Best iPhone Camera App Ever and my first App ; )
Camera+, the App that I’ve been working on for over a year, is now available in the App Store.
Woooo! *does a happy dance*
If you’ve been following my Twitter, Tumblr or Flickr stream, you’ve probably noticed a lot of iPhone shots pop up recently from my trips to New York and San Francisco. Now I can finally share the amazing app that created all those cool FXs!
HDR (Special FX)
I partnered with the amazing Taptaptap team including, John Casasanta, Scott Meinzer, Wolfgang Bartleme and Karl Von Randow, on Camera+ and I truly believe we built the most streamlined and extensive camera App for the iPhone.
Purple Haze (Colour FX)
I spent most of my time creating and tweaking all the custom Scene and FXs for the App in Photoshop. In all honesty, it was really hard coming up with 24 unique FXs.
I can’t even count the number of crazy and horrible FXs I came up with in the process, but I’m sure my colleagues can tell you that “subtlety” is not in my post-processing vocabulary. :P
Hipster (Retro FX).
We went all out on the names of the FXs, “So Emo” being my absolute favourite.
We’ve all had so much fun testing and creating the App, minus the time when we got slapped with a big rejection from Apple for trying to sneak in an illegal feature :-/
It’s been a long process and one that has renewed my passion for taking and sharing images. I am ecstatic to share this App with you! I can’t wait to see what you create with Camera+.
Download the App & show me your photos!
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Downloading now! I’m so excited. :D
I loved the photos you took with this app in NYC. Awesome effects.
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I follow you on tumblr and have been looking forward to your app for a while! Playing with it today has been great and the app is fantastic. I plan to leave an iTunes review for it later today after I process a couple more photos.
Only one recommendation: can we stack the filters? All other iPhone camera apps I own allow you to combine fx filters for a unique look and it’s frustrating not to be able to do this on Camera+. Perhaps as a possible update? thanks!
Lisa, this looks SO cool! :D:D:D I gotta check it out :) (I love using my iPhone while traveling. Feels safer than pulling out my DSLR sometimes).
So when can we expect the android version?
Love the app, can’t wait to see what the app will be like when the iPhone 4 comes out.
wow, I’ve been beta testing the app, and never realized you were involved in creation! I must say that this is the best camera app I have seen for the iPhone. Great job with your work with Tap Tap Tap!
Downloaded app today and all I can say is “wow!” love it! Tried a lot of camera apps, and until now bestcamera was my favorite. This one tops it easily. Great job! Fun to use. Easy to use! Great effects that are just right. See several shots that I took today, well yesterday since it’s after midnight now, and plenty more will be there. 5 stars!
I love this kind of innocent photography. Just catch the moment and make it unique. Really nice App…
i believe this app is going to change the mobile photography idea. it really is cool.
by the way why did you change your theme ?
Great little app, I have had a blast with it so far.
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Hi Lisa,
Just downloaded the Camera+ App and played around with it.
I have to say: Well done! And definitely worth more than $2.39
I have the iPhone 3G, which means the camera itself isn’t the best, but that will change soon enough. ;-)
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Hey Lisa,
Awesome awesome looking app, and that’s my issue… it looks oh so good, but I can’t use it. Any plans in the future at all for an Android version? I know it’s not up to you but hey, who knows? Awesome work though.. thanks for the inspiration!
-Elliot-
I love the photo of the cabs. I’m not a big picture person, but I think I will definitely be getting your app. Very cool!
Bought Camera+ yesterday after watching macbreak weekly. Blown away by how it makes even my old 1st gen iPhone’s camera pop! Love the UI and the speed, yet especially the tools. Very well done. Dumpimg darkroom and Photoshop mobile for this. Thanks, Lisa and TapTapTap!
Hi Lisa, just wanted to congratulated you on such a fantastic App. I have pages full of iPhone photography Apps this one has easily become my favourite out of the bunch. I love the filters as well as the look and feel of the App design in general. I can’t wait to use it on the new iPhone 4! I think it is perhaps slightly under-priced for what it is. Thanks again!
I’ve had some good results on my 3GS – can’t wait to get the iPhone 4 and try it out on that :)
I’m sorta skeptical to dole out the $2.99 then in a few weeks it’ll be on “sale” for .99. It’s happened to me before.
However, the more great things I’m hearing about it the more it entices me!
I downloaded this app and took some photos on Parramatta at dusk.
Absolutely fantastic! Best photos I have ever taken! Just the stable button alone is worth the price. And the lightroom element is a dream to use.
This app is slightly sluggish on a 3G, and may be enough to abandon changing to a v4 iphone rather than android…CURSE YOU LISA!!!
Congratulations on the launch and best of luck with it. I hope it’ll make you filthy rich ;)
Fantastic app!! easily the best photography app in the app store. I can’t wait to use it on the iPhone 4!
Any other experiences? Just curious because the camera app in the new iOS 4.0 sports a zoom function now also. Anyone know how Camera+ stacks up against it?
I sincerely want to purchase this app, just want to make sure I’m happy without the $3 purchase…
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Wow, even in Germany its #11 of the most downloaded apps, even with all the soccer world cup apps currently high up in the list. Congratulation! Great work.
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I just downloaded the camera app. It is really good Lisa! I love the effects. There is such a good collection and I really like the user interface design.
