Thursday, January 22, 2015

Camu: original photoappendices ported to Android – BBC News

One of the best photoappendices 2014 in App Store – Camu – is now in Google Play. A feature of this set of tools for photo was the opportunity to make changes to the image before shooting and after it. We tested the current (1.1) version of the program.

It is not that mobile photography enthusiasts suffer from a lack of specialized software. However Camu – this is perhaps a special case. No wonder that, after three million downloads in the App Store application is made available for Android-users. Camu stands for the Finnish company Sumoing, which employs a team of designers and engineers from “cluster Nokia”. By the way, their first product for iOS – a powerful photo editor Repix, which allows you to turn ordinary photos into masterpieces literally – downloaded more than 13 million times.

So, application Camu combines the capabilities of the camera using additional tools. It is important that not only after, but before the shooting, at the disposal of the user turns a dozen so-called “live” filters, including Sunny, Roasted, Windy, Nostalgia, Popstar, Rockstar, Papilio, Ethereal, Coffee, Black. Alternate these filters horizontal flipping gestures (swipe), but their contrast and saturation changes slowly swipe of a finger across the screen up or down.

In the program there are no complicated settings, and its interface is quite simple. From the main screen, you can switch Camu with the main camera on the front, change the mode of photo / video shoot or run to make the frame and go to the already obtained images or settings. So, in the settings are asked to select the type of photo – Normal (4: 3) or square (1: 1) to make a collage – two, three, four photos in a frame or a frame of two images with variable size due to the rotation axis. In addition, here you can enable or disable the flash, select the blur tool (blur) and to determine the self-timer mode. The fact that the mode is set to one, two or three shots in succession. And all of its charm lies in the fact that as long as there is movement in the frame, the shooting will not be. Once everything settles down, the camera will shoot. This is very useful, for example, for group self. Before shooting, has a tool for manual exposure, as well as the specified area without blurring (the so-called “superfokus”).

Take photos easily share or use the editing, again choosing a suitable filter. For interesting angles that fit this shot, it is convenient to scale and rotate. In addition, the photo can be applied to an arbitrary label or one of the available slogans, such as “The sun, the beach and I,” “Well, where we are,” or simply “Smile.” Available are four font styles, and four of his color scheme (black or white on transparent, black on white, white on black). Camu copes with the functions of a mobile messenger and can share images in various ways, including through social networks.

To install Camu version 1.1 of 11 MB, you will need a smartphone with Android version is not lower than 2.3. The application can be downloaded for free from Google Play.

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