Vivid apps

Lifecards

Forget about MMSs and sending photos as boring email attachments. Save money on postcards. Create your own personal cards right from your phone using your own photos.

Lifecards allows you to create imaginative postcards directly on your phone. Save your cards to the photo-album and email them conveniently from Mail.

Lifecards uses a state-of-the-art visual engine that pushes the iPhone to its limits by allowing free zoom and pan of the card while you edit it. You can insert, move, scale, and rotate photos from you photo-album, and you can also insert texts and select font, color, size, and alignment.

Templates

Lifecards includes more than 350 templates with more to come in updates. Templates range from colorful hearts to classic neutral postcards with black and white borders. Some templates enable you to insert four different photos. To simplify the selection, templates are divided among 20 different categories. Start by choosing a category and then select the template within that category that you like the most.

You choose a template when you create a card, but you can easily change the template once you have added text and photos, so if the template you first picked does not work with the selected photos simply pick another one.

Templates come in large variety. Some templates include large area for writing text, while other only allow you to insert photos and titles.

Photos

Inserting photos is straight-forward. Simply tap the areas of the template entitled "Tap to add photo" and up pops you photo-album. Now simply, select a photo from the photo-album and then it will be inserted in the card.

Once a photo has been inserted you can manipulate its appearance

You can position it accurately by dragging it with one finger.
You can enlarge it by pinching with two fingers.
You can even rotate it by pointing it at it with two fingers and rotate -- Just as you would in real life.

Filters

Lifecards 1.1 includes several simple photo filters that you can apply to your cards. Use sharpen, gray, sepia and more filters right from within Lifecards.

Text

Text is also easy to add. Simply tap one of the areas where it says "Tap to add text". Now you may enter text. The text can occupy multiple lines. Once you have completed entering the text you can modify the text's appearance. You can select among many different fonts and colors. You can modify the size of the text and instantly see the resulting change. You can also change the text's alignment both horizontally and vertically.

If you wish to change the at a later time simply tap the text one more time and you are given the option to change everything including what you initially wrote.

Zooming and panning

Because the iPhone has a small screen it can be difficult to fully control all the adjustments of photos and text and especially get a good sense of the final look. Therefore Lifecards contain a pan-and-zoom mode. Simply tap the "Looking Glass" button to enter and exit this mode.

Once you are in pan-and-zoom-mode you can pinch to zoom in on specific areas of the card. You can also drag the card to pan towards a different part of the card. We have pushed the iPhone to its limits so everything is smooth as a knife through butter.

Landscape and Portrait

Because editing a card can sometimes be easier in landscape mode Lifecards can easily switch between portrait and landscape mode. Simply rotate the screen and Lifecards will change appearance. The on-screen card template and the buttons at the bottom of the screen will rotate smoothly to fit with the new orientation.

Saving cards

Because you may be interrupter while you are creating a card, or you may want to reuse a card for later, we have given you the option to save cards. Not only can you save cards to the photo-album and email them to your friends using the build-in Mail application, but you can also save them for later changes. Once you want to revisit a card and change something, simply open up the main menu and tap "Load card".

Facebook support

Lifecards supports upload of cards right to your Facebook account. Just fill in the account details and upload to one of your Facebook photo albums. That way every one of your friends can see your newest creation.

Autosave

Because the iPhone is a phone you may get interrupted by calls. Therefore Lifecards automatically saves any card you are working one when you leave the application. The next time you open the application you can start right from where you left.

Preview

Once you finish with the card you can preview the final result it in every detail. In preview mode you can zoom in and out and pan around the card. Of course preview can be done in both portrait and landscape orientations.

Lifecards 1.1

Lifecards 1.1 has several new features:

Simple photo filters for images
Facebook upload support
Many new templates
Minor UI changes
Less font clipping