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<li>Developed by Zero Cool</li>
<li>Take private photos within the app</li>
<li>Normal and Decoy modes</li>
<li>Create custom albums</li>
<li>Easy interface</li>
<li>Costs $.99</li>
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<li>Simple, easy layout</li>
<li>Create your own albums</li>
<li>Multi-gesture support, pinch & zoom, swipe</li>
<li>Copy and past photos from other apps</li>
<li>Fully customizable slideshows</li>
<li>Decoy mode gives double protection</li>
<li>Import and export photos to and from other devices</li>
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<li>No automatic delete from camera roll</li>
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 Beginner iPhone Photographers
 Advanced iPhone Photographers
<strong>√ Anyone</strong>

This easy-to-use photo protection app is great for keeping private photos safe and secure. 

[/tab] [tab id="5"]Lock My Photos will keep all of your personal and private photos safe and secure. A great way to ensure kids, colleagues, or other prying eyes don't see anything they shouldn't![/tab] 

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<h4>The Beginners Lens Verdict</h4>

Dramatic Black & White iPhone app is arguably one of the best Black & White editors available in the app store today. It does exactly what it says on the tin: creates dramatic black & white photos (taken within the app or from your iPhone camera roll). Simply open the app and tap Get Photo to start editing. It's simple and we like it that way. Normally, we praise an app for having more options, more effects, more features but in this case it's the simplicity of the Dramatic Black & White app that does it for us. 

It comes with around 30 effects, a relatively small selection compared to other editing apps but that doesn't really bother us here as all of the effects are really high-quality. You can choose between Black & White, Infrared, and Dramatic Black & White styles and from there you can fine tune your photos with adjustments like tone and sharpen, brightness, and contrast. You can even add filters and grain, or adjust the strength of the black & white effect. But it must be said, the coolest feature here is the ability to move the effect focal point around the image to enhance the subject. It's amazing what a difference just shifting the effect focal point makes...a real feat for the JixiPix developers. Hats off to you there. 

Finally we've got to mention the ability to save your own favorite presets within the app, a must-have for anyone doing a lot of photo editing! Who has time to write down their favorite combinations? Not us, that's for sure. 

It's worth noting that rendering may take a bit longer than you would like - especially if you're using an iPhone 4. There is also the issue of sharing, this app needs some better sharing options that's for sure. At present, you can only share through Facebook and email but we're willing to bet this is something that the developers will address in a future update as multiple sharing platforms seem to be standard issue these days. 

With so few complaints, if you're looking for dramatic black & white photos then the Dramatic Black & White iPhone app is the way to go. 
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<h4>The Beginners Lens Flash Rating:</h4>

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