Life in LoFi: iPhoneography | iPhone Photo News, Showcases, App Reviews

Image processed with ShakeItPhoto 1.2 classic processing

ShakeItPhoto 1.3 was released this week. Among the new features were full-resolution support and redesigned processing. The new processing is more faded, less contrasty and less saturated than the previous versions of ShakeItPhoto. The new processing is now a pretty accurate rendition of what old instant prints actually look like — much different than the old high contrast, high color saturation, almost dreamy look of the older versions.

All week, there had been much chatter on Twitter, boards, and the blogosphere about this update. Many iPhoneographers either loved it or didn’t, with many hoping to be able to have both options as a preference. Today on the Banana Camera Co. blog, developer Nick Campbell announced that a new update for ShakeItPhoto has already been submitted to Apple. The big new feature? The return of the classic ShakeItPhoto processing.

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ShakeItPhoto by Nick Campbell’s Banana Camera Co. is regarded by many as the best fake Instant Camera app. The effects the last version created are gorgeous. The image itself is a perfect blend of color shift, saturation, and fade. The border is simple, yet nicely textured. The subtle inner shadow/vignette inside the frame is just about perfect. The previous version of ShakeItPhoto created faux instant prints that look like how we remember them to be.

The app just got an update with a killer, long-asked-for feature, and one undocumented feature that many didn’t ask for.

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Instant Camera
Version 1.3.1
Price: $1.99

Bottom Line: One of the more authentic-looking faux-Polaroid apps. Resolution isn’t the greatest, though.

There are a lot of fake Polaroid apps available. I notice subtle differences between them. Some are better than others. Some of them create square images similar to the old Kodak instant prints. Some have the textured, knurled frame. The vignette around the frame differs. Color saturation varies greatly. Instant Camera by bbcddc has been around for a while, but of the fake Polaroids or “fauxlaroids”, it comes awfully close to looking like the real thing.

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Optics, created in Polarize

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One of the things that the iPhone does well (and one of the reasons, I think, that elevates iPhoneography above other mobile phone photography) is the platform’s ability to create digital images with analog and film effects — often with uncanny accuracy and sometimes even better than the film or device it mimics. Polaroid effects are among the more popular of these iPhone analog filters. There’s more, including my thoughts, after the click….

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