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Create Colorful Comic Strips & Collages On iPad With Halftone 2

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You wouldn’t necessarily use an app like PhotoComic to edit all your photos on an iDevice, but on the other hand, where’s the fun in using feature-rich photo editors like Touch Image Manipulator? Apps available for iPad are usually this way; they either have so many features that using them becomes nightmarishly complicated, or there are not enough features to serve users in all situations. Maybe that’s why the developers behind Halftone 2 have attempted to strike the perfect balance between simplicity and features in this release. The Halftone photo editor was released for iPhone quite some time ago, but the new Halftone 2 is iPad-exclusive and quite different from its predecessor. It has been designed to get fun-looking results, but comes with some pretty serious features and Aviary's image editor. You can use the app to create comics and collages, or just do some casual editing on your photos. Read More

Moldiv Is An iOS Collage Maker With Tons Of Styles & A Great Built-In Photo Editor

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It seems like iPhone owners love meshing their photos together to make collages, or at least that’s what the developers think. In the past, we have covered collage-makers like Pixplit and Collagetastic, so the newly released Moldiv should be just another similar app, right? In our opinion, that's certainly not the case. Moldiv comes from JellyBus - a developer who knows what it takes to make a successful photo editor for iOS, having already released the likes of HDR FX, Beauty Booth and PicsPlay. Moldiv is pretty different from other apps of this kind though, as it offers a staggeringly large number of frame styles. Also, unlike other collage creators, Moldiv focuses on editing features as well, rather than just stitching your photos together in different styles. Read More

Pixplit Is A Collaborative, Social Photo Collage App For Android & iOS

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Initially released in iTunes App Store and just recently made available to Android users, Pixplit is among the few cross-platform social photo sharing apps that actually justify their purpose of being truly ‘social’ and ‘interactive’. The app is built around the simple concept of social photo collage making, where a user starts a collage with a photo of their choice and then anyone from anywhere can contribute to the collage by adding images of their own. A typical Pixplit collage is referred to as a ‘split’, and comprises 2-4 empty slots that can be filled by that many different users. Like any quality photo editing app, Pixplit offers a wide array of filters and borders that you can apply to your images prior to sharing. In addition, the app boasts an extensive set of featured content shared by worldwide users who you can socialize with using various conventional socializing tools. Read More

snaplife Saves Clips, GIFs & Collages Of Best Moments In Videos On Android

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It’s been a while since we last caught hold of a noteworthy photography app in the Play Store, but it seems the wait was well worth it, as we’ve just come across a remarkable tool in the form of snaplife. Available for free, snaplife is a multipurpose Android app that automatically analyzes your video recordings to present you with multiple thumbnails of some of the most significant moments in the entire clip, which can be saved as photo collages, GIF animations or MP4 video files. In addition, the app offers plenty of vintage-style filters so that you can make your life’s most memorable moments even more vivid and appealing. The images or video created with snaplife can then be shared with your friends and family members from within the app in just a few taps. Unlike a timelapse-oriented photography app or a routine video recording tool, snaplife puts you in complete control over selection of the moments from your video recordings that you wish to retain. Details to follow. Read More

Memorylage For Windows 8 Creates Collages From Images & Webcam Photos

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Collage is an art technique that involves creating an image by using a number of other images, but it is not limited to that; you can use newspaper cuttings, images, text, photographs, parts of other artwork - almost anything that you can find, provided that your creativity and the available tools allow you to work with the raw materials. Previously, we have covered some great collage-making applications, such as CollageIt that allows you to make a collage in just 3 steps, and Shape Collage, a cross-platform tool to create collages in any shape. While there are a lot of desktop apps available to create photo collages, Memorylage is a new Modern UI option for Windows 8 and RT users. It allows you to create simple image collages using images stored on your computer. Moreover, it lets you capture images through your webcam and create an instant collage, which can be perfect if you are having a party and want to capture its great moments straight to a collage. Read More

Create Simple Photo Collages With Ease On Windows 8 With Cool Collage

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Photo Collages are nice. No wait, they are great in fact. You can stick all your favorites images over one large background, and show them to your friends & family whenever you’re in the mood to recall those amazing moments you once captured. Collage making apps are widely available on several platforms including Windows, and we’ve covered plenty of them already including PictureCollageMaker, Shape Collage and Collageit, just to name a few. Today, we are bringing you a Modern UI photo collage maker for Windows 8 and Windows RT. Meet Cool Collage - a simple and easy to use app that lets you create gorgeous photo collages from your Windows 8/RT device in just a few clicks. Grab your coffee and read on. Read More

picq For Android: Photo Collage Creator With Stylish Layouts & Effects

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Photo collage creator and editor apps are available by the hundreds in both Google Play Store and iTunes App Store. As per your requirement, you can find the ideal app that merges your specific photo collections into a wonderful collage, complete with visually appealing layouts, effects, filters, frames et al. However, as is often the case with most such apps, you only get to select from a handful of collage layout templates, without enjoying much control over tweaking those images on an individual basis. This is where picq shines. This free Android app allows you to individually resize, reposition, enhance, decorate and apply effects to every single photo and then merges them into a collage layout of your choice. Using picq, you may create a highly customizable collage containing as many as nine different freshly captured or locally imported images. There are plenty of static and dynamic collage layouts to choose from, where the formation of each different template keeps changing based on the number of photos you wish to include in it. Read More

