Desktop app (but not the phone app) has Enhance color: its unclear what this does. And the online version doesnt have the various image enhancers at all?? the 12 or so "one step" tone shift template fixes. What arent each version identical as to features? 8) in many ways the desktop version is preferable: larger images so that bad sharpy and/or coloring errors are more noticeable. I find I must check each image Ive enhanced in the phone again to remove these enhancements that looked fine when viewed tiny on my phone. Also the Desktop Colorize doesn't have the choice of 4 levels of coloring. Why? Same for Sharpy. 8) some images with faces that are 50% grey or unlit evenly will turn blood orange with Colorize feature. Should be a simple AI tweak to make faces lighter when at a certain level of grey or mid tone. To give them a shaded flesh tone but NOT an orange look. Finally: The enhancement features on the desktop app require an extra click to begin. If we click Colorize, we have chosen to colorize the image... why have us click again? This happens with Sharpy and Colorize. I could add more but if this reaches Photomyne's desk, I think these would be areas of improvement that can help Photomyne stay ahead of the other apps. Thanx for the opportunity to let then know how the app works, and disappoints.

I have been using Photomyne for some time now and it has been an enormously helpful tool, in particular sharing and editing old photos. The "restore" facility is amazing where some of my pre digital photos are not very clear.

I love this app. At 68, i have Thousands of photos of my Grandparents, me, my kids and grandkids. In those days everything went into photo albums, or in shoe boxes that my Dad used and I am not going to be around forever so I got this app so I could attempt to scan everything into one place. I am a little technology challenged, but this app is a breeze. It is worth it, when I am gone people will only have to look in one place for the pics instead of inheriting 100s of photo albums. I even share some of these with my Grandbabies now so I can get their reactions when I embarrass my kids.

I use photomyne mainly to scan slides and to upgrade and colorize old black and white photos. For both needs it works beautifully, and the quality of the restorations is amazing. Now some of my old faded slides and plain black and white shots have been turned into sharp, bright, color images. My family is very impressed; they think I am a genius.

One of the most useful apps I’ve ever had which I use all the time. Having once used it to digitise my own family photo anlbums annd pictures, as well as those of my mother, I am now able to access both sets of photos easily, directly from my iPhone or iPad. I’ve been with Photomyne for almost 10 years and the service has been impeccable. It’s a fantastic product which I’ve recommended to so many friends.

Easy to install, understand features, use and organize scanned pictures. User-friendly interface and communication with phone and laptop, although the link provided via email not always working. Scanning is easy, delivering good picture quality. Access to AI restoration and enhancements features is very helpful when restoring old and damaged originals. AI restoration features work well in general. Couple of shortfalls: scratches and tears feature not always helpful, almost always requires multiple runs, often generating more scratches images in new areas. Sometimes needed several attempts still without results. Face and blurr restoration work well in general, but sometimes changing eyes impression. Fix multiple issues tool is especially useful. Although, randomly generating dresses clothes and some time skin colors. Would be nice to having an option for changing generated colors. Face generation works well only for larger and cleaner images. But for smaller, blurry and damaged images seems like face is replaced with images from the general database. In my case it was always not even close. Would be great to having an option to adding images to use for restoration. In a summery: very good tools, I’m satisfied with results of using it, essentially for restoring old, damaged, bad quality pictures.

half the time when I rotate a picture, it doesn't save it until the second, third or fourth attempt. I've also had it delete pics that should not have gone away, and I don't see how I can re-order photos in an album. I'd also like to add the story where I want it, rather than have it blocking part of the picture I need. After the response team saw my message they were very helpful in letting me know how to re-order (at least on the phone app - I haven't tried it yet on my computer) and pointed out that the "story should not be blocking the picture. I expect it only blocks while viewing in the app. When downloaded, the story is a separate file, so that's fine. The deletion may be pilot error - as I'm not sure what happens when I've modified a photo (although I usually duplicate first). I still have trouble with rotations.