FX Photo Studio Sends Its Love To The Lost Art Of Postcard Making
March 24, 2012
FX Photo Studio for iPhone, MacPhun's acclaimed photo editing app, received a major update today. Mainly, the update gives users the ability to send a postcard using a photo edited with the app to anyone in the world.
To be sure, it's far from an innovative service. In fact, a host of other photo-centric apps already have a similar service. Most prominent of these is Apple's very own Cards app, which mails user-designed letterpress cards to any recipient around the globe. As for FX Photo Studio, through the app you can now send postcards based on your retouched photos to any person in any country, from your grandmother in Alaska to your online buddy in Zimbabwe.
Once you're finished applying filters or other editing flourishes to a photo in FX Photo Studio, open the sharing options page and tap on the stamp icon labeled "Postcards." The guys (or magical elves, for all I know) behind FX Photo Studio will then turn your photo into a 4 x 6 inch postcard, print it and ship it to your desired destination. Before you go ahead, though, the app will prompt you to add a personalized message or a profile photo to be placed at the back of the postcard. According to Alice of MacPhun, "The prices for the postcard (print and shipping) will start as low as $1 plus there will be special offers from time to time, when the service will be available absolutely free."
This postcard service is without question the update's most significant addition to the app, so significant that it eclipses the other new feature included in the update. That feature is the ability to export and import photos between FX Photo Studio and other apps. Inter-iPhoneography app operability, if you will.
Existing FX Photo Studio for iPhone users will get the update for free, naturally, while prospective users will have to download the app in the App Store for $1.99. There's also an iPad version of the app with the same price, but, oddly, it doesn't seem to have been updated in sync with the iPhone version. That said, I can't help but imagine FX Photo Studio for iPhone sending FX Photo Studio HD for iPad a postcard saying, "Wish you were here. And recently updated."
