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Built with speed and ease of use in mind, Snap Filters lets you apply simple filters to your photos (taken from within the application or loaded from your library), and make the most out of your iPhone’s camera.
It only takes a few seconds to review three styles of coloring filters (from desatured to intense) with a choice of nine tints for each (the center image is always the one that isn’t colorized), or two types of black-and-white processing (regular or with added contrast), simulating taking a picture with a color filter on your lens (the difference won’t always be spectacular, but you can choose the variation that makes details pop). One more button and you can choose from different styles and intensities of vignetting, and toggle whether to crop the photo to a square.
Snap Filters remembers your settings from one photo to another, so if you find a style you like, you’ll never have to change the settings again. But if you’re the obsessive type, you can have fun quickly going through each of the filters to find the perfect setting for each of your pictures.
Since version 1.2, you can also copy or e-mail the picture once you’ve done editing it. Contrary to the Photos application, Snap Filters sends your image in its full resolution; besides, you can go to the Settings application to define a default recipient e-mail address, which makes Snap Filters perfect for mail-uploading your photo to Flickr, Posterous, or any other system. Take a picture, edit it and send it, all from the same application, all in a few seconds (e-mail upload happens in the background thanks to the iPhone OS).
The application is available on the App Store for $0.99.
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Since version 1.1, a menu is displayed in the lower right corner of the image to let you choose the output resolution — 2048, 1600, 800 or 500 pixels in the larger dimension. A lower resolution means the image will be saved faster. (Note that the pixel size is only indicative; Snap Filters won’t enlarge an existing, smaller image. And the chosen size will be applied before the image is cropped to a square format; for 800 pixels for instance, the photograph will be resized to 800x600, then cropped to 600x600.)
When you take a photo with the iPhone’s camera from within Snap Filters, the original is automatically saved before you can edit it. That only takes a couple of seconds, and makes sure you won’t lose your shot if you quit the application before saving (or if you get an incoming phone call while you’re editing your photograph).
GPS coordinates are saved in an image’s EXIF data; as far as we know, there is no way for an iPhone application to specify — or even conserve — EXIF information when saving an image to the photo library.
That means, even if you load a photo from your library, and that photo was taken from the iPhone’s Camera application and includes GPS information, there is no way for Snap Filters to include that information in the saved image.
Likewise, that information is stored in the image’s EXIF data and we can’t access it in any way.
