Everybody loves a polaroid and with current prices it's becoming a hobby of the rich. This software let's you turn any photograph into a polaroid, for nothing more then a click.
Here's an image from my series 'Anecdotes' shot on medium format and scanned in...
And after putting it through Poladroid (the noises really are smile inducing)
It even takes time to develop on your screen!
I think if you take the program with a pinch of salt it can be really good fun and you can get some great results, okay it's not a physical photograph in your hand, and i'm sure a lot of 'purists' out there would be dead against it, but I'd be damned if anyone can have a go and not be smitten with the results.
There's a few options for editing, but it's so user friendly it's literally a case of drag and drop. All these effects could easily be achieved in photoshop, some blur, vignetting etc but this makes the process far more fun then getting knee deep in layers.
In other news, my favourite person of the day (patent pending) is Charles Saatchi, here are some great quotes from a recent interview...
"By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go undiscovered."
"General art books dated 2105 will be as brutal about editing the late 20th century as they are about almost all other centuries. Every artist other than Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Donald Judd and Damien Hirst will be a footnote."
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"General art books dated 2105 will be as brutal about editing the late 20th century as they are about almost all other centuries. Every artist other than Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Donald Judd and Damien Hirst will be a footnote."
Check the whole interview out, I did and it made me a better person.
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