Cam Wow for IPhone: Hours of Photo Fun

One of the most popular things about today's Smartphone's is the wide variety of applications that can be downloaded and used for a wide variety of things. Games are popular, of course, but there are a great many applications that are useful, interesting and downright fun. One such application provided me with hours of fun from the moment I downloaded it to my iPhone. Cam Wow, by Jolly Dream Studios, is a free photo booth application that lets you capture yourself and your friends in ways you'd never imagined you could.

Navigating and using Cam Wow is easy. Just click the "FX" button on the bottom right-hand corner and you're given a total of 24 different types of effects that you can use when taking pictures of yourself, your friends, your pets, or just about anything you'd want to take a photo of. Just choose the effect you want to try and start shooting. It's that simple!

Here are some of the digital photo booth effects that come with Cam Wow:

Colors

For some really cool shots taken in different color scales, Cam Wow has several to choose from. The app has pink-scale, green-scale, blue-scale, grayscale, and even a combination of red and blue scale effects. Black and white and sepia are other standard color options available with the app.

For more interesting color effects, the application has several more to choose from. X-ray can be a little freaky, but cool at the same time, and the black and white cartoon effect kind of reminds me of the video for a-ha's "Take on Me" video from the 1980's. There's another black and white effect that kind of makes you look like you're made up of snowy pixels from an old black and white television set. Very cool!

Other Photo Effects

The other options available for taking pictures in Cam Wow are the really fun ones. There are effects that twist, turn and otherwise distort all different parts of the subject depending upon how you hold the camera, kind of like in a House of Mirrors at the carnival. Make yourself look like a member of the Lollipop Guild from the Wizard of Oz or Mr. Spock's Klingon long-lost cousin from Star Trek. The possibilities are endless.

Last but not least is what I like to call the "Andy Warhol Effect." Of course I'm talking about the four-in-one type of picture that the artist made famous in his day. Recreate a Warhol masterpiece with this one, a la Marilyn Monroe or a Campbell's soup can. Again there's no limit to what you can do.

So if you like to take photos and play with visual effects, then Cam Wow is definitely for you. The only catch is you've got to have an iPhone. To download the app, simply go to the App Store on your iPhone and download Cam Wow for free. Of course there's a paid version with even more options, but the free one is simply good for hours of fun. For technical specifics and more information on Cam Wow, just click here. To read more about other great iPhone applications, see:

Free and Handy iPhone Apps