Price Drop: Snap Filters, currently available for Free

Not seen as one of the top apps, Snap Filters, which was designed by developer Dendrocom for speed and ease of use, is currently FREE in the App Store. Since my initial review, which was over 2 years ago, Snap Filters has had several updates, and whilst it doesn't offer anything that many of us already have, it's worth checking out, and you might even find some surprises.

App Store Link: Snap Filters; Price: £0.69/$0.99/€0.79

Snap Filters for free

If you are looking for an app with a range of predefined filters, then check out Snap Filters, which is on offer until the 21st June priced at, nothing.

I reviewed this app back in May, and whilst I was not bowled over with it, saying "Over all this is a nice app, which joins a growing list of filtering effect apps, which apart from the welcomed help screen upon launch (which I really like), it has little else that makes it stand out from the crowed, although at £0.59 ($.99), it is cheap."

Whilst the above comments were not overly positive, this app is not a bad app, I just felt that it did not offer anything new. That said, whilst this app is available for free, I would recommend giving it a try, and share your comments with this blog, and the developer (who follows this blog) and post your feedback in the AppStore.

AppStore Link: Snap Filters - Price FREE (until 21st June 2009)

iPhone App Review: Snap Filters

Built with speed and ease of use in mind, Snap Filters lets you apply simple filters to your photos.

The app

Launch Snap Filters, and you are immediately presented with the apps help screen, which tells what all the icons do, which is a really nice idea and something I wish more developers would do.

From the home screen you have a choice of two options, either launch the camera interface to take and edit a photo, or load a photo from your album.

As soon as you have taken or loaded a photo, you have the options to tweak the contrast, apply colour filters, add vignetting effects, or auto crop the photo to a square format.

The application is easy to use and has a mixture of 45 colour and B&W filter effects, 9 contrast effects, and 9 vignetting effects, and like most of the applications of this type, you get a mini preview of how your photo will look with the effects before they are applied.

When you have applied your effects and tweaked your photo it is time to save it, and this is done by simply touching on the tick icon and your photo is saved. There is however one slightly hidden feature, and that is, you can alter the output size of your photo, which can be 500 (S), 800 (M) or 1600 (L) pixels. This feature however is only just visible in the form of a small faint letter (S, M, L) just above the tick (save) icon, which can be easily missed.

So what did I think?

Over all this is a nice app, which joins a growing list of filtering effect apps, which apart from the welcomed help screen upon launch (which I really like), it has little else that makes it stand out from the crowed, although at £0.59 ($.99), it is cheap.

Above: No colour effect, light contrast and white vignetting effect applied.AppStore Link: Snap Filters - Price £0.59 ($.99)

Flickr Pool: Snap Filters

Developer: Dendrocom

New iPhone Photo App: Snap Filters

Built with speed and ease of use in mind, Snap Filters lets you apply simple filters to your photos (taken from within the application or loaded from your library), and make the most out of your iPhone’s camera.

It only takes a few seconds to review three styles of coloring filters (from desatured to intense) with a choice of nine tints for each (the center image is always the one that isn’t colorized), or two types of black-and-white processing (regular or with added contrast), simulating taking a picture with a color filter on your lens (the difference won’t always be spectacular, but you can choose the variation that makes details pop). One more button and you can choose from different styles and intensities of vignetting, and toggle whether to crop the photo to a square.

Snap Filters remembers your settings from one photo to another, so if you find a style you like, you’ll never have to change the settings again. But if you’re the obsessive type, you can have fun quickly going through each of the filters to find the perfect setting for each of your pictures.

AppStore Link: Snap Filters - Price £0.59 ($.99)