Tiffen filters come to the iPhone with Photo fx

If you are a keen photographer, then you may have heard of Tiffen filters, who have been photo industry for nearly 70 years. Well now they have brought their expertise to the iPhone photo software market, with Photo fx.

I have just bought and downloaded this app, and will write up a review over the next few days, but till then here is the companies blurb on their app.

Photo fx - Price £1.79 ($2.99)

Photo fx is the definitive set of digital optical filters for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Simulations of many popular award-winning Tiffen glass filters, optical lab processes and photographic effects are now at your fingertips.

You choose from 26 exciting filters organized in 5 different filter groups. Photo fx is comprised of the following filters: Black and White, Black Pro-Mist®, Center Spot, Color-Grad® , Color Spot, Day for Night, Enhancer, Fog, Glow, Halo, High Contrast, Infrared, Looks, Night Vision, Old Photo, Pencil, Polarizer, Pro-Mist®, Reflector, Star, Soft/FX®, Tint, Two Strip, Three Strip, Ultra Contrast and Vignette.

Whether you are an amateur or professional photographer, Photo fx’s visual workflow and easy to use tools will help you create stunning images.

FEATURES:

• Choose from 26 filters organized into 5 different filter groups
• Select from 27 different film looks
• Modify filters with sliders, on-screen controls or presets
• Shake on the Filter screens to choose a random filter
• Shake on the image editing screen to reset controls
• Edit in portrait or landscape mode

TUTORIAL:

1. Start Photo fx and take or load a photo.
2. Select one of the filter groups at the bottom of the screen: Face fx, Outer fx, Fun fx, Classic fx, or Wild fx.
3. Tap on a filter image thumbnail to select it.
4. Adjust the sliders that appear to modify the effect. Some filters have on-screen controls that can be manipulated. If so, the On-Screen control icon (the dot with dashes around it) will be highlighted.
5. If highlighted, select the On-Screen control icon (the dot with dashes around it).
6. Tap and drag the On-Screen control to manipulate the filter. Some filters have presets that you can choose from. If so, the Presets icon (the grid of squares) will be highlighted.
7. If highlighted, select the Presets icon (the grid of squares).
8. Click on one of the preset image thumbnails.
9. Toggle between the original and filtered image using the Before/After icon (double arrow). Make sure you are viewing the filtered image when done.
10. Save your photo by tapping the Disk icon. The saved image will show up in your Camera Roll or Saved Photos album.

KNOWN ISSUES:
Occasionally, the iPhone/iPod runs low on system memory causing memory-intensive apps to crash. When you start Photo fx, click the Options button and select a lower setting for the Maximum Output Resolution. It may also be necessary to cycle the power on your phone. Simply power off by holding down the button at the top of your device for two seconds and restart.

Comments

[Newms]

Looks great.

[greg]

Looking forward to trying this one out. Is there no end to this stuff? LOL. All they have to do is increase the Megapixels a bit.

[Glyn Evans]

Newms

I loaded this app to my iPhone late last night just before hitting the pillow, and on going on first impression, I am impressed, but let see how much it suffers from memory crashes.

Greg

We can only live in hope of a +5 megapixel camera on a future iPhone, which I am sure will happen.

[eclau]

This one looks more customizable than CameraBag but not as busy as ToyCamera. So hopefully it has struck the balance

[eclau]

I meant to say Darkroom! not ToyCamera, sorry.

[thescw]

I bought this app the moment it was released & it is absolutely brilliant. The amount of effects & results you can make with this is awesome. Worth every penny until next week when I see a Free Promo Code LOL =)

[Michael Corcoran]

looks very cool. looking forward to trying it.

[Jonnyfixedgear]

I just picked up this app after hearing of it here. Looks way cool. I'll be playing with this one and uploading the results to the flickr group.

[Glyn Evans]

Jon, this app is great, I have been playing with it all day, and will post my review tomorrow.