Dear Spotliter fans – Happy New Year! A new version of Spotliter (v1.2) was recently released to address issues related to iOS9 that were preventing users from recording video and capturing photos. We are happy to inform you that Spotliter’s unique photo and video effects are available again for you to capture some amazing photos and videos with your iPhones.
all the best!
the Spotliter Team
Check out this great Spotliter explainer video created by a group of talented ninth graders!
Hello all – Spotliter photos now on Instagram! We’ve added a number of photos taken using Spotliter and different touch effects to our new Instagram account at http://instagram.com/spotliter.
Please check it out and also tag your Spotliter photos and videos on Instagram with #Spotliter and the touch effect you used, e.g. #OVERLAY, so that we can see and like your amazing photos and videos too.
Thanks to Hongkiat.com for posting a nice review of Spotliter. Here are some excerpts from the post:
Apps such as Instagram allows you to add layers onto your photos. These type of apps are very popular due to the photo filtering functionality, allowing users to create photographs that have a certain type of look to them. Some developers have tried the same with video, where a filter is added to achieve different color effects.
Spotliter, however, goes beyond simple color filters. The free app provides the users more than the usual black & white or sepia filters. Spotliter provides interactive filters where users can create videos while manipulating the filter effects as they shoot them. Let’s check out the app, shall we?…
…The amazing thing about the app is that all of the filters can be applied and changed while the video is being recorded. You can use one filter one moment, then change it to another in the next second. It also allows you to pause your video recording, giving you time to switch filters before resuming.
A few days ago, we posted some cool looking photos taken in NYC using the SKETCH touch effect. But SKETCH also works amazingly well when you use it to record video and capture things which are moving all around you. Check out this video of the same NYC streets using SKETCH. A friend told us that it reminded her of that Aha music video from a generation ago (Take on me)! Check it out – it’s only 10 seconds.
Recording this is about as simple as you get – Just start Spotliter, go into video capture mode, select SKETCH and move your finger on the screen to see what part of the screen you want in SKETCH mode and what part you want to record “unfiltered.” Start recording. That’s it. You can even move your finger around on the screen while recording to change the sketch area.
It was warm outside for the first time in a while here in midtown Manhattan – so started walking around taking pictures with Spotliter and really got into the SKETCH touch effect for some reason. Just slide or tap your finger on what you want to look “real” and snap your photo. Pretty simple.
Excerpt: “Spotliter is one of few iPhone video apps that takes full advantage of the iPhone’s touchscreen and user interface to add various video effects while the user is recording”
Making videos can be serious business. At the same time, today’s tools should help video to be fun and easy to create. New technologies are changing the way that video is made, in particular the Apple’s iPhone is creating a new paradigm in mobile video for the masses. There are lots of iPhone video apps out there that do just that, change the way everyday users create video.
A fair number of iPhone video apps allow users to add effects after they record. Many of these apps make sharing videos on social media sites much easier. And there are some iPhone video apps that utilize the technology embedded in the iPhone and the iPod Touch.
iPhones and other mobile devices are designed around the user interface which is inherently intuitive because of the touchscreen. Spotliter is one of few iPhone video apps that takes full advantage of the iPhone’s touchscreen and user interface to add various video effects while the user is recording.
The goal of the Spotliter developers was “to make a video camera app that offered powerful, sophisticated effects yet was very simple and intuitive to use.” Spotliter allows users to apply various effects during the recording process with simple gestures such as swiping, tapping, pinching, and sliding. Spotliter refers to these as touch effects. It’s a simple concept that works like a touchscreen camera should, allowing users to apply different filters and effects to their videos. Read more
Hi Everyone! We are very excited to announce that we have launched a major new update, Spotliter version 1.1. Get it now.
What’s new?
PHOTOS! The app now allows users to use all those great touch effects to take photos in addition to recording video. Don’t worry though – the app is just as simple and clutter free as before. We’ve added just one button to the screen that you tap to switch between photo and video modes.
New Touch Effects! There are now 15 touch effects that you can use in photo mode and 15 you can use in video mode. We love the new effects and hope you will too. They include JUXTAPOSE, HORIZON, DOTS, CHIAROSCURO (replacing VINTAGE) all of which work for photo and video and SANDPAINT which is for photos only.
Our personal favorites of the new effects are HORIZON and JUXTAPOSE, followed closely by CHIAROSCURO, all of which work great for photos and videos. The first two also allow you to make some pretty freaky-looking photos or video plus photo mashups. We also found that most of the original touch effects look great for photos, especially B&W2COLOR, POSTERIZE, FREEZE and OVERLAY.
Improvements. Many enhancements have been made to existing effects to make them and the captured photos and videos richer and clearer, more responsive to touch and offering more options for manipulating effects.
Removed. UNCOVER and VINTAGE effects have been removed.
We hope you will enjoying using this new version as much as we do. We would love to see and feature the Spotliter photos and videos you make so please tag them with #spotliter when you share them on your favorite sites and social networks.
You can also connect with us using one or more of the following ways:
thanks!
the Spotliter team
CNET’s Rick Broida published a terrific review of the Spotliter app:
Spotliter app adds real-time effects to your iOS videos
Like an Instagram for video, Spotliter Video offers a variety of very cool filters you can apply while you shoot.
With the arrival of iOS 7, iPhone and iPad users received a smattering of Instagram-style visual-effect filters for snapping photos. But they can’t be used when shooting video.
Enter Spotliter Video, a free app that provides a choice of distinctive filters for video recording. It is, quite simply, like Instagram for video, though without the integrated sharing options.
It works like this: fire up the app, then tap to choose an effect from the scrolling selector along the bottom. Spotliter offers a dozen of them, but not just the usual assortment of sepia, black-and-white, and so on.
Rather, you get effects like B&W2COLOR, which blends the image from black and white on one end to color on the other. But if you tap or drag on the image preview, you’ll see the effect move to match where your finger lands. The same is true of Floodlight, which darkens all but a finger-specific area. If you’re using your iPhone to shoot, say, a fun little home horror movie, you could do some really cool stuff with this effect. More here.
