App Shopper: Photo Beach Lite (Photography)

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Oct 13 '09	New App: Free, v1.0

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Photo Beach Lite

iOS iPhone

The summer never ends with Photo Beach, an innovative and funny application that turns your Photos, Images and Music Album Artworks in grains of sand you can play with by moving, tilting, rotating and touching your iPhone or iPod Touch.

Thanks to an advanced engine that is able to convert any kind of picture in a myriad of little pieces, you can transform in a cascade of sand all the pictures from your:

1) Music Library: Choose an Album Artwork from your songs collection.
2) Image Library: Add a picture from your photo albums.
3) Camera: Take a photo.

Anyway, Photo Beach Lite version is limited to 6 preloaded pictures and you cannot add images from your libraries or camera.

HOW IT WORKS

Once added, you have the option to edit the picture before turning it into sand:
use the one-finger drag to move the picture around, and pinch in and out to zoom in and out on it. A double tap will restore the default selection.
Then choose the beach among 5 suggestive sand textures (the Full version offers 10 different beaches) and be prepared for something spectacular and funny.

A cascade of sand falls and gradually fills the screen. The grains move on the screen according to your iPhone or iPod Touch movements and rotations. When the particles settle one by one they recreate your picture as it is in relief on the beach.
The grains are generated both automatically, putting the device upright, than manually, touching the screen... the sand literally jumps out of your finger.
In any case the sand particles will always fall and react as real.
A very stylish interface let you easily change the sand texture and see the different results in real time over your image.
You can restart and save your sand creation at any moment you like.
You also have full control of the music that is playing.

FEATURES:

• Localization in 6 languages: English, Spanish, French, Italian, German and Portuguese
• Top notch graphics and animations
• Stylish and easy to use interface
• Unique image processing engine
• Advanced particles physics engine
• Accurate use of accelerometer and touch capabilities
• One-finger drag and pinch zoom
• Save the sand creation in your photo album; you can then email it (not available)
• Music play controls (not available)
• 5 beautiful beach textures, instead of 10 as in the Full version:
* Rainbow Beach
* Diamond Beach
* Paradise Beach
* Wonder Beach (not available)
* Flamenco Beach (not available)
* Red Rocks Beach (not available)
* Love Beach
* Serenade Beach (not available)
* Silver Moon Beach
* Vertigo Beach (not available)

* NOTE *
As with all memory intensive apps, please restart iPhone/iPod Touch after syncing.

UPCOMING NEW FEATURES:

• Rotating the picked image 90 degrees at a time, to either the left or the right
• Added Options in Settings for saving your sand creations in 4 resolutions: 320x480; 640x960; 960x1440; 1280x1920

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