Focos

Name: Focos
Rating: 4.74291 (50620 reviews)

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Focos

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User Reviews for Focos

PLEASE RETURN THE NEAR & FAR CUSTOM DEPTH SLIDERS

Where did the custom near-far depth/focus sliders for the bokeh effect go? It was your BEST feature! It seems like the app has been simplified for the sake of usability but sadly at the expense of removing this golden fine tuning control. I admit there was a bit of a learning curve, but sooo worth it. (About a day or two of fiddling for me.) One or a series of short video tutorials could have easily overcome this. I got introduced to this app two years ago when I endeavored to take the family Christmas photos with my iphone when our usual photographer was unavailable due to Covid. I achieved professional results all on my iPhone using primary this feature, which is now gone. The single auto depth slider is not sufficient for photos with multiple subjects at varying depths, even slightly apart. Focusing one subject, unfocuses another. A real bummer. You had a good thing…

AceSp06, Dec 19, 2022

Incredible app

One of the highest-end photography tools I’ve found. The developer is a genius. Update: the more I use this, the more blown away I am. The power of this app is quite unlike anything I’ve seen. One of my favorite features is being able to view the various layers of blur visually. You can view it in colors like a heat map. Moreover, when you begin painting the fine areas you wish to blur or unblur, a PIP window opens with a high magnification of the outline with crosshairs as with some premium scanning apps. Another feature I love is the highlights slider. It brings the photo to life. Incredible. I know I sound a little over the top here, but as a former graphic designer, I feel that this rivals any desktop app I’ve used. Just wow.

adaptiveagile, Sep 07, 2021

This App is Something Else

I had an iPhone X and a Nikon so although I could use this app it wasn't so interesting to me. Fast forward I pawned my camera to pay some bills and I have an iPhone 11 Pro so I thought let me stay active on social media and make the best photos I can with the tools I have. Lemme tell you this app if you give it the time to actually check it out is AMAZING. The level of computational photography at play here actually lets you do some things not even possible on a Pro DSLR or Mirrorless camera. Wow. I really like this app plus the price is not expensive. Of course the developers have to make money and this is not a product I choose for price. I choose this app for QUALITY, but the affordable price is just and added bonus that makes this app really attractive. I'm glad i've rediscovered this app. Great work developers!!!!Update: it’s 2021. I stopped using this app, but i’m back. Breathing new life into old photos. This app is better than ever! Wow. 🤍

Brandon Aqua, Mar 07, 2021

Problem lately, but used to be perfect!

I've used this app for some time. It has been my "go to" app for taking pics for selling my items on Poshmark, Mercari, EBay, etc. I am a full time retailer now!.... But lately when taking pics one after another, just as I always have, it freezes kind of. It will make the shutter sound and stop on the screen as tho it has taken the pic, but there is no pic below. I can continue to press the shutter button and it will continue to do those things and there will still be no pic. If I force close the app, SOMETIMES it will fix it, sometimes it will not and I just have to stop working altogether. This is a huge inconvenience! This was my last ditch effort before finding another app. I didn't want to delete it and re-install it because I'm not sure what work I would lose in the process? Idk. Maybe a developer might read this, maybe they don't even care about these. Who knows. It was worth a shot for me, if nothing else, I'll end up knowing I need another app... Is anyone else having this issue??? P.S. that's the only reason I deducted a star.

Cathey98, Oct 25, 2020

My go-to photo app, most of the time

I’ve always been intrigued by bokeh. I have a f1.8 lens for my DSLR that I love. Since purchasing this app, I rarely take my DSLR and f1.8 with me. I have a iPhone 12 Max pro and with this app, most of the time I have what I need in my pocket. The fact that you can focus after taking the photo and dial in the aperature is amazing. Admittedly, I usually use it for photos of my dog, but is is great for still life or other types of photography as well. I typically don’t edit the DOF at the time of taking the photo- but wait until later when I have some time where I’m less distracted and have better light for editing photos. I find the UI to be very easy to use and mostly use the editing in Focus to get the desired DOF and then export a copy to edit in other apps, such as photos for a quick edit or Lightroom for more detailed edits. Personally, I don’t use a lot of the more advanced editing tool in Focos, as I have my workflow which doesn’t incorporate the Focos editing tools. For me personally, the DOF was always a big hurdle when taking photos with an iPhone vs. a DSLR and this app bridges that gap effectively- I feel. Just be careful, sometimes you can take the bokeh a little too far and make the photo seem over-edited, in my opinion. Would totally recommend and have. 👍👍

Gnick99, Apr 17, 2023

I’m having fun but I can’t find my saved images.

I’m using this free, and I enjoy the tools. There are lots of functions I can’t reach without paying-I may subscribe eventually. It’s not completely intuitive, I think some of the tools are just over my head. I would like to be able to save an image that I edited to my photo stream when I hit save, that hasn’t seemed to work. I don’t normally review stuff because I want to play with it for a while before I give an opinion but this is certainly worth downloading and trying out. The 3D effects are great and I like switching the focal points in my photos.Update: I can do things to the image that I want to save. I haven’t found how to make that save happen. Yes, all images that are saved go to my photo album but I can’t save while it is doing bokeh.

henofthewoo, Sep 04, 2019

Hidden gem makes FaceBook 3D pictures POP!

