Turn Your Digital Images into Polaroids.
In this post, Natalie Norton introduces us to the magical world of Poladroids (found via Oh Happy Day)!
Since the announcement of the discontinuation of instant film the world of Polaroid has become even more fascinating, exciting and desirable than ever.ÂÂ
Now, turning your digital images into printable, high res Polaroids is as easy as 1, 2, 3 with Poladroid (beta).
A few helpful hints:
- It’s only available for Mac users at the moment. . . but word has it that the windows version is on the way.
- It doesn’t work with screen captures. . . I had the best luck with high res jpegs.
- It’s out of this world fun and addicting, so be prepared to waste a good amount of time fiddling around.
Happy shooting. . . er. . . Polaroiding!
This post was brought to you by Natalie Norton, a wedding and portrait photographer who lives and shoots on the North Shore of Oahu, HI. See more of her photography and tutorials at www.natalienortonphoto.com.
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18 Responses to “Turn Your Digital Images into Polaroids.”
November 25th, 2008 at 12:47 am
I also love this application! Use it a lot!
November 25th, 2008 at 2:17 am
All I can say is, WHY? You MAC geeks are a weird bunch.
November 25th, 2008 at 2:28 am
This is dumb. I want real Polaroids.
*tear*
November 25th, 2008 at 7:54 am
These are horrid. I’m sorry, but they look nothing like real polaroids, what with the terrible vignetting and the ugly jpeg artefacts.
They totally miss the point of polaroids. It’s about more than the border and funky colours, you know.
November 25th, 2008 at 11:41 am
You can do the same thing–without downloading anything–on picnik.com
November 25th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
that’s not a polaroid, that’s a filter.
November 26th, 2008 at 3:54 am
@Andrew Warner: I agree, a simple Photoshop action would be more than adequate to get the same effect, no website / app required. no mess, no fuss
November 26th, 2008 at 4:35 am
still love the effects a real polaroid creates… now my polaroid are on the display cabinet. :(
November 26th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
I might have to try this out once they release a version for PC. I was never into Polaroid pictures too much but they can be fun as I’ve recently learned.
@TheOzz: Some people want things just because they can’t have them. “MAC geeks are a weird bunch,” hahaha, I like the new commercials where they show all sorts of people claiming to be PCs.
- Evan
November 28th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
I hate fake polaroids.
November 28th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
I have had Poladriod for a while and I like it. It’s easy and fun. When you shake the pictures it spits out they ‘develop’ faster! (unlike the real thing…) And the program only does batches of 10 (just like the real thing).
If you send a crappy picture in that’s exactly what it spits out, If you send a good pic in, and let it develop all the way, it looks like a good polaroid. You can halt development part way through and get a typical low contrast polaroid if you like that effect.
Speaking of the real thing… I have several of packages of real Polaroid 600 film left. Any ideas what I should ’spend’ it on?
November 29th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
I fiddled around with this last night and thought it was pretty cool. I’m sure you can get the same effect with photoshop, etc, but this is a quick and easy way. Daryl, I didn’t realize you could stop things half way, how did you do it?
November 30th, 2008 at 8:05 am
Easy… while the picture is developing, right click on it and one menu item comes up… “I want a sample now”
You can click that as many times as you want and it gives you the current state of the picture every time. It still goes on to fully develop.
November 30th, 2008 at 8:12 am
You can also choose the rotation factor of the images as they develop (to look like a pile of photos on your desktop) and whether you want the dirty fingerprints on the photo, on the paper, on both or on none!
November 30th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
Thanks Daryl! I’ll have a go at it tomorrow.
December 3rd, 2008 at 10:07 am
I couldn’t find another way to contact you, so I hope you don’t mind me asking via the comment box. I’d like permission to reprint the first paragraph of your tutorial in my January newsletter, with a link to this page for readers to read the rest. I look forward to hearing from you. Thankx for your time. Have the best day.
December 3rd, 2008 at 3:08 pm
Aggie - that’s fine by us.
January 5th, 2009 at 3:49 pm
Thank you so much. I will add it to the Jan/Feb issue. Have a great day.
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