Download 8Bit Photo Lab for Android 1.3.3

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8Bit Photo Lab will convert any picture on your phone or straight from your camera in retro 8-bit fashion!

~~~ Who really needs more than 16 colors?

To get started, choose a picture, scroll through a selection of pre-defined 8-bit filters and immediately review the vintage effect. Save or share the result in just one click!
★ make art, create memes, design flashy posters, have fun!
★ choose from over 30 color palettes: GameBoy, NES, TO7/70, CPC 6128, Apple II, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 16 & 64, CGA, EGA, SAM Coupé, VGA... Yes actually there are a couple 256 color palettes!
★ 12 dithering types: error diffusion, noise, pattern, checkerboard...
★ huge finely selectable resolution range from 8x8 to 1024x1024
★ add text and glitches
★ flick right or left and apply the filter to another picture from your collection!
★ high quality output, up to 4096x4096 in PNG
~~~ What has anti-aliasing ever done for us?

The app has two goals: be dead simple to use and powerful enough to produce good-looking and effective results.
The reality of old school graphic conversions is that it can be tricky to get good results in all conditions. Low contrast or greyish images tend to be rendered as a murky mess if we just apply straightforward downsampling. 8Bit Photo Lab has a number of parameters that are key to optimizing the final look of your images. Every pixel counts when dealing with low resolution images.
You can start off with one of the predefined looks (star icon) but you can mix and match colors, ditherings, resolutions and more until you get the effect you want.
Any time you change a parameter the result is immediately updated. Browse through multiple looks in less than a second!
The three main parameters are resolution, palettes and dithering. Ditherings allow to simulate a larger range of colors than what the limited palette offers. Various options are offered here. Pattern dithering was often seen used in older paint software as well as the user interfaces for many operating systems. Checkerboard dithering was commonly employed in games. Error diffusion, gives the most faithful rendering but was computationally expensive.
Four parameters adjust color values for each pixel. You'll find familiar brightness, saturation and contrast settings as well as the very useful local contrast setting (also known as unsharp mask). Local contrast is very effective at bringing out detail and allowing to reduce resolution while retaining good subject definition. As an interesting side effect, reducing local contrast produces a soft focus effect which may take your art in another direction altogether. Giving saturation a boost can help make the most of some of the flashy color palettes such as EGA or TO7/70.
Cropping will allow you to select just the part of your pic that you like. Just a tiny part of an image can still have more than enough resolution to be 8-bitified. So even if your subject is small and in the distance, there is hope!
Old computers not only had few colors to play with but they also crashed a lot and in weird ways. Use the glith menu (blender icon) to add mayhem to your pics. Screen melt, pixel scattering, pixel sorting, cellular automaton, block swapping, RGB offseting are on the menu.
Finally a good old text tool is always useful, whether you're looking to make memes, add a title or a text bubble, the creative possibilities are endless with a large selection of 8-bit fonts and borders to choose from!

~~~ What would a holiday picture have looked like on my CGA monitor in 1988, in all its cyan and magenta glory?

PRO mode unlocks the following:
★ larger range of parameters
★ more ditherings and palettes
★ extra fonts and borders
★ extra glitches
★ lossless file compression (PNG), higher output resolution (up to 4096x4096), 1:1 output resolution

Publisher : Ilixa
Version : 1.3.3
File Size: 3.93 MB
License Model : Free
Operating Systems: Android 2.3 and up
Date Update : May 10, 2015

What's latest in version 8Bit Photo Lab for Android 1.3.3
- 2 new ditherings: checkerboard weak & medium (PRO). Check these out, for when you want some checkerboard effect but not too much!
- 4 new glitches: ordered pixel sorting (horizontal and vertical), rgb block swaping, rgb splitting (PRO)
- less automatic PRO mode popups, PRO mode page can be viewed by tapping icons displaying PRO
- fixed a bug on the random pixel sorting glitches
- fixed a bug where flicking was possible in glitch mode
- fixed a bug that caused the application to crash