I've written about several iOS applications here that add effects to your photos, but most are just for adding a retro look, tuning your images, or making a image look hip for social networking sites. I've found some great kinds like PhotoToaster, Photogene2, and SnapSeed, but there's another genre of programs that make even more drastic changes to your images.
This week's collection of iOS apps is about taking your photographs to the extreme. The first turns your images into line-drawn cartoons. The second fills in your image with words to produce a thought-provoking effect. The third puts your image through a coffee grinder, and brews up a bubbly colorful mosaic. ToonPaint ($1.99) turns your images into cartoon-like drawings and gives you tons of tuning options to make them look just how you want.
You start by snapping a fresh photo or grabbing an image from your iPhone's camera roll. Immediately after choosing your image, ToonPaint will start by making an Inkline of the image in black in white. Before adding any color, you have several ways to customize the relative line drawing, letting you add heavier edges or adjust the shading of the image. Fiddling around with these sliders produced some great effects for me, so don't rush to the coloring phase too soon. conceptsprikaz read more. Once you've settled on the Inkline drawing, hit the Paint button in the upper-right corner to add some color.
Buttons across the bottom of the interface include Undo, a Pan/Zoom button, a brush width slider, and a color palette. ctstandart. In my experience, you'll need all of these buttons if you decide to touch-paint your image because it's very easy to draw outside the lines. Fortunately, the right blend of zooming in and by using a smaller brush size (and the ability to Undo) works wonders, but you'll have a hard time getting the colors to fit perfectly. This is where ToonPaint can help, but only if you fork over some more money. The software has an option to color your image for you with a feature called Toon Color, but it costs 99 cents extra.
I feel like this should be a free feature when you've already spent $1.99 for the app, but it takes out a lot of the busy work definitely. When you're finished, you get a cartoon-like image of your source material you can share with social networking sites, save to your photo library, or send to a close friend via e-mail. Earn your bandwidth black belt. But what really sets this application apart is the ability to "Press Your Art" and choose to use the image on T-shirts, mugs, keychains, and more. You'll have to be really sure you want your image pressed to items though--the process can range anywhere from $8.49 for a keychain to $22 for a T-shirt. Still, the ability to create these items is pretty neat and will be useful if that's what you're after.
Overall, ToonPaint is a pretty interesting way to turn your images into line-drawn cartoon images. If you want more than just the usual retro effects (and you can stomach the extra 99 cents for automated colorizing) ToonPaint is a fun iphone app to have on your iPhone. WordFoto ($1.99) moves even further away from basic effects, letting you instead add a wordmap to your images for some cool-looking results. Take a new image or use one from your library--the more colorful, the better. WordFoto will automatically squeeze a default set of words into every part of your photo giving it an interesting and (depending on the words you use) informative effect. The application comes with several preset combinations of words you can add to your images that revolve around specific themes or common phrases. Wordsets include themes like Seasonal holiday words, words of appreciation, and several others, but you have the option to create your own also.
WordFoto does more than offer what they call a "fully automated space finding, word filling algorithm." You also have options for how those words are displayed by using an included cropping tool, eight preset options for style, and custom styles with controls for brightness, contrast, font, and more. When switching between fonts particularly, I noticed that the overall feel of an image would change drastically. Words can have very-defined lines or only just barely noticeable also, each giving the finished image an totally different look. When you're finished, you can save your projects to your library, send them via e-mail, or post them to Facebook. If you're looking for something new to do with your images, WordFoto offers a unique gimmick that can produce striking results.
Percolator ($1.99) offers a fun and great-looking way to jazz up your images by turning them into colorful mosaics, and it all revolves around the theme of brewing coffee. ���������� �� ������� ��������. While it sounds strange, the software produces fascinating results by taking your image, and turning it into tons of tiny circles (kind of like bubbles in a latte) with customizable effects. You start with an image from your library or you can take a new picture with your iPhone camera. Once you've chosen a photo, Percolator gets to work processing your image and--as you watch--fills in the image with colorful circles. The dial-based interface lets you swipe to change Grind (circle size), Brew (style), and Serve (lighting, contrast, and opacity controls for the effect). Each of the selections also have several fine-tuning options so you can make the effect do accurately what you want.
When you're finished, you have the option to save the image to your iPhone camera, share with Facebook or Twitter, or send via e-mail. Percolator is a fun program for doing something different with your photos, and offers a unique coffee-themed interface. If you like the idea of creating mosaics with your photos, this software is a neat option.