'Prisma' App's Art-Inspired Photo Filters Take Social Media by Storm

[MacRumors]

Amid all the hype for Pokémon Go this week, one non-game release that's enjoying relatively quiet success in the App Store is a new photo editor called Prisma.

The brainchild of a team of Russian developers, Prisma describes itself simply as an "editor for Instagram", but has attracted far wider attention thanks to an impressive series of stylistic and art-inspired filters.

The app uses a server-side combination of neural networks and artificial intelligence to apply the 33 different filters, which can be changed in intensity using a sliding scale. The results can be immediately shared over Instagram or Facebook, or using the options found in the iOS Share Sheet.

The app is currently available in 25 different countries and has achieved 300,000 downloads each day in 10 of those markets, leading developers scrambling to double their server capacity to process all the information.

Once Prisma's developers have got to grips with the surge in popularity, the team says the app will soon add support for videos and immersive VR.

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

Article Link: 'Prisma' App's Art-Inspired Photo Filters Take Social Media by Storm

 

[nikko1423]

Cool. Fun. Seems very interesting actually.

 

[tomnavratil]

I was actually surprised by the number of effects, their quality and rendering speed using some different kinds of images. Nice cool app!

 

[Avieshek]

So, will people stop painting?

 

[M. Gustave]

Doesn't "relatively quiet success" contradict the title "taking social media by storm"?

And these are as ugly and unrealistic as all the other "art" photo filter apps I've seen.

 

[Telos101]

Doesn't "relatively quiet success" contradict the title "taking social media by storm"?

And these are as ugly and unrealistic as all the other "art" photo filter apps I've seen.

I'd think any app enjoying "relatively quiet success" compared to where Pokemon is right now can be pretty pleased with itself.

Just checked and Prisma is number 1 in some free app store charts.

 

[paul_ryp]

These are amazing and a definate step up from previous "ART" apps.

 

[miknos]

The app is amazing. Results are better than any Photoshop plugin I've seen.

 

[ginkobiloba]

it just kills me that these kind of apps don't have a desktop version, or get also released as plugins for Photoshop/AffinityPhoto

 

[phrehdd]

Doesn't "relatively quiet success" contradict the title "taking social media by storm"?

And these are as ugly and unrealistic as all the other "art" photo filter apps I've seen.

I suppose that its really a matter of what appeals to an individual. Then again, many don't have the ability to create or imagine such "effects" and that makes it very appealing when it can be done on the fly. I'm happy that some will enjoy this app and I am probably in the same camp as you as I have zero interest in it as I don't find the end product images appealing.

 

[OldSchoolMacGuy]

it just kills me that these kind of apps don't have a desktop version, or get also released as plugins for Photoshop/AffinityPhoto

Substantially smaller audience for desktop apps and Photoshop plugins. As a small developer it makes no sense to put your time and energy into developing for those platforms when the iOS platform allows access to hundreds of millions more potential users.

 

[ginkobiloba]

Substantially smaller audience for desktop apps and Photoshop plugins. As a small developer it makes no sense to put your time and energy into developing for those platforms when the iOS platform allows access to hundreds of millions more potential users.

On the other hand , that "smaller" desktop audience is willing to spend money on apps and plugins, while the bigger casual iOS/Android audience wants everything for free and it's very hard to convince them to put out 0.99$ out of their pockets.....

 

[ike1707]

Substantially smaller audience for desktop apps and Photoshop plugins. As a small developer it makes no sense to put your time and energy into developing for those platforms when the iOS platform allows access to hundreds of millions more potential users.

That is to say if you want to know why, then follow the money.

This is how/why World of Warcraft killed the original Warcraft title.

 

[shanson27]

Hm, better than expected

 

[vooke]

So, will people stop painting?

Yep, the same way they stopped driving and started playing Gran Turismo

 

[Keane16]

Yeah agree with the quality comments. Often these types of filters look poor, but seen mostly good ones from this app.

 

[Avieshek]

Yep, the same way they stopped driving and started playing Gran Turismo

Actually, yes.. Pokèmon Go.

 

[thebeans]

Amid all the hype for Pokémon Go this week, one non-game release that's enjoying relatively quiet success in the App Store is a new photo editor called Prisma.

The brainchild of a team of Russian developers, Prisma describes itself simply as an "editor for Instagram", but has attracted far wider attention thanks to an impressive series of stylistic and art-inspired filters.

The app uses a server-side combination of neural networks and artificial intelligence to apply the 33 different filters, which can be changed in intensity using a sliding scale. The results can be immediately shared over Instagram or Facebook, or using the options found in the iOS Share Sheet.

The app is currently available in 25 different countries and has achieved 300,000 downloads each day in 10 of those markets, leading developers scrambling to double their server capacity to process all the information.

Once Prisma's developers have got to grips with the surge in popularity, the team says the app will soon add support for videos and immersive VR.

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

Article Link: 'Prisma' App's Art-Inspired Photo Filters Take Social Media by Storm

Wow. Really, really nice filters. I do wish they had an option for non-square photos though.

