CHRO: Chromatic Aberration

CHRO 2.2 gives the camera one tray of tools, manual controls, RAW, Photo and Video modes, and Live Photos. • One tray of tools above the strip, the same size for every tool, with a live readout of shutter, ISO, EV, focus and white balance • Photo and Video modes: in Video, a tap starts a clip and a tap stops it • Manual exposure, focus and white balance, with locks • Apple ProRAW or RAW, 24 and 48 megapixel photos where offered, video at 24 to 60 frames a second • Live Photos with your look on the motion too, and editing them • Your own looks from .cube files, tone sliders, shareable presets, Shortcuts THE CONTROLS, REDRAWN • Tap to open: Flash, Timer, Live and Format along the top, and a gear for Settings. Nothing to cycle, nothing to touch and hold • Adjust is now the last button on the strip. It opens one tray: Presets, Look, Character, Lens, Blur, Grain, Tone, Colour, Exposure, Focus and White balance. Each tool shows one slider at a time, with a chip for each setting, starts on its first chip, and the tray never changes size. Look has a chip that opens the look list; Character is its own tool • A tool or a value that is off its default turns yellow, and the Adjust button on the strip shows a dot; Reset puts back only the tool you are in • Photo and video formats now live in the Format drawer, one place each; Settings is for looks, the viewfinder and About • Easy and Full controls are gone: everyone gets the same camera PHOTO AND VIDEO • Switch under the picture. In Photo: tap for a photo, or hold a quarter of a second for a short clip. In Video: tap the red shutter to start, tap again to stop, with a Torch button of its own • Format: in Photo, ProRAW or RAW, HEIC with RAW, Speed, Balanced or Maximum processing, 12, 24 or 48 megapixels (where your camera offers them). In Video, 24, 25, 30 or 60 frames a second, HEVC or H.264, full size or 1080p, and stabilisation where the camera's format offers it MANUAL CONTROLS • Exposure: shutter speed and ISO, or a compensation. Focus: by hand, near to far. White balance: Daylight, Cloudy, Tungsten, Fluorescent, or a temperature and tint • Lock exposure, focus or white balance where it is • The line at the top of the tray updates live; values you set are yellow, and a lock reads AE-L, AF-L or WB-L • A 180 degree shutter for video at 24, 25 and 30 frames a second • Where a camera cannot do something by hand, the tray says so LIVE PHOTOS • Turn on Live: each photo is saved with about three seconds of motion and sound, with your look on both. Off until you turn it on • Open a Live Photo from your library and put a look, effects or a preset on it, then save it as a Live Photo LOOKS AND PRESETS • Add your own looks from a .cube file in Files. Rename, hide and reorder any look • Highlights, Shadows and Sharpness join Saturation and Contrast • Up to twelve presets. Share one with a friend as a small file; it joins their row • Ten Shortcuts actions, and a camera control for the Lock Screen and the Action button IPAD AND LANDSCAPE • The camera and the editor fit the room they have: the controls stand clear of the picture on a phone on its side, and an iPad gets a roomier layout CAMERA FEEL • Hold to record starts a quarter of a second after you press, with a rumble that builds under your finger • The viewfinder keeps running while a photo saves STILL HERE FROM 2.1 • 22 looks: 14 film, 8 filters. Film grain in four patterns. Soft lens edges. Character, one dial for the aberration, the soft edges and the grain • A guided tour, batch editing of up to 50 photos and videos, and an editor with a Look slider, crop, rotate and trim Tell us what you think: [email protected]

CHRO 2.1 adds film looks, grain and soft lens edges. • 22 looks in two sections: 14 film looks (six are 1980s slide films) and the 8 filters • Grain on photos and video, in four patterns, and in video it moves like film • Soft lens edges: edge blur in two styles, Soft and Swirl • Character (it was Magic) now dials in the aberration, the soft edges and the grain together • Saturation and Contrast sliders, with any look or none • New quick buttons on the viewfinder, three presets, a guided tour and batch editing FILM LOOKS • Fourteen film looks: Chrome, Pastel, Slide, Mono, Tungsten, Mint, Instant and Gold, plus six 1980s slide films: Carousel, Crimson, Daylight, Pushed, Cross and Magenta • The look list has two sections, Film first and then Filters; film looks wear a film icon • Camera Control, on iPhones that have it, picks from Original and all 22 looks CHARACTER • Magic is now Character. On the strip it sets the aberration, the soft edges and the grain together: the middle gives a 20% edge blur and a 5% grain with the fringe, all three grow as you slide up, and they are gone at zero • A new install starts at the middle, and so does Reset effect. If you are updating, nothing changes until you move Character or tap Reset effect • Lens, Blur and Grain each keep a Character dial of their own GRAIN, SOFT EDGES, COLOUR • Grain in four patterns (Fine, Classic, Heavy, Colour) and an amount, live in the viewfinder and the editor and baked into photos and video; in video it moves like film, 24 frames a second • Edge blur softens the picture toward its corners and keeps the middle sharp; Falloff and Spread shape how far in it reaches • Saturation: all the way down is black and white, all the way up doubles the colour. Contrast: lower for a soft, flat picture, higher for deeper shadows and brighter highlights; both are in Adjust, the "…" menu and the editor FULL CONTROLS • A quick row along the top: Light (Off, Auto flash, Flash, Torch), Lens (Classic, Scope, Vintage), Look strength (a third at a time), Blur (20%, 40%, 60%) and Grain (10%, 20%, 30%). Tap to step; touch and hold for the sliders, the blur style and the grain pattern • Three presets: save a look with its strength, lens style, effects and colour, and bring it back with one tap • The self-timer and the grid now live in Adjust, with Exposure; a badge on the shutter shows a timer • Lens styles renamed: Film is now Classic and Cinema is now Scope. Your saved choice carries over RECORDING AND THE TOUR • Hold the shutter until the red ring fills and recording starts and stays on, with no sliding up to lock. Tap the red button to stop • A one-minute guided tour on a new install shows what to press and for how long. "…" then Show the guide starts it again THE EDITOR AND LIBRARY • Effects brings Colour, Lens, Blur and Grain controls up under the picture, so you see each slider's effect as you move it • A Look slider sets how strongly a look is applied; double-tap any effect slider to reset it • Pinch to zoom in on the picture; rotate and crop now work on video too • In the library tap Select, pick up to 50 photos and videos (or several from Photos or Files), put a preset on all of them and save an edited copy of each to Photos STILL HERE FROM 2.0 (in case you are updating from an older version) • A camera rebuilt around one glass strip • Swipe the picture to change look; tap the shutter for a photo, hold it to record • Easy or Full controls: Full puts a quick row and an Adjust panel in view • A rebuilt "…" menu with the settings grouped on cards • The flip button moved to the bottom right (beside the shutter in landscape) • Trim video before you export • Import from Photos or Files, from the thumbnail • A landscape editor • Camera Control support, on iPhones that have it • Shots save silently to Photos; tap the thumbnail to open your library • Haptics, VoiceOver and Dynamic Type Tell us what you think: [email protected]

- Filters removed - UI improvement - Bug fixes...light mode :-)