Collagetastic: Create Photo Collages & Send Them As Postcards [iOS]

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Some might label Collagetastic as just another collage-maker for iOS and leave it at that, but actually, this photo editor has got the kind of finesse and uniqueness that is rare in other photo apps. For one thing, the effects offered by Collagetastic are pretty amazing, and there are a lot of them. Other than that, you can choose any layout for the collage you are creating, and there is the option to import photos to the app directly from your Facebook, Picasa, Flickr or Instagram accounts. The collages created via Collagetastic can be sent to your loved ones as postcards, thanks to the app’s integration with Sincerely (a service that prints and delivers personalized cards). Read More

Automatic Wallpaper Switcher With Multi-Monitor & Collage Support

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We all love changing wallpapers. In fact, it’s one of those tasks we frequently perform. Even though Windows 7 provides integrated wallpaper switching functionality, it’s not as robust as it should be, and is neither very feature-laden. Earlier, we took an inside look at John's Background Switcher – probably one of the most comprehensive wallpaper utilities you can find over the internet. The software was both feature-rich and intuitive, and left us utterly impressed. However, not everyone wants to play with plethora of options and settings, and some simply need simpler and minimalistic solutions. Today, we have a wallpaper application for you called WallSwitch. WallSwitch, as the name implies, is a handsome software to easily switch your desktop wallpapers, either using hotkeys or by setting predefined time intervals. What makes it stand out from default Windows 7’s Personalization menu, is its multi-monitor support – which means it can set separate background for each screen. You can make multiple profiles and set different configurations for each of them. Read More

Tiled For iPhone & iPad: Powerful Collage Maker With A Metro-Style UI

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One thing that you’ll find in abundance across any platform – iOS, Android, Windows, Mac and even Web – is perhaps photo editors and manipulators, and within those, collage creators, to be more specific. These tools not only make it easy to produce astounding images that can awe your friends on social networks, but may also help if you’re a meme fan, as the panel-layout provides an easy base for creating your humorous masterpieces. The thing about smartphones is, they’ve put every sort of tool in the palms of our hands, and collage creators are no exception. iOS, in this regard, is rather well-endowed, as the platform boasts several capable apps for creating collages on the go. We have reviewed several of the kind before; Photo Wall, which lets you create collages graffiti style on iPhone/iPad, or Nostalgio, which impresses with its wide array of Frame templates, and my personal favorite, Frame Artist, which is arguably the most comprehensive collage maker for iOS that I’d seen to date. Tiled is a new entry in the same genre which packs a vast and handsome set of features, capable of rivaling the best in business while maintaining user friendliness. Read More

InstaCover: Create An Instagram Photo Collage For Your Facebook Timeline Cover [Web]

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When Facebook bought Instagram, it led to a slew of web apps and services being developed exclusively for downloading and backing your Instagram feed to your system or another file sharing service like Flickr or Picassa. Of course, not all apps that combine Facebook and Instagram are meant to be panic buttons. InstaCover enables you to use yours or others' Instagram images to create a pictorial Facebook profile cover. To get started, all you have to do is sign in with your Facebook account.  After signing in, the app inquires after visibility option. You can select who you want to allow to see posts made by the app on your timeline. It also seeks permission to post on your behalf. Read More

Popular Collage Maker ‘PicCollage’ Released For Android

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Developed by Cardinal Blue Software, PicCollage is a collage maker that is revered for its simplicity and plethora of features. Using its various tools, users can create beautiful collages out of their device, camera, Facebook and web photos, and share their masterpieces with the entire world. In addition, the app is laced with a variety of background templates, easy to use multi-touch gestures to maneuver images, and extended photo sharing features. The app also integrates Aviary’s photo editor plugin to help you enhance and embellish your photos before placing them on the canvas. Initially available only to iOS users, the app has just been released to the Google Play Store. Read More

John’s Background Switcher: Desktop Wallpaper Utility With Built-In Collage/Mosaic Creator & More

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With the introduction of Windows Vista, users were presented with an intuitive wallpaper utility, as Microsoft went in and revamped the whole wallpaper personalization properties window. One of the most welcomed features that it contained was auto-switching of background wallpapers and you could manually adjust the time interval. Obviously, this fancy way of playing with wallpapers made its way to Windows 7 as well. However, we have discovered another wallpaper switching tool, which includes more wallpaper switching options than the default background personalization tool. The application is called John’s Background Switcher. It packs some exquisite features such as auto-changing desktop backgrounds, multi-monitor support, ability to apply a different wallpaper on each monitor, Snapshot Scrapbook, creating thumbnail mosaics and more. The application not only lets you specify your local wallpapers directory, but also allows you to grab images from numerous online sources like Flickr, Facebook, Google Images, Picasa, Phanfare, Vladstudio wallpapers, SmugMug, Webshots and Bing etc. More details after the jump. Read More

