Poladroid Brings Back Old School Photos
One of the first things I do in the morning is check my RSS feeds. The news and articles are plentiful, but sometimes I get a treat that just makes my day. Dave Caolo on the Unofficial Apple Weblog wrote up a short piece about a new application out of the UK France, called Poladroid.
I immediately download the free application, but couldn’t play with it until I got back from a short group portrait shoot I had this morning. When I opened Poladroid for the first time, there were no instructions or confusing buttons to learn. No instructions are needed. In fact, the interface for the application is nearly invisible. Simply open the application and a nice size icon of a Polaroid camera appears and tells you exactly what to do.
The developers of this application got everything right. When you drop a photo on the icon, you get the shutter sound of photo just being shot by a Polaroid camera. And guess what, the photos are produced like a Polaroid, except there’s no paper involved.
Now in the digital age, we want things instant. Even two seconds is too long. Well, if you remember, a Polaroid photo takes time to develop, and so do Poladroid images. You see them develop the analog way, and that’s a good thing. Each image takes about a minute to process, and like a good old Polaroid camera, the images can be a little different each time.
I’m seriously amazed by this application. It’s fun, creative, and thoroughly easy to use. Can you image what you would have to do in Photoshop to get the same effect.
Here’s the final jpg version of the above photo.
Poladroid is in its BETA version, which means there’s a lot more to come from this awesome application. And a Flickr group called “be Poladroid !” already has nearly 600 members.
Not everyone will appreciate Polaroid style photos, but for those of us that do, Poladroid is a welcomed treat.
