Hardcover OG vs Ancient Light

Admire your photos with Hardcover, the best and easiest way to store photos on your iPhone. Conveniently upload from numerous sources, from the Camera Roll to iTunes, Dropbox & iCloud Drive. With an array of classic and charming themes, you can watch your favorite memories in slideshows with incredible transitions. The Newest, Most Convenient iOS App Hardcover uses new Face ID™ feature. Now you can avoid PIN numbers-- All it takes without just one tap. Also, with multiple accounts, you can make sure those private photos stay for your eyes only. Beautiful Albums that are Good on the Eyes User friendly and beautiful, it's like killing two birds with one stone. Choose between two modes: albums in a classic motif and a convenient general list. The album skins are modern, bold, and animated, with timeless illustrations. Find a skin that matches your style, or get a wider variety for $0.99. Matchless Transition Effects We have what you need: 37 transition effects to take your slideshows to the next level. Upload and Share Hardcover lets you grab your photos from anywhere- Dropbox, iTunes & iCloud Drive. Just pick one and start uploading. Share your albums on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media sites! Features: Face ID™ Access Touch ID™ Access Multiple Accounts (for those photos you don't want anyone to see) Uploading from iCloud Drive, Dropbox, iTunes PIN Protection (With decoy account) Beautiful Vintage Album Skins Using Your Photos for Custom Skins 37 Slideshow Transition Effects Supports High-Resolution Images Exif Photo Information Video Playback Supports App Extension (Allows Users to Send photos from Their Camera Roll to Hardcover App.) Supported media type: - JPEG, PNG image - Video (Including 120 & 240 FPS Slo-mo movie) - GIF Animation - Live Photo image Face ID and Touch ID are a trademark of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries.

Ancient Light transforms your iPhone into a camera of the nineteenth century. Take a new photograph or import a favourite from your photo library. Twelve authentic historic photographic processes - each faithfully simulated through the physics of tone, silver chemistry, grain, paper, emulsion, and light. Not filters. Processes. -- THE TWELVE PROCESSES -- Daguerreotype (1839) - The first successful photograph. A mirror-like silver surface with luminous shadow detail and seven scanned frame choices, plus No Frame. Tintype (1853) - The photograph of the working class. Robust, immediate, metallic, with regular or square format options and optional worn plate borders. Albumen (1850s) - Warm egg-white paper prints mounted as cabinet cards, with soft sepia-brown toning, aged cream stock, rounded corners, and a ruled inner border. Sepia - The warm brown tone of silver sulphide that preserved Victorian portraits through a century and a half. Cyanotype (1842) - Sir John Herschel's iron-based process. Deep Prussian blue. The print that gave photography the word "blueprint." Anthotype (1839) - Made from crushed plant pigments. Delicate, fugitive, botanical. The most poetic photographic process ever devised. Platinum (1873) - The process of fine art portraiture. Cool, shadow-rich, with a tonal range silver could never match. Autochrome (1907) - The Lumiere brothers' starch-grain colour process. Dreamy, pointillist, the first practical colour photography. Emulsion - A damaged instant-emulsion look with faded color, warm highlights, scorched edges, amber leaks, scratches, and oxidized surface wear. Bromoil (1907) - Oil-based ink on bleached gelatin. Painterly and stippled, with inky shadows and pale milky highlights. Lippmann (1891) - Gabriel Lippmann's Nobel Prize-winning interferential process. Warm amber ageing, long-exposure softness, and glass plate scratches from a century of handling. Infrared (1930s) - Light beyond the visible spectrum. Luminous white foliage, darkened skies, ethereal skin tones. The spectral world captured on heat-sensitive emulsion. -- WHAT ANCIENT LIGHT CAN DO -- * Import your own photos - apply historic processes to images from your photo library, even with camera access disabled * All four optical lenses - ultrawide (0.5x), wide (1x), 2x, and telephoto (5x) - selectable from the viewfinder * One photo, many processes - explore and save multiple historic versions of a captured or imported photo * On iPhone Pro: saves both a filtered JPEG and the original 48MP ProRAW DNG as a paired asset * Emulsion process with faded instant-film color, warmer highlights, lighter grain, and scanned edge damage * Albumen cabinet-card output with warm paper tone, aged stock texture, rounded card corners, and ruled border * Infrared process with glowing foliage, dark skies, and spectral black-and-white tonality * Tintype options - choose regular or square format, with period borders or no borders * Seven Daguerreotype frame styles plus No Frame, selectable directly from the viewfinder * Adjustments apply to the photograph while preserving Daguerreotype frame artwork * Full adjustment suite - exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, black point, saturation, vibrance, warmth, sharpness, and vignette * Auto enhancement with one tap * Precision crop tool with inset handles and rule-of-thirds grid * Landscape side-panel layout keeps the image large while all controls stay accessible * Photographer credit field - your name travels with every saved file in the IPTC metadata * Process, frame, and Tintype options stored between sessions * iPhone and iPad, all orientations * No subscription. No ads. No account required. Ancient Light is a single purchase. Everything in it is yours.