The
word of apps has grown insanely over the past couple of years,
with
quality
that ranges from opportunistic and godawful to
transcendent and
vital.
For lack of a better word, I’m an app
whore. A power user of the
highest
order. Sometimes a fool and
sometimes a gentleman with serious
tools.
Either
way, here I am and
here come the reviews…
Today’s Title: Toon FX Paint
Platform: iPhone
Price: $1.99
Developer: Toon FX
The Premise:
Send the color from your portraits away and then finger paint the line drawings to give them a fun look. It’s how I made two of my recent fabulous Facebook profile pictures (here & here). Speaking of, why not be my sweet friend on Facebook?
The Icon on my phone:
Matt Dillon.
The Application:
This app does one thing but it does it really well. It’s not a simple Photoshop filter given its own spotlight but a nifty little program that does a very nice job of taking a photograph and rendering it in a matter that allows a creative person to have some fun with it. You can accomplish quite a few different effects with it ranging from simplistic and iconic to detailed and (in my opinion) tacky like the image below:
Straight from some Panama City dude’s van!
The iPhone (and other items like it, but face it you’re not in the same league) has become a very nice outlet for amateurs to assume the role of artists and this little program is a really fun way to enhance photos in a way that is infinitely better than a lot of the chaff and cheese on iTunes. There’s a glut of really bad photo apps out there so it’s nice to see one with limited focus but very good programming.
I often will take a picture and pull it into this app just to see what happens. That’s called replay value, folks.
I took a picture of my little gentleman. It sucked the color right out of her.
When you load a picture in, it automatically presents it in the format as shown above. You then can tweak it to the desired effect. Truly, the default settings work the best with close-up portraits but if you experiment with different kinds of images you can get some pretty out there stuff. I personally like taking photos of kids in pools, making all the kids look like Toxie and turning the water to blood.
I then masturbate.
I then quickly spattered shit. This is not art.
The Hook:
It’s a way to quickly add zest to photographs. Or make yourself look like a freak. Either way you win.
Should
You
Get It:
If two bucks is worth it for being able to have some fun. It saves the images a decent resolution, isn’t buggy, why not?
10 comments
sigh. do more movie reviews. scrap this nonsense.
Nope. There's a reason you're unknown.
I LIKE these reviews! Thanks to you I can't stop playing PLANTS vs. ZOMBIES. TOON FX looks cool too.
I have to agree with comment one. I appreciate that there are slow news days and the guys are trying something new but…MCP is stretching it a little, but video games are part of film culture somehow, Geek Chic is alright because it usually highlights movie items…but CHUD is falling away from its roots and this review is an example of that. CHUD is the first site I go to in the morning and I just want my Captain America news or yet another pointless stab at Twilight. More Tron, less non-movie reviews.
RE: Comment #4
Methinks you haven't been reading CHUD long if you think it's always been exclusively laser-focused on movies. Stuff like this reminds of the way CHUD used to be 8 or 10 years ago. In a good way. Relax and click one of the film articles from the sidebar if these fun little pieces bother you so.
Screw the haters, these app reviews are very useful. I'm also always on the search for new and interesting apps, this is very helpful in sifting through all the crap that's out there.
NICK!! If you take tips, you should try the app: BEBOT. It's a touch screen synth that is possibly the best implementation of the iphone interface, it blew me away.
Screw the haters, indeed. I definitely appreciate these reviews. If I trust this site enough for my movie reviews, why not other reviews? Saves me from going to other sites – with reviewers that I don't know – to get stuff like this. Keep it up guys!
yay, I can make a photo a bitmap.
That looks like a frame from an animated version of The Outsiders. Stay Young Mat Dillon. Stay Young.
thank you
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