<h4>How would you describe MacPhun, as a company, and what apps do you offer?</h4>

MacPhun started as a project of two friends, who developed computer games and then switched to iOS development, when one of them got his first iPhone. I am not one of those two friends, and joined MacPhun about a year ago, when the company started to grow rapidly and required more people and creative minds. Since last year we have decided to focus on photo and video apps for both pro and amateur photographers and videographers. I would say that our apps are for people, who want to create something exceptional and noticeable with their iOS devices, but either don't know how to do that with complicated software or don't want to waste their time. You can check our apps: FX Photo Studio, Perfect Photo, Silent Film Director, PhotoPal and other and see that they allow you to create a real art in minutes. Las May we also started Mac development and have released three applications by now: FX Photo Studio, FX Photo Studio PRO and Color Splash Studio. The latter is #1 photo app in many countries and we do our best to keep it this way. Have you got it already?
 
<h4>How many developers do you have on your team? Do you all work from the same location or are you globally based?</h4>

We have around 25 people working with MacPhun globally - USA, Ukraine, France and Japan. Those are developers, marketing people, designers, testers, etc. I think that a company which develops apps for iOS and Mac and targets international markets just can't spend all the time in one location, you should get to know the markets you work with better all the time. 
 
<h4>Can you tell us about your flagship app and give us its story: when, how and why it was created? How widespread is it (downloads, etc.)?</h4>

The photography flag ship app is no doubt FX Photo Studio - now there are version for Mac and iOS. The story of FX Photo Studio started in 2009 when same two friends thought it would be cool to make an iPhone app with the largest number of effects on the App Store. When created FX Photo Studio was called 101photofilters, but then the number of effects grew, we added more featured and the app turned to a real photo studio on iPhone and iPad, so we decided to call it FX Photo Studio. Since last year we have added over 50 new effects, plus masking tool to paint with effects, color splash tool came with the recent update, not to mention many other featured which make the app a true powerhouse for creative photography either on iOS or on Mac. 

Many compare FX Photo Studio with PhotoShop, so much you can do with it, but we don't want to position the app this way. PhotoShop is a professional photo software for pros and FX Photo Studio is a very casual photo processing application that let's anyone spruce up their images, add some creativity and let others say WOW, when they see your pictures. But it is in no way a photoshop, it is something different for a wider audience, including those who would never use photoshop, either because of the price or complexity.

While FX Photo Studio is a flag ship app on both iOS and Mac, we have the new app, which is a flag ship for Mac platform in particular. The one I am talking about is Color Splash Studio. A very intuitive software for making awesome pictures with selective colors. Not to go into app promotion a lot, I will just ask you to check the software on Mac App Store, it is not difficult to find it - Color Splash Studio is either #1 or #2 in photo category in the majority of Mac App Stores. 
 
<h4>What improvements will you be making to the app in the next update?</h4>

Well, the update for iOS version had just been released with tons of upgrades. It would take a while to mention them all, but to make a long story short we added a color splash tool for selective photography, enhanced the masking menu (now users can choose the area to apply each of 194 effects), added new sharing features and more. The Mac version update is coming shortly with the support of layers, new effects, frames and more new features. But even current version 2.0 is a true powerhouse for creative photography on the Mac. I personally use the app everyday, just to see what else I can create with all those filters and tools.