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JuxtaposerCurrent Version: 2.7.2

Juxtaposer lets you combine multiple pictures into fun photomontages quickly and easily thanks to its amazingly intuitive and responsive user interface.

Take any element from one picture and add it to another. Put your friend's head on a statue's body, remix your pets into a mythical creature, or magically join your favorite band, it's simple and the process is fun.

Quotes from external reviews:
* TUAW: "This $2.99 app is a lot of fun, as well as one of the best-executed compositing tools for a mobile device that I've ever seen."
* IphoneAppReviews: "Pretty much everyone, at some point in time, has had the uncontrollable urge to take a friend’s photo and do something truly evil with it. Juxtaposer is an awesome photo-editing tool that can make that dream a reality!"
* WhatsOnIphone.com: "The application works incredibly well and makes an otherwise challenging process simple and fun. It blows my mind that you can do such things on an iPhone."

This is how you work with Juxtaposer: First, load in any two pictures - perhaps one of your dad, and one of your dog. Next, use your finger to erase around your dog's head.
Quickly zoom in and out using two finger gestures. To cut out your dog's head exactly, you first zoom out and make a rough outline, then zoom in, and erase or un-erase with pixel-accuracy.
Switch to move mode and use two fingers to move, re-size and rotate your dog's head into place over dad's.
It's easy, intuitive and fun, and you'll have a great new Dog-Dad in about a minute.

There is detailed in-program help if you need it and many cool features, including:
- Unlimited undo means no mistake or accidental brushstroke is permanent.
- Save directly to your photo album.
- Save multiple sessions and return to them later.
- Save top image cutouts as 'stamps' and use them in future projects.
- Share your edited image on Facebook, Flickr and Twitter.
- Use hard or soft brushes to create sharp or blurred edges.
- Create smooth blends between images with transparent brushes.
- Keep adding elements from other pictures to your composite image if you like.
- Red mask mode (second screen shot) lets you accurately isolate part of one image without being distracted by the second image in the background.
- Translucent mode makes it easy to align your images precisely.
- The stamp tool lets you add multiple copies of your cut-out to your composite.
- Work in portrait or landscape orientation; optionally have images auto-rotate.
- Supports output resolutions of up to 2048 pixels on iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS and current iPod Touch; up to 1024 pixels on older devices.
- Switch to and from full-screen with the tap of a finger.
- Double-tap to quickly switch between erase and un-erase functions.
- Flip the top image.
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Juxtaposer Review

Editor lets you combine images into one seamless photo

Juxtaposer is a photo-editing app that allows you to combine multiple images to create a new—and often funny—result. You can put your friend’s head on your dog’s body, or your cat’s head on your dog’s body—that sort of stuff.


One-Two Combination: Juxtaposer lets you insert something from one image on top of another and gives you plenty of tools for getting the job done.

Manipulating images like this can be a lot of fun, and you can come up with an endless amount of entertaining combinations. The $3 Juxtaposer contains a nice set of tools to allow you make all of these combos possible.

Hendrik Kueck’s app allows you to take new photos, or use existing ones from your photo roll (so iPod touch owners can get in on the fun). You start by selecting a base image; then, choose a top image, which sits above the base. You use an eraser tool to get rid of parts of the top image, leaving only the area which you would like to add. For example, you could erase all of your cat’s body, leaving only the head showing. Once you are happy with what is left, you can pinch and resize the remaining top image, and drag it into place—covering the dog’s head, for example.

Juxtaposer allows a lot of editing flexibility as well. There are a number of options that let you choose how sharp the edge of the eraser is. I found that it works well if you erase the large parts of the image with the default eraser, and then fine-tune the remaining image with one of the soft edge erasers for maximum accuracy. There is also an Unerase tool, which allows you to restore any part of the image that was accidentally erased. Juxtaposer offers a number of other helpful options as well, such as saving the edited image so it can be stamped onto additional images and uploading the final result to Flickr, Facebook or Twitter.

You can also download a free version of Juxtaposer. It saves images at lower resolutions and does not provide as many editing tools.

It can be difficult to use your fingertip as an eraser, at least in my experience. But Juxtaposer attempts to address this limitation by including a brush size slider.

Overall, the app provides a nice range of tools that allow you to have a lot of fun manipulating photos with impressive results. With some practice, you’ll be able to take that picture of your sister from the snowy winter and show her on the beach in Hawaii in no time.

Juxtaposer is compatible with any iPhone or iPod touch running the iPhone 2.x software update.

[Beau Colburn spends a lot of time editing photos, and posts some of them on his weblog.]

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