When Zhang Wenhao came to the company, the first thing he did was to find Chen Tian, the director of the technical department. Almost all the technical teams managed by Chen Tian had switched jobs from the previous company, and Chen Tian himself had always been the leader of this team.
, so as soon as this team started working at Zhang Wenhao’s Dongchen Technology Development Company, they immediately showed their strong working ability.
Chen Tian has been waiting for Zhang Wenhao for a long time. He has led the team in closed development day and night this week, but all he has done is external improvement work on the software, but he has never touched the core code. Until now, he has
This unknown software was already impatient and eager to see its true face. As soon as Zhang Wenhao came to the company, Chen Tian immediately greeted him and said: "Mr. Zhang, the technical work on our side has been completed. The external aspects of the program have been completed."
The development and interface design have also been completed, and now everyone is eagerly waiting for your core code, and they are almost tired of waiting."
Zhang Wenhao smiled slightly and said: "I have brought the core code." As he said, he looked at his watch and said: "Wait a few more minutes, the company's future operations director will arrive. After the 1.0 version of this software is completed, I
I’d like to hear his assessment.”
Chen Tian nodded slightly, and Zhang Wenhao said again: "Lend me your computer for a while, and I will complete the final core nesting."
"Okay!" Chen Tian immediately brought Zhang Wenhao to his computer. Zhang Wenhao sat on the office chair. The first thing he did was to insert the USB disk into the computer. Then, he asked Chen Tian to open the development software.
Here, the external program of Photography Terminator has been completed. We are just waiting for Zhang Wenhao to embed the core code.
Zhang Wenhao took it upon himself to embed the core code in the USB flash drive into an external program of the software, and then regenerated the entire software. Soon, a program called Photography Terminator.ipa appeared on the desktop.
ipa is the software format of the Apple system. When the icon is generated on the desktop, the software that will be used for the next five years is finally born.
It’s just that .ipa files cannot be opened directly on a computer. They must be installed in an Apple system terminal before they can be used. Applications that have not been approved by the Apple Store cannot be installed on most Apple phones. Zhang Wenhao is currently making this
Photography Terminator can only be used on jailbroken iPhones.
Immediately, Zhang Wenhao connected the jailbroken Apple phone he brought to his computer and prepared to install the ipa directly into the phone through the mobile assistant software.
At this time, Huang Yong arrived as promised.
Zhang Wenhao just clicked the install button. When he saw Huang Yong coming, he smiled and said: "Huang Yong, you came just in time. Since you have not made up your mind whether to work in Dongchen, then I will let you be the first user of this software."
User, after you have finished using it, tell me whether there is a market for this software."
Huang Yong nodded slightly. He had been waiting for Zhang Wenhao's call, and had been waiting to take a look at the magical and powerful camera software Zhang Wenhao mentioned. Now, all the answers are about to be revealed. Does this software have Zhang Wenhao?
It's so well said, you'll understand after you use it yourself.
The total file size of Photography Terminator is 88MB. Among photography assistance and image processing software, it can be regarded as a medium-sized software. It is slightly larger than software such as Meitu Xiuxiu. But it is much smaller than bloated software such as iphoto.
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The software had been installed during the conversation between Zhang Wenhao and Huang Yong. Immediately, Zhang Wenhao unplugged the data cable, handed the cracked Apple fifth-generation mobile phone to Huang Yong, and said, "Try it."
Huang Yong nodded with some inexplicable excitement, took the phone over, and the first thing he did was to open the software called Photography Terminator.
As soon as you enter the software, the first thing you enter is the shooting page. The shooting page is very simple, with only a few functional options in the bottom column.
The first one is to shoot special effects.
There are only a dozen or so special shooting effects in general, but when Huang Yong opened the shooting special effects column of Photography Terminator, he found that there were more than forty shooting effects. Huang Yong felt a little disdainful.
Come on, camera special effects should not be too many, because most special effects are just sensational and have no practical and high-quality processing effects at all. Nowadays, the most and most commonly used special effects for mobile phone shooting are just a few, lomo, retro, tilt-shift shooting, black and white
, reversal film, etc.
Huang Yong randomly turned on the special effects of a reversal film and pointed the camera of his mobile phone at several potted plants in the corner of the company.
He just randomly selected one, but the image on the phone screen suddenly changed drastically. Huang Yong was shocked just by looking at the effect on the phone screen!
The changes before and after the picture are so amazing. Before, the default camera was used to capture the initial picture, but after clicking on the reverse film effect, the pixels, colors and levels of the picture on the screen were immediately highlighted.
This kind of contrast is like an ordinary person singing a barely audible song in a ktv at the beginning, but in an instant, the sound channel is switched to the original song, and the taste and quality of it are instantly highlighted!
"How could..." Huang Yong exclaimed. This sound attracted the attention of many employees. A large number of people ran behind Huang Yong to check the effect of the mobile phone screen at this time. They were all amazed.
The sound came.
Immediately, Huang Yong changed to another lomo special effect.
