Friday, May 2, 2014

Thing 9: Taking and Editing Photos

For this thing  I downloaded two new apps to my phone, LINE Camera  and Color Splurge.

Every time I tried to use Color Splurge it only worked for a few seconds, maybe one minute at most, and then I got a message like this.

So I only was able to try to color a few image, none of them ever for long enough to even save a screen shot.  The most I can say is that it would be hard to use on a tiny screen like a phone because you are trying to paint over your image exactly.  You'd really want a stylus, my finger was just not precise enough.  The examples they show on the app's page look really neat but I was  frustrated.  Also, for the few seconds I was able to use it it kept showing me adds.  Very annoying.

LINE Camera worked just as it was supposed to.  No technical problems and no adds.  There are in app purchases to get more stamps and things to decorate your photos with but there were plenty of free choices.


  I played around with different filters, some even made it look like it was snowing in the picture.  There were a lot of choices and you can use the slide bar to adjust the effect of each.


 You can draw right on the image with different sized pen lines in whatever color you'd like and put stamps all over the place.




You can add words and borders too.  It's very easy to move the text wherever you'd like to put it and change color, size and font.  If you choose the little rainbow colored square you can more finely tune the color choice.

You can also make little collages with multiple pictures either using their set templates or adjusting the dividing lines exactly how you'd like them.  In the image below you can see how I can move the dividing line between the two pictures.

There are also all sorts of functions to change the look of a person's face.  You can make their face thinner, make eyes bigger, drag your finger on their nose to totally change the shape.  You can "smoothen" out a person's wrikles.   I tried and tried to use these features but my people always just looked weird.  Not saying it doesn't work, just that I wasn't very good at it nor was I really motivated enough.  There was a nice "blemish" remover tool that I'm sure people might like.  


You can make fun little pictures like this too.





I don't think I'll be using the app a lot but I can see how it would be useful for adding pictures to a sign with added text or a nice border.  The filters could be useful as well.  Definitely fun.