At a recent outdoor concert, I found myself staring at the multitude of equipment and electronics that went into the solo guitar act I was watching. Such a simple concept – fabulous rhythm and blues from one instrument – and look at all the complexity that goes into it.

Shot with iPhone (what else).  SimplyB&W for effects, Iris PhotoSuite for some cleanup and cropping.

Can someone tell me why it is that a tool that’s supposed to do everything to a photo to make it fabulously B&W doesn’t have a crop feature?  Why does anyone product an app that lacks this essential feature?  Most of us mortals need to crop our pictures. But, I do my work in PaintFX, or SimplyB&W or a handful of others, and then have to go into Iris to crop.  And Iris (let me get up a little higher on my soapbox) has some bug where when you save the picture after a crop, it ROTATES is 90 or 180 degrees.  So then I have to open it in iPhone Photos, and rotate it back.  Which is an extra 2 apps to do what I should be able to do in SimplyB&W.  App developers, please take notice!