poladroid

[ann]

this link was posted on another photo site and so i thought i would pass it along

http://www.poladroid.net/

i downloaded it, but haven't had time to play around.
so until i can figure out how to get the picture to the program i can't do much serious testing

I can't say the documentation makes sense to me, but then i am pre-first grade when it comes to computers. So for some of you it will be a snap.

the documentation is at the bottom of the download page for those who may be interested. took me awhile to find it as it isn't on the homepage

[PhotoJet]

It looks to me like it's just running a color modification, then framing it in a "polariod" frame. I'm pretty sure you can do it all in PhotoShop and save it off as an "action" but I'm not really familiar with PS. I know I can do it in PSP, so it's got to be available in PS, too. I know there are pre-defined ones in Color Efex Pro to do the color shift.

It's kind of a funny program! It cracks me up that you can shake the picture. What a hoot!:lol:

[ann]

i am interested in the color modification, not so much the frame.

right now it is on my desktop, perhaps i need to save it to an editing program so i can get a photo there.
and yes shaking the picture is a hoot.

[PhotoJet]

i am interested in the color modification, not so much the frame.

right now it is on my desktop, perhaps i need to save it to an editing program so i can get a photo there.
and yes shaking the picture is a hoot.

It appears to be a stand alone program rather than a plug-in. Have you ever used the Nik plug-in Color Efex Pro? I think you can get the color shifts from that rather than the 'poladroid'.

I am going to download the poladriod so I can see how you get a picture into it. I read their manual and it was pretty much clear as mud. :hmm:

[MissMia]

Thanks for the link Ann!

I downloaded the program and tried it out. It's pretty cool. I think it would help to crop the photo in a square shape before dragging it to the polaroid camera on the desktop. I'll post an example shortly.

[MissMia]

Here is one from last spring that now has the poladroid treatment.

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j252/cklawrie/Hedgehog-straw-2-pola.jpg

[ann]

i th ought it was a stand alone program, and thanks for the reality check on the directions.

i haven't used that nik program but i might check it out.

i am sure there is a way to also use PS to sift the color palette, but as a black and white person my color palette is lacking as well as PS skills.

mia,
how did you get a photo into the program? that is my challenge at this point.

[MissMia]

I opened the program and then opened my pictures folder. I clicked on the thumbnail of my photo and dragged it over to the polaroid camera on my desktop.

[PhotoJet]

Ok, I got it! The program 'interface' is interesting... not what we are used to seeing at all! It is a polaroid camera! :shock:

If you double click on the Poladroid icon, it opens up the camera (this is the interface). Then, what I did was to open up a folder with my pictures in it. Just a folder with pictures. You don't have to actually open the picture (like in PS). Just click on a picture and drag it onto the polaroid camera. You should see these little circles on the film piece coming out of the camera.
After that, the camera will 'spew' out a picture. You can 'shake it' by clicking & dragging it rapidly. I don't know if it does anything, but it is fun! hahaha
When the picture is done 'developing', a red mark that looks interestingly like a Christian fish symbol appears on the picture. This means that it is done.
It will automatically save the polaroid-ized picture in your My Pictures folder (at least that's what happened for me).

This thing is just about as intuitive as playing hockey under water. :lol::lol:
All the messages you get almost seem like they were originally written in swahili, translated to mongolian, then to tibetian, then to french, then to english. Oi!

One thing it will do is give you something to compare to a photo you alter on your own coming up with a non-poladriod method of doing this! hahaha

Hope this helps!

[invisible]

Wow, this rocks! THANKS for that link! Here's my first Polaroid in more than 20 years:

http://federicobuchbinder.com/img/v8/p886615191-4.jpg

I love the fact that it "develops" the image slowly (like it should be!) and that you can save the photo at any stage during the developing process. Here's an early-stage version of the above shot (it looks faded, as if it had aged!):

http://federicobuchbinder.com/img/v7/p678035155-4.jpg

[PhotoJet]

Here's my conversion!

[MissMia]

Also, there is a feature that produces fingerprints on it. Now I need to figure that part out.

[invisible]

Also, there is a feature that produces fingerprints on it. Now I need to figure that part out.
In the setting, select to add "stripes".

[MissMia]

In the setting, select to add "stripes".

Thanks invisible!

[ann]

got it, also, i didn't realize my speakers were on. cool. sounds just like a real polaroid

[Antarctican]

It adds fingerprints?? That's funny!!! :lol:

[Terri]

This is wild. :lol: I dunno if I'll mess with it, but we'll see if Rolleimaniac likes to play with it. He's the better one with PS and like programs, not to mention a big Polaroid fan.

Cool link, Ann!

[vicky]

hahahaha. OMG the instructions are hilarious!!
"POLADROID is an unusual software, completely crazy, which reproduces all the
strange behaviours of a popular picture camera with its unique result but... so
much copied: the Polaroid!"

But this is a really fun little program! I love it.

[vicky]

Here are some of my conversions. I think I like getting a snapshot before it completely finishes processing. It goes a little bit too harsh on the highlights for my liking.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y51/Meysha/easter08011-pola01.jpg

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y51/Meysha/Vicky02-pola.jpg


http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y51/Meysha/MF3-pola01.jpg

Fun fun fun!!!

[Terri]

Well, what do you know - the software certainly seems to deliver as promised. Vicky, these really do capture the look of Polaroid - although it's certainly fair to add they look more like Polaroid prints from 30 years back found in a drawer, or shot with expired film. :lol: You did a great job capturing that faded, far-away feel that made Polaroid tops in delivering an image that felt like a dream.

Edwin Land would probably puke. :razz: Since by all accounts he hated the fact that his formulas contained flaws that made Polaroid prints such fun to manipulate in varying ways, I think he would have adored digital photography. He seemed to strive for the flawless, smooth, tight perfection that digital can deliver. It's one of my favorite ironies that the idiosyncrasies in his formulas, which led to a "non-perfect" product, is what made millions of people embrace it. But then, I believe perfection is overrated. :sillysmile:

[vicky]

It's one of my favorite ironies that the idiosyncrasies in his formulas, which led to a "non-perfect" product, is what made millions of people embrace it. But then, I believe perfection is overrated
So true!

That last photo of mine was actually shot on a Holga. So now it's become Holgaroid. hehehe.

[Terri]

So true!

That last photo of mine was actually shot on a Holga. So now it's become Holgaroid. hehehe.ah.....that explains the vignetting, then! :) I couldn't comment before because, as anything is possible with these programs...the viewer can't tell if it was "put" there or not. ;)

btw, the middle shot, the figure in the field, is WONDERFUL! You did a great job.

[johngpt]

I gotta tell ya, you'se guys (as my uncle Nunzi wooda said) have already out-done 99% of the examples I came across at the poladroid website. There was a link to a poladroid flickr group.

You folks have rocked it.