Hynek Hampl If you like adding textures, color effects, light leaks and other effects to your photos, the app Mextures it is made for you.
Photographer Merek Davis is behind the app. First it had different textures available on its website and once downloaded/purchased you could use different apps to use them on your photos. However, Merek decided to make his own iPhone app. He still has textures available on his website, but he offers quite a bit more in Mextures.
The app starts with a splash screen with a camera or photo library selection, like most photo editing apps. Plus, there's "Inspiration" where you can see a scaled-down Tumblr blog by Mextures. Here are already edited images by various authors. After selecting a photo, a square cutout will appear in which you can crop it. If you want to keep the image format, just choose "don't crop". After that, individual effects are already displayed, which are sorted into several packages: grit and grain, light leaks 1, light leaks 2, emulsion, grunge, landscape enhancement a vintage gradients. You always choose only a specific package, which opens in the editor together with the photo and you, already with a preview, choose.
Several settings are available to you when editing. You can rotate the textures along the axis by 90 degrees each time, but this can be quite limiting for some. Next, you choose to blend the texture with the image. You can also adjust the strength of the selected texture using the slider. It's just a shame that the slider doesn't react to changes in the effect directly while scrolling, but only when you release your finger from it. In this way, you can "throw" several textures on top of each other and create really beautiful adjustments.
And now we get to why I smugly wrote "little iPhone Photoshop for textures" in the caption. When editing, you see a small number on the layers icon with the number of textures, i.e. layers. Textures are logically layered on top of each other as they are added, like layers in Photoshop. Of course, there are not so many options here, but it is quite enough for a small iPhone application, but you can move them as you like and create other interesting effects. You can turn off individual layers using the button in the shape of an eye, or delete them completely using the cross. On the edited image, there is another number in a circle, which indicates the position of the layer (first, second...). A little tip: when you click on an edited image, the editing elements disappear.
and – predefined patterns, which you can of course edit. In the base, several patterns are available from 9 selected photographers who participated in the development. So there are really a lot of options, and you can also edit the Photographers' Formulas to your liking. But that is not all. When creating edits, you can save your added layers as separate Formulas and later apply them directly to your photos. Individual textures can also be marked as favorites with a heart during editing and thus have better access to them. After final editing, the resulting photo can be exported to the Camera Roll, opened in another application, or shared on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram or e-mail.
Overall, Mextures can be rated very well. The application does everything and the interface is very pleasant. What photos you create depends only on your creativity. The controls aren't bad either, but it will take a while to get the hang of it. Mextures is only available for iPhone and for €0,89 it offers a lot of music for little money. If you like editing photos, adding textures, grunge effects and various light leaks, don't hesitate to try Mextures.
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especially I don't understand why I freeze photos on the iPhone. if you want to share, then some thumbnails and the more polished pieces, then after regular editing in the adult program, normally from the macbook. on the one hand, there are not and never will be super high-quality photos from the iPhone itself, and secondly, on such a small display with limited options for individual apps, no one has ever conjured up anything world-class. the file is about quickly sharing moments, so why spoil an already low-quality photo with another low-quality edit?
just to sum it up. in all honesty, this is nothing more than a spoof of already poor quality photos. do you like it? it's always an atrocity (even what you demonstrated on that pendolin pointer).
that's your opinion. I don't think it is. it is always up to the author what to do with the photo. see more examples, for example, on the author's website. it's about photo editing. and it's up to everyone how they can use it. it can be art (even if there will probably be few). and that probably won't be a photo enhancement.
In one word "iPhoneography". And I wouldn't talk about low-quality photos. Additionally, regarding the photos in the article, I have drastically reduced the resolution and format of the photos for website purposes. Of course, it's not an SLR, but the iPhone is always at hand. Someone likes a similar style of photos, and that's where these applications eliminate the need to edit photos on a computer, which takes 10x more time. Otherwise, even with an iPhone (4S/5) you can create really great photos, and quite a few photographers (journalism-article on The Verge I guess) have switched to phones (iPhone 5).
for me it will remain a nice photo. and it takes 10x more time to edit, if I'm not taking really crappy pictures. able to destroy a photo with the application for 20kc is its degradation. if you want a "vintage" style at all costs, it's still better to solve it with an application and it doesn't have to be Aperture or Photoshop elements right away. I'm an amateur, but I have a camera with a normal lens. and it is incomparable with iP. So if a person wants to post a snapshot on Facebook, that's fine. but I mostly only use emergency photos, or if I want to make a note of something. when I go to take pictures, I take the camera and go take pictures.
Bullshit in a cage, from what I can tell around me, a lot of professional photographers already use an iPhone for composition and then, when the scene is OK, a SLR. Can I ask you Smoulo for some of your instructions for photography? Let's make sure that technique is always the most important thing compared to one's own talent, right?