Not a new Dreamscope
How many years are we past the death of Dreamscope, and all this can do is turn a photo into a simulated sketch with an awkward color palette forced into it? There are two-hundred or so “styles” yet most of them don’t give results much different than any other. Dreamscope was head and shoulders above this with pre-AI techniques. It’s all just so disappointing.
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How does it work
I tried using the various styles on a photo, and don’t know how to save one. After I tried four effects, it won’t let me try any more. I am just making an initial exploration here, trying to see what this app will do for a photo and how I can save it. Struck dumb.
Doesn’t work
It won’t open any of my photos. It doesn’t work at all
Awesome results.
Came back here after the dream one stopped working. Glad I came back. Lots of awesome pics.
App capabilities vs Money Hungry
Not sure how well the app works because it traps you into selecting a memory clean up app every time you try to do something with the app. Even though you select the “Maybe Later” option.
Pity the developers feel like they have to drown you in advertising.
Pity the developers feel like they have to drown you in advertising.
Amazing
Im willing to pay subscription and get all pop up stuff off. Please fix.
Regular filters
Sorry, great app but it’s just a bunch of regular filters! I will play around a bit more, just in case I’m missing the bigger experience from using this app.
Ruined it
I don’t know what happened with this app! About a month ago I updated and everything looked good with improvements and more control over results. This morning I can’t even open the app, without it crashing! Hopefully it is being fixed otherwise it’s useless!
Don’t waste your time…
…you’ve probably already have an app that’s 1000x better than this.
TL;DR: over-processed initial images that take way too long to be that bad; little real variation in filters; despite a 0-100 tour slider, anything less than 50% might as well be zero; impossible to undo a filter short of turning to zero and hitting “apply”; despite the filter page having a save button, every filter you try is saved and uploaded to their cloud.
What I didn’t like:
1. There’s very little difference between the filters. They all seem to be a variation of sketch, mosaic, or color wash/blend/saturation. None of the images I tried came out anywhere close to the sample. I tried multiple formats, photos, illustrations, and vector graphics.
2. Considering there are 100s (1000s?) of photo filter apps out there that take no time at all, this app can take upwards of 30 seconds to (over)process an image. The entire time the app has a splash screen saying “intelligence makes it better.”
3. When you apply a filter, it’s applied at full strength, making the initial image unrecognizable and way over-baked. At 50% there’s almost zero filter effect left.
4. You can’t uncheck or undo a filter. Your only option is to turn the strength to zero before trying the next one. (Actually, you could just turn it down to “40%” to remove the filter).
5. On the filter screen there’s a save-to-photos button, which turns out to be quite ironic since the app saves EVERY filter applied to EVERY image at 100% strength to its on-phone storage, as well as to its cloud. So if you try 20 filters on one image, saving none, when you go back to the app’s home screen you have all 20 of the images you just rejected. *And* they’re on the app’s website. I’m sure they have a selling point somewhere about the number of users images posted per day.
6. The unwanted images are saved by name plus a sequential number. If I DID want two or three out of 20 it would help if the name(s) of the filter(s) applied were included in the file name.
It might be possible to turn a filter down to almost nothing and combine it with 2 or more filters to get a pleasing effect, but why take that time when you could just use an app that works.
TL;DR: over-processed initial images that take way too long to be that bad; little real variation in filters; despite a 0-100 tour slider, anything less than 50% might as well be zero; impossible to undo a filter short of turning to zero and hitting “apply”; despite the filter page having a save button, every filter you try is saved and uploaded to their cloud.
What I didn’t like:
1. There’s very little difference between the filters. They all seem to be a variation of sketch, mosaic, or color wash/blend/saturation. None of the images I tried came out anywhere close to the sample. I tried multiple formats, photos, illustrations, and vector graphics.
2. Considering there are 100s (1000s?) of photo filter apps out there that take no time at all, this app can take upwards of 30 seconds to (over)process an image. The entire time the app has a splash screen saying “intelligence makes it better.”
3. When you apply a filter, it’s applied at full strength, making the initial image unrecognizable and way over-baked. At 50% there’s almost zero filter effect left.
4. You can’t uncheck or undo a filter. Your only option is to turn the strength to zero before trying the next one. (Actually, you could just turn it down to “40%” to remove the filter).
5. On the filter screen there’s a save-to-photos button, which turns out to be quite ironic since the app saves EVERY filter applied to EVERY image at 100% strength to its on-phone storage, as well as to its cloud. So if you try 20 filters on one image, saving none, when you go back to the app’s home screen you have all 20 of the images you just rejected. *And* they’re on the app’s website. I’m sure they have a selling point somewhere about the number of users images posted per day.
6. The unwanted images are saved by name plus a sequential number. If I DID want two or three out of 20 it would help if the name(s) of the filter(s) applied were included in the file name.
It might be possible to turn a filter down to almost nothing and combine it with 2 or more filters to get a pleasing effect, but why take that time when you could just use an app that works.
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Mom and Me
Easy to use and provides a good amount of styles.
