Basic, Acceptible, missing a basic thing or two that shouldn’t be excluded

I’m pleased with the app at a basic level, but have three main complaints:

1) Neither the free or the paid app respect the way iPhoto/Photos tags image rotation. Take a photo in portrait orientation, your photo ends up in iPhoto/Photos, you see that photo in portait orientation in iPhoto or photos as expected, add that photo to this app and it’s displayed in the assets panel to the left in the correct orientation, but when you drop it into the collage, it reverts to landscape. As I understand it *every* photo is landscape until a digital camera tags the photo as in a different orientation. The app seems confused about that tag, and a portrait photo shows up correctly in the asset pane but not in the actual collage. This behavior is the same in the paid app version as well.

2) to exacerbate the above, the enticing row of rotating/editing buttons at the bottom of the app window are grayed out and don’t work. Nor do they work in the paid app. 20 bucks for a collage app that a) doesn’t respect the orientation flag of photos from iPhoto / Photos when imported into a collage and b) can’t alter that orientation with it’s own tools visible in the window is a really hefty price to ask.

3) There’s no preferences pane. I’m sure there’s *something* the user would want to pre-determine and set in a preference pane. Weird.

Overall, I’d say “meh. it made the collage. i guess.” Looking forward to a future version that corrects the above.

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