Monday, January 5, 2009

Keep on taking Polaroids…sort of



My father loved gadgets and technology, and for much of my childhood taking pictures meant the latest Polaroid camera. Take a picture, pull it out of the camera, and watch it develop. If you have the same fond memories of Polaroids that I do, you will have fun with a new, freeware program name, appropriately enough, POLAROID.

Open the program and an image of a Polaroid camera appears on the desktop. Drag and drop a jpeg image over the camera image and the fun begins. There is a short wait while the picture is "taken", and then it is noisily ejected from the camera. A "Polariod" picture appears on the desktop — only it looks just like the photos from the real camera. Over the next few minutes you watch the picture "develop". It really is fun. Download the program from http://www.poladroid.net and give it a try! The program only works with jpegs.

Incidently, the photo is of our son and daughter-in-law.

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