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I’m impressed, mobile photography grasshopper. You’ve gotten pretty good at Instagram I see. Feeling limited by meager selection of filters? Afterglow will take you to the next level.
Afterglow gives you a tonne of new Instagram-like filters plus basic editing tools you’ll recognise from software like Adobe Lightroom. The 30 included filters are adjustable so you can adjust just how much “Raven” haze you’d like to put over your photo. There are 12 adjustment tools that allow you to tweak the shadows and saturation of you shot as well as cropping and transformation tools so you can make everything just right. Then, when you’re done, the app exports right to Instagram. Your friends will be impressed.
After seeing the same old filters over and over and over again, well, we’re bored. How many sepia-soaked lunches can you possibly endure before you decide to give up food altogether? Afterglow gives opens the door to a new world of stylised imagery.
Afterglow is available for iOS for 69p
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I’m getting utterly sick of this filtered bullshit. Taking a crappy freak-angled photo of something bland and putting a filter over it does not automatically turn one into an expert photographer.
Exactly. Everyone who takes a photo on instagram at some obscure relatively average angle, and yet somehow different to the beholder, seem to think they are experts at photography. I’ve spent years harnessing my traditional drawing skills to get to the level I am today. People take years crafting their photography skills. This is just ruining the appreciation of the art.
What a load of stuck up knackers.
Just because someone uses Instagram to take some snaps doesn’t mean they’re claiming to be Annie Leibovitz. They’re just enjoying photography, which should be encouraged, not scourned.
As a photographer that earns a living, I’m pleased to see more people take an interest.
I’m with Teamwood here; I absolutely agree that taking photos of something at a jaunty angle and putting a filter over it doesn’t make you a photographer, the same way as driving a car doesn’t make you a racing driver. Just because people have tools doesn’t mean they can use them correctly, but they won’t get any better without practice. With that in mind, I try to skim over the photos of people’s cats, and their cupcakes and pretty clouds… Maybe if they keep taking those photos eventually they’ll realise they suck and move onto something more creatively interesting