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An instagram filter is to a 3D lut as a PB&J sandwich is to a Michelin star meal...

Let alone the other things listed.

I'm saying the things mentioned exist and gave example of one of the most popular consumer applications in the whole world already offering an entry level version of the same feature. Since that's what most people know about.

You have all those features already in professional photo software already as well. DaVinci is cool but it doesn't unlock anything like "make my photo look like VHS" that hasn't existed for decades by now.

Is there even a working definition of what a "filter" is in Instagram, or mobile photo editors targetting social media users (which is approximately all of the mobile photo editors), beyond "a script that fucks up your photo in some trivial but also undocumented ways"?

I'm yet to see a filter that makes your photo look like taken from a specific camera (old or otherwise). Smearing colors and sticking a frame that imitates camera film border does not count.

Read this https://www.christopherroosen.com/blog/2019/11/10/how-imperf...

I cant find the original source of why I know this but I know the original Instagram filters were trying to emulate specific looks from specific analog cameras and expired film.

Smearing colors for example or weird blue / purple overlays is what you get when you shoot expired film.

There’s literally no concrete details in this; other than that they were inspired by the lomo cameras… Do you know what a 3D LUT is? Or color grading at all?

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