Cult of Mac Favorite: Pix Remix iPhone App Livens Up Your Photos
12:01 am, July 9th, 2009, Lonnie Lazar
Make easy photo collages & slideshows with Pix Remix
What it is: Pix Remix is a new iPhone app from Bay Area-based Jump Associates and Originate Labs that lets you turn photos – taken with or stored on your iPhone – into slideshows, collages, and interesting pan & zoom presentations — and makes it incredibly easy and intuitive to share them in email or post them to Twitter and Facebook from right within the app.
Why it’s cool: Impressive for an initial release, Pix Remix is loaded with effective tools for personalizing your photo shows, with built-in transitions including fade/dissolve, push, drop and spin out; and the collage function makes it easy to drag, resize and bring photos to the front or back. The pan and zoom function lets you become an instant documentarian, guiding your viewers’ eyes from one spot to another on individual pictures, zooming in to a special detail area. Text can be added to give photos captions or tell a story about your show.
Once you’ve got your photo show together, Pix Remix makes it easy to share in email or to post to your Twitter page or your Facebook profile. Email recipients have the option of viewing your work on a web page or within the Pix Remix app on their iPhone; updates to your Twitter status automatically append a bit.ly url that sends viewers to the Pix Remix web page for your show; shows can be posted directly to your Facebook profile, where your contacts can view your creations right within Facebook, without ever having to leave the site.
Pix Remix is so intuitive and easy to use, I made my first collage and sent it to myself in email while I sat on the porcelain throne in my office during my morning constitutional today!
Where to get it: Pix Remix is available now on the iTunes App Store; it sells for $2.99.
Important Disclosure: Cult of Mac contributor Pete Mortensen is the communications lead at Jump Associates and works in the firm’s growth strategy consulting business. He was involved in the original brainstorming sessions that led to the development of Pix Remix but was in no way affiliated with the writing of this product review, nor did his association with Cult of Mac influence the author’s use of the application or his conclusions regarding its quality or value.
Posted by Lonnie Lazar in Favorites, Reviews, Software, Top stories, iPhone | Comment on this article
Talk about battery issues (previous article) that article is either going down really quickly or you are using the app for a very long time.
Kev Robinson, on July 9th, 2009 at 1:22 am
Not to step out from behind the fourth wall or anything, but I assure you those screenshots were made through screencasting, not with a phone. The battery meter is unrelated to the life needed to run Pix Remix. It’s about the same as any photo app on the iPhone, and nowhere near as intense as some of the games available these days…
Pete Mortensen, on July 9th, 2009 at 11:43 am