There’s been a busy week and a busy friday in terms of Cheapstamatic development. I’ll begin with the stuff you might have noticed.
I wanted to make a style that looked like an old “film star card”. I really like those old cards, and have tried before, but with no real success. I found one with a quite simple frame that I could use as inspiration for making my own. The frame turned out real nice, I think. Really simple but with a nice place for you to write your name and become a star. The frame is named “FILM STAR”
Now for the hard part: I also wanted to make a filter to get the colors that are in the old photos. It’s basically a black-and-white photo with some colors painted on top – usually skin tone and lips. I played around with a photo of my wife and she got to be al lot of, more or less flattering, colors. The result? Well, I didn’t really get what I wanted but I got 4 filters that I think will be quite cool in the right picture. All of these filters are now marked “beta”. Not beacuse they don’t work, but as a notification that they might change or be removed. The one I were most satisfied with, and used on the sample picture above, is called “colorization”.
Since there now are more and more filters and frames, the need for another layout for the selector is needed. For now I just made the filter and frame items smaller. But be prepared for changes to come.
There is also german language available thanks to Gaby. A presentation of Gaby will be up on the site shortly.
Other things that I found out in the past week are that Mozilla is planning a Marketplace which is something like Chromes Web Store. Hopefully Cheapstamatic will also be available as an app for Mozillas Marketplace right from start! You might wonder why you should use the app when it is almost the same as typing the url yourself. Well, you don’t have to type it! 
Right now that is almost all the difference, but another thing I found out this week is that Google have started something they call Google Drive. I havn’t really read the specifics, but my hope is that that can be used as a storage area for Cheapstamatic images, and that the Chrome app will help in the communication. If the Drive can be used for storage, the possibility for more interesting edit features could be possible. One thing is that you could edit a photo and save it, then at some other time get back and change the edit of it. I will be looking into this for sure.
