OneRoom, a minimalistic approach to photo editing for Windows Phone

OneRoom

No argument here. We have a ton of photo editors bachelor in the Windows Telephone Shop. Which one is all-time? Your gauge is as adept as mine and one of the latest offerings hoping to grab your eye is OneRoom.

What sets OneRoom apart from the cornucopia of photograph editors already available in the Windows Phone Store? You exercise have editing presets that helps you edit photos apace and the app can handle images upwards to 38MP in size. The app is also minimalistic in design that hopes to make the editing flow more user friendly.

In but tinkering with OneRoom for a brusk time, information technology does have a scrap of appeal but may struggle to knock off the more popular editors such as Photoshop Limited, Fhotoroom or Fantasia Painter due to a few missing features. Nonetheless, if you are looking for another photo editor to add to your Windows Telephone Library or are however searching for that one editor that fits your tastes bests, OneRoom is worth a endeavor.

Unproblematic Interface

As billed, the design of OneRoom is minimal. The simply selection available from the launch screen is to open an paradigm to edit. One time chosen y'all have two menus that are available through two icons.

OneRoom Menus

In the upper left corner offers a menu list with options to:

Open a new image
Salvage the image you are editing
Save and share the prototype you are editing
Revert the image to its original status
Visit the developer's Facebook community
Get out the app

In the upper right corner, you will detect your editing tools. The Tools card offers five broad editing categories that breaks downward as follows.

Presets: Here yous tin can save a drove of image adjustments and utilize them in one-bear upon manner.
Basics: Tools with the Basics category include cropping, tone curves, brightness, contrast, shadows, highlights, saturation, white remainder, temperature and other exposure adjustments. Many of these tools are grouped together, such as white remainder, tint and temperature, assuasive you lot to make like adjustments with i stop.

OneRoom Tools

Details: The sole tool in the Details category is a High Laissez passer filter that is designed as a i-bear upon filter that will acuminate and give your images a little more "pop". Some describe High Pass as giving your digital images a film await.
Colour: Iii tools rest in this category and include color saturation, split toning and black & white conversion. What set's the color saturation and carve up toning autonomously from the Bones Tools is that yous can adapt the saturation and tones for a specific color.
Effects: Here you lot will observe the Fade, Grains and Vignette tools.

Each editing feature offers various adjustments to help yous fine tune your image and if you need to zoom into detail, just tap and hold on the image to pull upwardly a magnifying loop. The level of zoom with the magnifying loop is preset and cannot exist increased.

OneRoom High Pass and Cropping Tools

Navigation is simple just does have a bit to get accustomed to. To back out of an editing tool, just hit the Tools' menu push button to return to the main editing menu. If you lot tap the Windows Phone Back Button a confirmation card volition appear request if you lot really want to get out OneRoom (a nice bear upon by the style). When you are fix to leave the editing tools, a big "X" sits in the upper right corner of the screen (the aforementioned is present for the Carte menu).

Images tin be saved through your typical Windows Phone sharing options and are saved at their original size (well… unless yous crop them downwardly). When saved to your Windows Telephone, OneRoom will create a folder in your Pictures Hub, making it easy to detect your edited images.

Overall Impression

I have to admit that OneRoom grew on me the more I used it. It is a nice photo editor that will entreatment to those looking for an editor to utilise for quick fixes, as well as those looking for a more traditional arroyo to photo editing. The Loftier Pass filter is a dainty ane-touch choice for giving your photos a piffling pop and I like how you lot can arrange the RGB (scarlet, green and bluish) factors while converting a color paradigm to black & white.

OneRoom does lack creative filters but instead takes on a more traditional approach to photo editing. You can still create a sepia look or fall tone with your images. It just takes a little more piece of work than a i-touch filter.

OneRoom Sample

While OneRoom has a few things going for information technology, at that place are a few things missing that, if added, would assistance with this app's appeal.

For starters, there is no gratis-form cropping. You lot have a drove of preset crops and while you tin can zoom/re-position images an unrestricted cropping option is needed. Adjacent, the app merely supports vertical orientation. If you are landscapes, an selection for horizontal orientation gives you a better view of things.

All totaled, OneRoom is a decent photo editor to consider adding to your Windows Phone photo app library. The trial version will give you admission to all the editing tools but volition non let you save or share edited images. OneRoom captures a 4.5 Star rating in the Windows Phone Store, which may be on the high side simply not past much.