"Oh my God!" Huang Yong couldn't help but sigh to himself: "The picture is so perfect! It hasn't been taken yet, but the picture displayed on the phone screen is already quite perfect!"
Immediately afterwards, Huang Yong tried special effects one after another, which made him more and more shocked. It was unimaginable! Even though Zhang Wenhao had told himself once before, the excellent effects of this software still surprised him.
The speech is incoherent.
"It's great! It's great!" Huang Yong said excitedly: "There are so many special effects, each one has an extraordinary visual effect, none of them are superfluous, each one is very classic and has its own unique flavor, it's amazing
With more than 50 powerful special effects, once this software is launched on the market, it will definitely be so good that it will explode!"
Zhang Wenhao said calmly: "You just looked at the shooting special effects and haven't looked at the next function yet."
"Next function?" Huang Yong couldn't help but exit the special effects page and saw the next option. He was surprised to find that this option turned out to be a filter!
Huang Yong, who loves photography, knows that filters use special optical lenses to process light with different effects. This processing is basically based on pure optical principles. Can it be simulated using digital?!
Huang Yong hurriedly clicked on the filter option and found that there were really many kinds of filter options. Polarizer, grayscale filter, gradient filter, soft light filter, starlight filter, polygonal filter, etc.
Even Huang Yong, a senior photography enthusiast, has never used so many types of filters. After trying them one by one, he found that the impact on the picture is really the same as that of using filters on a SLR! At the very least,
They look almost the same to the naked eye!
Huang Yong was dumbfounded. He was stunned for a long time and hurriedly opened the third option.
The third option is image processing!
If the shooting special effects just now are pre-production special effects, then the image processing is pure post-production special effects. The original film needs to be shot first. Then the post-production secondary processing is carried out. Huang Yong hurriedly took a close-up photo of a potted green plant, and then
Enter the image processing options. There are hundreds of filters and processing effects!
The most praised depth of field of SLR cameras is achieved through continuous changes in focal length. The simplest is background blur. This is extremely difficult to achieve with mobile phones because mobile phone cameras do not have an optical zoom function at all. However, such as
Software such as Light and Shadow Magic, Meitu, etc. all have depth-of-field processing functions in post-processing, but that depth-of-field processing function is too fake. The only thing it can do is blur the non-focus images and give people a similar background.
The illusion of blurring, but this effect cannot withstand careful scrutiny, but this software can use pure processing to make the background blurring vividly!
Huang Yong was overjoyed and said excitedly: "Mr. Zhang, once this software comes out, it will definitely be epoch-making! It's great! It's simply perfect!"
Zhang Wenhao smiled and said: "You haven't seen other functions yet."
Zhang Wenhao said and introduced: "If you follow this process of shooting, the first step is to choose the special effects for shooting, the second step is to choose the filter used for shooting, and the third step is to post-process the pictures.
, such a process is too cumbersome and confusing, and it is difficult for ordinary people to have such patience, so you click the "Quick" button to take a look.
Huang Yong hurriedly clicked on the separate quick button next to it and found that there were several complete sets of programs preset, such as portrait, landscape, sports, night and other modes. Just like many digital cameras, these modes are available for users to choose from.
Zhang Wenhao said: "This software is very smart, rather than the single-set mode in digital cameras. If you choose portrait, it will first provide a facial recognition function to identify the face of the person being photographed.
This is not surprising, but then, it will also have an environment recognition function, which defines pictures other than portraits as "shooting environment", and then uniquely processes the photos according to the specific environment. It can automatically
Calculate the distance between the person and the main background and automatically give the depth of field effect. You can try it."
Huang Yong turned on the portrait function and tried it. In order to see the effect, he stood still in one position and asked a female employee to be his model. The background was a pile of green plants in the corner. In this way, he did not move.
The background didn't move either, so he asked the female employee being photographed to constantly change her position.
At first, the female employee stood a little in front of the green plant, and the green plant was almost attached to her back. The software automatically calculated the depth of field. At this almost negligible distance between the character and the background, the software knew that the photographer wanted to take a complete and complete picture.
Clear background, so there is no blurring of the background.
As the female employee continues to move forward, the distance from the background continues to increase. Every time she takes a step forward, the software will quickly calculate the distance between her and the background in a very short period of time, and then immediately make corresponding adjustments.
When the female employee is in the middle of Huang Yong and the background, the background blur effect is already very significant! Moreover, this software can recognize that the entire human body is standing on the same vertical plane, unlike other post-production software The same, just by visually highlighting a certain point and blurring the background, it can completely identify the entire human body, so, in this way, the effect looks very natural!
"It's amazing!" Huang Yong exclaimed and said: "This kind of software can produce such outstanding effects by just using an eight-megapixel mobile phone camera. It is definitely the real terminator in the mobile phone photography industry! I think it can be used as an operating system for a SLR camera. If the SLR has this kind of shooting system, I believe everyone can become a professional photographer!"
Zhang Wenhao nodded and said: "If this core of intelligent shooting and processing is integrated into a SLR camera, and then paired with a CPU and a GPU, the SLR camera can naturally be transformed into a vision system that integrates pre- and post-production. Workstation, but I won’t do this because what I want to do is the mobile phone market.”
