"Don't waste your precious time on one-by-one photo correction. Batched is a handy photo editor that allows improving and enhancing multiple photos at once with little or no effort" that's how the guys from ADVA Soft, a Ukraine-based company behind the popular TouchRetouch app, describe their brand-new Batched product.
Every day we use dozens of apps to solve different types of photo editing tasks. Whether you need to polish your images before posting them on social networks or somewhere else, or you'd like to quickly edit a series of photos captured at the same location and apply presets to all of them, or you want your profile to preserve your unique style and need all your pictures to match that style - you often find yourself looking for a universal app that would do this specific task fast and provide stunning results. Not that easy, isn't it?
It seems I have found the perfect application that is both a real timesaver and an advanced editor producing top-quality results. Batched is just this kind of app. It doesn't revolutionize the whole mobile photography industry, but it brings a whole set of useful functions and photo editing comfort never seen before.
I started my journey around the app by testing its functions on a few photos from my last trip that I wanted to post on Instagram.
The first thing that is worth mentioning is the app's intuitive interface. It's sleek with clear and smooth-to-navigate menus. You don't get lost or feel confused when switching between the tools. Even non-professionals in mobile photography will experience the most comfortable editing the first time they use Batched.
You can easily adjust the lighting, add some color, crop a photo to enhance your composition, add a filter, or remove some garbage spoiling the view.
The new Masking feature is truly amazing. It allows for creating masks for separate areas in a picture and editing them individually.
You can add a mask manually or do the AI masking. AI masking is a unique app capability that deserves special attention. With it, you don't need to use a brush to manually select an item you want to fine-tune. All you have to do is choose the Sky or Subject option from the list of available masks to have it detected and then make some edits to it. That saves you time for other important edits. Quite an interesting thing about the masking tool is that you can create multiple masks and switch between them.
To tell the truth, I was pleasantly surprised by the performance of the detection algorithm and the selection precision of the masking function. With the apps I am using now, I prefer not to spend some 3-5 extra minutes doing the sky masking for my Instagram photo. But if you can do that with a single tap in just a split second, then why not? Why not make the sky more saturated and pleasing to the eye and add the photo an even more appealing look?
Happy with the result obtained, I saved the photo and started thinking about how I could evaluate this app more comprehensively. As I am not a pro in mobile photography and content creation, I decided to invite Michael, a friend of mine who is an e-commerce professional, to test this app, as it can be a great choice for those who create content for business platforms like Amazon, Shopify, or Facebook.
Michael responded with pleasure and immediately shared his first impression with me. To his mind, the app is entitled to success because it does the tasks better than its competitors. That's not a revolutionary solution, though, but it is surely quite evolutionary and makes your life easier. According to him, many other photo editors that he uses daily offer the masking feature, but it doesn't work as well as in Batched. Many apps also offer batch processing, but they don't have the masking feature at all. He emphasized the app's general performance and usability.
Michael edits 100 photos a day and actively publishes content on social networks, so he believes this tool can be a great help to him, as it allows spending 20 seconds less on the editing of one photo compared to the time he spends editing in other photo editors. It may be hard to feel and evaluate all the advantages of the app if you need to edit a few photos only from time to time, but if there is a bunch of them and you do editing daily, the app can significantly simplify your workflow and speed up your routine tasks.
So, to conclude, I was deeply impressed by Batched. It should definitely be in a toolbox of those adept in mobile photography, e-commerce professionals, and regular Instagram users. It is richly packed with AI-powered photo editing features and tools capable of making your photos stand out. I recommend that you test this amazing app by using the free trial offer the company gives and see that for yourself.
