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…

The sense of beauty is a perception of our minds. Is there inherent beauty in nature?.. I don’t think so.. It is the process of perceiving that is the magic and photos (some) have a magic. The photo has captured an instant that we perceive in so many different ways. The filters of Rift-Effex will…

Rift-Effex 2.2 is now on the Apple App Store for both iPad & iPhone. Cool new features include ‘Sequenced Filter‘, a new Transition Filter. Rift-Effex, unlike most photo editing apps, fully supports transition which provides a moving continual display. Sequenced Filter provides a remarkable view of aspects of your images that are brought out by…