Thursday, August 30, 2018

Photo Fun with Android: Fire and Not So Furry

*If you're friends with me on Facebook and Twitter, well there's a chance you're going to be picked on. Timothy J. Cox gets picked on a lot by me. He's an actor who has been in like everything, ahs might be embellishing.. just a bit, but he has been described as the hardest working actor in indie film. If he's in a film, you know at least his performance is going to be tops and he really adds something to a film as a whole. You can check out his Website for more information, his IMDb Page, and connect with him on Twitter and Facebook. I saw some pics of him and just had to have fun with them, and thank him for letting me use them for this article.

You have probably seen thematic FX apps on Google Play masquerading under different names, but they are the same app. These are basically private label apps which someone can buy and then redistribute with their ad code inserted to serve you ads. Well one such vendor of these apps has opted not to include ads in them, Quwads Inc., and I will be reviewing several of them in this and the next few articles. 

If you get an error page trying to download any of these apps, try again later; they are on various remote servers and sometimes that happens.

Super Power FX is a bit of an overstatement  as it is mostly flames and fireballs you can add to a photo. It has two parts; a frontend collection of stickers you can add to a photo which is the fireballs, flames and other effects and a backend photo editor with filters, adjustments and the ability to add text to the photo. One downside to this and all of these themed editors is it saves the finished photo according to the screen size of your phone and not the original image. The APK file is 11.6Mb and it will work with Android 3.2 and up.** Just for fun I added the speech balloon using PicSay Lite.





Make Me Bald is ideal for editing a photo of that person who keeps checking their head with two mirrors.. just in case. It comes with a variety of skincaps from partially bald to a full skin head, and different complexions too. Trying to get the skincap sized (pinch and zoom) and placed correctly is no easy task on a phone. The APK is 9.3Mb and it will work with Android 3.2 and up.**




Pirate Effects is the weakest of the bunch having the fewest stickers and thus the least variety of the three. But, who can resist at least giving a one-shot to dressing someone up as a pirate? The header photo for this article is the end result of this app. The APK is 10.5Mb and it will work with Android 3.2 and up.**



**Newer versions of Android can have bugs that cause crashes or prevent older apps from running.

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