Juxtaposer 4 – Major Update to this Hugely Popular Photo App
I am delighted to announce that the highly popular app, Juxtaposer has just been updated and introduces two exciting new features, these include:
– Magic Crop – a powerful and super easy to use new tool that lets you cut out an element from your top image in seconds. Just draw a rectangle around your subject, tap the button, and Magic Crop does the rest, using a Machine Learning model that runs on your device.
– The new Unsplash photo picker allows you find great images to use in your compositions. Search and browse Unsplash’s huge collection of high quality and completely free images.
The developer Hendrik Kueck explained to us here at TheAppWhisperer.com this morning, “one feature I have always wanted to add to it [Juxtaposer] is some form of semi-automatic image segmentation. That is, a smart masking tool. And that’s what I now finally did. I worked on this feature for over a year and am excited to finally ship it now and get it into my users’ hands“.
He went on to express that the new feature is called ‘Magic Crop’ and he has created a short video (we have included it below) demonstrating how this feature works.
Kueck also detailed the background to this update, “It uses a Machine Learning model I developed, and (in contrast to many other Machine Learning based apps) it runs on the iPhone (or iPad), not in the cloud, so the photo data stays on the user’s device. And it is really fast too (at least on recent iPhones). On my iPhone 11 Pro the segmentation takes 130 ms, and I am sure it will be faster still on the iPhone 12. I’ll find out later today, when my wife’s 12 mini arrives”.
Juxtaposer is a fee paying app and costs 2.99 USD but of course, this is a free update if you have previously purchased this app.
This short video shows some examples of the new Magic Crop feature in Juxtaposer version 4.
Magic Crop uses a powerful Machine Learning model to automatically cut out a subject from an image.
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Joanne Carter, creator of the world’s most popular mobile photography and art website— TheAppWhisperer.com— TheAppWhisperer platform has been a pivotal cyberspace for mobile artists of all abilities to learn about, to explore, to celebrate and to share mobile artworks. Joanne’s compassion, inclusivity, and humility are hallmarks in all that she does, and is particularly evident in the platform she has built. In her words, “We all have the potential to remove ourselves from the centre of any circle and to expand a sphere of compassion outward; to include everyone interested in mobile art, ensuring every artist is within reach”, she has said. Promotion of mobile artists and the art form as a primary medium in today’s art world, has become her life’s focus. She has presented lectures bolstering mobile artists and their art from as far away as the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea to closer to her home in the UK at Focus on Imaging. Her experience as a jurist for mobile art competitions includes: Portugal, Canada, US, S Korea, UK and Italy. And her travels pioneering the breadth of mobile art includes key events in: Frankfurt, Naples, Amalfi Coast, Paris, Brazil, London. Pioneering the world’s first mobile art online gallery - TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com has extended her reach even further, shipping from London, UK to clients in the US, Europe and The Far East to a global group of collectors looking for exclusive art to hang in their homes and offices. The online gallery specialises in prints for discerning collectors of unique, previously unseen signed limited edition art. Her journey towards becoming The App Whisperer, includes (but is not limited to) working for a paparazzi photo agency for several years and as a deputy editor for a photo print magazine. Her own freelance photographic journalistic work is also widely acclaimed. She has been published extensively both within the UK and the US in national and international titles. These include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Popular Photography & Imaging, dpreview, NikonPro, Which? and more recently with the BBC as a Contributor, Columnist at Vogue Italia and Contributing Editor at LensCulture. Her professional photography has also been widely exhibited throughout Europe, including Italy, Portugal and the UK. She is currently writing several books, all related to mobile art and is always open to requests for new commissions for either writing or photography projects or a combination of both. Please contact her at: [email protected]
