New iPhone Photo App: Halftone

App Store Description: Halftone adds an aged halftone-style printing effect to photos to give them a unique, vintage look. With nine paper styles, nine built-in layouts, two caption styles, and the ability to choose a font (including an embedded font called Digital Strip), photos can be customized, then saved to the photo album, sent via e-mail, and shared with friends on Facebook.

Features:

• Nine paper styles, from crisp and clean to distressed and aged
• Two different caption styles, including one with a large initial character and a gradient background
• Nine unique layouts, including layouts without any captions or borders
• The ability to use any installed font at Small, Medium, and Large sizes
• An additional licensed and embedded font called Digital Strip
• Photos are captured with the built-in camera, selected from the photo album, or pasted from the pasteboard
• Final Halftone images are saved to the photo album, sent via e-mail, and shared directly with friends on Facebook

App Store Link: Halftone; Price: £0.59/$0.99/€0.79

Editors comments: Halftone is an easy to use, albeit limited app, that may appeal to those of you who like that comic look, but at a resolution of just 1124 x 865 pixels, will be relegated to the ranks of social networks.

Comments

[MIchael]

I downloaded this app moments after it hit the app store. I've been looking for an app that can do just this sort of thing effectively. It does a very good job for what it does. If you want a real comic book feel it looks better if you posterize or cartoonize your image first. However as stated the low resolution is kind of a bummer.

[Spoungeworthy]

Nice little app. Be much better if you could create your own panel styles or add speech bubbles. Higher resolution would be nice.

I'll keep using Strip Design instead, even though it's a little user unfriendly...

[Craig]

Would also be nice to be able to adjust some settings like amount of halftoning. BW vs Colo halftoning and also light image controls like brightness/contrast... At least the image controls can be done in another app - but would be nice to have an all-in-one

[Marty Gough]

Thanks for the post and the feedback, everyone. We're adding higher resolution support in an update that we're already testing. Plus, we're taking feedback on the features that people would like to see.