Core Image for Swift Book Reviews

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Great book about CoreImage!. This book goes into great details explaining all aspects of dealing CoreImage in Swift. Amount and quality of supporting code is simply amazing! I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to be introduced or to to learn in-depth details of CoreImage

Thoughtfully structured and well documented. This book provides a great introduction to Core Image in Apple’s new Swift language. All of the examples are backed by code with many links to Github projects and Swift playgrounds. I was able to create a demo app on my iphone so I could follow along with some of the examples on how to chain filters together. He provides multiple ways of acheiving the same result. The main challenge I found in the book is that some of the topics made me feel way out of my depth. This is not a fault of the book, this is just me encountering new things like kernal scripts. These are also well documented, I just haven’t had a chance to test them out in Xcode yet. Regardless, Simon has a good pedagogical approach and clearly explains concepts. This goes a long way in making this a useful book for learning about Core Image.

Software Developer. I recently bought this book. The content seems excellent thus far. However, it does not read well on a phone. I can either read it in a view that displays two pages at a time, where the content is too small to see, or I can read it in a view that scrolls infinitely, which messes up the code sample formatting, making them impossible to read.

Excellent Book. Core Image for Swift is a fantastic book that shows how core image filters can be used, as well as how to write your own filters. Lots of source code is provided. The last time I looked at this subject, it was with Objective-C and there was no way to write your own filters. Now there is and you can use it from Swift. This book provides the best information available with many examples on how to use this amazing technology.

Versioning. Fabulous! Top shelf book. You can not go wrong purchasing this book. The only request I would make of the author would be to add some sort of version number right below the “First Edition, 2016” statement on the first page.

Complex image processing made easy.. Without doubt the best writing you will find on Core Image. The author explains the basics of the Core Image API and objects, and then wastes no time jumping straight into showing how powerful the framework is, and how only small amounts of code are needed to produce seriously impressive image processing and effects. The code examples are very well thought out, in that each chapter introduces a new concept and then reinforces it with multiple examples. The examples strike a great balance in all being short, in terms of lines of code, yet are hugely powerful too. And cool. I worked through them and you find your brain quickly gets familiar with the best techniques for exploiting the power of Core Image, and how easy it is to chain together filters to produce your own unique combinations of effects. Admittedly I had worked with Core Image from the old Objective-C days, but had never used the CIKernel part of the framework. If you’re an applications programmer who normally hides away when the word “kernel” surfaces, fear not, the author shows in numerous examples how to tap into the power of integrating both simple and complex shader kernels into your Core Image pipeline. Another great aspect of this author’s approach is that all the example code is exactly that, it’s purely code-based, and doesn’t require you to dip into Interface Builder to wire up GUI objects. While that’s straightforward enough in itself, his approach will save novices from getting stuck not knowing where an outlet or action hasn’t been connected properly. And it keeps the focus on exactly what this book is about, Core Image. If you’re familiar with Apple’s AV Foundation framework you’ll appreciate how straightforwardly everything in Simon’s book can be integrated with video too, on both iOS and OS X. The author also shows how to leverage Metal, Apple’s newest framework for fully exploiting GPUs. In summary, a lot of advanced image processing stuff is explained in an easily understandable manner, with loads of great examples.

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Awesome book. Awesome book... great help for developers

Instantly applicable. Gladman takes a smart approach early on, and follows it through right to the end: here’s a picture or video that demonstrates a cool, useful, or quirky effect, here’s how it needs to be built in theory, and here’s the code to make it happen. It means you can browse through the pages until you find something that jumps out at you, read through his careful explanation of how it can be achieved, then immediately start using his code to apply it all to your own project. Once you’ve implemented a couple of his examples, it’s a huge amount of fun to go back and start toying with them or even combining them to get all new results. By the end you feel not only that you’ve pushed Core Image to its limits, but you really know what makes it tick underneath. Highly recommended.

Excellent and in depth. This book is incredibly thorough and explains what’s going on under the hood while at the same time making it accessible for those who don’t write GPU code day to day. Neil Horton should read this book.

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