Prisma Photo Art Android app
Prisma is a popular application that was originally released for iOS that you could use to apply filters to photos. The application has been released for Android today.
Photo filter applications are still tre chic with Instagram leading the pack but thousands of other applications competing for users.
Prisma takes the whole "apply filter to photo" and "share with the world" concept a step further by concentrating on modern art filters.
The application itself works pretty much like any other app of its kind. Either take a new photo with the camera, or load an image from the device instead.
Note: Before you do so, open the preferences of the application and disable the "add watermark" option. If you don't do that, a Prisma logo is added to the picture automatically.
Prisma Photo Art Android app
Once done, crop or rotate the image if you like, and pick one of the available filters in the last step of the process.
Dozens of filters are provided, and they are all displayed with a preview image that gives you a rough idea on what they do.
You find several artist or specific work of arts filters among the list of supported ones. This includes Raoul, Mark, The Wave or The Scream for instance. There are pop art filters, filters, e.g. Tokyo or Mononoke, and others.
The applying of the filter to the photo takes a moment. This depends largely on the device you are using, but took about 10 seconds on my Mi4c device. Images are processed on the server-side, which means that you need an Internet connection and that the processing time depends largely on that connection and the server load.
This means that you cannot select multiple filters in rapid succession to find out which works best for you, as you will always have to wait for the filter to be applied to the photo before you can move on.
The filter is applied with a strength of 100% by default. You may swipe on the image to change this to another value, and the more you do so, the more of the original image is shown.
Options to save the work to the local device and sharing options are provided.
The selection of filters is quite good. Naturally, some filters look better on some photos than on others, but I did not encounter a situation where all filters looked bad.
If there is one thing to criticize, besides the long processing time, it is that the filter listing is adjusted automatically. This means that you may not find a filter at the same position it was in last time you used the app.
Closing Words
Prisma is an interesting application for Android. It is refreshing that it does not require an excessive number of permissions -- all permissions seem reasonable -- and that it allows you to disable the watermark as well.
Thanks for the tip Martin.
It is for these kinds of posts that I follow GHacks.
What’s up with the generic comment, are you a bot?
2G?
Where on the planet is that still in use? I was forced to give up using my RAZRV3 years ago because 2G was phased out by AT&T.
Everywhere 3G has been turned off and you don’t have LTE coverage, and believe me there are many developed countries where this is the case and if it weren’t for 2G you wouldn’t even be able to make a phone call.
Maybe I missed it, but I don’t believe tha term “2G” is in the article. Perhaps you are referring to “AGM G2”??
@Martin
Your website has gone insane.
When I the post button I then saw my comment posted on a different article page. When I opened this article again, it is here.
@Tachy @Martin Brinkmann
” Your website has gone insane. ”
Same here. Has happened several times.
@Tachy,
@Martin P.,
For over two weeks now,
I’ve been seeing “Comments” posted by subscribers appearing in different, unrelated articles.
https://www.ghacks.net/windows-11-update-stuck-fixed-for-good/#comment-4572991
https://www.ghacks.net/windows-11-update-stuck-fixed-for-good/#comment-4572951
For the time being,
it would be better to specify the “article name and URL” at the beginning of the post.
@tachy a lot of non-phone devices with a sim in them rely on 2G, at least here in europe.
Usually things reporting usage or errors/alarms on something remote that does not get day to day inspection in person. They are out there in vast numbers doing important work. Reliable, good range. The low datarate is no problem at all in those cases.
3G is gone or on its last legs everywhere, but this stuff still has too much use to cancel.
Anyhow, interesting that they would put that in. I can see the point if you suspect a hostile 2G environment (amateur eavesdroppers with laptop, ranging up to professional grade MITM fake towers while “strangely” not getting the stronger crypto voip 4G because it is being jammed, and back down to something as old ‘stingray’ devices fallen into the wrong hands).
But does this also mean that they have handled and rolled out a fix for that nasty 4G ‘pwn by broadcast’ problem you reported earlier this year? I had 4G disabled due to that, on the off chance that some of the local criminals would buy some cheap chinese gear, download a working exploit and probe every phone in range all over town in the hope of getting into phones of the police.
>”While most may never be attacked in stingrays, it is still recommended to disable 2G cellular connections, especially since it does not have any downsides.”
The downside would be losing connectivity. I spend a lot of time way out in the countryside where there’s often no service or almost none. My network allows 2G, and I need it sometimes. I have an option on the phone to disable 2G, I may do that when I’m in the city and I have good 5G connectivity, but not out in the country.
I would imagine that the stingray exploits, like most of the bad things in this world, are probably things you will run into in the crowded big cities.
I stopped using it in a mobile (Wi-Fi line) environment, so I’m almost ignorant of the actual situation,
But the recent reality in Japan makes me realize that “the infrastructure of the web is nothing more than a papier-mâché fiction”.
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/17/google-chrome-to-enable-https-first-by-default-for-all-users/#comment-4572402
It is already beyond the scope of what an individual can do.
What we should be aware of is the reality that “governments and those in power want to control the world through the Web”, and efforts to counter (resist and prevent) such ambitions are necessary.
Why do you want people to disable the privacy features? Hmmmmm?
Now You: do you plan to keep the Ads privacy features enabled?
I’d like to tell you, but apparently if you make a post critical of Google, you get censored. * [Editor: removed, just try to bring your opinion across without attacking anyone]
@Martin
You website is still psychotic. Comments attach to random stories.
@Martin please do fix the comments, it’s completely insane commenting here! :[
@Martin
The comments are seriously messed up on gHacks now. These comments are mixed with the article at the below URL.
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/18/android-how-to-disable-2g-cellular-connections-to-improve-security/
And comments on other articles are from as far back as 2010.
What does this article has anything to do with all the comments on this article? LOL I think this Websuite is ran by ChatGPT. every article is messed up. Some older comments from 2015 shown up in recant articles, LOL
The picture captioned “Clearing the Android Auto’s cache might resolve the issue” is from Apple Carplay ;)
How about other things that matter:
Drop survival?
Screen toughness?
Degree of water and dust protection?