An app to apply filters to the camera stream or to a stored photo.
This project is based on an earlier app named 'FilterCam'. I had to re-write all of the underlying filter and graphics code because Apple is dropping support for OpenGL(ES). I was originally using the nifty GPUImage library from Brad Larsen, but now I am using the built in CIFilter classes and using Metal for graphics processing. Also, I had to change the name because of an App Store conflict.
NOTE: I haven't been working on this lately because of real-world issues, and because the connector on my phone stopped working (this has happened to my last 3 iPhones)
One day, I'll get around to adding screenshots, but the basic set of functionality includes:
- browse all available filters, assign ratings, hide/show, add to favourites. You can also change some of the parameters (the scalar or colour ones) and see the effect
- there are currently ~190 filters defined and an additional 500+ colour transforms available (lookup filters) that are based on available Photoshop presets
- because of this, filters are assigned to 'categories', and users can hide ones they don't want to see
- current categories are based on the source of the transform (e.g. Photoshop preset) or the Apple filter types. Expect these to be re-organsied drastically
- choose a sample image (used for browsing the filters). There are some built-in samples or you can use any photo
- choose a blend image, for those filters that combine multple images. There are some built-in blend images, or you can use any photo
- there is a limited set of Style Transfer filters available - the usual group that is freely available (The Scream etc). I will be working on generating new ones, but that takes a lot of time and the tools are a bit lacking right now
- edit an image from your photo albums.
- there is a simple and limited theme manager that lets you choose between a few themes (light, dark, red, blue). I plan on making this configurable eventually
- the editing feature is actually fairly good now. It currently has support for:
- applying multiple filters and viewing the filter stack
- undo the last filter
- toggle between original/current images
- split screen preview of original/current image
- contextual help text everywhere (very basic though)
- Basic Adjustments (exposure, contrast etc.)
- Color filters (all of them)
- Style Transfer
- Tone Curves
- Color Adjustments (ROYGBIV)
- Sharpening and Noise reduction
- Crop/Zoom/Rotate
I make fairly extensive use of the following pods:
- Neon: very useful functions for laying out views relative to each other (Storyboards are very hard to use in this app because of the need to constantly resize based on content)
- Chameleon: a set of 'flat' colours and associated utilities that I use to colour the UI
- iCarousel: a horizontally scrolling list that can contain images etc.
- SwiftyBeaver: logging utilities
- SwiftyJSON: JSON parsing
- Cosmos: a star rating widget