PictureCollageMaker For Windows Boasts Countless Templates, Frames & Photo Effects

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Who doesn’t like making those beautiful-looking photo collages? After all, it makes the whole photo sharing experience a lot more mesmerizing. Previously, we have reviewed an umpteen number of photo collage tools, such as Cookiepix for Mac (review), Shape Collage (review) and the recently covered CollageIt (review), just to name a few. However, if all this isn’t enough to satiate your appetite, then go ahead and give PictureCollageMaker a shot. This feature-rich application has a quite a lot to offer, and is filled with a gargantuan amount of templates, frames, masks, clip art and photo effects.  You can create your collages either through a wizard mode, or by manually selecting various parameters, the latter of which is much more comprehensive. Read More

Picisto Is A Free Online Collage Creator With Customizable Templates [Web]

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Picisto is a free web application that allows you to easily create different types of collages and before/after pictures in any layout of your choice. It is a simple yet powerful tool that lets you choose among several different templates, which can be further customized with text captions and background color options. Once a frame has been selected, the service allows you to upload photos by selecting a number of options, such as Upload Photo, Copy Photo from URL, Choose from Facebook and Google Image Search. Moreover, the app has an easy-to-use interface that lets you generate unique photo collages for sharing with your buddies on various social networking websites. To start off, login via your Facebook, Twitter or Google account, choose a layout for the collage and upload photos. When you're collage is ready, you can save it online or download it to the local system. That’s how simple it is! Read More

Cookiepix: Create Collage Desktop Backgrounds; Apply Several Effects To Individual Images [Mac]

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Finding a simple plain textured desktop background or a complex color rich one isn’t difficult, but nothing beats family photos or anything else that you may have personally snapped. Cookiepix Lite is a free Mac app that lets you combine your favorite pictures and create a desktop background out of them. The app is much like a collage maker that can help you create a wallpaper featuring whatever images you want. It comes with several styles that you can apply to images, and also has color and corner effects for better customization (where the latter simply makes the image look as if it were folded from a corner). Images can be zoomed in to focus on a particular spot, tilted and placed one over the other. More after the break. Read More

Fotor For iPhone & Android: Massive Camera App With DSLR-Like Focus, HDR, Photo Effects & Collages

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It is quite an old (read: wrong) notion that photos taken from a smartphone camera can never be as good as the ones shot from even the cheapest standalone cameras. The camera quality of smartphones has evolved tremendously over last few years, with Nokia's latest PureView technology being testament to what you can achieve optically on a mobile device. However, although most stock cameras are rather restricted, smartphone cameras have a host of supporting apps to go with them, and these apps have the potential to make your photography seem absolutely professional. Since iOS sports the largest collection of apps among smartphone platforms, it is understandable that some of those apps are just about perfect for the camera in iPhone. Fotor is one such app that combines a photo-editor with a fully-featured alternative camera for iOS devices. Some of the features in Fotor (like post-shooting focus, the Anti-Ghost option and the HDR mode) are good enough to give whole apps a run for their money. Read on to learn about everything Fotor has on offer. Update: The Android version of the app has been released to the Google Play Store, and you can find its download link at the end of the post. Read More

Loupe: Create Awesome One-Click Collages With Your Facebook, Twitter & Instagram Photos [Web]

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Loupe is a free web application that lets you create gorgeous collages of shapes using photos from your Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram accounts and other online sources. The tool is as simple and elegant as they come; it allows you to pick photos from multiple albums and social networks and shape your collages as hearts, butterflies, a variety of symbols, logos and more, all in a few clicks. Once your collage is ready, you can share it with your friends and social networks. More after the break. Read More

[Giveaway] CollageIt: Create Gorgeous Photo Collages Within A Few Clicks

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In the past, we have covered numerous photo collage creators for different platforms including Windows, Mac OS X, Android, iOS etc. Today, we will take a look into another collage making tool for Windows and Mac OS X known as CollageIt, that with its easy to use interface design, lets you generate unique photo collages within a few clicks. You can choose among several different templates, which are further customizable with the number of editing options. The intuitive UI presents both the eye-candy and simplicity of use, to its users. The beautiful looking photo collage can be easily exported into PNG, PDF, JPG, PSD, GIF, TIFF, BMP and format or you may instantly upload it on your Flickr or Facebook to share it with your friends and family from within the application. Read More

My Album For iPad: Create A Collage Of Drawings, Photos & Music

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There are many iOS apps that let you create collages out of the photos, and there are also a lot of apps that are focused on drawing and finger painting. My Album for iPad combines both these features and adds one of its own to the mix. The app lets users edit photos and add musical effects to them. Not only that, you can put your drawing skills to use in My Album, and then combine your artwork with photos to create an awesome collage. The projects created using the app can be exported as PDF files or plain images. Read More