Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Photo Filters To Be Built Into iOS 5

When Apple href="http://www.everythingicafe.com/apple-releases-ios-5-beta-5-to-developers/2011/08/06/">released iOS 5 beta 5, href="http://www.bgr.com/2011/08/06/heres-the-full-change-log-for-ios-5-beta-5/">BGR posted a full change log, but in reading it we missed a rather interesting detail: the addition of filters to iOS. href="http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/08/filter-this/">TechCrunch spotted the new feature, which is part of an overhaul in how iOS handles photos:

Several filters have been added since beta 1. The current list now includes the following filters: CIAdditionCompositing, CIAffineTransform, CICheckerboardGenerator, CIColorBlendMode, CIColorBurnBlendMode, CIColorControls, CIColorCube, CIColorDodgeBlendMode, CIColorInvert,CIColorMatrix, CIColorMonochrome, CIConstantColorGenerator, CICrop, CIDarkenBlendMode, CIDifferenceBlendMode, CIExclusionBlendMode, CIExposureAdjust, CIFalseColor, CIGammaAdjust,CIGaussianGradient, CIHardLightBlendMode, CIHighlightShadowAdjust, CIHueAdjust, CIHueBlendMode, CILightenBlendMode, CILinearGradient, CILuminosityBlendMode,CIMaximumCompositing, CIMinimumCompositing, CIMultiplyBlendMode, CIMultiplyCompositing, CIOverlayBlendMode, CIRadialGradient, CISaturationBlendMode, CIScreenBlendMode,CISepiaTone, CISoftLightBlendMode, CISourceAtopCompositing, CISourceInCompositing, CISourceOutCompositing, CISourceOverCompositing, CIStraightenFilter, CIStripesGenerator,CITemperatureAndTint, CIToneCurve, CIVibrance, CIVignette, and CIWhitePointAdjust.

CI is Core Image, a new set of tools that should make for faster and better photography apps. And this list shows off dozens of what look just like popular filters for Instagram and the like.

This could mean that many of these filters come built into your Camera app, but you can bet that iOS 5 will see a tsunami of crappy filtering photo apps — as if there weren’t enough already.

I just hope that the likes of Instagram can keep their head above water, and keep making their own version which looks even better.

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