With the arrival of Apple's Game Center (as well as OpenFeint and Plus+ before it), in-game achievements are now part and parcel of the experience for iOS gamers. A new photography app called 100 Cameras in 1, however, has decided to bring the same virtual incentive platform to folks who like to use their iPhones for snapping creative pictures.
Created by Trey Ratcliff, who runs photography blog Stuck in Customs, the app integrates Game Center in a similar way to games: the more you use it, the more likely you'll stumble upon the 31 "pieces of chocolate" that will then be added to your account, with titles like People Person, Repo Man, Worldly and Cat Head. Each one is tied to a specific way of using, reusing and mixing up the 100 different filters that the program provides to alter your photographed images.
The best part: 100 Cameras in 1 is a solid photography app even without the Game Center tie-in. With 100 different visual filters at your disposal, each of which can combined to rather fascinating effects, it can produce some downright impressive images. These aren't your run-of-the-mill filters that can be found in ten other apps. Instead, it's from a personal collection of over 1,000 textures that he's compiled over the years, with the 100 he deemed the most striking making the cut.
And the app is fast. Moving through the complex filters, I imagined torturous waits; yet results were turned out snappily. Very, very impressive.
If you take a lot of photos on your iPhone and fancy yourself some fancy amateur lensman, then 100 Cameras in 1 is likely an app you'll be well served to download. It’s cheap enough at $1.99. For those uninterested in another camera app, the innovation Trey applied here will likely be the impetus for a whole other host of apps that will take advantage of Game Center. Expect that to be the norm soon enough.
[StuckinCustoms]
