Read original post by Srikar Doddi at MSDN Magazine
Nokia recently released the Nokia Imaging SDK in beta to allow Windows Phone 8 developers to create advanced imaging experiences for Nokia Lumia smartphones.
The Nokia Imaging SDK includes a library for manipulating images captured and stored by Windows Phone devices. Its features include decoding and encoding JPEG images, applying filters and effects, cropping, rotating, and resizing. The Nokia Imaging SDK provides more than 50 premade filters and effects. You can not only apply effects such as sepia, cartoon, sketch, and so on, but also apply auto-enhance, brightness control, hue, saturation, and many more. The SDK has been specifically developed for mobile imaging, with speed and memory performance as key drivers.
In this article, I’ll demonstrate the use of the sketch effect through an example app called Paper Photo. The sketch effect is applied to the viewfinder stream in real time and provides users the ability to capture images and save them to the phone’s camera roll. I developed this app using Visual Studio 2012, the Nokia Imaging SDK and the Windows Phone 8 SDK. I used a Nokia Lumia 920 smartphone to test it.