The iPhone and iPad Blog by Simon

As an iPhone owner, you’ve probably come across numerous apps offering photographic enhancements and corrections. There are apps that allow you to engage time-lapse photography, as well as apps that take your images back in time.

But TinType for iOS 8 deals with things quite differently. It lets you impart a luminous, vintage look to your photos. What it does is mimic the image-taking process of the 1850s, giving the appearance of heavy textures and narrow depth of field. All it takes is 5 minutes to get used to.

How to use TinType for iPhone

You’re presented with a large orange shutter button and the front camera upon opening the app. There’s an editor that lets you go to your camera roll to select images you’d like to apply the effects to.

The app specializes in old-fashion portraits. It uses iOS face detection technology to zero in on eyes and face, but it can be used on any kind of picture. The style can be set to monochrome or color with a full frame or a square format.

There’s a slider bar that can be used to adjust plate grain (this is the aging you want to apply to an image) and there are two frames accompanying the antique look. There is a separate control for faces: if the image doesn’t feature a face, you can just use the last option of adjusting depth of field.

If you’re working on images from the Camera Roll, you can do the editing and more before the images to the app. If you’re not getting the desired results, you can visit the history page where you can learn more about how to make the best use of the app. There may be a giant directory of every TinType photographer in the future version of the app.

Final thoughts

The app inspires users to explore the old-age method of photography. It’s also perfect for creating vintage-type images out of your selfies. The only drawback is that the built in camera can’t be used to crop, zoom, and adjust focus/exposure.

You can download Tintype for $0.99 from the App Store. It is compatible with devices running iOS 8.0 and above. Let us know if you explore this app by leaving comments about it below.

This article, TinType Takes Your iPhone Photography Back To The 1800s, was originally published at simonblog.com.

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