Apollo: Immersive illumination 4+
Relight your selfies & photos
INDICE S.A.
Designed for iPhone
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- $4.99
iPhone Screenshots
Description
*** Apollo operates on Portrait Mode photos (requires iPhone 7 Plus, 8 Plus, X or NEWER). ***
Apollo is the FIRST application that enables you to add light sources to your **Portrait Mode** photos, after the photo was taken! Apollo reconstructs a 3D map of your photo which you can augment with new light sources in real time. Take your portrait mode photographs from awesome to unforgettable by selecting the color, intensity, distance of a light and illuminate your photos and selfies to your heart's content.
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WARNING: Taking portrait mode photos requires iPhone 7 Plus, 8 Plus, X or NEWER.
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Apollo is the first app to use the depth data of your portrait mode photos to calculate photorealistic light and shadow. Using a proprietary processing algorithm running on your iPhone's graphics card, Apollo is able to render light sources on a portrait scene or selfie in real time.
Apollo allows professional photographers and amateurs alike to try things that are not possible in the physical world. You can shape scene lighting by adding or even removing light. Since lights are computationally rendered in the scene, it is possible to put a light source within the frame: say hello to invisible lamps!
The UI is optimised for use with one thumb, allowing you to always view the entire photo. One price, no in-app purchases and no subscriptions.
We hope that Apollo is part of the computational photography revolution. We are doing our best but your support is crucial. Send us your feedback, ideas or bug reports on our support email.
Show off your lighting chops on our social media outlets.
--- Instagram: @apollo_illumination_app and share with tag: #apollo_illumination
--- Facebook page: apollo.illumination
--- Follow us on twitter: @Apollo_illum or share with tag: #apollo_illumination
What’s New
Version 2.3.5
- bug fixes
Ratings and Reviews
The shape of things to come
Sheds light on the future of computational photography. For the price, I would just get it and explore how to play with light sources post-shot. Like Portrait Mode in the built-in Camera app, the conditions have to be right for it to work well. If your picture has strong or blown highlights, they will remain in the processed output. Best to take an evenly-lit shot. Start with something flat, and add light to it with this app.
Developer Response ,
Dear Rick Evertsz, your comments are spot on. Thank you for experimenting with Apollo and giving feedback to the community. Best regards, the Apollo team.
Wow! The future is here
If you want to see where photography is heading, look at this app. They’ve done something that hasn’t been done before outside of high-powered 3D architectural renders. Just snap a portrait mode photo and re-light it. Lots of scope to improve it (I’d love to be able to control the size/softness of a light source, and choose how shiny/Matt surfaces are), so it’s not going to replace any of my professional commercial photography YET. But it’s only version 1, and worth it purely as a jaw-dropping glimpse of the future. Commercial photographers will lose a lot of business to a future version of this app.
Developer Response ,
Hi BeanyBear77,
we are very happy you like Apollo! We are under development fever to deliver more exciting features very soon!
Cheers,
The Apollo team
Needs custom masks
Very cool working tech demo. Lighting a photo after taking it is very good use of portrait mode photos. But it badly needs the option to import custom masks.
App Privacy
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Information
- Seller
- INDICE S.A.
- Size
- 21.6 MB
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Turkish
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2022 INDICE S.A.
- Price
- $4.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.