Vintage-ize Your Iphone Photos
Posted by Scott
After I posted about the Poladroid app some people were asking about a Lomo version of the concept. My friend Erik Pettersson has released a set of photo processing apps for the iPhone which give your digital shots that vintage warmth. There’s a Vint Red, Green and B&W plugin, each treating the colors a bit differently. My favorite is the Green, it definitely gives you that low ISO Lomo feel complete with vignetting. More examples are available on Erik’s Flickr.You can download the Vint plugins from the iTunes store or on your iPhone, one is free, the other two are $1 each.
Erik also sent the photo below he says he found at his parent’s house and which was the inspiration for the plugins. Everything looked cooler in the 70’s in Sweden.
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lunik33 says:
November 18, 2008 at 4:32 amthat’s really nice.
but i dont have an iphone :)
Eric Silva says:
November 18, 2008 at 8:51 amI would love it if something like Vint was available for Mac OS X (or as a web app) to run these effects on my high quality photos.
(I know Photoshop has these filters available, but I don’t have Photoshop.)
On my way to the app store…
Rent says:
November 18, 2008 at 9:00 amso awesome…thanks so much for the heads up Scott!
option5 says:
November 18, 2008 at 9:55 amspeaking of color, have you calibrated your MBP?
I’m curious about how accurate it is..
Josh Bryant says:
November 18, 2008 at 10:35 amCameraBag is pretty badass as well, it has a bunch of great effects that I find are a little but more authentic than the vint ones.
Mark says:
November 18, 2008 at 10:42 amlooks pretty awesome. I use camerabag a lot too.
rafael says:
November 18, 2008 at 11:39 amhey, is there something similar to this for photoshop? like an action scheme or something? it could be really useful and fun.
Kirk Hansen says:
November 18, 2008 at 12:08 pmThis app is awesome, congrats to Erik, and even better, the one i wanted was free (the green one)
Pedro Oliveira says:
November 18, 2008 at 2:02 pmHey Scott, I guess that the Swedish concept of “cool” in 70’s was a little bit fucked up: http://pics.yemii.com/swedish-dance-bands.html
=)
Tanner says:
November 18, 2008 at 3:05 pmhttp://flickr.com/photos/tmoehle/3033634681/
http://flickr.com/photos/tmoehle/3033637009/
I’ve tried out a few versions of iphone toy cameras. This app seems to have the most natural feel. Camera bag works, but the vignette is too harsh.
Anonymous says:
November 18, 2008 at 3:32 pmpedro,
that concept is unfortunately still in use:
http://www.kindbergs.nu/
love his shirt =):
http://www.kindbergs.nu/omoss/magnus_bgr.jpg
Erik Pettersson says:
November 18, 2008 at 3:39 pmThanks guys (& you Scott).
The icons are made by a friend of mine who lives for mac skinning. I love his stuff.
http://maxthemes.com/ has pics of the icons & his sweet iphone themes.
Cheerio,
Erik
Joaquim Marquès Nielsen says:
November 19, 2008 at 9:30 amOoooh so the app has been released now? Awesome :)
Mark says:
November 20, 2008 at 11:08 amHey Erik,
Love the app, but I have a suggestion for the next version. It would be great if you had the option of taking any photo in your camera roll and apply the vint filter to it (like in Camerabag), rather than having to take the photo directly in the vint app.
iphone app lovers says:
November 21, 2010 at 10:14 pmI really enjoy playing around with this app. I am totally amaze with the vintage style. There’s a lot of iphone photo apps that offers good as well as fun photo editing.