Make objects float like magic with Levitagram for Windows Phone (Hidden Gems)

Levitagram

Want to pick up a cool photography app for your Windows Telephone? Cheque out Levitagram, which arrived a few days ago for Windows Telephone 8 devices. Levitagram (www.levitagram.com) is made by PixoMobile, based out of Redmond, Washington, and it's on iOS and Windows Phone at the moment (sorry, Android!). Non but that, it'southward complimentary for a limited time.

Because of all of that, Levitagram is today's Hidden Gem. Retrieve, by leaving a comment, you're entered into our contest to win a new phone or tablet!

What is Levitagram? It lets you remove objects from photos to make them look like they're floating. Sure, you tin practise such trickery in Photoshop, but that presumes that you own that app and that you know how to use information technology. Levitagram lets you create those illusions with nothing more than than your phone and finger.

Levitagram works past taking two photos, the first with the object and the 2nd with the object removed. It so combines them into layers, and with your finger you can either erase or re-create the layer. As a event, you can erase objects – whatsoever object – by simply swiping your finger like a paint brush over it. If you make a error, only chose the other brush and bring it back. The final result lets you create a photo where objects look like they're floating, falling or people are hovering.

When editing in Levitagram, you control brush size and its coarseness. You lot can also dispense the brightness, contrast and coloring of the area where the object was removed, letting things blend in and hiding lighting changes.

Like HDR, I can't imagine using Levitagram all the time, but every one time in a while y'all tin create a startling and hilarious epitome.

This isn't a political party flim-flam

I should point out that there are a few guidelines in order to create a convincing Levitagram, some of which take the spontaneity out of the app:

Tripod + smartphone mountain will assistance greatly
Have good lighting but watch out for shadows
Use the 15-2d timer
Patience
Do

A tripod helps considering you lot need to take 2 photos with removal of only the intended objects. The steadier the two photos, the ameliorate they volition overlay, much like how true HDR works in photography. Shadows can be tricky, as you lot tin can encounter in my photo beneath: to the right you can run into the shadow of the ladder. In hindsight, I could accept edited that using the app, just I missed it. The timer is on a xv 2nd countdown and lets you snap a photo, run in, remove the object and it'll snap the 2d photo automatically in xv more seconds. Makes everything a lot easier and you don't have to touch the camera, perhaps causing a misalignment.

That'south where practice and patience comes in. You lot'll want to zoom in to the max when working around edges and get almost pixel by pixel. The cleaner and straighter the removal, the more than disarming the image. Practice is of import too. The images yous see hither, while non bad, are my very commencement attempts. They improved as I went forth, but I know I tin can practise even better the adjacent time. Picket the video below to get an idea of how it works.

Isn't that tiresome?

Non at all! Besides the setting up role, which is easier if yous have a 2d hand, the bodily process of creating the Levitagram was fun, cathartic and a little bit similar magic. It's probably the almost fun you can have editing a photo on your phone.

Where it can be better

There are a few areas though were Levitagram tin improve, and one of them is huge. The app right now needs the physical photographic camera push to snap a photo. Levitagram can tap-to-focus, but it can't take a photo without the physical shutter key to get the procedure started. That'due south super lame for ATIV SE owners on Verizon or Lumia 630 owners likewise. The skilful news is that's simple for the Levitagram developers to gear up, and if enough of you lot get out a polite review requesting it, I'm sure they'll oblige.

Another feature I'd like to run into would be to re-edit previous creations. The app can optionally save both images separately, in addition to the third cosmos, only it can't go back. This inability to get dorsum ways you become once take a chance. It'southward not a bargain breaker by any ways, but it'd be squeamish if that could exist achieved.

Wrapping information technology up

Levitagram is a fun app, and I enjoyed playing with it. Creating those images is something of an fine art, and I really like the creative possibilities and chances for improving my skills in it, like a game. Sure, information technology's a tad gimmicky, particularly if you post twenty photos all doing the same affair to Instagram, merely on occasion, you'll create a photo that will misfile and bewilder.

Levitagram is free for a express fourth dimension, then snatch it up at present. Allow me know what you think of information technology in comments, where it could exist better and maybe share your own Levitagrams!

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