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Red Giant Software debuts two iOS camera apps, gives away Plastic Bullet today

If you're familiar with professional video production, then you've probably seen the popular video post-production applications and plug-ins that Red Giant Software makes. What you may not know is that Red Giant released the delightful iPhone photography app Plastic Bullet last year for making your photos look like they were shot with a plastic toy camera.

Red Giant Software wasn't done with the iPhone, though, and it just released two new camera apps that look every bit as good as Plastic Bullet.

I've already fallen in love with Noir -- a universal app for giving your photos a cinematic look by converting the image to black and white or a tinted monochrome and adding dramatic lighting. Similar to some of the tilt-shift apps, you can focus the shape of the lighting to really bring out a particular point on the photo and fade everything else into the background. The interface is simple, but powerful, and it does an excellent job of encouraging experimentation. You can pick up Noir for $2.99 on the App Store.

The second app is Movie Looks for the iPhone. Movie Looks sets out to give your movies the same kind of cinematic color treatment that Red Giant Software has specialized in with its professional tools. Rather than focusing on a lot of customizability, Movie Looks is preset driven, and there are three additional $0.99 preset packs that you can purchase in-app. There does seem to be some criticism on the App Store to be aware of thanks to (appropriately) long render times, and also because users (who didn't read the description) don't like having to use in-app purchases to unlock the entire looks library. Like Noir, Movie Looks is also $2.99 on the App Store.

If you're fast, Plastic Bullet -- normally $1.99 -- is free today in celebration of Noir and Movie Looks being released; it's a must-have for your library.

[via Prolost]



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Chris White

Hey guys, I send an email to Stu Maschwitz, one of the developers responsible for all three of these apps about the issues with Plastic Bullet being free, here's what he wrote back:

"Plastic Bullet was free from 9:00 AM April 19th to sometime late in the evening of April 20th, Pacific time zone. I'm not clear on the exact time it went back to regular price. It may not have been free for a complete 48-hour cycle, which could explain why some of the tracking sites read it as one day instead of two. We are new at this giveaway thing and only wanted to do something generous and fun, not trick anyone. We want to learn from this experience and do better in the future."

April 22 2011 at 2:24 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Miker

As far as I can tell it was Never free!! Advertising gimmickry - there are better stuff out there with no BS.

April 21 2011 at 12:12 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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maneyedann

The free offer was only for a few days. It ended on the 20th- yesterday. Kinda bummed this info was posted at 7pm on the 20th. Obviously I missed out on this offer. Woulda been cool to try out.

April 21 2011 at 10:41 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
MILE

Looks like 'Magic Bullet' is supposed to be free -- but it's not…!?! What's up with that…?!

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April 20 2011 at 11:15 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jaime

It's also free here in Mexico.

April 20 2011 at 10:50 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Kree

It looks like someone forgot to pay attention to the international store data, because it's only free in the US store at the moment...

April 20 2011 at 7:45 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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tdowling

It's actually still $1.99 in my little corner of the US store

April 21 2011 at 7:16 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Chris White

You're right, I did forget to check that before I posted, thanks for the reminder, I'll be more careful of that in the future.

April 21 2011 at 8:16 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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