Halftone Offers Another Fantastic Update
December 1, 2011
Halftone, the comic-inspired photography app for the iPhone/iPod touch and iPad was recently updated. Version 1.7.1 includes a number of great features that makes photo-editing with the $.99 app much easier.
According to a posting on the Juicy Bits blog, the latest update includes a new tool that allows users to edit an image before applying captions and stamps. To do so, the company has partnered with Aviary, a company that offers a web and mobile photo API to developers. Now editing through includes “cropping, rotation, special effect filters, brightness, contrast, saturation, individual RGB color levels, and sharpness.” In other words, those must-have tools required in any photo app.
The new photo-editing feature is turned On by default. However, you may change this by tapping on the settings gear in the upper-left and turning “Image editing” to Off.
In addition, Halftone has included a “Santa hat” stamp just in time for the holidays. Along with this new stamp are some gradients (and white) to add some style to your title captions.
Finally, thanks to the update, Halftone can now retrieve the “date taken” for images.
To access this information, Halftone needs to read the metadata that is baked-in to each image. Because this metadata can also contain the latitude and longitude where the photo was taken, iOS requires that you grant permission.This is a solid update and one that is available now in the App Store. For new customers, the universal Halftone is just $.99.