Are You A Food SnapperI have to admit to stopping to take photographs of great food — while it gets cold on the restaurant table. I even stop others from touching their dishes until I'm done snapping.
Every phone or photography app has a food filter to cater to people like me. But now there's an app — Foodie, free on Android and iOS — that presents a bunch of filters just for food. Aim and slide your finger across the screen to choose filters and when you think your food is looking delicious enough — click. And eat. There are some basic settings to fiddle with such as size of photo, brightness, contrast and focus. You can even apply these filters to non-food items or a photo from your camera roll. These effects are probably a bit too orange and yellow to be appropriate for people, though.
Lose Yourself In An Assemblyassembly is an iOS app that comes to you from Pixite, the makers of a whole set of visual apps that are really fun to use. Try Fragment, Tangent, Matter and others covered here before.
Assembly essentially gives you a whole lot of shapes and you have to put them together to make something of it. It's for creative people who are not great at drawing. And it's a little like digital origami. An enjoyable meditative pastime for when you're on a flight and don't feel like working or perhaps when you want to spend some quality time with a young one, making something together.
The objects you can create can range from the simple to pretty complex, so the challenge doesn't quite end with this app. You can also use it to create graphics and logos — pretty cool ones at that.
What Happens After Light? after light, on Android and iOS, is a collection of lovely filters and tools for your photos. With cameras on phones getting to be what they are nowadays, it makes more sense than ever to have a few nice filter apps around.
After Light has a collection of filters that you can browse through and see how they look on your photo. There are additional controls such as the usual vignette, brightness etc, but my favourite here is a collection of light leaks. These add some great flare — literally — to your images especially since you can rotate them and even change their colour. If you look around, you'll find more tricks. For instance, you can put an alphabet over an image and change its transparency for a really nice effect.
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Mala Bhargava has been writing on technology well before the advent of internet in Indians and before CDs made their way into computers. Mala writes on technology, social media, startups and fitness. A trained psychologist, she claims that her understanding of psychology helps her understand the human side of technology.
