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How we open sourced Instagram
- Mizza 14y agoHeh.. not very much on the "how" but I appreciate the effort! I guess we'll be seeing a lot of these filters pop up in other apps now. I don't really mind, a lot of people gave shit to Instagram for being a billion-dollar-app which made photos look worse, but I think I prefer fake-shitty than the weirdly-sharp digital look that most cell phones produce. Anyway, bravo, and that's for releasing this as free software!
- zmitri 14y agoHey Mizza, you read the github page here https://github.com/gobackspaces/DLCImagePickerController#readme https://github.com/gobackspaces/DLCImagePickerController#rea... for more info. I think open-source obj-C has a long way to go, and I want to help as much as I can. As for "fake-shitty" I assure you, these are not shitty, nor are they meant to be straight copies. Check out this high res version of the output http://i.imgur.com/0OncO.jpg http://i.imgur.com/0OncO.jpg
- tomconte 14y agoBased on Brad Larson's GPUImage, amazing OpenGL based image filters library, very hackable if you learn GLSL :)
- zmitri 14y agoYup. I made sure the second line in the repo readme was "The majority of the praise should be directed towards BradLarson for his GPUImage library."
- brown9-2 14y agoWhat was actually released? The github page seems to have a single non-forked repository: http://github.com/gobackspaces http://github.com/gobackspaces
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- wylie 14y agoWe released an iOS camera with live filters and blur at https://github.com/gobackspaces/DLCImagePickerController https://github.com/gobackspaces/DLCImagePickerController
- reidrac 14y agoThe post is a little bit misleading. You didn't open source Instagram but a component used by the app. Am I right?
- zmitri 14y agoThat's fair. if you are looking for full functionality, I suggest you merge Parse's AnyPic (https://github.com/ParsePlatform/Anypic https://github.com/ParsePlatform/Anypic) with this camera picker component. IG is much more than just filters, but it is definitely a big reason they are popular.
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- memnips 14y agoThe title feels a bit sensationalist. Yes, some open sourced iOS live filters are totally cool, but this really has nothing to do with Instagram. Instagram is more than some photo filters.
- Semiapies 14y agoMind, this is the part of Instagram everyone actually cares about.
- memnips 14y agoI think that's what is commonly picked up on, but I think Instagram's magic actually comes from how frictionless it is to share a photo and use the service. The photo filters are a part of that - the fun and quirky part - but its actually not what makes it special imo.
- SandersAK 14y agothat's definitely fair. i guess we could have said it's more the initial hook of instagram that we're open sourcing :)
- SandersAK 14y agoi'm one of the founders at backspac.es and i was curious what people thought of the story format that's produced. feedback is most welcome :)
- marginalboy 14y agoI came here to say "how the hell can I get a backspac.es account". Loved it, absolutely loved it.
- SandersAK 14y agoAwesome! For now you can just sign up on the homepage (http://www.backspac.es http://www.backspac.es) and we'll let you know when we're good to go. Should be any day hopefully! happy to chat more on the emails, twitter etc, cheers!
- marginalboy 14y agoSigned up already! Great job on it. By way of exchange, I'll offer what meager observations my usability & QA expertise inform when I start using :-)
- SandersAK 14y agosweet! we're desperate for UX thoughts and feedback - definitely the piece we're most keen to polish for the first update :)
- upinsmoke 14y agoThanks for sharing. I'm more interested in how you created the curve files?
- wylie 14y agoI created them using Photoshop, and used GPUImage to parse the files it created. I tested each filter on a sample of iPhone images in different lighting conditions.