Problem: A problem I see around very often is people's need to get "great-looking" photos. It has become a fixation for most of us especially after the Facebook-profile-pic craze. The question is "Can photos taken by amateurs be made great looking with little effort and no specific skill-set?". Imagine doing this editing in an iPhone/Android.
Current-Approaches: Many photo sharing apps on mobile phones(e.g: instagram) have a simple yet very useful feature called "filters" which apply predefined effects on images. They actually do a good job and people simply love them.
Proposed Solution: Let us understand what is meant by a good photograph:
1> A very nice focus on 'main' object and blurring effect on the background=> Lens-Blur
2> apt-cropping of the image (or) neat framing.
3> Color-effects like in filters above.
4> Removal of unnecessary artefacts or noise.
Some of these things can be done in a semi-supervised approach with some input from user and some of it done automatically.
Business-proposition: You can give away a few effects for free and have a few paid features. With million of camera-enabled phones and with photos being a primary usage for them, you have a huge pool of buyers.
Current-Approaches: Many photo sharing apps on mobile phones(e.g: instagram) have a simple yet very useful feature called "filters" which apply predefined effects on images. They actually do a good job and people simply love them.
Proposed Solution: Let us understand what is meant by a good photograph:
1> A very nice focus on 'main' object and blurring effect on the background=> Lens-Blur
2> apt-cropping of the image (or) neat framing.
3> Color-effects like in filters above.
4> Removal of unnecessary artefacts or noise.
Some of these things can be done in a semi-supervised approach with some input from user and some of it done automatically.
Business-proposition: You can give away a few effects for free and have a few paid features. With million of camera-enabled phones and with photos being a primary usage for them, you have a huge pool of buyers.
Nice. This reminds me of the discussion we had on the day you bought your cycle. Remember? This could be very interesting to develop too. Also, is there a way today to take a normal photograph and then apply the effect 1 on any part of it?
ReplyDeleteI'd also imagine such a phone app. to have tremendous competition.
ReplyDelete"is there a way today to take a normal photograph and then apply the effect 1 on any part of it?"
ReplyDeleteYou can do it in photoshop by selecting the region and applying lens blur. It is very difficult except in the latest version of photoshop. There are no mobile phone apps, etc for this AFAIK.