HelloPhoto app for iPhone and iPad
Developer: Light Paint Pro
First release : 10 Feb 2011
App size: 7.97 Mb
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HelloPhoto is here to resurrect photos taken on slides and negatives, reviving an art form thats slowly being overlooked in this digital era.
Whether you are nostalgic, a photo purist, or have boxes of slides and negatives to sort through, HelloPhoto can rescue your film from dust.
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Using the various functions of HelloPhoto, you can do the following:
• Use the light table to view and sort slides and negatives.
• Use the light tables adjustments to enhance your slides and negatives before photographing them.
• Use a camera to take photos of slides, thus freeing them from obscurity and allowing you to share and post them.
• Forgot what your negatives look like? Use the iPhone to convert them to positive images.
Or get creative and really bring HelloPhoto to life!
DIGITIZE: Turn your film to digital by doing the following.
(To perform this specific feature, you need two devices. See Notes at the bottom.)
1. Place your slide or negative on an iPhone or iPad in HelloPhotos light table mode.
2. Using another iPhone running HelloPhoto, take a picture of the slide or negative. Hello, photo! You now have a digital copy of your slide or negative!
SHARE:
• Show off your film pics.
• Email your newly digitized images to friends and family.
• Post them on Facebook.
• Save them for sharing later on sites like Flickr, Twitter, or MobileMe.
LIGHT TABLE: View slides and negatives as they are.
1. Place slides and negatives on top of an iPhone or iPad thats running light table mode.
2. White balance and/or color correct the film using HelloPhotos color correction sliders.
3. Darken their appearance by using the brightness controls.
4. Photograph the enhanced slide or negative, or make note of these enhancements for use later.
CONTACT SHEETS: Save paper and time by digitizing contact sheets.
1. Simply fill up the iPad with slides and negatives.
2. Take photos of slides on the iPad. Or take photos of negatives on the iPad and convert them to positives with the iPhone. Hello, photo! You now have a full contact sheet.
Features List
• iPhone
Camera functions:
- Negative converter camera
- Positive camera
- Rotation of photo
- Photo saving
- In app emailing
- Facebook posting
- pre-cropping of images to 35mm 120mm and Full Screen.
Light Table:
- 35mm light table for slides and negatives
- White balance color correction
- Brightness controls
- Focus targets to help ensure correct white balance and focus
• iPad
Light Table:
- Tray for 35mm slides
- Tray for 35mm negatives
- Tray for 120/200 film positives and negatives
- Full screen mode for viewing slides
- White balance color correction
- Brightness controls
- Focus targets to help ensure correct white balance and focus
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-NOTES
1. You need two devices. For example: iPhone and iPad; iPhone and iPhone; or, a digital camera and an iOS device used as a light table. (Only the iPhone with the app can convert the negatives, however.)
2. When taking photos of film on the iPad or iPhone, you can get a screen effect from the LCD. If you do not like this, we recommend using mylar or tracing paper under your film.
Latest reviews of HelloPhoto app for iPhone and iPad
This app will not replace a $100 slide scanner but it did not cost me $100. I tried it with 2 iPhones and it worked well but, it worked better when I used my DSLR and an iPhone.
Great way to discover whats on my old negatives. Viva la film! :)
This app works in a very limited sense: it turns your iPad into a light table and you can adjust the temperature of the backlight. That can be handy. The rest of the package is gimmicky, although creatively and cleverly executed. To use the app as designed, you actually need both an iPad and an iPhone (for the camera) or better yet, an iPad and a digital camera of some sort. Theres a video demonstration on the developer’s site (that, amusingly, requires a Flash player to watch). The reality is that to get any remotely good results with this tool: 1) you need a plate of very clean glass to flatten out the film strips you lay on the iPad 2) you need a copy stand or tripod to hold everything rigidly still and position the iPhone (or camera) perpendicular to the iPad Of course, if you do have all those things and use a high resolution camera with good optics and perfect focus, you’re likely to actually resolve the LCD grid of the iPad display and get some vicious moire through the transparency. Maybe if you placed a diffuser beneath the strip? This is getting complicated. Its a toy. Its very cute and nicely executed, but not very useful.
Not sure if I misunderstood or not doing something right. I thought I would be able to actually see a picture that I could make out who was who.... Like when you put it thru a scanner. All I see is the image you would see if you held negative up to a lite... Which is not much. Can somebody set me straight?
You cant really get anything hi-res with it due to the camera not being able to focus on it up close, but its pretty good for Instagram and Twitpic, etc. Its only reasonable for black and white photos. So, when you scan your negative, you might want to take it into Photoshop Express to fix it for now. Otherwise, very good! Will be writing up a review on my personal blog tonight after I play with it some more. Promoted it on Instagram already.