Filterstorm Tutorial

The Filterstorm tutorial I put on this site a bit ago now has a new incarnation, now with video of it being done on an actual iPad with Filterstorm 1.0.2 (available now).

http://filterstorm.com/tutorial.tai

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First Few Seconds with Filterstorm

Looks beautiful, speed is okay, but it’s crashing when I try to load large images. This is why it’s free for now!

Edit: I take back what I said about speed, I don’t know what I was thinking. Anyway, Version 1.0.2 is under review now. It makes the UI a lot more responsive, and scales down large images rather than crashing when opening them.

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Filterstorm Now Available

It’s been a long two months of work, but Filterstorm is finally available on iTunes. Free for a limited time.

Download From iTunes

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Apps

Filterstorm

Filterstorm was originally released alongside the first iPad with the goal of being the preeminent photo editing app on the device. Years later it’s still going strong on both iPhone and iPad, with a recent rewrite Filterstorm Neue improving speed, stability, and ease of use.

Gridditor

Gridditor stands in contrast to Filterstorm as a fast, simple way to edit photos, rather than a deep and powerful app. Gridditor’s unique interface makes it unlike anything else on the App Store.

Inkist

Inkist is a drawing app originally on Mac, and later for iPad. It provides a variety of drawing tools including customizable brushes, layers, and pressure sensitivity.

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Thoughts on Filterstorm’s Release

As Filterstorm’s launch (hopefully April 3) approaches, I’ve been thinking a lot about pricing. Filterstorm was never meant to be a free, but it is going to be for a limited time. Without having ever used it on an actual iPad, it’s impossible for me to know how quickly it will run, and how the UI will feel. Beyond that, as I rushed to get it out the door for launch, there’s some bits of quirky behavior and missing features. Until I get these issues worked out, I will not charge.

Nikon 85mm f/2.8 PC tilt/shift

Once I do begin asking for money I expect to charge $9.99, but this is not final.

As to what features will be missing at launch, the most obvious one is image rotation, I simply haven’t yet had time to get to it yet. The cloning/healing tools are also MIA right now, and EXIF data is stripped from files when saved. Unfortunately, there’s no way I know around this limitation for when saving to the photo library, but I may add the ability to save files outside the photo library that contain the EXIF. RAW Support will not be in version 1, and probably not in version 2, either.

What is there, you may ask? Here’s a list:

• Brightness
• Contrast
• Curves (Luminance, RGB, Red, Green, Blue, Cyan, Magenta, Yellow)
• Hue/Contrast Sliders
• Saturation
• Black and White channel controls
• Vignetting
• Sharpening
• Box Blur
• Cropping/Scaling
• Posterize effect
• Brushes with adjustable size/hardness
• Color Range selection

In addition, all of the filters can be applied to the whole image, painted on via brush, or applied to the selected color range. You can see how some of it works in the tutorial I posted earlier.

For those of you who, for whatever reason, cannot yet get an iPad and don’t care about Filterstorm news but want to see the photo, here’s a larger version.

Posted by tai on 2010-03-29 07:45:05. Comments (2) | Tiny link