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Building an iPhone Photo Filter Is a Lot Harder Than Using One

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I think some law was passed in the last year that requires all photo apps to come with filters that function as aesthetic time machines, passing your perfectly fine photograph through a wormhole of analog nostalgia. It turns out that creating such a rift in photographic spacetime is not as easy as sending your photo through it.

The makers of Camera+ have documented the process of creating a filter, and it’s a bigger pain in the ass than dealing with vinyl. Filters are created in Photoshop, tested against hundreds of photos, tweaked, re-tweaked, texturized, finalized, coded, optimized and then finally shipped.

Faaarrrrrrr ouuuuuutttttttt. [Tap Tap Tap]

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