Halftone 2
Turn your photos into comic book pages and videos with Halftone 2, an App Store Best of 2013 winner and Editors’ Choice. Halftone 2 makes it easy to create comic and scrap books with your images. Choose a page layout, apply photo filters, position captions, add speech and thought balloons, place some WHAMs, BAMs, and POWs, mix in a few sound effects, and share your creation as an image, multi-page document, or high-definition video. There’s no faster or more fun way to share your stories. With so many features, there’s almost no limit to your creative options: Captions and Balloons • Over 30 unique caption and balloon styles (speech bubbles, thought balloons, banners, scrolls, and more) • A powerful 3D perspective feature lets you tilt your captions and balloons • Includes six professional comic-themed fonts (plus everything on your device) • Optional drop shadows add depth with configurable color, opacity, blur, and location • Custom fonts can be added by opening a TrueType (TTF) or OpenType (OTF) font in Halftone 2 • Control over font color, size, line spacing, and alignment • Ability to add multiple colored outlines to text Stamps • Over 80 professionally-designed graphical shapes like WHAM, BAM, and POW • Optional “Action Pack” in-app purchase adds over 50 more stamps designed by comic design company, Blambot • A custom stamp feature allows you to add your own images (with support for alpha channels) • A powerful 3D perspective feature lets you tilt your stamps to make them more dynamic Photo Panels • Photos can be imported directly from your photo library, Facebook, and Flickr • Full control of the scale and rotation of each photo • A configurable Juicy Bits “Toon” filter turns your photos into comic-styled artwork • Comprehensive photo editing tools from Aviary that include automatic enhancements, filter effects, brightness, contrast, saturation, sharpness, redeye, whiten, blemish, and selective focus Page Options • Choose from over 30 multi-photo page layouts • Each page can have its own background color, gradient, or paper texture (over 30 included textures) • An optional page blending mode simulates the way ink interacts with paper Video • Video is exported at up to 720p high-definition and can be saved to the camera roll for later use or sent directly to Facebook, Dropbox, or other compatible apps (like iMovie) • 50 licensed sound effects are included that can be assigned to each photo panel • A “Sound Pack” in-app purchase adds 50 sound effects, including growls, crashes, instruments, vehicles, background ambience, and more • Each panel has a customizable transition that controls the incoming speed and movement of the virtual camera • An optional soundtrack can be added by choosing a song from your music library • A unique “auto stretch” feature automatically shortens or lengthens the video to match the length of your soundtrack Editing • A document library lets you create, save, copy, and work with multiple projects • Full support for undo and redo • Captions, balloons, and stamps can be placed inside a photo panel to clip them at the panel’s edges • A built-in guide introduces all of the basic concepts • Includes a link to an expanding list of helpful tutorial videos Output and Sharing • Output formats include image (JPG), PDF, CBZ, and video (MP4) • Output can be shared via e-mail, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Dropbox, Weibo, instant message (MMS), saved to the photo album, copied to the clipboard, sent to another app, and printed to AirPrint-enabled printers • All page elements are rendered as vectors for the highest quality output • An experimental 3D anaglyph feature lets you put on red/cyan 3D glasses and view your output in three dimensions (yes, really) • Optional halftone image processing with configurable dot size, opacity, and gain to give photos an authentic comic-styled look