 

[MacDawg]

Definitely one of the better apps of this kind to come along
I like the slider a lot

 

[thebeans]

Amid all the hype for Pokémon Go this week, one non-game release that's enjoying relatively quiet success in the App Store is a new photo editor called Prisma.

The brainchild of a team of Russian developers, Prisma describes itself simply as an "editor for Instagram", but has attracted far wider attention thanks to an impressive series of stylistic and art-inspired filters.

The app uses a server-side combination of neural networks and artificial intelligence to apply the 33 different filters, which can be changed in intensity using a sliding scale. The results can be immediately shared over Instagram or Facebook, or using the options found in the iOS Share Sheet.

The app is currently available in 25 different countries and has achieved 300,000 downloads each day in 10 of those markets, leading developers scrambling to double their server capacity to process all the information.

Once Prisma's developers have got to grips with the surge in popularity, the team says the app will soon add support for videos and immersive VR.

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

Article Link: 'Prisma' App's Art-Inspired Photo Filters Take Social Media by Storm

Amid all the hype for Pokémon Go this week, one non-game release that's enjoying relatively quiet success in the App Store is a new photo editor called Prisma.

The brainchild of a team of Russian developers, Prisma describes itself simply as an "editor for Instagram", but has attracted far wider attention thanks to an impressive series of stylistic and art-inspired filters.

The app uses a server-side combination of neural networks and artificial intelligence to apply the 33 different filters, which can be changed in intensity using a sliding scale. The results can be immediately shared over Instagram or Facebook, or using the options found in the iOS Share Sheet.

The app is currently available in 25 different countries and has achieved 300,000 downloads each day in 10 of those markets, leading developers scrambling to double their server capacity to process all the information.

Once Prisma's developers have got to grips with the surge in popularity, the team says the app will soon add support for videos and immersive VR.

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

Article Link: 'Prisma' App's Art-Inspired Photo Filters Take Social Media by Storm

Just a simple pic of little girl's American Girl doll at a restaurant.

Amid all the hype for Pokémon Go this week, one non-game release that's enjoying relatively quiet success in the App Store is a new photo editor called Prisma.

The brainchild of a team of Russian developers, Prisma describes itself simply as an "editor for Instagram", but has attracted far wider attention thanks to an impressive series of stylistic and art-inspired filters.

The app uses a server-side combination of neural networks and artificial intelligence to apply the 33 different filters, which can be changed in intensity using a sliding scale. The results can be immediately shared over Instagram or Facebook, or using the options found in the iOS Share Sheet.

The app is currently available in 25 different countries and has achieved 300,000 downloads each day in 10 of those markets, leading developers scrambling to double their server capacity to process all the information.

Once Prisma's developers have got to grips with the surge in popularity, the team says the app will soon add support for videos and immersive VR.

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

Article Link: 'Prisma' App's Art-Inspired Photo Filters Take Social Media by Storm

Just a simple pic of a little girls American Girl doll at a restaurant.

 

[flowsy]

Pics are uploaded to their servers to render. You give them a lot of rights in the TOS. Not my kind of app, but still a really good Filter-App.

 

[ike1707]

View attachment 640070 View attachment 640069 Hm, better than expected

You can turn off the watermark free of charge in the preferences

 

[Sassycas46]

Amid all the hype for Pokémon Go this week, one non-game release that's enjoying relatively quiet success in the App Store is a new photo editor called Prisma.

The brainchild of a team of Russian developers, Prisma describes itself simply as an "editor for Instagram", but has attracted far wider attention thanks to an impressive series of stylistic and art-inspired filters.

The app uses a server-side combination of neural networks and artificial intelligence to apply the 33 different filters, which can be changed in intensity using a sliding scale. The results can be immediately shared over Instagram or Facebook, or using the options found in the iOS Share Sheet.

The app is currently available in 25 different countries and has achieved 300,000 downloads each day in 10 of those markets, leading developers scrambling to double their server capacity to process all the information.

Once Prisma's developers have got to grips with the surge in popularity, the team says the app will soon add support for videos and immersive VR.

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

Article Link: 'Prisma' App's Art-Inspired Photo Filters Take Social Media by Storm

It's a very cool app!

[doublepost=1468421774][/doublepost]It's a very cool app. The filters based on mood or photo you are converting. Love it

 

[tkukoc]

Pics are uploaded to their servers to render. You give them a lot of rights in the TOS. Not my kind of app, but still a really good Filter-App.

That's the main reason I deleted it, there's no reason for that. The device itself should be doing the rendering. Not to mention it does not keep the original file dimensions. It's cool if you don't care about where your photos are going or what they potentially could be used for.. but it was an easy delete once I noticed the uploading to their servers.

 

[nagromme]

Only 15 MB (the price that matters to me more than dollars). Neat!

Would actually like an iPad version. And on-device processing instead of uploading. But regardless, it does deliver.