Prisma app reviving photo filter apps

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Although the best app of the year would definitely go to Pokemon Go, the second best would have to be Prisma, even though it is still now an iOS-only app.

The product of a small team from Moscow, Prisma lets you apply a variety of art filters to your pictures and then share them via Instagram, Facebook, or wherever else you wish to show it.

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That sounds like an utterly unremarkable premise, but the difference is in how good the app is. Prisma takes what you could do with Instagram’s rudimentary filters and completely revolutionising it.
Anyone who’s dabbled with Photoshop will know about its Filter submenu. It’s one of the most immediately accessible parts of the world’s best photo-editing app, and it transforms pictures almost instantly with practically no work or skill required by the artist.
Instagram’s trick was to create subtler overlays than Photoshop - which could completely obliterate a photo with its most extreme settings - and to focus on the most essential and eye-pleasing enhancements.

Both Photoshop and Instagram, however, suffer from being obvious overlays that are easily recognizable when the manipulated photos are shared. Art isn’t supposed to be a one-click or one-tap affair, and it certainly isn’t supposed to be repetitive.
Like Pokémon Go, Prisma has been an instant hit with users, which has overwhelmed its makers’ servers and led to protracted processing times and even moments where the service is unavailable.
‘Although I don’t have an iPhone, I use my friend who owns one and then take a few selfie shots’, said Tushar, a student a Rifles Public School and College. ‘Everybody’s doing it, I would fall behind in popularity and coolness if I don’t upload a picture using Prisma’.

Some are even taking extreme measures, as to sending their pictures to relatives who live abroad and has an iPhone, who in turn processes those pictures in Prisma and mails it back to their nephew and niece in Bangladesh.
‘I send some of my selfie pictures to my uncle in Australia, who has an iPhone 6S,’ said Mahira, a student of ULAB. ‘If I asked anyone of my friends then they would make fun of me, which would be really embarrassing’.
But people like Samira are not sending their pictures abroad to be on the popularity bandwagon, rather they are waiting for an Android version. Its makers have pledged an APK version by September.