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We started with these textures, selected the best 100, then started applying them to a variety of sample photos.”With some, we would use overlay blend modes, hardlight with others, and occasionally use other blending techniques like luminosity and hue. With certain effects, we would also take the photo and layer it back on itself in replica Jaeger LeCoultre Q1453570 Men's Watch combination with the texture. ?We sat there for hours upon hours, going through every individual effect and tweaking it out for various situations from people-shots to landscape-shots to architecutre-shots to see what worked and what didn't.”

The end result is 100 filters that apply a multitude of changes, from texture and hue, to contract and saturation, to your images nearly instantly.”I've ended up with about 22 or so “favorites” in the app that seem to make almost any kind of image look magical,” he said.And the filters have magical, emotional names too.There's “The Smell of New Fire”, “A Gentle Feel of Warmth Against My Side” and “The Sky Was As Blue As Your Eyes.”I asked Ratcliff about the oddly fitting names for the filters, and for a moment he replica Jaeger LeCoultre 1458402 Men's Watch seemed at a loss for words.”I think that we all have a poetic side to our existence, yes? I think many of us experience the world in a rich, cinematic way,” he said. “In our mind, we have a romantic notion of little events here and there. Photography and creation is very much a right-brained activity. Poetry is like a skeleton key that can help open up that side of everyone's personality.”

The concept taps into the increasingly popular idea of gamification, the notion of applying the basic ideas of games to the mechanics of everyday life to make them more fun.But where do they come from?”The poetic names are not all personal to me,” he said. “Like any writer, I can envision many kinds of minds and many kinds of thoughts. replica Jaeger LeCoultre Q7008670 Men's Watch A good example is 'When I felt sad, and you were not there'. ?This is something that either we have all experienced, and certainly something those around us have experienced it. ?It's kind of a sad thought, but it does open up some different thought patterns

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It's a very nice feeling to whip out our iPhone and create something tiny and wonderful.”The decision to make his own iPhone camera app and give it game-like achievements, Ratcliff says, was driven by his desire to get people to take more pictures and to have fun with them.”I think it's fascinating how achievements are both completely unnecessary but really satisfying!”I think it is fun to have some sort of comparative measurement replica Jaeger LeCoultre Q2948102 Men's Watch of your experience with the app,” he said. “The more you use it, the more achievements and points you get. ?We also use the achievements to encourage you to discover all the features of the app that you might not otherwise see.”I think it's fascinating how achievements are both completely unnecessary but really satisfying! ?

Also, there's something about being rewarded when you were not really expecting it. ?It's like a small Swiss child running up to you in the street and offering you a piece of chocolate, just for being an awesome dude.”Ratcliff's 100 Cameras in 1 app delivers those achievement “pieces of chocolate” to iPhone photographers who use, replica Jaeger LeCoultre Q2948601 Men's Watch reuse and mix up the 100 filters built into the program. He says he came up with the idea for the app because he wanted a program on the iPhone that was faster, cleaner and had more variety than what was currently available.Use the right filter and you earn the People Person or Worldly achievement. Other achievements include Repo Man, Ambrosia, Cat Head and two with references to Unicorns.

Ratcliff, whose background is in computer science and math, worked with developers Lavacado to ensure that the guts of his app did what he wanted it to. For instance, he points out, as you are looking at the first page of filter results, the program is in the background creating the images for the next page, cutting down on any delay.But what really makes the app unique is that it relies on Ratcliff and the way he views the world to offer up the replica Jaeger LeCoultre Q2941601 Men's Watch sort of filters that can change the way you view yours.”Over the last several years, I have collected about a thousand textures from all around the world,” he said. “I find unique textures everywhere from China to Spain to Argentina.

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Thanks for the clip, Carson!”This is Kotaku's official forum, the place where you are encouraged to discuss video games, video games and video games.Thanks to reader Trakata for today's image. Submit your finest work to #TAYpics.”Duke Nukem Forever has a launch date. May 3. And now you all can finally see the trailer I saw of the game in replica Jaeger LeCoultre 271.84.10 Men's Watch September just with some of the breasts pixelated.Plus, it's got a Duke Xbox controller, sorta.Duke Nukem Forever, which is now being made by Gearbox Software, has been in development for upwards of a decade. (There's more to that story, of course.) It's being brought across the finish line by Gearbox and a team of creators who had worked on the long-awaited first-person shooter at 3D Realms.

This trailer had been shown at the Penny Arcade Expo in September, when the game made its playable debut. But the word was, at the time, that it was way too extreme to be shown to the public. You can probably figure out why."The long-awaited Duke Nukem Forever will be out in North America on May 3, Take-Two said today. (May 6 worldwide). Six months ago, we'd have laughed that off, but we did play the game in September. It's replica Jaeger LeCoultre 271.84.70 Men's Watch real. You're not dreaming right now."Trey Ratcliff sees the world with a gamer's eye.When he looks at Beijing through the lens of his camera he sees Tron. When he finds a secluded bridge in Queenstown, New Zealand he thinks Hobbits. When people ask the famed HDR photographer how he edits his colorful, evocative images, he compares himself to a StarCraft player.

So it's not surprising that when he created a camera app for the iPhone he connected it to Apple's achievement-rewarding Game Center. Game Center is Apple's struggling on iPhone gaming community. It lets you keep track of friends and earn in-game achievements. But usually only games are connected to it.The photography of Ratcliff, who runs the world's top travel photography blog, have hung in the Smithsonian replica Jaeger LeCoultre 271.81.10 Men's Watch and been featured on a slew of television shows from the BBC to FOX. But he still enjoys the ease and simplicity of occasionally snapping a picture with his iPhone.”I use the iPhone for 'fun' photography, which can be every bit as exciting as photos taken with a more serious?camera,” he said. “When you start taking photos, you see wonderful and interesting subjects and compositions everywhere. ?

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