The app really needs a user guide – Proseezion Review

I’ve taken a number of photos with Proseezion and am so far unable to realize any benefit from it. I suspect I’m not making good use of it, but it’s hard to know without a guide that describes which situations the app should be best in. Also, I’ve had some odd (unusable) results from it. I’m hoping the developer will read and respond to my comments here; if there’s something I’m doing wrong I’ll be happy to change my rating once I understand and can get worthwhile results from the app. FYI, I’m using the app on an iPhone X running iOS 12.0 and have been comparing pictures taken with Proseezion to those taken with the default camera app. Some details: Landscape/architecture photos taken in mid-afternoon light on a cloudy day look nearly identical. The Proseezion photos seem to boost the midrange (confirmed by loading the photo into Adobe Lightroom and looking at the histogram) but the difference is hard to quantity just looking at the photo. Looking at the photos at 100% I can’t say I see any additional detail in the Proseezion photos than in ones from the default camera app, and leaves stirred by a breeze can look a bit blurry from the app. A photo of a brick building with some sky in the background was much worse from Proseezion than from the default app. Proseezion gave a bit more detail in the shadows but blew out the sky, which was a nice blue in the default camera app. In addition, it gave an odd yellowish cast to the photo overall. The result was unusable. The above results were with default settings. I then tried a test to see how the app fared when changing the dynamic range setting in a high-contrast environment. I set the phone on a desk with the camera protruding over the edge, where it had a view of the floor that was partly well lit and partly in deep shadow. I took one photo with the default camera app, and three with Proseezion - one with dynamic range set at 0, one at -1, and one at +1. The app provided very strange results - at all three settings Proseezion produced very flat looking photos. Loading them up in Lightroom I found all three showed histograms that were only populated on the bottom half - no pixels appeared to be bright enough to be on the upper half of the scale. I suspect I ran into a bug here. Again I’m not trying to slam the app here, but at best I’ve gotten results no better than the default camera app and at worst have produced unusable results where the default app works fine. I’ve done web searches but there’s very little info available on Proseezion, mostly announcements of its release and a very short reddit thread. I’d love to find additional resources that will help me with the app, but based on my experience so far I can’t recommend it.
Review by aj_denver on Proseezion.