Landcam comes from the folks behind Currency, a currency-converter app which manages to be more beautiful, easier to use and – somewhat paradoxically – more information-rich than its rivals.
The legacy is clear. Landcam is also beautifully uncluttered, and yet easily as powerful as most other iPhoneography apps in the store. And all this for $1.
The app works in familiar fashion. You can snap pictures or load existing photos from your camera roll, and then you process them. The options are plentiful, and split into three sections: effects adjustments and gimmicks. The effects are understated, and really work more like color overlays than the usual grungifying filters. That is to say, they work great.
The adjustments include contrast, brightness and exposure, but also less-seen tweaks like grain, color temperature (white balance, really), clarity and fixes for orange and green.
The gimmicks are actually pretty good. You can add light leaks and frames, add text textures and shapes, vignette the photo and even flip and rotate it. There is also a section called “Sketches” which lets you choose from an absurd number of naïve-looking doodles to drag onto the image.
The results aren;t what you’d get from Lightroom, or even from Snapseed, but they’re pretty great and a lot of fun to play with. In fact, I have only two complaints. One is that you’re forced to cop the photos square, even the ones you import. And second is that ten of the effects are locked up until you “like” the app on Facebook.
I got around this last though, maybe because I don’t have me a Facebook. I hit the button to “like,” and then I canceled out as it tried to load the sign-in page. The result was that I got the filters anyway.
Like I said, Landcam costs just one dollar.
Source: Landcam
Via: Beautiful Pixels
