TiltShift app good for
Absolutely love it. Simple. Intuitive. Stable. Does what it says it does. Produces great looking images. Only improvement I would ask for is the ability to change the size of the focal area.
Great little app to manipulate photos on the phone, really makes them look nice. One thing it needs is a slider to control the feathering on the blur. After that, the next step could be to support multiple windows. Each with the ability to blur or do basic color modifications. A wish, though maybe not possible, would be to introduce a sort of brightness/exposure control to braket photos and make tone-mapped HDR photos. With a few of these suggestions I think this could be a killer app. Still good app as is, looking forward to updates! Thanks!
Update. I ran into the same problem as review #2 only after I read the review. Seems to be a bug that needs to be ironed out.
Excellent use of multitouch. Like my Lensbaby on my DSLR, but MORE powerful. I can change the focus area, size and amount of falloff significantly easier, and with more control post-production than with LB. Of course all shots do not lend themselves to the effect. Check out lensbaby on the web to see examples of this effect, that are now available on your iPhone.
This program along with HP print app will dramatically increase my use of the iPhone camera.
Great job. Cant think of any improvements. Very satisfied customer.
I have been using this for a couple of months. TiltShift lets you add effects to iPhone photos that normally would require an expensive camera lens or complicated software such as Photoshop.
While typically used to achieve a "miniature" effect, the application can also be used to throw the background or foreground out of focus. In effect, it gives some conrol over the depth of field on a camera that is fixed focus.
As others have noted, it does not work well with every photo; it depends on the composition of the photo and the desired effect. But on some photos the effect is really quite striking, especially if you are interested in "art" photography, and with an iPhone you can take some surprisingly good art photos (as in every graphic art the quality of the product depends more on the skill of the artist than on the sophistication of the equipment).
Since this is an effect that is added after the photo is taken (rather than at the moment the photo is taken) you can play around with photos that you have taken months or years earlier. (E.g., take a photo from the 1940s, scan it, load it on your iPhone, and then use TiltShift).
The app is easy to use and I have had no problems with it. For just a few bucks its a great tool to have available.
Really good app!!! But please make an update for clearer pictures!!!
The person who mentioned the "Lensbaby" product for dSLRs had it right. This is not just for simulating miniatures. In fact, thats the least of my concerns. You can use this to simulate small depth of field. Cool!
You have full, flexible control of the shape, placement, and size of the out-of-focus area, with easy touch-based manipulation. Basically, you create a mask for the blur area.
At $0.99, everybody interested in photography should grab this.
Developers: you need to market this thing better!
Some bad moments
Using it is slick and easy and works great on your own images . . . except the saved images look horrible and what looks like less than half the resolution - not what it looked like in the app.
the final images resolution is very small. Other photo editing apps let us keep the same resolution as the original. The area that should be in focus is still a little blurred even with the area wide open. Please update the app with a fix.
This app is good but lack of features and doesnt do well. New TiltShift Generator looks great and cheap also.
How to repeat:
Tap camera icon
Take photo
Tap "Use" button
Result: app freezes. If you leave app and enter into again, youll be shown start picture, then app crashes.
3GS + IOS 4.0.2
Lacks intuition and ergonometric effectiveness- would benefit greatly from a quick general redesign in implementation and methodology. For instance, the fact one needs to continuously toggle between menu mode, which covers your screen, and adjustment mode and view mode is really a bore. More effects, like water color, film grain and less blocky and universal destruction in saturation and brightness modes would enhance the app.
What it does do, allowing the iphoneagrapher to make poignant local adjustments, is fairly unique and quite artistic.
Unusable. Crashes when I try to save a photo. Not once, or twice - every time.
