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With the demise of Polaroid film just months away, if you want to keep enjoying this iconic genre, either you’ll have to go on a wild shopping spree immediately, or just resign yourself to faking it. Presuming you can’t spare the cash right now, there are a bunch of ways to make fake Polaroids out of all your ho-hum, soulless jpegs, but a beta app we just came across on Buzz Feed looks to be the simplest, coolest, and most fun way to do it (if you have a Mac; Windows functionality coming soon).

Download the free app from Poladroid, drag and drop your photo onto the Polaroid camera icon, and wait. After a few moments you hear the trademark click-bzzzz-whrrrrr and a Polaroid print pops out of the camera, slowly “developing” before your eyes. When it’s done a bell goes off and the new, medium-res “Polaroid print” opens up on screen. The differences from jpeg to Pola are striking: the colors are more saturated, shadows are deeper, focus is softer, vignetting might appear around the edges, and there’s even lots of dust, scratches, and stray fingerprints! And the most authentic touch is the perfectly reproduced texture of the white border frame. Click the photos here to check out the larger versions up close. Nothing will ever replace the tactile and beautiful essence of a real Polaroid, but Poladroid lets you recapture some of the whimsy of instant photography. If only they could figure out a way to let you shake it.

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This entry was posted on Friday, October 24th, 2008 at 10:36 pm by along and is filed under Arts + Culture. Comments are currently closed.

19 Responses to “Fauxlaroids”

camila @ 2008-10-25 04:57:27 PM says:

ola
como estas
mañana vengo xau

kura220 @ 2008-10-26 05:01:06 AM says:

NO PUEDO POsTIAR!!!!
AYUDENMEEE!!!

kura220 @ 2008-10-26 05:03:27 AM says:

NO PUEDO POsTIAR!!!!
AYUDENMEEE!!!

y hace mas de 5 dias!!

nicky @ 2008-10-27 04:13:29 PM says:

hi my name is nicky …ok no se q más decir bye…soy the best in the world

nicky @ 2008-10-27 04:14:59 PM says:

soy yo de vuelta chau
soy la más no se olviden

Sveto4ka16 @ 2008-10-29 03:35:48 AM says:

Спасибо. Добавлено в закладки, буду постоянной читательницей!

gabriela @ 2008-10-29 05:25:07 AM says:

Podrían poner fotos de diferentes paises aca no?

eloi @ 2008-10-29 01:21:42 PM says:

oola
pasava
chao
kuidense

jkh_22 @ 2008-10-29 04:36:50 PM says:

this might come in handy this week over you know where; i seem to have lost my polaroid mojo…my mojolaroid??

la reina_0410@ @ 2008-10-29 09:19:42 PM says:

no lo puedo crees que sea una cosa tan asombrosa

la reina_0410@ @ 2008-10-29 09:24:30 PM says:

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la reina_0410@ @ 2008-10-29 09:26:45 PM says:

espero sus correos y sigan poniendo mas cosas asombrosas
atte: la reina fashion…..

kitty_love @ 2008-10-30 01:25:38 PM says:

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kevin @ 2008-10-30 03:45:30 PM says:

es una terrible verga fotolog!!!

JOAQUIM DIAS @ 2008-11-03 11:42:37 AM says:

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jorge @ 2008-11-04 09:50:38 AM says:

chupa pija matate!!

brizia @ 2008-11-04 02:28:30 PM says:

ola k onda k chida foto

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