Take any element from one picture and add it to another. Remix your pets into a mythical creature, swap a statue's head with your friend's, or combine photos into surreal and beautiful works of art. Juxtaposer has the power and features of a professional creative tool, but is simple to use and just as importantly, it's fun!
Features:
- Short tutorial videos will turn you into a photomontage artist in no time.
- The new Magic Crop feature makes it super fast and easy to cut something out of your top image, thanks to a powerful Machine Learning model.
- Your composite images are exported at the full resolution of the background image, even if it's huge (40 MP+)!
- The image adjustment tools let you match your images' color and lighting, and fine-tune the look of your creation.
- Zoom in to work on fine details with pixel-level accuracy.
- Add elements from as many photos as you like to your background image.
- Load photos from your iPhone photo library, Unsplash, Dropbox or Flickr, .
- Share your photomontages on Twitter or Flickr. Email them, or save them to your Dropbox.
- Save your cutout images in the Stamp Manager for later use. You can also share these 'stamps' with friends or export them as transparent PNGs.
- Undo any edit. Experiment safely, you can always get back to where you started.
- 20 blend modes (like Multiply, Screen and Overlay) let advanced iPhoneographers create unique effects.
- The 'red mask' view mode shows you just the top image with the erased parts in red. It is helpful when precisely cutting out an element.
* WhatsOnIphone.com: 'The application works incredibly well and makes an otherwise challenging process simple and fun. It blows my mind that you can do such things on an iPhone.'
* TUAW: 'This $2.99 app is a lot of fun, as well as one of the best-executed compositing tools for a mobile device that I've ever seen.'
* IphoneAppReviews: 'Pretty much everyone, at some point in time, has had the uncontrollable urge to take a friend’s photo and do something truly evil with it. Juxtaposer is an awesome photo-editing tool that can make that dream a reality!'
Juxtaposer is a photo-editing app that allows you to combine multiple images to create a new—and often funny—result. You can put your friend’s head on your dog’s body, or your cat’s head on your. Juxtaposer lets you combine multiple pictures into creative and fun photomontages quickly and easily. Take any element from one picture and add it to another. Remix your pets into a mythical creature, swap a statue's head with your friend's, or combine photos into surreal and beautiful works of art. English Translation of “juxtaposer” The official Collins French-English Dictionary online. Over 100,000 English translations of French words and phrases.
Have a photo of a person you want to drop into another background? Or put the Washington Monument in the Sahara Desert? Juxtaposer ($2.99) does that and more.
While several apps try to get this right and fall quite short, like Cut Me Out Pro which is recently reviewed, Juxtaposer can get you really excellent results because the app is well thought out and exceeds where many other apps fail.
How Juxtaposer Works
The app opens with some helpful built-in videos to show you the basics. They loop, so if you don’t move on to the next one, they repeat. When you start up you are asked to bring in a foreground image, and then the background image. You can choose your camera roll photos, or import from Facebook, Instagram, Flickr, Picasa and Dropbox, or you take take a photo from within the app.
I tried it on a recent photo trek with friends. I’ve blurred their faces to protect the innocent and the guilty. I’ve taken an original photo, and transported my friends to a new location.
The process of cutting out your top layer is very refined. There is almost infinite zoom, and you can cut out the background of the top photo quite easily using brushes that can be re-sized on the fly. In a mask mode, your background image turns red, making it really easy to see what needs to be painted out to accommodate the new top layer. There are multiple undo modes, and there are blend modes that allow for multiply, screen modes and overlay, modes that are similar to the options Photoshop gives you on a desktop or laptop computer.
A standout feature is you don’t have your finger blocking the area you are trying to edit. Most apps just get this process wrong. Juxtaposer superimposes a closeup of the area you re working on away from your finger, so you can work in a tight space and still edit with great precision.
One of the other really strong features is the ability to match the ‘look’ of your two photos so they appear seamless. You can match saturation, shadow depth, tint, and other parameters so one photo doesn’t have that ‘bolted on from another photo look’.
Your cut out pictures can be saved in what the app calls the stamp manager, and they can even be shared with others or you can export them as transparent PNGs.
Your foreground photo can be resized or rotated, so there is plenty of flexibility to get things just as you want them.
The Bottom Line
The only thing I’d love to see added is some smart edge detection. If there are contrasts values around your target, the app could help easily remove unwanted parts of the image automatically. As it is, it is a completely manual process.
Juxtaposer really is one of the best mobile apps I’ve used for blending two photos to make them look like one. You aren’t limited to one foreground image, you can add more if you wish. Images can be shared via Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Flickr or Picasa, and of course they can be emailed, saved to your camera roll, and uploaded to Dropbox.
You won’t be using this app on every photo you take, but when you need it for a novelty or a more serious shot, this app really works well.
Photos are output at the original resolution of the background image, so you won’t lose any quality after editing.
Juxtaposer is very much worth the asking price. While getting your top layer edited can take some time, the tools in the app allow you to make a perfect blend.
It’s a universal app, so quite nice on an iPad, and it requires iOS or later. It’s been optimized for the iPhone 6 series from Apple.
App Store link: Juxtaposer – Pocket Pixels Inc.
– Mel Martin
Juxtaposer 3.4
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One of the best mobile apps I've used for blending two photos to make them look like one. Juxtaposer is very much worth the asking price.