Simon Sarris

In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.
Making things, sacred things, arte da sola.
🌜The map is mostly water.

[Simon Sarris @simonsarris]

some notes on pleasure

https://t.co/tAEufpKWRy

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@oilpaintstain maybe this is the best explanation

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Is this a better art direction? It's cuter. I'm still keeping the real moon phase as the shutter button.

The app icon would feel a bit more icon-like. It's too bad icons have to be circles.

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@bogeyfromhell I think $1 is off putting to 99% of users! Maybe I'm wrong though.

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I'm making develop/edit tools for Nocta. You can shoot in RAW and re-develop to any preset. Plus normal editing features.

I was thinking of making iOS paid and Android free, but maybe both should be free, with paid editing.

But: it feels rude to lock exposure/crop. Keep free?

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@cantoni well, I hadn't really considered it. I know Halide does it.

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@Matthewagi No taking lots of pictures instantly in nice presets is the app. But for enthusiasts that want a B&W photo and a color photo, or more powerful editing, this is helpful.

so you can do this after taking one photo, like I do in my promos

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@brotsquared it certainly looks more "app like", but I'm not sure its so bad to fit in on someone's phone screen

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@Duderichy didn't we just invent the listening to you machine

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Compare as icons

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Tarot was a 1400's Italian parlor game deck, later associated with divination. I use them for watermarks and the B&W/color icons already.

There are some nice Italian decks, maybe I should use something from Tarocco Piemontese instead

https://t.co/TtVuEmmilH

[Dan Carson @okdan]

@simonsarris Flip the moon phase so its a C and experiment with typefaces; option B is giving a bit too much tarot

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@densierra from tarot decks

https://t.co/UVOW89tuh8

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@josephflaherty @lukeburgis I dislike it because its repeatedly "consider only a tradeoff so bad that no one need ever realistically make it". Strangely negative, like someone is trying to invent the opposite of aspirational thinking. And boring, like the trolley problem is boring.

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@arithmoquine stay frosty henry

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@LevyAntoine open the schools

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yes unfortunately every single person without exception that I thought asking to try my camera turned out to have an iPhone

which makes sense that artist types would lean iPhone I just didn't expect there to be actually-zero Android users among them

https://t.co/wh2VHLnopq

[John @CntMnteCrisco]

@simonsarris Your target audience already knows which phones have good cameras

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The beta version of my camera app on iPhone has more users than the actually-published Google Play stats 😭

No wonder no one makes android apps

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@KristinCarrigg May I recommend any other lane

[Xavi @xavicfu]

@camera_nocta is magic. one from the river this morning

@simonsarris please keep cooking