TiltShift Generator - Fake Miniature
By Art & Mobile
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Description
This is the 5th release from the ToyCamera series and this software will allow you to create retro miniature pictures.
By adjusting various parameters, it allows you to apply many ToyCamera effects on your pictures: from miniature pictures to vintage styles images.
It is an indispensable app for all the ones who like fashionable ToyCamera style pictures.
With TiltShiftGenerator you'll also be able to take a simple photo and adjust the details of each picture taken with camera apps such as my ToyCamera.
Originally, it's published as a free web service and AIR app. Now the awaited iPhone version has finally been released.
Feature
- various resolution (from 320 to original size)
- Radial or Linaer blur
- Contrast and Saturation controll
- Vignetting Controll
- Camera and Library import
- Direct email and twitter, and facebook support
What's New In Version 1.33
- Support for Retina Display
- Fixed bug for facebook uploader.
Thanks for using TiltShift Generator!!
Customer Reviews
Much improved after 1.1 update
Upadate 10/14/09, v. 1.1, 4 stars
My two previous complaints (see original review below) - black screen when working with previously-edited photos, and the low output resolution - have both been addressed in v 1.1, and TiltShift Generator has replaced TiltShift as my go-to t/s iPhone app. The app now works fine with any photo, and supports multiple output resolutions, including full-res. There are a few more improvements needed that would push it to 5-star status - namely, an improved landscape-orientation interface (only the image auto-rotates, the controls stay in portrait mode, which is awkward); an undo function action for both the color adjustments and the blur adjustments (to easily remove all adjustments and return to the original photo); and zoom/pan functionality. But even as-is, the clean and polished interface alone make this app a joy to use.
Original review, 9/3/09 (v. 1.0, 1 star)
Low-res output + bug = not ready for prime time
First, let me say that I love the user interface of this app. It's simple, slick, perfectly functional, and the built-in help the first time through is a nice touch. The functionality of the app is pretty much the same as other apps of it's kind (ie, TiltShift), but the UI is definitely superior. TiltShiftGen adds a vignette control, which is nice, but it also only includes 1 blur type, where competitor TiltShift has 2 (Gaussian and Lens). So feature-wise, it's pretty much a tie. But that's where the good news ends.
I encountered a repeatable and fatal bug that makes the app completely useless to me: when loading a photo that has previously been edited using one of my many other iPhone photo apps (using iPhone 3GS), the image appears on screen for just a moment and then the screen goes black. The app continues to work normally - I can go through the motions of processing a photo, I just can't see anything on the screen. If I save the image, nothing shows up in the camera roll. This bug does not appear every time - only most of the time, and if I load an image that has no previous processing done to it, it works fine every time. But since I process most of my images using several different apps, this is a dealbreaker for me.
The other major flaw in the app is the ridiculously small file size of the resulting photos. Your lovely 3.1 mp 3GS image will be reduced to a completely lame .42 megapixels (600x800) by TiltShiftGen. But wait, it gets worse...if you choose to use the app's built-in emailing function, you'll be left with whopping .14mp (320x426) photo. And that dinky file is a .png, not .jpg, which strikes me as odd. Needless to say, anyone who is 'serious' about their iPhoneography will not be pleased or impressed with the resolution output of this app. From a customer's standpoint, I just cannot figure out why app developers are still putting out photo apps that don't honor the full resolution of the iPhone's camera. (To be fair, TiltShift - this app's primary competitor - does not currently output full resolution files, either; but it's 1200x1600 output is far better than this app's.)
So for me, TiltShiftGen's excellent user interface can in no way make up for the 'black screen bug' or the extremely disappointing output resolution. But if you're a curious iPhone photographer, it's probably worth a buck on sale to install the app and see for yourself if it will be enough for you.
Blackberry users are jealous.
Tilt shift is one of my favorites.
Professional
Given that all of the best iphonographers (iPhone photographers) use this app, I downloaded it. I am not disappointed. This separates "oh, camera phone photo" from "oh... I like that" highly recommended. Surprisingly cheap for the quality.
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$0.99
- Category: Photography
- Updated:Jul 17, 2010
- Current Version:1.33
- 1.33 (iOS 4.0 Tested)
- 1.3 MB
- Languages:English, Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Korean
- Seller:Art & Mobile
- © Takayuki Fukatsu & Takuma Mori
Requirements:Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later.
