Sure the iPhone takes photos, but then what? Photographer Kris Gebhardt turned lemons into lemonade when his camera malfunctioned on a photo shoot and he had to rely on his iPhone's camera to save the day.
"Like a phoenix out of the ashes, FotoMuse arose from what could have been a disastrous photo shoot," said photographer and fitness expert Kris Gebhardt, who developed the app in partnership with WebUrban LLC. When an unexpected camera jam threatened to ruin a photo shoot for his upcoming book, "GEBHARDT – Photography – Paintings – Fitness" (GCI Press, August 2010), Gebhardt thought he was out of options – until his iPhone caught his eye. "I realized that the only camera available was my iPhone, decided I had nothing to lose, and just went for it," he said.
The result is FotoMuse, on sale via the Apple App Store for $2.99.
The FotoMuse app enables users to import any photo from their iPhone album and transform it into a work of art in under 20 seconds. "People can crop, resize, and mix images with artifacts from old photos, vintage-edged film, and other media," Gebhardt said. "After adding contrast, selecting a border, and choosing a layer, it's easy to save the image – without actually changing the original photo.