For the rest of the weekend, and for the weekend only, Halftone will be free in the App Store. If you like the idea of spicing up your images and you are into the comics style, then this is the right occasion to try Juicy Bits’ app — if you haven’t done so already!
Halftone turns your photos into single panel comics: set the right halftone style, choose one among the available templates and add dialogue and stickers. Halftone comes with several extra items, such as paper textures, colored stamps, caption and speech bubble styles, which you can change and fit to your photos.
Halftone is a universal app and fully compatible with iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.
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Also new in this release is the larger speech balloon’s tail area. Grabbing the tail of balloons was one of the several issues that caused some difficulty to Halftone users when creating their comic panels. Expanded touch area for balloons‘ tail allows better handling and placement of speech balloons in Halftone.
Other changes include ability to turn off the intro screen and other various bug fixes.
Controls are not as smooth and responsive as with other apps and personally I was frustrated at some point, because if you you are not careful you might end up having to deal with multiple useless stickers instead of just one, when all you wanted to do was rotating the first slightly.
The effects, if applied wisely to photos that lend themselves to be turned into comics, can result in a few hours of amusement. Nevertheless, the overall lack of flexibility and variety remains a problem: you have partly customizable stickers, fonts, textures and more, but results are not diverse enough to grant Halftone great longevity. Although I am fully aware that talking about longevity when it’s about something that an iPhone user can get for $0.99 perhaps doesn’t make much sense.