When it comes to smartphone photography there’s an app for correcting almost everything. With apps like Camera Plus, Snapseed, and VSCO cam, you can fix up anything from a slightly underexposed photo to a shot that just came out completely yellow. Now Mjagielski is out with a photo-editing app called SKRWT that offers a completely something completely new: The ability to remove lens distortion and shift perspective.
Most smartphones have a wide-angle lens on the camera to capture spanning landscapes and, sadly, group selfies. At the same time, these lenses render photos with crooked lines that can make image look terribly distorted. It’s a small but noticeable problem that’s been a part of smartphone photography, and the ability to straighten out or distort images has not been available on mobile devices—even with Adobe’s Lightroom Mobile.
Now with SKRWT, Mjagielski says their app will finally add the “missing link in high-end smartphone photography” and let users create perfect images. The app opens to a simple and flat splash page from which users can take a new photo or pick one from their image library. Afterwards, the interface jumps to an editing screen with a scrollable bar of perspective shifting options at the bottom.
Unlike other apps that are overloaded with options, SKRWT is completely focused adding or removing distortion from images. These include tools to straighten out any round barrel distortion image. Alternatively, users can also shift the perspective of the image to make it look as though they were looking up or from the right. There’s even a way to make images bulge from the center to emulate the effect of a carnival mirror, or edit the image so it looks like the world was imploding from the center.
