What do you do while you have a long wait in the airport? Angry Birds? Maybe. But what if you want to be a little more creative? Well, quickly download VFX Studio and have some fun. That’s what I did recently while waiting at Dallas Love Field for my flight back home.
The app is very easy to use. You simply select a photo from your camera roll or take a photo within the app. Once you do so, you simply select the “Tools” menu from the left side of the screen. From there you may select “Add Fx” to select the item you would like to add to your photo. Current selections include animals, blood, bones, bullet impacts, cracks, fire, light flare, lasers, lightning, makeup, scars, smoke, shadows, weather and weapons. Once you add the effect, you may place, size, rotate, or flip the effect. When you finish, you can flatten to merge the layers and save to your camera roll.
The app costs 99 cents and is worth it for lots of fun. But there is a serious use for it as well. While waiting in the airport I used the app to mark a location on a photo using the shadow tool. This is a fun app with some serious applications as well.
This is one you might want to check out. Because you never know when you might want to add a dinosaur to your Caribbean island theme. And I’ve found that it is much easier to use this app than it is to shoot a dinosaur in front of a green screen. Seriously. Have you ever tried it?
So download and have some fun with it.
All the best…Mike
A college administrator by profession, Mike Kennamer enjoys the opportunity to take photos and improve his skills by shooting events at work, church, and for friends. He enjoys landscape photography, portraiture and is starting to dabble in HDR. His current photography project involves learning to control flash manually. “My goal”, according to Kennamer, “is to be the best photographer I can be.”
Kennamer is also the President of Kennamer Media Group, Inc., a provider of traditional and online media, specializing in the healthcare industry. On CurrentPhotographer.com he writes about iPhone and iPad applications for photographers.
March 8, 2012 – PRESS SUMMARY – Apple® announced the new iPad®, the third generation of its category defining mobile device, featuring a stunning new Retina™ display, Apple’s new A5X chip with quad-core graphics and a 5 megapixel iSight® camera with advanced optics for capturing amazing photos and 1080p HD video. iPad with Wi-Fi + 4G connects to fast networks worldwide, including AT&T’s and Verizon’s 4G LTE networks, and still delivers the same all-day 10 hour battery life* while remaining amazingly thin and light. Beginning today, iPad 2 will be offered at an even more affordable price starting at just $399.
