Rift-Effex

Features now in test: link to 90 day test flight download https://testflight.apple.com/join/KO1hQ9do AirPlay to external monitor or AppleTV is enhanced to show full screen of the image area only. Controls remain on the iPhone or iPad along with normal image area.  Music player command added to status bar menu icon. Commands are now ‘Library, Save,…

Version 3.5 released 5/18/25 Improvements made to controls and editing flow include: menu icons, automatic selection of first setting with missing input, ‘Save’ and ‘Save As’ flow. Default values for filter settings tuned to always show an image output. Vector default points shifted to always produce an image output on first use. Blend Text default…

Version 3.4 – 3/20/25 Most of the release is improved screen shots on the App Store to better represent the flow and look of the app along with the output. Inserts were added to show the source pictures along with the Rift output. Bug fixes were in the areas of clipping and size changes from…

May 2024 changes from 3.0 are: Full screen on double tap Video screen recording Photo Library videos can be used as input to any filter.

Rift-Effex version 2.5 is now on the App Store Take a look at some of the effects on Flicker https://www.flickr.com/photos/21091417@N03/albums/72177720309471277 In this version

In version 2.4 the Library thumbnail images are larger so as to better display saved effect stacks. The Library menu is moved to a better location on the image navigation bar. Searches for saved effect stacks now query both the title and the category. The iPhone library title search keyboard closes to give more room…

Does a photo filter ‘enhance’ a photo? Is it more ‘real’? Why are some photos more interesting than others?. A straight camera shot – not cropped, not ‘enhanced’, isn’t that the most real? After working with the 230 filters in Rift-Effex 2.3, I’ve started to understand that the term ‘filter’ is perfect for the artistic…