Aside from the focus features the tool has a hidden gem called Patch. This utility allows you to modify the bump map of a Portrait photo to really enhance the 3D option in FaceBook.The tools take some experimentation. The color overlays options are too dark for the background.It lacks a magic wand selection tool fill color option and paint brush is just not as smart when it cones to borders as other image manipulation tools.If the author could add color gradient range fill users could create elements smooth basic like a 3D globe with realistic depth and planes in perspective. Maybe even a copy/paste of smoother perspctive planes?I’d also recommend that when the user selects a depth color, the tool jumps directly to the Brush tool for ease of use.Maybe a rub push / pull to have more fine control over the depth of the bump map.The 3D lens view is really good at spotting where the bump map needs to be fixed. I only wish the Augmented Reality mode had an edit mode so I could push pixels right where they need to be.The downside: The is nothing else out the that does bump map editing at all. That’s why I bought it.

Herbert Detwilder, Apr 26, 2021

Some sort of witch craft!

I got this app a while ago when I got an iPhone X. Mainly wanted to customize the bokeh of my portrait mode pics. But wasn’t super impressed so stopped using it. I just started using it again when I heard there was a way to add shallow depth of field to any photograph. The feature works amazing. I would say 95% of the time, it creates a very convincing depth of field blur, finding foreground, mid-frowns, and background elements and blurring them appropriately. I’ve been applying this effect to photos I’ve taken over the past 20 years. I currently have an iPhone 11 Pro and getting a native Portrait mode pix is still my fav option, but sometimes I don’t have enough space wherever I’m standing to get the portrait mode to activate. This app is able to turn those pics to great portrait mode pics. If they figured out a way to add this to videos, that would be amazing.

jakeacc, Oct 29, 2019

Features stripped

Before my mom passed, I used this app on my iPad to edit some photos for her. I went in and used the brush feature with my Apple Pencil to get the depth effects exactly right and the photos turned out amazing. Fast forward to yesterday when I opened the app to edit some portraits I had taken for someone at work, I didn’t bring the lens I needed for shallow depth of field so I remembered this app and figured I’d go in and add it manually with my pencil, only to discover that that’s no longer an option. Every feature is now on sliders and I have no manual control. I still have this level of control on my phone, but Pencil doesn’t work on phones and using my finger is incredibly slow and tedious. I used to love this app and recommend it to everyone, even fellow photographers but now I can’t in good conscience tell people to use it because sliders just don’t cut it.

ReallyAWrestler, Apr 15, 2023

The most amazing photo editing app you’ve ever seen

Once you learn the basics, this app will completely blow your mind. It’s not an app for the casual user. It’s an app for the photo enthusiast who wants to win the photo contest every time. The possibilities are nearly endless when it comes to your 3D/portrait photos. Literally add new lighting sources (like a light bulb) to your photos as if they were there when the photo was taken, even allowing photos taken in the dark to spring to life with light and color; squeeze in blurring or glowing effects behind your photo subject that simulate motion or weather; heck, add in a completely different background. Once you’ve figured it all out, it’s up to YOU to just set the scene. This app along with the Hallide Camera App will make you feel like a photographer extraordinaire! Can’t say enough good things about it. My ONLY wish is that it allowed you to save photos with the depth map still embedded. Since Focos only really lets you change lighting and staging aspects (and not actually alter the photo) I would think this should be possible. But these guys are such geniuses with what they’ve done here, it must be something I’m not thinking about that makes this feature untenable.

Sabiorey, Feb 19, 2021

Description

Focos is a big step into the future of computational photography and light-field camera, bringing DSLR-like photography to your iPhone and iPad Pro, with beautiful bokeh effects usually achievable only with professional large aperture cameras. With the technology of computational photography, you can make unlimited changes to your photos, focus after the fact, change the aperture repeatedly, and add multiple lights in 3D space, exceeding the limits of any editing tools you’ve known before. The creative potential unleashed by Focos is endless.

The Verge, "Focos has long been one of the most ambitious photo-editing apps on iOS, turning any photo into a 'portrait mode'-style image with fully adjustable depth of field, no matter what kind of camera you took it with." MAIN FEATURES - Take photos with shallow depth of field, without manually painting or making selections. - The AI engine can calculate depth of field automatically for all photos. - True 3D imaging. - Simulate large apertures to create real bokeh effects normally only possible with DSLR cameras and expensive lenses. - Import all existing photos and customize the bokeh effect. - Re-focus portrait photos that have already been taken, with a simple tap. - Choose from various simulated aperture diaphragms to generate different bokeh spot effects. - Professional options to simulate lens characteristics, such as creamy, bilinear, swirly, and reflex effects, and more. - Visualize the depth of areas within your portrait photos in a 3D view, and intuitively add depth filters. - Add multiple lights in a 3D space, and adjust the color, brightness and so on for each light. - Check the portrait picture in the real world with augmented reality technique. - It is possible to patch the depth map precisely on iPad with Apple Pencil. - Intuitive and easy to use, with built-in video tutorials. - An essential tool for all iPhones and iPads. Do you have questions or suggestions? Contact us via support @ focos . me.