App Update: Filterstorm goes universal
Saturday, September 25, 2010 at 10:11AM | Glyn Evans Filterstorm, originally released for the iPad has just been updated and now supports the iPhone and iPod Touch.
So what's new in this release?
- iPhone/iPod Touch support
- Filter controls now appear in floating HUDs to save screen space
- Setting to save e-mailed or FTPd images at 300DPI
- Progress bar added for FTP transfers
- Redesigned icons
- Bugs involving history and large image exporting fixed
- Straightening memory improvements improve stability when exporting a large image that has been straightened
- Fixed bug causing History to sometimes not appear the first attempt at loading
- Images now autorotate based on rotation metadata
App Store Description: Filterstorm has been designed from the ground up to meet your iPad and iPhone photo editing needs. Using a uniquely crafted touch interface, Filterstorm allows for more intuitive editing than its desktop counterparts with a toolset designed for serious photography.
Filterstorm contains a suite of powerful tools including curves manipulation, color correction abilities, noise reduction, sharpening, vignetting, and black and white conversion fine-tuning. It also includes the powerful ability to apply any of the available filters by brush, color range, and gradient.
App Store Link: Filterstorm; Price: £2.39/$3.99/€3.19
Editors comments: Although I am not a big fan of this app, Filterstorm is packed full of features and potential.
Why am I not a big fan of Filterstorm?
Well, I like my apps to be simple, and I find Filterstorm a little bit on the clunky and cluttered side for me, feeling more like a PC derived app than an iPhone/iPad one, but this is just my opinion.
Filterstorm in App Update
Reader Comments (6)
"...feeling more like a PC derived app than an iPhone/iPad one" Ouch. I admit, fitting in all the fantasticality onto the iPhone screen makes things feel a bit cramped, especially compared to the iPad version, but this is something you can do some serious photo processing with. Many photojournalists submit photos from the field through the iPad version, and several have expressed interest in using the iPhone version for doing so as well.
As far as simplicity is concerned, I would say look at it in terms of what it does. In terms of applying color correction and exposure correction regionally on a photo, you'd be hard-pressed to find anything near the combination of simplicity and power given by Filterstorm's masking tools.
@Tai, don't get me wrong, your app is a very very powerful one, but just like other apps like Photoforge with so many great features packed in to such a small space, it can get a bit messy and cluttered. On an iPhone, I just like them to be clean and simple, just like Photogene.
Filterstorm offer the iPhotographer a fantastic toolbox at hand and does what it does extremely well. Very impressed with the app and brings some nice advanced tools to the user.
Great release... Hats off to the developer for bringing it to the iPhone community.
Watch out, this one might surprise everyone
as it grows.
Digging the app quite a bit so far. Good work.
Works fine but needs some serious optimization like most of the more advanced image editing apps for the iPhone(I'm running it on iPhone 4).
And what about adding 'real' layers?
I think it's important to remember that once an app reaches a certain level of functionality, it's impossible to keep the interface simple. Admittedly, I haven't checked out the other apps that were referenced as comparison, but I have to say I'm digging this app, too. Maybe it's more intuitive to me as someone who does lots of post-processing on my desktops/laptops.