Photo Editing App 'Prisma' Now Supports Offline Picture Processing

[MacRumors]

Popular photo manipulation app Prisma has been updated to allow offline processing of images for the first time.

The photo app recreates images in the style of famous artists and gives shots a painterly aesthetic using neural networks, but up until now users needed an internet connection and had to wait for the app's Moscow-based servers to process their pictures.

The latest update doesn't bring offline mode to the whole collection of Prisma's filters, but the developers say more is to come on that front, and the change means server-side video manipulation is just around the corner.

"Now that we've implemented neural networks right to the smartphones, we have enough server capacity to run full videos on them in the near future," said the Prisma team.

Prisma Labs says "repainting" times have been reduced to five seconds on Apple's latest iPhones and that there should be no increase in handset battery usage.

Prisma is a free download on the App Store for iPhone and iPad. [Direct Link]

Article Link: Photo Editing App 'Prisma' Now Supports Offline Picture Processing

 

[S.B.G]

That's pretty neat looking app. What exactly do they mean by neural networks here?

 

[rhoydotp]

What exactly do they mean by neural networks here?

It's pretty interesting ... here's a good very basic read

http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-predictive-analysis-neural-networks-work.html

it sounds like that the bulk of the processing can be done directly on the device as supposed to a background task in their servers.

this is my guess ... anybody else can elaborate?

 

[Telos101]

That's pretty neat looking app. What exactly do they mean by neural networks here?

It's similar to what Google did with their DeepDream stuff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeepDream

 

[Roygun]

Anyways prisma is a pretty cool app

 

[macduke]

This is a pretty neat app, actually. Since it uses neural networks, many of the effects don't look like a typical computer filter as they're much smarter than that. My only gripe is that I wish I could touch it up. There was one area on my chin where it lost contrast from the rest of my beard and made a bunch of hairy brush strokes anyway which really looked out of place. But overall it's great and a lot of fun!

 

[Northgrove]

I didn't get why you guys posted about this one since at first sight it looked like just a boring filter app, but this is something special indeed. I'll do a 180 right here and say that I wish more photo editing apps did more things like this, demanding some effort and making them unique rather than 500 B&W filter or polaroid apps. Now where's the offline Deep Dream app?

 

[JosephAW]

Nice that your photos are no longer sent securely to KGB, I mean Moscow for processing. Using new NSA tools recent acquired they have embedded them directly into the app saving them the extra step of the servers used for the back door.

 

[thebeans]

It's a really nice photo filter app. I got it a few weeks ago when I first saw it on here. I just wish you could do photos in native rectangular format instead of only Instagram square. Also, no logo on the finished photo would be nice.

 

[doelcm82]

It's a really nice photo filter app. I got it a few weeks ago when I first saw it on here. I just wish you could do photos in native rectangular format instead of only Instagram square. Also, no logo on the finished photo would be nice.

The logo is on by default, but you can turn it off in settings.

 

[rhett7660]

It's a really nice photo filter app. I got it a few weeks ago when I first saw it on here. I just wish you could do photos in native rectangular format instead of only Instagram square. Also, no logo on the finished photo would be nice.

For the logo, open the app, click on the gear icon in the upper right hand corner, and disable the "enable watermarks". No more watermarks.

 

[ScottC7]

It's a really nice photo filter app. I got it a few weeks ago when I first saw it on here. I just wish you could do photos in native rectangular format instead of only Instagram square...

I agree 100% with this. I think the app is fantastic but really want to be able to apply it to photos in their native shape.

 

[freediverx]

This is a pretty neat app, actually. Since it uses neural networks, many of the effects don't look like a typical computer filter as they're much smarter than that. My only gripe is that I wish I could touch it up. There was one area on my chin where it lost contrast from the rest of my beard and made a bunch of hairy brush strokes anyway which really looked out of place. But overall it's great and a lot of fun!

My gripe is that the app reduces the resolution of the output file to 1 megapixel, which renders it useless for printing or displaying on larger displays.

Also the company's terms of service dictate that you grant them unlimited, transferable, non-exclusive rights to all your photos, which is a potential privacy nightmare.

 

[macduke]

My gripe is that the app reduces the resolution of the output file to 1 megapixel, which renders it useless for printing or displaying on larger displays.

Also the company's terms of service dictate that you grant them unlimited, transferable, non-exclusive rights to all your photos, which is a potential privacy nightmare.

Does that also apply to all local edits in this new update? I've only been using it since the new update, which is when I first heard about it earlier in the day before MR posted about it. If that's the case then I don't think I'll be using it any more, as I don't want images of my children to appear in any promotional images. I hardly even post images of my children to social media, lol, but that is mostly because there are so many creepers on the internet.

 

[freediverx]

"you hereby grant to Prisma a non-exclusive, fully paid and royalty-free, transferable, sub-licensable, worldwide license to use the Content that you stylize on or through the Service, subject to the Service’s Privacy Policy, available here http://prisma-ai.com/privacy/, including but not limited to sections 3 (“Sharing of Your Information”) and 4 (“How We Store Your Information”). Some of the Service is supported by advertising revenue and may display advertisements and promotions, and you hereby agree that Prisma may place such advertising and promotions on the Service or on, about, or in conjunction with your Content. The manner, mode and extent of such advertising and promotions are subject to change without specific notice to you."

http://prisma-ai.com/terms

 

[koa]

Pretty cool app. You can take a saved image you applied a filter to and use that to apply another filter to so can create more different styles.

 

[C DM]

"you hereby grant to Prisma a non-exclusive, fully paid and royalty-free, transferable, sub-licensable, worldwide license to use the Content that you stylize on or through the Service, subject to the Service’s Privacy Policy, available here http://prisma-ai.com/privacy/, including but not limited to sections 3 (“Sharing of Your Information”) and 4 (“How We Store Your Information”). Some of the Service is supported by advertising revenue and may display advertisements and promotions, and you hereby agree that Prisma may place such advertising and promotions on the Service or on, about, or in conjunction with your Content. The manner, mode and extent of such advertising and promotions are subject to change without specific notice to you."

http://prisma-ai.com/terms

Doesn't the whole "offline" part introduced in this update more or less make most of that a non-issue essentially?

 

[freediverx]

Doesn't the whole "offline" part introduced in this update more or less make most of that a non-issue essentially?

Just because they can process some of the filters in the device doesn't automatically mean they won't upload the resulting images to their servers later. Also not all filers are processed in the device.

Even if they have no axial plans to use these photos, there's nothing preventing that situation from changing if/when they get bought out by another company down the road.

These legal agreements are all very one-sided against end users. But I've never seen one with such broad language before.

 

[iMember]

I'm got admit I'm really impressed with the photo on the right..beautiful! Im not really into photo editing but ill give it a try