Add retro flair to your iPhone snaps.
If you still pine for the days of Polaroids, Hipstamatic is for you. it's a pleasingly tactile and endlessly fun app that mimics the photography of 1970s plastic cameras, letting you peer through a viewfinder before hitting a big yellow button to capture the moment. You can choose between different films, flashes and lenses,creating an impressively varied range of effects.
The result is charmingly scratchy, over-saturated old-school photos that transform any 21st-century scene into something straight out of the last days of disco.You can even go the whole hog and order genuine,hold-in-your-hands prints from the Hipstamatic store.
To get started, fire up the app and point the camera at your subject. Hit the yellow button to get snapping, or tap the bottom right corner to change the camera settings.
Pull the lever on the side of the lens to choose between low, medium, or high quality shots Or tap the icons to change the film, flash or (rather pointlessly) the case.
Swipe across the screen to flick between lenses. Tap the lens for a description of its effects and a sample image. Some lenses are locked but you can access them via a auick $1.19 in-app purchase.
Tap the film icon, then pull up and down for other film stocks. Some change the frame, while others change the light, contrast or colouring. Again,some are paid-for upgrades.
Pull the little switch under the vlewflnder and wait for the green light - this essentially turns the flash on, but naturally it's done with an old-school graphic switch.
When your prints are 'developed' a green light will show In the bottom left - click on the picture frame icon to admire your handiwork. You can then view your shots and arrange them into 'stacks'.
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