Prisma - Mind-blowing photo app makes Instagram’s filters look so lame

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Tested it out on a few of my instagram photos. Really neat.
 
I just played around with it a bit. Just note though that the photos aren't processed on your device but on their servers, and their TOS says that they can use the images you create for their purposes. I don't know how standard such a clause is in this type of app but I thought I'd mention it.
 
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I just played around with it a bit. Just note though that the photos aren't processed on your device but on their servers, and their TOS says that they can use the images you create for their purposes. I don't know how standard such a clause is in this type of app but I thought I'd mention it.

Pretty standard fare. Not a big deal to me, but definitely something some people are going to be paranoid about.
 

dc3k

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I just went to download it but they spelled their company name on the App Store as "Prisma labs, inc" instead of "Prisma Labs, Inc" so I didn't bother.
 

Razorback

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Do you think this will kill artists?

Not all artists, only the kind that does this sort of art. The modern art movement came about as a reaction to the invention of photography. Perfect realism was something a machine could easily do, so artists had to innovate and do something else.
Now machines have caught up with them again.
 
Pretty standard fare. Not a big deal to me, but definitely something some people are going to be paranoid about.

Yeah, I see Instagram has pretty much the same clause word-for-word, so probably not a big deal. I noted someone complaining about that part of the TOS in a review on the App Store and thought I'd check it out.

Anyway, this is pretty impressive tech. Just playing around I took put one photo of an Amiibo through the Mosaic filter and now I think I'm going to have to do them all:


That's really nice how it found all the little details in the rocks and brought those out and varied the color on Wolf Link. Really cool.
 
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This stuff isn't gonna replace artists anytime soon. Artists (in particular those working digital) will have to adopt tho.

There is already a noticable shift towards parametric, procedurally driven tools in 3D art. I think it will only be a question of time until someone releases something along those lines for illustrations. Imagine a software that allows illustrators to author fully customizable effects like those filters from scratch, while maintaining creative freedom over the results. It will be less and less about moving the mouse oneself but more and more about feeding the computer with instructions of what it's supposed to do for the artist.

In the end all this means is that anyone, including complete noobs can make something that's halfway decent because it is computer assisted but proper artists with all their skill, creativity and experience will still come out on top of it and push towards new boundaries.
 

UrbanRats

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This stuff isn't gonna replace artists anytime soon. Artists (in particular those working digital) will have to adopt tho.

There is already a noticable shift towards parametric, procedurally driven tools in 3D art. I think it will only be a question of time until someone releases something along those lines for illustrations. Imagine a software that allows illustrators to author fully customizable effects like those filters from scratch, while maintaining creative freedom over the results. It will be less and less about moving the mouse oneself but more and more about feeding the computer with instructions of what it's supposed to do for the artist.

In the end all this means is that anyone, including complete noobs can make something that's halfway decent because it is computer assisted but proper artists with all their skill, creativity and experience will still come out on top of it and push towards new boundaries.
The question is whether or not the general public will even care, about the remaining discrepancy between an amateur using software as a crutch, and a professional with years of mastery behind him.

Mastering a craft is good and all, but if the only people who care are the ones in your own profession, it's going to be a problem.

I remember when my teachers joked about graphic novels only being bought by other comic-book artists.
 

plainr_

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This is almost witchcraft.

Is this being rendered locally on the iPhone or some sort of cloud based thing going on?

EDIT: nvm. It's entirely done in the cloud going by the description.
 
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