An app for macro photography.

"Macro photography" typically refers to shooting images of things close to the camera lens and at a high level of magnification.

There are 2 main areas the app helps with macro shots; focus and processing.

Focus
MacroShader adds manual focus controls as well as the focus-shutter to allow perfect focus right at the time of shooting an image.

The focus peaking (active by default) highlights regions of greatest contrast to help you tell where the point of focus currently sits.

No amount of processing can correct for a poorly focussed image.

Processing

MacroShader uses a custom image processing pipeline with the aim of preserving as much detail as possible.

The processing pipeline favours pixel level detail over global aesthetic. Meaning more details are visible, sometimes at the cost of more noise.
The processing also aims to provide rich colour detail without over saturating.

Because the image starts with RAW data (not ProRAW) images are limited to 12MP as per the iOS framework, for now.

The above is true when using the relevant focus settings and for processed images. You can, of course, go fully manual and shoot in RAW for ultimate control.
In fact, well chosen manually selected exposure and focus settings will almost always out-perform auto for situations like low light imaging. So MacroShader lets you go fully manual too.

Expanding on the comment above...

Editing tools

This is the major feature addition on the roadmap.

A range of tools for macro photography such as; wavelet-like detail level editor, sharpness (and sharpness stacking), de-blur, histogram levels.

The aim is to focus on tools not already available via the native iOS Photos app.

Camera controls

Expanding on the camera controls by adding things like; manual camera picker, white-balance, countdown timer.

Additional image formats; JPEG and ProRAW.

Image processing controls for example sharpness and tone.

The future

Features such as multi-frame super-resolution or AI based super-resolution may be useful. There are caveats to using both but if there is demand the roadmap may alter to include these.

Focus stacking is a tried and tested method of getting great macro photos and may work well under certain usage conditions.
A zoom mode for telephoto lens shots. (...So really the opposite of macro photography).

• The "public beta release" v1.0.1-v1.0.x will be free.

• When manual camera controls, processing controls and a few bugs fixes are finalised v1.1.0 will be $1.50 for lifetime access (e.g. a simple $1.50 download price).

• When all editing tools are released the price will be something like $2.50-$5 for lifetime access (e.g. a simple download price of somewhere between $2.50 and $5).