Photo Art: Rift Effects now goes iPhone big image, small controls and rotation. An artists tool for humans, not made up AI generation.
This is different. I wrote the app to share the creative thrill of making photo art. There can be hidden appeal in a photo that you as an artist bring out with these filter effects.
Photo Art: Rift Effects on the iPhone features bigger image, controls in a hiding drawer and rotation. Filter effects layer on filter effects with animation. In this release the control areas hide into a drawer or expand for filter editing on a button touch. The shrinking control drawer in a dark mode background that gives extra prominence to the bigger visual area. Landscape and Portrait orientation/rotation as the iPhone moves.
All features and effects are included with no extra unlocks, subscriptions or ads.
Creative filter tools include: Blend, mask, pointillize, frame, distort, dissolve, edge, spot, tile, twirl, crop, rotate, straighten, blur, multiply, vivid, subtract, exposure, gamma, hue, tone curve, vibrance, posterize, invert, x-ray, dither, vignette, kaleidoscope, star shine, sunbeam, texts, fonts, move, shrink, shift, expand, random, and many more.
Layer filters over filters. Save stacks of filter effects as your templates that can be inputs to new stacks. Animation motion comes from transition filters, and videos from your photo library. Adding ‘Vary’ to most filter settings turns it into animation. Watch an amazing show from a stream of photos from your photo library. See the dissolve, swipe, and more. All effects can be saved as new images. There are no changes made to your source photos or videos. Save it all into your Photo Library.
Heres’ the detail list of all the changes in 4.1 from the last release 3.8 in May
- Portrait & Landscape orientation added for both iPhone and iPad . Views rotate with the device
- Library of saved stacks can be sorted by date – A new sort button flips from Album sort to date sort
- Memory growth bugs are fixed
- Initial translation support added for Czech, German, French and Spanish.
- Save of stacks with animation motion as video is improved with a progress bar and faster performance. The title and album of the stack is added to the saved photo library in the same manner as static images
- Triangle and 4 Sided gradients now have drag points on each corner as well as center point drag. The points support the animation ‘Vary’ command
- A boolean parm switch is added for a small number of filters with a boolean parameter type
- A navigation bug on the iPhone startup that displayed an extra back step is fixed.
- Save and load of vector parms fixed in AirPlay
- Deleted stacks removed sooner from the UI
- Vary animation fixed for angle parms
- Crash on save after resizing a clipboard paste image fixed
- iPhone landscape layout allows space for the camera island
- iPhone drawer collapse/expand for the primary column of stack/filter/parm controls
- Save crash fixed on a second save after a change in a parm value
- Fix for black screen after Trash remove filters command to keep images
- Code Review fixes for empty stack crash, memory release
- Fix on iPhone Delete command that removes a stack from the Library
- AirPlay to external screens works for both iOS26 and iOS27.
