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Darkr - Vintage Film Filter 4+
Black and White Portrait Photo
Marcus Carlsson
Designed for iPad
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
3 million downloads
Featured on Today's tab in several countries and is the perfect app for learning photography.
"Darkr actually taught us how to frame pictures better"
- AppleInsider
Have you ever dreamt of trying an old darkroom, but don't have the equipment nor the time?
Now you can, and without getting wet.
DARKROOM
In a fun and intuitive way you will pick the strip that has the best time and contrast.
And just like a real darkroom, you can make parts of the image brighter and darker by blocking or adding more light to the image.
You will be presented in a very easy way with lots of tutorials on how to use the tools.
The images will only be in black and white (but you may tone them).
DARKROOM FEATURES
+ Develop either your images from your camera-roll or taken by the Large-Format camera
+ Only Black & White
+ Stripes - As in a real darkroom you'll have to find the best strip. It will be challenging, fun and very powerful
+ Crop / Rotate - Both crop and rotate the image in the same tool
+ Dodge - Make a selected part of the image brighter.
+ Burn - Make a selected part of the image darker
+ Blur - Enhance the background with some beautiful blurriness.
+ Tone - Tone the images with various strength. The toners that can be used are Selenium, Cyanotype and Sepia.
+ Layers - You can add as many effects as you want. Each effect will be treated as a layer that can be edited, deleted and changed its visibility.
+ Zoom - You can zoom the image ten times. This will make it really easy to make the detailed work.
+ OpenGL - Darkr uses OpenGL, the drawing is fast and very fluid.
CAMERA
By shooting with a large-format camera where the image is upside-down you will actually get more control over the image.
The camera is only manual and back in the old days you could not even zoom with the camera, you had to walk.
You will be forced to slow down the process and by doing so, your photographs will be so much better.
At first it may feel a bit odd to look at the upside-down image and it can even be a bit challanging to know if you should move the camera to the left or right when framing the image.
Sometimes you will even laugh at yourself, but the more you use it, the less you will even have to think about it.
MORE CAMERA-MODELS
Darkr has now added two more camera-models.
+ Medium-format which will produce a square image and just as the large-format camera it is manual.
+ Small-format which is a real basic point and shoot camera where you pretty much only shoot at what you see. Nothing to set up with, nor zoom.
CAMERA FEATURES
+ Manual - Just as in a real old analog camera, it is only manual
+ Shutter / ISO - You will set these individually
+ Focus - With a beautiful crafted loupe, you will get full control over the sharpness
+ Tilt / Shift - Just as a large-format camera you will be able to straight up any lines
+ 4x5" - The negative's size will be in the 4x5-ratio as the most popular large-format camera does
SHARE
You can naturally share both the negatives and prints.
You can optimize the resolution to lots of social media's sites like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter
SUPPORT
We are eager to hear from you. We just love to hear both good stuff and bad stuff.
And it's much likely that your opinion will be added into the next update.
Please don't hesitate to contact us at:
support@miiam.net
What’s New
Version 8.3
Bugfixes and improvements
Ratings and Reviews
Editors' Notes
We love modern tools for taking and editing photos, but there’s something magical about old-school darkroom techniques. Darkr blends these two worlds, letting you use classic photo development tricks like dodging and burning—not as alarming as they sound, really—to enhance your digital images. The results feel like our own handcrafted photographic art.
Black and White Re-eduction
I’m enjoying my trip back down memory lane and taking up darkroom bnw photography once more with this neat photo app. What’s more, Marcus is I great source of help should you get stuck, after reading his free tutorials. So don’t be afraid of this old/new technology, be brave and jump in. It will reward you no end in great bnw images if you stick with it.
Seems cool? Not entirely functional though?
I’ve got the pro edition which, as o understand it, means I should have full use of the app.
I’m playing around with the app, I’ve done the tutorials, and I get to the point where I want to play with the burn tool. Unlike with blur and dodge, there’s not a “done” button. And nothing I’ve done seems to cause the burn function to have an actual effect, that I can notice.
I jump back into my carefully patched mask, and it always opens the second time as untouched.
Interesting app but this is super annoying.
Developer Response ,
Thanks for your review. The reason that you don't see the done-button is that you haven't selected any strip prior you draw the mask.
Darkr cannot then know how much darker you want your burn-affect to be.
In a real darkroom you always start by finding out how much darker you want your burn to be by try out different times (using the strip). Then you will burn your real image by holding your hands over it (using the mask in this app). So, unless you haven't selected any time, Darkr doesn't know how much darker your image should appear.
In-App Purchases
App Privacy
The developer, Marcus Carlsson, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer's privacy policy.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- Marcus Carlsson
- Size
- 119.5 MB
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 11.4 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 11.4 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 11.4 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, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Swedish, Turkish
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Marcus Carlsson - 2016
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Pro $5.99
- Loyal Master $2.99
- Full Access $7.99
- Loyal photographer $2.99
- Many similar layers $0.00
- Film with grain $2.99
- Medium-format camera $2.99
- Large-format camera $2.99
- Pro+ $4.99
- Tone the image $4.99