Photo editing extensions are part of iOS 8 's new extensibility feature, which is the biggest feature update ever since the app Store. Through photo/video extensions, we can access any application's filters and effects within Apple's photo and camera applications. So how does a photo/video clip between apps work?
Since early IOS, Apple has been adept at pushing photos and videos between applications. Even on the first iPhone, you can send a photo directly to a text message, or send a link to a Safari page via Mail. As iOS iterations update, this feature extends to more geeks, such as allowing developers to add URL Scheme or X-callback-url, bypassing iOS-gated applications and creating basic workflows.
In IOS 7, Apple allows music, recording, and other applications to share music streams, but it is limited to audio. IOS 8 and its extensibility features enrich the communication between applications, opening the door to many new features, such as the previously mentioned custom sharing and options, ICloud Drive and third-party storage providers. In addition, Apple has also maintained a consistent style of perfection, bringing a number of special feature extensions for photo and video editing.
How photo editing works between applications
In the current IOS system, if you want to use multiple applications to modify photos, then users need to open more than one application, open the camera film, import photos, edit and then export photos, this duplication process is very cumbersome, and these changes are irreversible, This means that if you want to modify your changes in the second application in the fourth application, you need to start over again--which is really annoying.
With the new photo video editing feature, IOS 8 has made the process more convenient and practical-you can directly open the system's built-in Photos application, find the photos you want to modify, click the built-in Photo editing button, and then select any of the tools in the Third-party application. All this does not require you to leave the system Photos application, also do not need you to save, just need you to do what you want to do.
For example, you now have a picture of your child or a Lego block that you want to modify on the basis of this photo, you just need to open the photo, click Edit, and then click the Extension button, where you can see all the Third-party application extensions that can be used as photo editors. Then select the Vscocam,vsco application interface will pop up, we can directly to "select Filter" and other VSCO applications provided by the functions of the operation. Selecting Waterlogue also pops up the corresponding editing tool.
When you finish editing the photo, the modified photo is added directly to the "recently added" folder in the System album (the new name for the camera film in IOS 8). If you use the new IOS 8 ICloud Photo database, the modified photos or videos will be synchronized directly to all of your devices.
At the same time, if the extension can know which changes are added later (requires developer support), then all modifications and filters are reversible, which means you can go back to one of the applications at any time, modify the previous edits or filter effects you chose. If the plugin does not know which changes are added after the developer does not support it, then IOS retains the last modified version and saves the new modification overlay to this version, you will get the same editing results, but you will not be able to undo the changes.
In any case, the Photos app built into the IOS 8 system will be your one-stop photo-video editing tool. Yes, just the built-in photo app, not any other application, because ...
Limitations of photo editing extensions
Unlike system-level sharing and action extensions, photo/video editing extensions can only be used in built-in Photos applications, meaning that you can access VSCOcam filters in photo applications, but not from other applications such as Waterlogue.
Although any editing feature that can currently be accessed for any photo-editing application is pretty good, it's still just the new version of iOS 8, which I believe will be perfected in later versions of iOS 8.
Ensure the privacy of the photos
The scalability features of IOS 8 are highly secure, and photo extensions can be said to be the safest-because they are closed to built-in Photos applications, that is, your photo data is always kept in a photo album of your system, and only the only communication that can go in and out is like VSCOcam or Waterlogue Third-party tool Plug-ins that are provided to the system.
While we can never say "absolute security" in terms of security, given Apple's consistent attitude toward the security of iOS, as well as the importance of the extended security mechanism in iOS 8 and the confidentiality of photo data, I believe these photos will be very safe.
Photo editing extension is not the only interactive framework in IOS 8, it is a special plug-in that needs to be run in a specific system built in Photos.
If you want to use other apps to take pictures or videos, and at the same time for its reversible editing operation, then you only need to switch to the system Photos application can be, if you do not mind the Photos as a one-stop photo editing Center for your mobile phone, then IOS 8 will meet all your needs.
In any case, the iOS 8 photo editing extension will give all iOS users a better experience of photo/video processing.
