Caricature Maker Pro – iOS App Review
Creativity and fun come together in a great package that allows you to create caricatures from new or existing images and share them with family and friends
Developer: Mock Inc
Price: $0.99/£0.69/download – this app is currently free, until February 22, 2012
Version: 1.2
Released: January 27, 2012
Size: 22.3 MB
Rated: 4+
Our Ratings
Graphics/Sound: 4/5
User Interface: 4/5
Gameplay: 4/5
Re-use/re-play value: 4/5
Overall Rating: 4/5
Introduction
Once you’ve downloaded this app, you can choose to either take a photograph within the app or choose one from your photo album. The object is to edit the facial image to create a caricature.
Game-Play
The app is very simple to use and when you have your image on the screen the first step is to align the eyes. Just move the R and L symbols until they are in the correct position.
Mock
Conclusion
Then you need to adjust the shape of the eyes, you do this in a similar way to the face adjustment above.
You can then adjust the size of the nose in the same way.
Finally, just do the same with the lips.
When you’ve completed those steps, you will be presented with an image incorporating your changes, similar to the above.
From here you can personalise the character more by adding and shapping hair, glasses and clothing.
The final choice for the body currently only presents an adult male or female, as you can see here we selected the adult male.
From here it is then possible to share it with Facebook and Twiitter or via email.
Conclusion
This is an excellent and very fun app that we will will only improve with age, and further updates. Although it is possible to expand the choices of options with in-app purchases, it would be nice to see a few more free additions made available.
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter is a British photographer, photography journalist, editor and curator and the founder and editorial director of TheAppWhisperer.com, an independent international photography publication established in 2009.Her journalism, criticism and commentary have appeared in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, BBC, Vogue Italia, LensCulture, Popular Photography, Android Magazine, NikonPro, DPReview, Which Digital Camera and Which Camera. She has lectured internationally on photography and mobile art, served as a juror for international photography awards, and exhibited her own photographic work across the UK, Europe, South Korea and the United States.Alongside her editorial work, Joanne's photographic and postgraduate research explores death, grief, memory, representation and social inequality through contemporary photography, participatory practice and visual research methods, with the longer-term aim of developing this work through doctoral research.Through TheAppWhisperer, she continues to publish independent photography journalism spanning contemporary photographic practice, mobile imaging, photographic apps, computational photography and emerging imaging technologies.Joanne is available for editorial commissions, photography projects, judging, curatorial work, speaking engagements, consultancy and selected collaborations.
