Oddly, the Silhouetter app for the iPad and iPhone doesn?t mention its ?inspiration? anywhere in its description. But then, it doesn?t really need to, so obvious is the ?homage? to the iconic iPod ads.
That said, the app is actually pretty cool in a single-serve kind of way. You choose a photo from your camera-roll, pinch to crop and then pick one of nine juicy colors. Wait for a second or ten while the app cranks away and works out which parts of the picture need to be colored and then you can tweak things. Standard mode gives two sliders: one to fade the effect between a full-on silhouette and the original image, the other adjusts the contrast.
Opt for ?expert? mode and you can tweak highlights, mid-tones and shadows separately before moving into the basic mode screen to finish things off. Images can be saved or sent to the usual places: Facebook, Flickr and Twitter.
The app has some quirks in action. It seems to have a mind of its own when it comes to cropping, zooming in from your own chosen setting (although your settings do stick when the image is output). And when you?re done with an image, you get bumped back to the instructions screen, which you surely don?t need to read every single time you choose an image. Finally, there is a lag every time you move a slider, but that?s likely to be processor and memory limitations.
It?s a fun, single purpose photo app, and it does what it says it does. I doubt Apple will be using this for iPod ads in the future, but who cares? Silhouetter costs a buck. Surely a half hour of entertainment is worth that?
Silhouetter app [iTunes. Thanks, Jeshua!]
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