Make your world small, with Tiny Planet Photos

"Turn your photo into a tiny planet!"

Some of you may have seen these photos on the iPhoneography Facebook page, whilst some of you may not. Well today Tiny Planet Photos, the free ad-based app I used to create these interesting images, hit the App Store.

The App

The app is really easy to use, simply launch the app, take or select a photo, then choose the effect, either "tiny planet" or "tiny tube" and wait. The resulting photo can then be either saved to the camera roll at a resolution of 1000 x 1000 pixels, emailed, copied or share via Facebook, Tumblr or Twitter.

What the developer says about Tiny Planet Photos

"It's a classic for landscape photos, but also works great on all kinds of other photos from book shelves to portraits of people."

What do I think about Tiny Planet Photos?

I think this is a great app that can create interesting images with the right photo, and whilst it would be nice to see it support full-res, for an app that is free and as unique as this, I can live with the 1000 x 1000 pixel low-res output.

App Store Link: Tiny Planet Photos; Price: FREE

Update on Thursday, March 24, 2011 at 8:17AM by Glyn Evans

There seems to be a problem with the app crashing, which I have just reported to the developer. Hopefully it wont be long before we see a fix for the crashing, but until then I have found a reboot of your iPhone should allow you to process and save an image.

Comments

[Robyn | Gemini606]

Very fun app. I was able to use it on iPad, but not on iPhone. The controls at the bottom of the screen, where you choose between planet or tube were hidden on iPhone. It's as if the iPhone screen isn't long enough to fit the entire app interface and you can't scroll. At least on iPad, there was just wee bit more room within the iPhone-sized window to see the entire app interface. Aside from that, very cool "toy" to have in your camera bag!

[MBD]

Fun app. Works fine on my iPhone 4. Maybe try uninstalling and reinstalling Robyn?

[T.]

@ robyn...exactly same problem... cant use it... uninstalling an reinstalling doesnt help.
maybe its a firmware problem? i run on 4.1 , iphone 4. !? but theres nothing in descripton...

[MBD]

Hmmm odd. My setup is:

Device: iPhone 4 Model MC603B
Version: 4.3 (8F190)

[Matej]

It works fine on my iPhone 3GS (4.3), but the image quality is not that great.

[Matej]

Here are couple samples that I processed from my library:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/matejphoto/sets/72157626340164520/with/5556111482/

The quality is good near the center, but the heavy stretching is too much for the 3Mpix camera on the 3Gs. Maybe pics from iPhone4 will look better.

[Rickcb]

Nice app. Worked first time on my iPhone 4. Produced some excellent images. Ads are a little annoying but acceptable as it's free.

[Pamoko]

@ robyn...exactly same problem... cant use it on 3G:(

[Kaz]

I found this app a few weeks back and never had a problem with it crashing (3GS, 4.2), so sorry that some of you are having that problem.

I had fun with it, especially when I imported it into other apps and I gave my planet pictures a vintage look.

[Glyn Evans]

@Kaz, I'm not sure how you found this app a few weeks ago, as it's only just been released. Did you find a similar app?

[Henri]

Works great on my 3GS, stretching will create serious softness but that's unavoidable, that also happens when I do the same thing with my High Res panos (50MP) in Photoshop.

Cool to have in the iPhone!

[Rick]

Works great on my iPad. Great application.

[Angela]

Same problem as Robyn! Any ideas on how to fix it?

[Raman]

For those on Flickr, a group for this got started the other day.

http://www.flickr.com/groups/tinyplanetphotosapp/

It's a fun app. Occasionally it crashes on me (iPhone 4) but just restarting it solves the problem. I haven't had any problem with the ad blocking the control area.

[adriaan]

Just want to let everyone that had problems using the app (missing transformation buttons). This issue has been resolved in the latest version of the app (version 1.2).

The app now works as it should for everyone.

[Concerned Artist.]

It scares me how much technology is available to people these days and no one can take their time to be creative or outstanding in their artistic ability.