November 26, 2003
Different looking pictures. Why not?
Michael Tippett from BlueHereNow made a very interesting comment on a recent post, Turn your picture into a pencil sketch drawing, where I described some wonderful tone control features offered by Samsung's E700 camera phone, which allows users to change a picture into for instance, a pencil ketch drawing.
"This is an interesting development for a non-obvious reason. One of the problems with camera phones is the images they produce don't print very well. By changing the image (as Samsung is doing) you can often create a format that looks good when printed (or even enlarged). We have been using this kind of conversion for some time for people that want to print large formats of their digital prints and we've got some interesting results. We have a gallery of some selected works if you're interested on Phrint XL".
The quality of pictures from cameraphones improve with each new model out on the market, so dpi resolution some day soon should no longer be an issue. But who's to say that these wonderful options, sepia, embossed, sketching of a picture could not bring about a new and more versatile look for ordinary printed publications - newspapers or magazines. Because it's immediate.
Picturephones are set to bring out a brand new world, in more ways than one (and not just at the gym!).
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