Camera Boost for iPad 2 review
22 Apr 2011 4 Comments
in Apple Inc, iPad, iPad App, photography
Camera Boost for the iPad 2 is an application that enables you to add certain parameters to an iPad 2 camera before you take the shot. It is not an image editor that enables you to tweak images after the shot is taken. It is an image enhancer that you perform with the live view function of the camera before you take the shot. Essentially what you see on screen when you tweak is what you get when you take the shot.
The interface features four main buttons; Light, Color, Detail, and FX. Tapping the Light button brings up sliders for adjusting exposure, contrast and brightness. The Color button brings up sliders for Saturation, Select Color, Hue, and Colorize. Detail offers sliders for adjusting the image’s sharpness or softness. You can also turn the Sharpen and Softness off.
Negative effect in Camera Boost
Thermal effect in Camera Boost
Posterize effect in Camera Boost
Various effects in Camera Boost
Zoom feature in Camera boost
Various effects in Camera Boost
The app is ideal for creating cool effects to your still images before you capture them with the iPad 2′s camera, as well as making adjustments to the image, such as exposure and contrast. You compose your shot, make the adjustments with any of the above effects and adjustments and then you snap the shot within the application. All of the effects are previewed on screen before you take the shot, so you have plenty of time to tweak using the available sliders. It is super simple to use and offers more than just what the iPad 2 camera offers, which is just the capability to take a photo with the front or rear camera.
Camera Boost then saves the images to your Album, where you can then choose to upload the images to photo sharing sites such as Flickr and Facebook. You can also email the photos as well. It’s a pretty cool app that adds more functionality to the iPad 2′s camera.
Camera Boost
$2.99
www.interealtime.com
Mac App Store
Apr 22, 2011 @ 05:24:42
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So these photos were taken on an iPad? Didn’t even know you can do that. Still, those are some pretty cool effects.
Apr 22, 2011 @ 06:30:36
The photos were taken using the front camera on the iPad 2. The quality is not very good as it is really a still image capture from the video camera.
Apr 23, 2011 @ 15:36:24
True, true. But the effects can sure make an ordinary image look so unique.
Apr 23, 2011 @ 16:31:18
I agree. The iPad 2 rear camera is 0.7 megapixels, which is about the same quality as Apple’s original digital camera, the QuickTake, released in 1994. It’s really pathetic that Apple put such a crappy camera in the ipad when it put a very good camera in the iPhone. Camera Boost definitely hides the crappy image quality of the iPad 2. It is a fun app.