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Take Instagram filters to the next level with Maxstagram

37 points by mayank 14y ago

pcrumm 14y ago
Interesting idea! It would be neat if one were able to select a filter that's already been used (off an editor's pick or an image in the gallery) and apply that particular filter on their image of choice as well. Crowd-sourced selection of the best filters might produce nifty results.
- firloop 14y ago
  Agreed, this would make this way cooler. Maybe someone could turn this into a web app where people vote on the best filters, and you can either make a random filter or choose from a selection of highly-voted filters. Could be very interesting. edit: I see that this is already a webapp, but the additional functionality I described would still be cool.
  - zmb_ 14y ago
    Genetic algorithm for filter generation with a human fitness function.
SunboX 14y ago
If I get it right, it just uses ImageMagic? So why is this a HN? ;/
- mwill 14y ago
  Because someone submitted it and people upvoted it? Getting enough upvotes to stick on the front page for a bit is a good yardstick for relevance, I think. (Not the one who downmodded you, just piping in)
- tobinfricke 14y ago
  What's wrong with "just using ImageMagic"?
  - SunboX 14y ago
    A simple comandline wrapper of ImageMagic isn't really news. But if enought people like it, it's ok. No news for me
- OGC 14y ago
  You are not getting it. The point is it randomly generates image manipulations with several steps (= filter).
mmwanga 14y ago
This is cool, very cool.
nakedrobot2 14y ago
This is neat. Cool work! But :-) while your headline is justifiably front-page HN worthy, these are not "instagram filters to the next level". Take a look at all the instagram clones, and their filters. The filters suck. They are usually not very nice, and make most photos look worse. Now of course the people who dislike Instagram will disagree with me, but as a photographer myself, I can see that most of Instagram's filters are lovingly made, and they do something that most people can't match - and it's not for lack of trying to copy them! In other words, you can't take a bunch of random transformations and hope to get anything remotely like the Instagram filters. These things take a great effort to make. Again, no criticism intended of your work - more of your headline.... cheers!
camus 14y ago
cool but how do i pt it in my android native app?

37 points by mayank 14y ago

Interesting idea! It would be neat if one were able to select a filter that's already been used (off an editor's pick or an image in the gallery) and apply that particular filter on their image of choice as well. Crowd-sourced selection of the best filters might produce nifty results.

firloop 14y ago
Agreed, this would make this way cooler. Maybe someone could turn this into a web app where people vote on the best filters, and you can either make a random filter or choose from a selection of highly-voted filters. Could be very interesting. edit: I see that this is already a webapp, but the additional functionality I described would still be cool.
- zmb_ 14y ago
  Genetic algorithm for filter generation with a human fitness function.

SunboX 14y ago

If I get it right, it just uses ImageMagic? So why is this a HN? ;/

mwill 14y ago
Because someone submitted it and people upvoted it? Getting enough upvotes to stick on the front page for a bit is a good yardstick for relevance, I think. (Not the one who downmodded you, just piping in)
tobinfricke 14y ago
What's wrong with "just using ImageMagic"?
- SunboX 14y ago
  A simple comandline wrapper of ImageMagic isn't really news. But if enought people like it, it's ok. No news for me
OGC 14y ago
You are not getting it. The point is it randomly generates image manipulations with several steps (= filter).

mmwanga 14y ago

This is cool, very cool.

nakedrobot2 14y ago

This is neat. Cool work! But :-) while your headline is justifiably front-page HN worthy, these are not "instagram filters to the next level". Take a look at all the instagram clones, and their filters. The filters suck. They are usually not very nice, and make most photos look worse. Now of course the people who dislike Instagram will disagree with me, but as a photographer myself, I can see that most of Instagram's filters are lovingly made, and they do something that most people can't match - and it's not for lack of trying to copy them! In other words, you can't take a bunch of random transformations and hope to get anything remotely like the Instagram filters. These things take a great effort to make. Again, no criticism intended of your work - more of your headline.... cheers!

camus 14y ago

cool but how do i pt it in my android native app?