Filterstorm Neue – iOS Photography App – Updated
Filterstorm Neue is a fantastic app and it’s hard to believe it’s only just over a month old. Filterstorm Neue has just received its first 1.1 update and it’s looking good. Take a look at What’s New below to find out what the developer, Tai Shimizu has added.
This is a free update, if you have previously downloaded this app. If not, you can download it here. It retails for $3.99/£2.49.
What’s New?
New Features:
• Histogram now shown in Curves and Levels controls
• Levels control. You can double tap to add a new levels point, and drag off to remove.
• Individual channel curves
• Luminance curves
• Text Tool
• Button to toggle between filtered and unfiltered image (unavailable for CPU-based tools)
• Masking brush opacity and loupe size options
• Swipe gesture to hide menu
• Can now choose custom background colors for “Make Square” tool
• White point picker
• Exif display
• Save IPTC sets for later use
• Adds double tap to zoom to full size, double tap again to zoom out.
• Option to use English language regardless of device language setting
• Reduces sensitivity of some controls
• Mask opacity tool
Adds Advanced Export Options including:
• TIFF export option
• PNG export option
• JPEG quality slider
• Ability to see file size before export
Bug Fixes:
• Fixes bug where display of image scaling slider wouldn’t update to match saved value
• Fixes image quality issue with saved files
• Original picture now appears in edit history
• Cropping tool now appears in edit history
• Fixes issues with color range masking
• Fixes crashing bug with FTP
• Fixes incomplete upload bug with FTP
• Fixes bug with disappearing sub header
• Moves Sharpening to CPU on older devices for increased stability
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter is a British photographer, photography journalist, editor and curator and the founder and editorial director of TheAppWhisperer.com, an independent international photography publication established in 2009.Her journalism, criticism and commentary have appeared in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, BBC, Vogue Italia, LensCulture, Popular Photography, Android Magazine, NikonPro, DPReview, Which Digital Camera and Which Camera. She has lectured internationally on photography and mobile art, served as a juror for international photography awards, and exhibited her own photographic work across the UK, Europe, South Korea and the United States.Alongside her editorial work, Joanne's photographic and postgraduate research explores death, grief, memory, representation and social inequality through contemporary photography, participatory practice and visual research methods, with the longer-term aim of developing this work through doctoral research.Through TheAppWhisperer, she continues to publish independent photography journalism spanning contemporary photographic practice, mobile imaging, photographic apps, computational photography and emerging imaging technologies.Joanne is available for editorial commissions, photography projects, judging, curatorial work, speaking engagements, consultancy and selected collaborations.
