Posts Tagged ‘PhotoGoo’

PhotoGoo gets updated and is FREE right now

Old Photoshoppers may remember Kai Krause’s Power Tools, a set of Photoshop plugins that let you quickly and easily create slick (at the time) effects. One of those filters was the Kai’s Goo effect, which allowed you to push pixels around as if your photo were made of a heavy liquid. When used to excess, the results could be pretty twisted. When used sparingly, you could achieve some pretty creative and unnerving looks.

PhotoGoo is an iPhone photo app that let’s you create goo effects similar to the Kai plugin. It’s free right now in the App Store — down from $2.99. I reviewed an early version a while back. It’s still not perfect, but several updates since have greatly improved the app.

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Review: PhotoGoo for iPhone

PhotoGoo
Version 1.1
Price: $0.99

Rating 2 stars

Bottom line: Pushing around the pixels doesn’t easily create smooth, gooey effects. The resolution on an iPhone is way too low to be useful.

Remember back in the mid-1990′s when the filter set Kai’s Power Tools was all the rage for Photoshop users? For a while, we were treated to a lot of album covers with the big puppy eyes of Beautiful Freak by eels (one of my favorite bands, by the way. Many of those goo effects were created by a plugin called Kai’s Power Goo. PhotoGoo by JQ Software creates the same goo effect on your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch.

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