![]() From a popover, you can tweak border thickness and color, create round inner borders, and tweak the final look of borders with sliders. The essence of the app, borders, is equally simple. ![]() Just like filters (which are brought up right before sharing, and can be ignored) I don’t care about the photo sliders because I like to leave my photos untouched. You can pinch photos to zoom them, tap layouts to instantly change the preview, or tap a single photo to open a popover that has buttons to rotate a photo or flip it vertically/horizontally, as well as sliders for brightness, contrast, and saturation. You can drag & drop photos from the top shelf onto different sections of a collage, and, when the app notices that you’re trying to swap the position of two photos, it’ll suggest you that you can tap two photos at the same time to save time. What I like about PDQ is that it values straightforwardness and easy sharing. The title bar nicely integrates with the system status bar and has buttons to re-open the photo picker, save and share a collage, or tweak borders. In the editing view, you can see collage layouts at the bottom and a live preview of the final collage in the middle of the screen. To pick photos, you tap on them, then hit Done. The app starts from a Camera Roll view that lets you pick photos from your device’s library in this screen, you can take a new photo, or tap the album name’s at the bottom to switch from the Camera Roll to any other album, including shared Photo Streams you’re subscribed to. I’ve never created collages with more than 3 photos, but I think that the layout choices are useful and well assorted. I just needed to create simple collages with thin borders, so I bought PDQ and have been using it for the past week with nice results.ĭiptic PDQ lets you create collages based on 35 built-in layouts that go from simple two-column and four-square frames to more complex grids that can accommodate up to five photos. Apparently, PDQ (a Universal app) is the “lighter” version of Peak Systems’ more advanced Diptic app, which comes with all sorts of settings, textures, and In-App Purchases. However, I recently wanted to send a photo collage of my dog to my parents, and I conveniently came across Diptic PDQ on the App Store thanks to Apple’s feature for iOS 7-ready apps. It’s LOVE.I’ve never been into the idea of sharing my photos as “collages”, especially because all the iPhone and iPad apps that promised to make it easy to assemble collages looked overly social, filter-oriented, or just badly designed. If you really like Matt Crump’s photos, you can buy them here. #Diptic photo editor freeFeel free to add #FMScandy so I can see what you create too. Matt has a tag #candyminimalism that you can add to your pics. That won’t make any sense to a lot of people, but I thought I’d put it out there. So my workaround was uploading my photo to Afterlight, adding the white border strips to make it into a square, and then editing, and then uploading to Little Moments, cropping back to it’s original format and then publishing again with the white strips. I’m not a huge fan of squares for my photos at the moment. ![]() Lastly, you’ll notice when using the Diptic that you have to have your photo cropped to a square. ![]() Let’s take the top left waiting for clouds to clear and get a cloudless sky to head out and take photos. A great way to get more space around your photos, like Matt has above, is to shot from below and crop out any distractions when you’re editing. You can read a lesson I wrote on negative space here. It just means clearing out any clutter from your shots, and leaving lots of negative space. Matt uses two techniques really well minimalism and great editing. You know how every now and then you discover who has so much talent that it pretty much blows your mind? Yeah, that happened.Ĭheck out a few photos from his Instagram feed. I don’t even know how I stumbled across his Instagram feed but it’s INSANE. Well his creativity and photo skills, to be truthful. Well, I love him and always will but I also fell in love with another guy. In the week before Christmas and New Year I fell in love, and it wasn’t with my husband. ![]()
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