FILTERS FOR PHOTOS TO MAKE THEM LOOK BETTER ANDROID
Tom Munro, the chief executive of Photobucket, said that his company’s app Snapbucket for both iOS and Android phones offered more than 8,000 ways to modify an image. Then it adds a square vignette to dim the edges and frames the picture in white to simulate the distinctive Polaroid prints. One called “Bleached Polaroid” by Nelson Roque, a student at Florida State, increases the brightness while decreasing the saturation. Several dozen filters, for instance, simulate pictures from a classic camera, the Polaroid SX70. The filters can also approximate older lenses, papers and printing techniques by adding vignettes, frames and textures. Major changes can also be made by adjusting the contrast or brightness. The amount of red, blue or green in the image can be amplified or suppressed by editing the response curve to certain levels of color. The Magic Hour app gives the photographer five different ways to modify an image. Kim estimates that downloads have totaled five million. Users of the app have already uploaded more than 30,000 filters. “Because there are so many great filters which users have uploaded, we do not see the need for creating new filters,” she said. Sohee Kim, the marketing manager at Kiwiple, the company selling Magic Hour, said that sharing the filters with other users was one of the most popular features of the app. An app called Magic Hour offers many of the same features for Apple iOS and Android smartphones, no easy feat when the screens are so small. “It really adds to the artistic value if you can say that you built every step.”Ī number of the apps for smartphones follow the same create-and-share plan. “Actually inventing the filters that you use gives you a lot more controllability and a lot more authenticity,” he said.
Weber said he liked the power that came with being able to take a photograph and then transform it. “If it’s a bit more broken-up, it could be anyone,” he said. The filter replaced the small pixels with larger circles of varying sizes. For a poster combating bullying in schools, he used one of his favorite filters to make a photograph of his younger brother less identifiable.
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