iGLASSES – iOS App Review
iGLASSES is a creative iPhone app designed to enable you to change your appearance by ‘wearing’ different styles of spectacles.
Developer: green cloud
Price: Free
In-App Purchases – 1 x 100 glasses = $0.99/£0.69
Version: 1.0.1
Released: January 19, 2012
Size: 16.8 MB
App Reviewed on: iPhone 4
Compatibility: iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPod Touch (3rd gen), iPod Touch (4th gen) and iPad.
iOS: 4.3 or later
Ratings
Graphics / Sound Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
User Interface Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Gameplay Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Re-use / Replay Value Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Overall Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Introduction
iGLASSES is an app that allows you to adjust an image so that it turns into a silly one or can even give your existing funny photos that extra edge. If you’ve ever wandered around a spectacle shop and tried on all manner of glasses and who hasn’t? Then this app could be just what you’re looking for.
Instead of feeling subconscious on your travels around the spectacle store you can create a very similar effect wherever you are with this app and of course you can also change the appearance of anyone you have ever taken a photograph of. It comes jam packed with a huge library of glasses to choose from, guaranteed to create laughs especially when sharing the images via the integrated Facebook or Twitter feeds as well as email.
What’s It All About?
iGLASSES is meant as a fun app and should not be taken too seriously. It comes complete with a good selection of glasses but if you want more choice we would recommend unlocking the in-app purchase of 100 glasses for $0.99/£0.69.
iGLASSES allows you to take a photograph within the app or you can choose one from your album. Once you have the selected image on your device, it is simple to choose a pair of glasses to overlay the image. The glasses are displayed at the bottom of the screen and you just scroll through until you find a pair that you like. iGLASSES makes use of the pinch zoom function and you can decrease or increase the size of the glasses to fit the users face. Fortunately you can also adjust the angle of the glasses too. Once you’re happy with the image you can save it directly to your album or send it up to Twitter, Facebook or email it.
Conclusion
iGLASSES is a good app, there is room for improvement, we would like the facility to edit the image in other ways as well as perhaps adding filters. Saying that though, you can of course open the image into an image editing app, such as Snapseed. As can be seen in the image above, we used Snapseed to add some filter affects, saturation and a frame. The end result is better and is easily accomplished.
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter is a British photography journalist, editor, curator, and the founder of *TheAppWhisperer.com*, one of the world’s leading platforms dedicated to mobile photography and art. Since its launch in 2009, TheAppWhisperer has become an international hub for artists of all levels to discover, learn, exhibit, and engage with contemporary photographic practice.Built on principles of inclusivity, accessibility, and artistic excellence, Joanne has spent almost two decades championing mobile photography as a serious artistic medium. Through interviews, critical essays, exhibitions, competitions, and education, she has helped shape and document the evolution of mobile art on a global scale.Her work has taken her internationally, lecturing on photography and mobile art at institutions and events including the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea, alongside appearances in the UK and Europe. She has served as a juror for international photography and mobile art awards across Portugal, Canada, the United States, South Korea, Italy, and the UK.Joanne is also the founder of *TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com*, one of the first online galleries dedicated exclusively to collectible mobile art, connecting artists with collectors across Europe, the United States, and Asia.Before founding TheAppWhisperer, Joanne worked extensively in print journalism and photographic publishing, including roles at a paparazzi photo agency and as deputy editor of a leading photography magazine. Her freelance journalism, criticism, and commentary have been published widely in both the UK and the US, with bylines in *The Times*, *The Sunday Times*, *The Guardian*, *Popular Photography*, *NikonPro*, *DPReview*, *Which?*, *Vogue Italia*, *LensCulture*, the *BBC*, and more recently, the *Financial Times*, where her published letters on photography continue to contribute to wider conversations around the medium.Alongside her editorial and curatorial work, Joanne’s own photographic practice has been exhibited internationally across the UK, Europe, South Korea, and the United States. Her work increasingly explores themes of grief, loss, death, memory, and the body.Her current research interests centre on grief, death, and poverty, with forthcoming postgraduate study leading towards doctoral research in these areas.Joanne is currently developing new long-form writing and photographic projects and is available for commissions, editorial projects, speaking engagements, and collaborations.Contact: joannetheappwhisperer@gmail.com)
