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andrewww31 Author

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Any of you recognize this app?

Does any of you recognize what app it could be for that purple glare at the bottom of the pics? Very few people have it, but I like this effect a lot and I can't find it. I've tried most of the apps on the AppStore but I've come up with nothing. It works for both pictures and videos and it has different shapes... at first I thought it was a glitch on the iPhone camera but I'm 100% sure it's not. If any of you know what it is, please let me know! Thank you very much!

iPhone 5, iOS 6.0.1

Posted on Aug 7, 2013 3:18 PM

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andrewww31 Author

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Aug 8, 2013 8:42 AM in response to IdrisSeabright

Thank you, finally someone who understands it's an app. I have many apps that imitate light leaks and I also have Lensflare and lenslight, but they are not what I'm looking for. Hope someone can help!

I know many people don't like light leaks but I personally do, very much. Hopefully I can find this one soon!

Aug 8, 2013 10:09 AM in response to IdrisSeabright

Meg St._Clair wrote:

James Ward4 wrote:

The effects you are seeing do not come from an app, no matter what you think you have been told. They are the result of lens glare and obstruction. Pretty much anyone but you would consider them to be undesirable

I have seen some apps that have filters that imitate lens flare and light leaks. The resulting pictures look much like these. I've never understood the aesthetic, either.

Yes there are - Photoshop does this. But the use of such effects, when applied properly, can be very aesthetically pleasing. That is NOT what is going on in the images posted here: these are not intentional effects.

andrewww31 Author

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Aug 8, 2013 10:10 AM in response to Kilgore-Trout

Yes they are. Oh well... It doesn't matter. Thanks anyway bye

Aug 8, 2013 10:13 AM in response to andrewww31

andrewww31 wrote:

Yes they are. Oh well... It doesn't matter. Thanks anyway bye

No, seriously, they aren't.

andrewww31 Author

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Aug 8, 2013 1:10 PM in response to Kilgore-Trout

Have you ever heard of apps that let you add lightleaks to pics? I told you it's an app. If you think it isn't then don't write here. I don't wanna get into silly discussions, I just wanted some help finding an app. Thats it.

modular747

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Aug 8, 2013 1:11 PM in response to andrewww31

Yes they are.

How would you know?? You admitted you don't communicate with this "famous" person and have no way of knowing how her photos were made.

Aug 8, 2013 1:15 PM in response to Lawrence Finch

modular747

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Aug 8, 2013 1:36 PM in response to andrewww31

I told you it's an app....

In fact, you have no way of knowing how the photos were made, not even that they were taken on an iPhone. At best, this is pure uninformed speculation and possibly deliberate fabrication.

If you think it isn't then don't write here.

Classic troll tactic. You have absolutley no say who posts in this forum, or what is said.

andrewww31 Author

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Aug 8, 2013 1:39 PM in response to modular747

Are you serious? How old are you guys? 2? I asked a question to which you don't know the answer, move over. I'm tired of this, and I'm not going to sit here and get insulted.

As for how I'm sure it's an app, since this girl (who really is famous, since she has more than 5 million followers on instagram) has started with the purple glare, also her friends have. Besides, she's always used lots of light leaks... she used KitCam, but that's not KitCam because I have it.

If you want to play, go play somewhere else, because I asked a serious question to which I'd like to receive a serious answer. Thank you

modular747

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Aug 8, 2013 1:46 PM in response to andrewww31

I do know the answer, which was given to you already. The "purple glare" is a well known artifact of the iPhone 5 lens that shows up in many, if not most backlit photos. It's easy to recreate at will.

THERE IS NO IOS APP THAT DOES THIS.

andrewww31 Author

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Aug 8, 2013 1:51 PM in response to modular747

The thing is, also people that have the iPhone 4 have been adding that purple glare to their pictures. If I wasn't 100% it was an app I wouldn't of asked.

https://twitter.com/Calum5SOS/status/363630028816252928/photo/1 This was taken with an iPhone 4.

modular747

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Aug 8, 2013 2:01 PM in response to andrewww31

Purple lens flair occurs with the iPhone 4 and virually all cameras, to less extent than the iPhone 5. This does not prove anything.

Since you are "convinced", and no rational discussion can sway you, I suggest start holding your breath now for someone to reveal this deep secret app that many 1000's are using, yet a mystery to you. You might also want to be holding onto DNR form.

kms0124

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Sep 29, 2013 7:47 PM in response to modular747

It IS an app. The SAME EXACT purple light flare is on many of this girl's photos. There are a lot of apps you can use to put light leaks on photos like Afterlight and Snapseed, but I have not found the one that does the purple one.

Sep 29, 2013 8:08 PM in response to andrewww31

I Googled "lens flare iphone"

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lensflare/id349424050?mt=8

there goes 3/10ths of a second that I'll never get back.

Any of you recognize this app?