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Microsoft has released another app that is available exclusively for iOS, confirming that the company from Redmond often presents innovative solutions for the competition rather than for its own platforms. Microsoft has focused on photography this time. According to him, the iPhone has an excellent camera, but he thinks that much more could be squeezed out of it.
That's why Microsoft introduced the Pix application, which offers a system of automatic and intelligent adjustments. The results should be better than from the system application in the iPhone.
The Pix application is very simple - you will find only three buttons in it. The first is used to access the gallery, the second is for taking photos and the third is for video. Once you press the shutter button, the app will automatically enhance your shot. Therefore, there is no setting of exposure, ISO and other parameters, HDR mode is also missing. You can't set any of this, even if you wanted to, you just take pictures.
In order for the automatic intelligence and algorithms that select and create the best shot to work, the basis of the Pix is the so-called burst mode. This means that the application always takes several pictures in a row and then selects the best one from them. It is not a breakthrough solution, other applications work in a similar way, but Microsoft's processing is definitely one of the most efficient. Pix will then instantly offer you the picture that it thinks is the best according to various parameters. When everyone's eyes are open, when an interesting scene is captured, etc. This is also why he sometimes offers not one, but two or three of the best photos.
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At first I wasn't sure if only AI could really get the best out of the shot. Therefore, under the same conditions, I took a picture with a native photo application and then with Pix. I have to admit that the resulting image from the Pix always looked a little better. Without any other tweaks, Pix usually has the upper hand against a native iOS app, but keep in mind that zero setup options aren't always a good idea. Sometimes you just want to lighten/darken a certain object on purpose, sometimes it can be harmful if the photo is overexposed.
In practice, however, the automatic intelligence in Pix usually means that once you've taken a picture, you don't have to play around with things like lighting. Additionally, while in the native iOS app you can only lighten the entire image, Microsoft's Pix will select only the parts that need lightening and lighten them. In addition, Pix can automatically recognize faces and, for example, adjust them against the light so that they are as visible as possible.
Otherwise, the classic focusing by tapping the display works in Pix too, and the application even offers something similar to Apple's Live Photos. However, unlike the original function of iPhones, Pix only starts Live Images if it deems it appropriate, for example with a flowing river or a running child. As a result, the image will remain static and only the given object will be mobile. Thanks to this, you will also achieve that your images will take up a little less memory space.
Hyperlapse technology is also integrated in Pix, which is used to stabilize video or Live Images. The result is a video that looks like you shot it with an iPhone on a tripod. In addition, Hyperlapse is coming to iOS for the very first time as part of Pix, until now Microsoft had this technology in separate applications only for Android or Windows Phone. In addition, already recorded videos can also be stabilized, however, it is understandably more effective to use this technology directly during filming. And Hyperlapse works really well, the results are in most cases better than from the native app on the iPhone 6S.
Microsoft Pix has a clear target group - if you are a toy and like to edit your photos in all kinds of applications, then Pix is not for you. Microsoft wants to appeal especially to those users who just want to pull out their phone, press a button, take a picture and do nothing else. That's when artificial intelligence really comes in handy. However, many may miss, for example, taking panoramic shots and perhaps just the basic setting options before the actual shooting. But that being said, that's not what Pix is about.
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I gave the app 10 minutes and deleted it. I tried about 15 photos, myself, a boy, non-static objects around. The result is sad. But I acknowledge that the disappointment was at least free.
same experience
Filip, could you add some images for comparison. I mean your own. The images with the child in the playnet are obviously taken over, and I don't know about the image in the restaurant, but it's not even clear to me which of the two halves should be considered the better one - in my opinion, both are bad.
I admit that I tend to be skeptical of such applications, I prefer to see the resulting image myself, but apparently I or Martin T. and m2 will not be the target group. This could work for teenagers (okay, not only them) who are having fun, just clicking the trigger and not solving anything, but it may or may not work. Then it's nice to help the result a little like this. The result will not be perfect, certainly not for critics, but otherwise it will probably bring a higher percentage of better pictures to those "easy clickers". But let them have fun, that's what life is about.
IT IS FINALLY POSSIBLE TO TAKE PHOTOS WITH YOUR iPhone. IT DOESN'T CARE ABOUT THE PIXELS - WHERE THEY ARE NOT EVEN JOBS. TODAY, DOING 12 MPIX IS LIKE DRIVING A VAN
ALTHOUGH THIS APPLICATION IS ULTRASUPER, IT DID NOT MAKE A PROPER CAR OUT OF THE HOLT BUMPER!!!!!!
Skoda = current Trabant? So you probably didn't drive in a new Superb. 12 MPix is sufficient for photography. In digital photography, it is mainly about the size of the sensor and the optics. And what is a car advice center (Give yourself a financial limit of approx. 1.2 million crowns)?