Small rocket,makers of popular apps like Water immersion And firstthey released a new camera app called Two cinemas To capture moving photos and videos without the help of any AI filters.
The app, which is available for free, uses inspiration from traditional anime and movies for its filters. You can apply filters while taking photos or videos to see a live preview. Once you’ve taken a photo, you can edit the image with settings such as line cleaning, shadows, flattening, brightness, tint, sepia, light tint, temperature, and contrast.
For videos, the app has a full-screen cinema mode so you can capture your footage without any distractions.
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Cinemin also offers in-app purchases to unlock features like saving unfiltered photos and videos for later editing and exporting 3K and 4K videos. Users can pay $0.99 per month or $5.99 per year to unlock these features. The app also offers a one-time purchase option for $9.99.
John Balistrieri, the company’s founder, said his background is in art and design. So he tries to incorporate that into his applications. Cinemin focuses on the 2D animation aspect of photography, so a lot of your photos and videos will look flat.
“For the past 20 years, I have used computer graphics to explore art and vision. “Each of my apps (Percolator, Waterlogue, Cinemin, etc.) focuses on some visual or aesthetic principle rooted in the human visual system supported by hundreds of years of artistic tradition,” He told TechCrunch via email.
While a lot of apps apply AI-driven creative tricks to images, Balestreri said they need a lot of training data, and he doesn’t want to exploit artists using their existing AI work.
“Generative AI is great if you don’t know what you’re doing – throw in millions of images and have the computer ‘figure it out’, but figuring it out for myself is part of my artistic journey,” he said.