A picture may be worth a thousand words, but sometimes two, three, or four pictures grouped together can tell an even more interesting story. Diptic, an iPhone and iPad app, affords you the opportunity to do just that – combine photos taken with your iPhone to tell a more compelling or complete story with diptychs, triptychs, and even quadtychs.
Diptic offers a number of layouts and easily allows you to plug different pictures into different positions within your selected layout. You can choose to either use an existing picture, which you’ve already taken and saved on your iPhone, or to take a picture right then from within the app.
Once you’ve laid out your pictures using the template of your choice, you can transform each picture, moving it around the frame until it’s positioned to your liking. And then you can add effects to the photos; the available effects include changing the brightness, the contrast, and the saturation of each photo. When you’re happy with your composition and the effects, you can export the finished product to your saved photos or to email. The whole process is remarkably simple and yields results that have spawned a Flickr community.
The app, usually $1.99, is free for a limited time, and is a universal app, which means that once you’ve purchased it once, it’ll work on both your iPhone and iPad with no purchase-per-device necessary.
Update: Oct 8, 2010 – The limited time offer of “Free” has ended, the app is back up to $1.99.
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Pamela Flora is an amateur photographer, avid iPhone user, and a freelance writer. She likes dogs, doesn’t drink coffee, and is obsessive about Words with Friends.
Twitter: @puckish222
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Photo Credit: © 2010 Pamela Flora
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