Process your photos to creative destruction with Decim8
Tuesday, January 18, 2011 at 10:00AM | Glyn Evans 
Above: Decim8 example taken by the movax [Administrator of the Decim8 Flickr group]Decim8 has been around for a little while now, being first released back in October 2010. Back then the app was very limited [you could only take, not load photos] and buggy, but over the past months this uniquely quirky app has been updated several times, and today is an interesting app that is worth checking out.
Decim8 is unlike any other app I've seen in the App Store. It doesn't try to reproduce that retro look, but instead, and these are the words of the developer, "Decim8 is a digital tool for creative photographic destruction. Armed with a set of bit-mangling filters, that evolve your pictures into strange and sublime artifacts bordering on chaos.
There are no effects to simulate your grandpa's snapshots; no virtual replicas of plastic instant-cams from your imaginary summer of '73; just mad combinations of digital data-mashing."
Decim8's features:
- Arrange/Activate effects in any order
- Effects never exactly the same twice
- Full size photo output
- Effect images in photo library
- Support Flash settings, Front/rear cam
- Randomize effects
- Saves original, uneffected image also
- Gives you a warm fuzzy feeling
Overall I found this to be a uniquely interesting app that is quick and easy to use, doesn't produce the same look twice, and supports the all important full-res of the iPhone 4, and is available in the App Store for just £0.59/$0.99/€0.79.
To see what can be done with Decim8, check out the Decim8 Flickr group.
App Store Link: Decim8; Price: £0.59/$0.99/€0.79
Decim8 in Mini App Review, iPhone App Review
Reader Comments (5)
Oh yeah. Seems nice!
I was an early adopter of Decim8 and pushed through the frustration of numerous crashes because the results were so fantastic. Now with this recent update it has become a joy to work with and a complete addiction for processing existing photos.
For the price, this is a must have app, in my opinion, as it consistently creates unique and fascinating permutations. A great, well supported app.
Interesting concept, but the one that fails in practise. The filters are not consistant and the results on most occassions just look a mess. Out of 100 odd tests I made only 1 or 2 were worth keeping. That may be OK(?) odds for some for images from your photo stream, but for live shots, it's next to useless.
After seeing it here I picked up the app. It has potential. The biggest drawback, and a HUGE one at that, is that you hit a button to 'decim8' your image but you don't have any say in what happens or whether or not it gets added to your photo roll (it always does). I would LOVE a program where I could do a lot of what this program does, only do it intentionally.
It would be nice if it didnt save automatically and had better control over the filters.