Here’s something for the iPhone photography freaks out there. It’s called Piece, and it just does one thing: slices your photos up into tiles.
There’s not a lot to learn, although you get a colorful tutorial image to play with when you first start the app.
Move the sliders at the bottom of the screen to control how many tiles you’ll get. One adjusts the horizontal figure, the other the vertical. Then tap, and your image is re-arranged. Keep tapping until you find something you like.
When you do, there are plenty of options. You can share directly to Facebook or save to your Camera Roll. Hit the “Open in Instagram” button and you might see more than just that option: I was presented with “Open in…” buttons for Instagram, PhotoStudio and Camera+, but that’s going to vary depending on the photo editing apps you have installed.
Piece is nice because it’s cute and simple, and thought has been given to getting the details right. From the sound effects to the plethora of sharing options, everything’s been perfected. Given the right source material, you can produce some very nice artistic effects. Not bad for a dollar.
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Giles Turnbull is a freelance writer in England. He also writes for the Press Association and The Morning News. You can find out more at his website, and follow him on Twitter @gilest.
23 responses to “Piece Cuts Your iPhone Photos To Pieces”
Why?!
Seriously, a post for this app? Giles Turnbull: How do you know Ryan Thread?
Are you kidding? This application could be made in a few hours and a review of it is an embarrassment to COM because it means either the author knows very little about application quality or more likely is somehow related to the author of the application and did not disclose it.
This is the killer app for the iPhone. It is clearly the most useful app I have ever seen. A dollar is far to cheap really. It would sell for $100. All Android users will now switch to Apple for this app. Brilliant move on the developer’s part.
Well, I disagree. My job means I see a lot of apps. I see a lot of bad ones, and some good ones. In my opinion, this is a good one. It might not do very much, but it does what it does very well. That’s why I posted about it.
If you’ve made any apps of your own – whether it took you just a few hours, or whether it perhaps took you a trifle longer – please do let us know about them. We’d be delighted to take a look at them and consider them for review. We might even allow more time to make our judgement than you did writing your snide comment.
Because!
I maintain my stance that there is something fishy about this review.
I’ve been on the receiving end of attempting to get apps reviewed (yes I am an app developer), and I know how many people you get badgering you to review their app hoping to get some free publicity. This high volume of review requests causes reviewers to be very picky about what apps they review and only put effort into downloading and reviewing apps made by developers with a history of good apps. The developer of this app only has one other app, with a single review. Couple that with the fact that it is a very basic app with zero reviews, almost no marketing copy in the product description, and meh product screen-shots, I can guarantee that no reviewer would touch it outside of being paid or somehow related to the author.
I contacted over 100 reviewers for my first application (many smaller than COM), and I got zero reviews. It was a physics game inspired by portal, nearly a thousand hours of development work, AAA graphics by a professional graphic designer, and marketing copy written by a professional copywriter. It didn’t matter: I was an unproven developer so they didn’t give me the time of day.
To further bolster my argument why did you respond only to myself and “The Only Cog” yet neglect to answer “Super Tino?” Why not simply state “I’ve never met the guy until he contacted me to do a reivew?” I stand my by snarky comment.
I agree. This is a pathetic attempt at an app review.
I spent the last hour* making a free version of this app for the Mac. It does exactly the same thing except free :). It doesn’t have social integration but I was only trying to prove a point about how simple this app is. Should run on any mac with snow leopard. You can download it here:
http://www.mechanicallyincline…
Note* Not trying to show off, in fact this only about 150 lines of code – not much to it.
I made a free version of this app last night for OSX. It took about an hour. You can get it here:
http://mechanicallyinclined.ne…
I made a free version of this app for OSX in about an hour. Unfortunately COM keeps blocking my comments that have the link get it. But I’ve proved my point, there is nothing to this application and it makes no sense as to why there is a review for it here or why it costs a dollar.
I made an app – I call it “Hello World”, you type in your name and it types out “Hello [Your name]!” I know that it doesn’t do much, but what it does do it does with complete and utter perfection. The buttons even make click sounds. Think I could get a review here?
what a total waste. what guy says something is “cute” anyway. giles please never refer to anything being cute again also this app sucks and is pointless.