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Cool app and you look good HD or SD
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Just bought this a few days ago and have had all sorts of dorky fun with it. (Actually caused me to spend more time taking pictures with my phone than I have in quite some time.) I would love something like this on the PC. Sure, these effects can be done with Paint Shop Pro or Photoshop, but sometimes I’d just like to take a picture from my computer and have a quick effect on hand without all the fiddling. I’m impatient. :)
I’ve just reviewed this app and posted my own collection of photos made with it at
http://julesburt.posterous.com/
Great app, thanks Lisa!
Jules.
On iPhone 4, after taking a pic, the shutter stays closed until you open the Lightbox. Could you add a feature to reopen the shutter automatically, or after tapping on the shutter/viewfinder area?
Great app!
Follow up to previous comment.
Can’t pin down the exact cause. Turning sounds off seems to cause the shutter to not hang all of the time. There must be some other variable because it doesn’t immediately stop hanging once the sounds are off.
I’ll see if I can troubleshoot this any more.
I think I’ve narrowed down the problems, of which there appear to be two. I can’t tell how related they are, if at all. They are both resolved by entering Lightbox. Neither has anything to do with the sounds, as I previously suspected.
1) Once a photo is taken with flash On or on Auto with flash firing, the GUI shutter hangs closed until you enter Lightbox. It doesn’t hang if the flash is Off or doesn’t fire on Auto.
2) After taking a picture without the GUI shutter hanging – that is, without the flash firing – the flash toggle and front/back camera toggle buttons disappear until entering Lightbox.
Neither of these bugs is cleared by returning to the GUI camera back. Only entering Lightbox or app switching away and then back restores the buttons and opens the GUI shutter.
Hope this helps!
Also, I couldn’t add Twitter sharing as the first sharing account. When I tried, it had the pinwheel/working symbol, then I was kicked out to the Home screen. Only after adding Facebook sharing could I then add Twitter sharing.
@Aspen Mayer: thanks for all the awesome bug reporting! we really appreciate it. we are releasing an update to fix all these issues in the next couple of days :)
Camera+ is a brilliant app. I love the simplicity with which you can turn a fairly ordinary photo into something that you want to keep and share. Thanks very much for producing such a great app. Simon (UK)
Hi all,
There’s a new Facebook fan page for us all to share our Camera+ pics, please take a look here;
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=137078032985852
Thanks,
Jules.
Wow, that looks like a fantastic app! Congratulations Lisa.
I don’t actually have an iPhone, so I’d like to register my vote with the others for an Android app!
An Android app would be awesome and would definitely be the best camera app on Android-based phones.
I’d buy it if it were on Android.
Hi Lisa, I really like this app but it’s become less useful for me on iOS4. I just moved from a 3G to 4 and I have the iOS4 update but it is still slow compared to the built in camera app. Any chance we can get settings to disable the UI shutter and other “pretty” but slow features? Something where we can take photos “bam bam bam” similar to the DSLR the UI is modeled after? Any plans for a video version? Thanks! Keep up the great work!
Congratulations!
I hope you are getting a good percentage of the revenue. You deserve it.
http://taptaptap.com/blog/cameraplus-first-month-sales/
Hi Lisa – I don’t know if this is the right place to ask. I have Camera + on my iPhone 4. I try using the stabilizer and it never takes a picture. I even set the phone on the desk and finally after bout 2 minutes it snapped a shot. Is there something I am doing wrong or that I need to do? Thank you. Greg
Never mind…I needed to update.
Is there geotagging on the pics? I just took a bunch and they didn’t come up on my places map. In using iPhone 4.
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Fantastic app! I’m interested in the geotagging too. Location services are on for camera+ but pics aren’t appearing in the ‘Places’ tab in my photo album. For me, thats the only thing that stops it replacing the camera app at the moment.
+1 for geotagging, just noticed that was not a feature. That is really the last bit, otherwise a fantastic app!
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I would probably buy this if it were available on Android. The one thing I’ve seen on the new iPhone that I really like is the touch-to-focus/exposure and it works very well.
It would be nice if there was an option to directly save the photos to the iphone on the menu. This would be a real time saver since I don’t need to perform additional edits.
I know Apple pulled the App which I don’t agree with. are you removing the features they didn’t like and resubmitting. or is it gone for good now what happens I didn’t find out about the app till to late. I’m really bummed.
Am I doing something wrong? I keep getting told the App isnt available in the US store.
:(
Hi, When do you think the app will be back in the App Store. I bought it about a few weeks ago but never synced with itunes. I have since replaced my iPhone and now i’m without this fantastic app!! Please provide some news for us on this soon!!
You guys should totally distribute jailbroke app, I would buy!!
Hi, I couldnt find this app in the itunes app store. Later i got to know that it has been removed. Does anyone know where else i can get it from for iphone 4? The more i read about camera+, the more i want to try.
Any word on availability in the appstore? Cant wait! (will it be US only?)
Everyone is so silent, wrote a note on your fb and also inquired to taptaptap on the cache size in light box because I was worried about taking to many photos before downloading them to the camera roll. Can’t seem to get in touch with anyone….this has nothing to do with the app getting pulled although that was silly…..the volume fix was awesome, there is no way it could have added user confusion.