Huang Yong immediately said: "Mr. Zhang, I am willing to join Dongchen! I hope you can give me this opportunity! I will definitely do my best to promote this great product to the world!"
Zhang Wenhao agreed with a smile and said: "In this case, you will officially take office next Monday. The first thing you will do when you take office is to take this software to Apple. You must have it online in a short time. Tell Apple People, I only have one condition. That is, the contract must indicate that the cooperation between this software and Apple does not have a fixed validity period. We have the right to unilaterally terminate the cooperation at any time. Let us say that we have developed two platforms, Android and Apple at the same time. version. Let them figure out the rest."
Huang Yong nodded and said: "I will contact the promotion channels this weekend. I have certain personal relationships with the leaders of several well-known Weibo platforms. Then I will promote our application to be launched on Weibo as soon as possible. Once Photography Terminator is put on the shelves in the Apple Store, there will be an overwhelming publicity campaign."
Zhang Wenhao asked: "What is your main publicity method?"
"Soft advertising." Huang Yong said with a smile: "In the early stage, we only need to release the effect of this software as much as possible through Weibo and other platforms. After attracting the attention of consumers, as long as they download this software and use it once, , I think they will fall in love with it! The rest, word of mouth is enough.”
Zhang Wenhao said: "Don't neglect publicity and promotion because you think your products are genuine. I will give you 10 million promotion funds in the early stage, and you will run the entire promotion process yourself. I don't care what you do, I only care about you." The result.”
"Okay!" Huang Yong nodded immediately and said: "I will make a detailed promotion plan this weekend! Next Monday, I will go to Apple immediately to talk to them about the issue of putting this app on the shelves."
Not only Huang Yong, but everyone in the company was very shocked and delighted by the actual effect of this software. Even if they did not have Huang Yong's professional vision, they could still see the epoch-making significance of this software from the actual effect. Thank you for your hard work.
The design team and technical team of Zhou Zhou were even more excited. Even though they did not participate in the development of the core content, they are still extremely proud and proud to be part of the developers of this product, and they are also very excited about the prospects of this software.
of optimism and optimism.
Huang Yong took more than a hundred photos in a row, and then used the 27-inch Apple iMac in the company's design department to view them. On the iMac's large screen and extremely high resolution, these photos were still amazing, even on this computer.
The effect you see is much better than what you see on a mobile phone screen!
Huang Yong couldn't help but sigh and said: "If you send these pictures to any post-processing expert, they will probably all have a common point of view, that is, there is no need for post-processing on these pictures, although compared to the effects of professional SLRs, the hardware is indeed better."
There is a big gap, but for the vast majority of ordinary consumers, this effect is indeed enough to make them give up the bulky and cumbersome SLR.”
Technical director Chen Tian has several years of experience in mobile software and clients. He evaluated it from his own perspective and said: "This software is definitely the benchmark in this year's mobile software market. Even if personal factors are put aside, it is completely
Objectively speaking, I also think this software is the best mobile software this year!”
As he spoke, Chen Tian couldn't help but said with great admiration: "Mr. Zhang, where did your core development team come from? This kind of team is simply the absolute top in the mobile phone software industry!"
Zhang Wenhao smiled slightly and said: "The core team needs to keep it secret, so it cannot be disclosed to anyone yet, but I can give you a guarantee."
"What?" Everyone couldn't help but asked curiously.
Zhang Wenhao said with a smile: "Photography Terminator is just the beginning. In the future, more and better software will be gradually developed."
Most people in the company have no doubts about this. After all, it is not difficult for a team that can design and develop this kind of software to design other good software.
Huang Yong asked: "By the way, Mr. Zhang, what do you think is the appropriate price for this software once it is launched on the Apple Store?"
"No charge." Zhang Wenhao said firmly.
Huang Yong nodded and continued: "Limited-time free service at the beginning is really suitable for quickly expanding users."
"It's not free for a limited time." Zhang Wenhao said lightly: "It's free forever."
"Why?" Huang Yong's eyes widened and he blurted out: "I believe that for such a powerful software, priced at about 10 yuan, 80% of users will be willing to accept it. After all, it is such a good deal."
Zhang Wenhao asked: "Ten yuan once, how much is 100 million times?"
"One billion yuan!!!" Huang Yong clenched his fists and said excitedly: "The sales alone will be one billion yuan. If we have 100 million users, the advertising fees will be very high."
Zhang Wenhao shook his head and smiled: "It's only one billion yuan. Apple will give you 30%, and you still have 700 million left. Then there are various taxes and fees. In the end, you won't even get 100 million US dollars. With this little money,
It’s really not worth mentioning.”
"Why..." Huang Yong couldn't figure it out. 100 million US dollars, a frightening figure, Zhang Wenhao actually said was not worth mentioning?
Zhang Wenhao smiled and asked: "How much did Instagram cost?"
In an instant, Huang Yong suddenly realized it!!~!
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