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iOS – InFrame Foto – App Review

A simple and efficient framing app

Developer: MAKE A
Price: $0.99/£0.69
Version: 1.0
Released/Updated: March 09, 2012
Size: 4.9 MB
Rated: 4+

Our Ratings

Graphics/Sound: 3/5
User Interface: 3/5
Gameplay: N/A
Re-use/re-play value: 3.5/5
Overall Rating: 3.5/5

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What Is It?

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It’s a very simple to use framing and sharing app for your photographs.

Is It Easy To Use?

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Totally child’s play, once you’ve uploaded the app you are presented with various options/frames to choose from. As you might expect there are plenty of options, along with a good quantity of frame ratios including 2:3, 1:1, 3:4 and 4:3.

Once you have selected the frame you want to use just click on it. To add your images, just select each greyed out aperture and you will be taken to your photo roll, from here you can select your images.

Once your images have been added you can do some basic editing on each image, as per the screen shot above. There are some good filters to choose from and the usual brightness/contrast/saturation and sharpness options that you would expect.

Although you can move and rotate the images around in their apertures, unfortunately you cannot move the images to alternative apertures, at least not at the moment, perhaps this feature could be added with a future update.

Once you have added the images you can changed the widths of the borders and adjust the corner angles, by selecting the Border option at the foot of the app.

To ensure your images really stand out select the Color option and a choice of eight colors are available to fill the gaps around the images.

Then you’re ready to share your InFrame Foto, just select the Sharing icon and select Normal-Res, Ultra-Res or Album, depending on where you want to send it.

Is It Fun?

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Yes, it is fun but perhaps its best selling point is its ease of use.

Is It Pretty?

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The UI is quite basic and won’t win any design awards but it is efficient and of course, most importantly it makes your images look pretty.

Should You Download It?

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It’s an interesting app and very easy to use, we would like to see further options, such as moving images from aperture to aperture within frames and more color or pattern options but this is version 1 and so far it looks good.

Joanne Carter, creator of the world’s most popular mobile photography and art website— TheAppWhisperer.com— TheAppWhisperer platform has been a pivotal cyberspace for mobile artists of all abilities to learn about, to explore, to celebrate and to share mobile artworks. Joanne’s compassion, inclusivity, and humility are hallmarks in all that she does, and is particularly evident in the platform she has built. In her words, “We all have the potential to remove ourselves from the centre of any circle and to expand a sphere of compassion outward; to include everyone interested in mobile art, ensuring every artist is within reach”, she has said. Promotion of mobile artists and the art form as a primary medium in today’s art world, has become her life’s focus. She has presented lectures bolstering mobile artists and their art from as far away as the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea to closer to her home in the UK at Focus on Imaging. Her experience as a jurist for mobile art competitions includes: Portugal, Canada, US, S Korea, UK and Italy. And her travels pioneering the breadth of mobile art includes key events in: Frankfurt, Naples, Amalfi Coast, Paris, Brazil, London. Pioneering the world’s first mobile art online gallery - TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com has extended her reach even further, shipping from London, UK to clients in the US, Europe and The Far East to a global group of collectors looking for exclusive art to hang in their homes and offices. The online gallery specialises in prints for discerning collectors of unique, previously unseen signed limited edition art. Her journey towards becoming The App Whisperer, includes (but is not limited to) working for a paparazzi photo agency for several years and as a deputy editor for a photo print magazine. Her own freelance photographic journalistic work is also widely acclaimed. She has been published extensively both within the UK and the US in national and international titles. These include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Popular Photography & Imaging, dpreview, NikonPro, Which? and more recently with the BBC as a Contributor, Columnist at Vogue Italia and Contributing Editor at LensCulture. Her professional photography has also been widely exhibited throughout Europe, including Italy, Portugal and the UK. She is currently writing several books, all related to mobile art and is always open to requests for new commissions for either writing or photography projects or a combination of both. Please contact her at: [email protected]