Monday, August 20, 2012

BuzzFeed - Latest: The Anti-Instagram Filter Works On Old Photos Too

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Aug 20th 2012, 17:32

Normalize is a clever iOS app that restores over-filtered Instagram photos to their clean, clear, original beauty. But it kind of works on real retro photography as well.

Normalize, a $1 iPhone app that removes overdone Instagram filters, works better as a joke than as an actual utility. But when it works, it works — see above. And it follows that, since Instagram's filters are based in on an aesthetic defined by actual old camera hardware and film, it should work near as well on real old photographs. It kind of does! Here's Andy Warhol sneezing, for example:

This old daguerreotype of Abraham Lincoln doesn't work quite as well.


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