Update: Percolator 2.3 is now available!

Hi Folks,

Percolator 2.3 was submitted to the App Store on Thursday, March 28th. This will be a free update that includes all the stuff that was in the unreleased 2.2 version, plus some new things. Here’s a complete list of what’s new:

Percolating

• A new Brew: Percolator boldly enters the 1960s with “Tripstamatic!”
• A new Brew: Percolator gets wobbly with “Charmed” circles!
• A new Serve Tone: “Flash Burn”—A high contrast vignette
• Even smaller circles with the new Tiny Circles Grind Effect
• A new Grind Effect: “Woodblock”—Converts your photo to 4 colors before Percolating for a very bold look!

Export & Import

• Example images make great starting points for your own percs!
• Maximum ‘Save To Photos’ size is now 3584 pixels! (Maximum export size for iPhone 3GS, iPod touch 4G, and iPad 1 is 2048 pixels.)
• Customizable image export settings
• Send to Instagram with the option to Crop
• Send to a Postcard with Sincerely!
• Send your Percs to other photo apps or Copy to the Clipboard
• Import via Paste and from other photo app’s sharing features

General

• Support for the 4 inch Retina display
• Retina support for iPad 3
• New UI for the Import and Export menus—In addition to the sleek new look, I now have plenty of room to keep adding features.
• Many tiny improvements that you may not notice, but make Percolator even more awesome.

Examples

First, Percolator 2.3 includes several built-in example percolations, including the popular “Woman in Red” image that I covered in a tutorial last year:

These examples have presets that you can apply to your own photos: Load up an example, play with the settings or load your own images and see how it looks:

Next, the new Tripstamatic Brew: Straight from 60s, Tripstamatic can produce some very wild color effects!

Version 2.3 includes a brand new Brew called “Charmed” which creates imperfect circles that look hand-made or pebbly:

There is a new Grind effect called Woodblock. Grind effects are “preprocessing” effects — basically, they run photoshop-like filters or actions, like contrast enhancement or sharpening, on your image before percolating it. Woodblock will posterize your image to 4 colors. The percolation process will have bigger, simpler shapes to work with as well as picking up the limited color palette. There’s a lot of potential here for bold, graphic percolating!

Another new Grind settings allows you to get smaller Circles with a new Tiny Circles setting:

And jumping to the Serve options, the new Flashburn Tone adds a contrast-enhancing vignette:

Finally, the export settings were expanded to offer more functionality:

This release offers higher quality exported images, including uncompressed PNGs. The Large export setting will export a maximum image size of 3072✕3072, while the Original size setting supports images up to 3584 pixels. The maximum export size for iPhone 3GS, iPod touch 4G, and iPad 1 is still 2048✕2048 pixels because of device limitations.

Since a few of you want even higher resolution output for craft or graphic production work, I will be adding PDF export to the next update as a small In App Purchase. The In App Purchase will help me cover Percolator’s ongoing development and free updates, like version 2.3.

I will close with an unedited screen cast—there is no audio—just me loading some sample images and playing around with some new settings.

Thanks!

John Balestrieri