5 iPhone Apps for Creating Fun Social Media Graphics at Conferences
One of the many fantastic things about apps and an iPhone is that you can be productive or at smallest amount productively kill time, should you ever be blessed with such a business as “free time”. Mobile social media usage is on the rise and one of the most productive opportunities to be creative is by your iPhone at conferences to make fascinating and fun graphics. At Content Marketing World, Intel’s Pam Didner commented “Content is King, Creativity is Queen” and I sincerely believe that a competitive advantage can be gained in the content marketing space by being smarter through analytics and especially by being more creative.
There are numerous apps one could use to modify photos, but what I find fascinating are apps that use photos to make an end product like a Comic, Collage or even an Infographic – all from your iPhone. Below are 5 examples of graphics (by my very restricted creative skills) and the iPhone apps used to make them – each with some level of social sharing built-in.
ComicBook! (1.99)
Conference Comic from Content Marketing World
This is a feature rich app that is only restricted by your own creativity. While I’ve only ever used this app for “Conference Comics” with single graphics, I could see someone making multi-page comics with the app and putting them together into an interactive experience (by some other tools) that would allow viewers to turn pages, tag people and share easily on social sites. As it stands, I’ve really just started experimenting, but my running “Theme” is Conference Comics. What theme could you see by by Comic Book? Here’s more info on ComicBook!.
WordFoto (1.99)
Ann Handley of MarketingProfs and I in San Francisco
This is a fun app that uses word sets to re-make metaphors that you import. You’re unlikely to achieve “a picture made of a 1,000 words” but the words you do use, can add context to the photo. This app facility best with metaphors that have balanced contrast and simple segments of color. A intricate group shot of 20 people isn’t going to work as well as a portrait shot of someone’s face. Here’s the info page for WordFoto.
Postale (.99)
Dreamforce Keynote with Marc Benioff 2011
You’re on the road, so why not send a post card from the event you’re attending? Well, maybe not a “snail mail” postcard, but a virtual card by this handy tool. I don’t find the card options outside of “AirMail” very fascinating, but that’s sufficient for a few creative uses of this app to highlight a photo and message for use in email or as an illustration in a blog post. Here’s more info on Postale.
ToonCamera (.99)
Lee Odden & Brian Clark at SXSWi 2011
I wouldn’t just so call the metaphors and video you can shoot with this app a cartoon just so, but it’s an fascinating effect – especially since you can shoot both video and metaphors with it. Metaphors in your photo library can be converted one by one as well. There are also varying effects in color and black & white. You can get these effects with several other apps but they don’t offer the video option. Here’s more info on ToonCamera.
Pic Collage (Free)
SES San Francisco 2011
This is a very simple tool for making a collage from various photos, slightly similar to Comic Book! but without the comic effects. It’s a fantastic way to pr?cis key metaphors from an event. Photos can come from your photo library or Facebook. What’s lacking is the ability to overlay a title, but there are other iPhone graphics programs that you can use to do that. Sometimes a super simple app is all you need and for those era Pic Collage fits the bill. Here’s more info.
Hopefully I can do another roundup of creative iPhone apps that focus on fascinating video effects.
What are your favorite creative iPhone apps for graphics and photo editing? If anyone has iPhone infographic creation apps they’re aware of, please share. If you have examples of creative graphics generated from an iPhone app on your blog, please describe and link to them in the comments. (Excluding spammy stuff of course)
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