@rustydingo Hopefully Polarr isn't the first to move out of your phone! It is quite a different editor taking plenty of risks in design. Any feedback would be helpful!

@bwang29 just downloaded it, will definitely provide feedback. The tutorial made perfect sense and I have to say I love the tap and hold, and then tilting the device to adjust values. Really clever stuff.

@rustydingo That is probably the weirdest design interaction that we put into the editor. The default dragging on the pad works very well but sometimes doesn't get you very far on the right edge of the screen so we came up with the idea of using the gyso scope optionally when you press and hold : ).

@tombielecki Hi Tom, the editor is indeed considered "pro", but it is different in that we want to attract those who never used a "pro" tool to become more involved in pro photo editing. Hence the video is targeting the "pro tool for everyone" message. We just added tabs for more videos on https://www.polarr.co/ so the viewer can select other videos to look at. The app still has a non-trivial learning curve, but it is designed to be drastically different from other apps in terms of UI arrangement, and interactivity in controls. See http://thenextweb.com/apps/2015/... for first look at some of the features. A lot of features overlap with snapseed and other apps but most features in Polarr are either new or designed differently. Now coming back to why you might want to use Polarr instead of other apps if you are already a pro. I'd say it is productivity for adjusting global changes in photos. 1) You don't need to have intermediate saves, applies or confirms - the adjustments render in parallel just like Lightroom. No switch back and forth multiple panels. 2) Your imported photos are shown in the bottom film strip , which is available at all time during editing. Say you have 10 shots that's similar, you can switch between them, adjust them/creating custom filters and see which one look like which, no extra context switch. 3) You can open the base filter/custom filter panel together with the adjustment panels at the same time without switching. Some of the users like the square pad controls - they're sheer fun, some hate it because of lack of precision. We will collect the feedback and see the changes we need for the next version. Hope it helps!

@zacdavies We're not currently doing RAW editing yet. It is definitely possible to truly edit RAW but it will takes considerably amount of battery and GPU/CPU power to do the manipulation. We're actively looking into RAW development on mobile devices. Some Android apps seem to already have the ability to do so by extracting JPEG from RAW (but not real RAW bit manipulation.)

@ma_xiaoxu It it not PS competitor and definitely not "almost entire PS experience" because our app doesn't do layering and vector creation so far. We wanted to create it around the essence of photography — not bloated with features, but having all the essential tools for advanced light and color controls. And hopefully trying to allow people to do subtle and “artificially realistic” changes to the photos. The next version will include a bunch of bug fixes and potentially some new tools for more layering on local adjustments and introducing brush features. So the pro (paid) set of tools will get lots of improvements over time but you only pay once.

@_helloglee We don't have a community in Polarr so the app is completely tool driven. And we are selling filters but encourage people to create their own and remix them. We might introduce more filter categories later. The use model is more like you use a filter - make further changes on top of the pre-existing filters - save the filter - repeat.