MetaTools has announced “MakingFaces”, which allows every iPhone/iPod Touch owner to alter and animate their favourite photographs, and also launched a photography contest. You can take or import photos and literally put a smile on anyone’s face, lift their eyebrows, pinch their nose and a host of other imaginative treatments, all in real time. With Making Faces, taking a photo with an iPhone camera or importing an image from a library is a snap. Once a photo is selected, it’s easy to zoom in and out, rotate the photo to the perfect angle and finally crop the desired portion of the image. Making Faces always works on a copy of an image, so the original image is saved separately. You can even enter your creations in the Just GOO it contest for a chance to witn $1000 USD in cash or one of a number of other prizes. The contest is already open and submissions are accepted through August 31, 2009. Make sure to read the rules before entering. Making Faces is available for download now for $2.99 via iPhone.

Metatools Press Release

MetaTools Announces ‘Making Faces’—Power GOO for the iPhone and iPod touch Now Available at iTunes App Store

Putting a Smile on Anyone’s Face Has Never Been Easier! Creativity Application Allows Everyone to Turn Photos Into Hilarious Pictures and Animations -Contest to Award $1,000 for the Most Creative ‘Making Faces’ Picture

SANTA BARBARA, Calif., July 23 /PRNewswire/—“Just GOO It(TM)!” MetaTools(TM) Inc., a leading developer and publisher of visual computing, mobile and social gaming applications including the best selling Power GOO(TM) creativity software, today introduced “Making Faces(TM)” for the iPhone and iPod touch. Making Faces allows every iPhone/iPod touch owner to experience the joy of creative expression to enhance, alter and animate their favorite pictures, whether family or friends, celebrities, politicians, pets or any other photo of their choosing. Making Faces is now available in Apple Computer(TM)‘s iTunes(TM) App Store for an introductory price of $2.99.

Making Faces allows every iPhone/iPod touch owner the ability to take or import photos and literally put a smile on anyone’s face, lift their eyebrows, pinch their nose and a host of other imaginative treatments, all in real time. Users can produce unforgettable images with a few simple strokes of the powerful GOO brushes and other tools that can, for instance, bulge, pinch or twirl the photo into funnier versions of the original. Then click on the Movie icon and get a real time animation of what’s been done to the image - it’s easy! Users can share all their GOO’d images via popular social networking sites like Myspace and Facebook using their respective upload applications.

“We knew the Power GOO experience would be perfect for the iPhone and iPod touch platforms because Making Faces enables anyone to instantly create fun caricatures of their family, friends, pets, politicians, celebrities or anything around them and make them move,” said John Wilczak, CEO, MetaTools. “Making Faces can literally put a smile on anyone’s face, even Mona Lisa.”

With Making Faces, taking a photo with an iPhone camera or importing an image from a library is a snap. Once a photo is selected, it’s easy to zoom in and out, rotate the photo to the perfect angle and finally crop the desired portion of the image. Making Faces always works on a copy of an image, so the original image is saved separately.

Once the perfect angle and size is selected users can “GOO” the image with the powerful GOO brushes and 10 built-in effects. All brushes and effects can be scaled and moved around in real time and become part of your image’s history. Making Faces’ history palette also shows each effect used and allows the user to go back and edit at anytime or use saved combinations on other images.

  Additional Features and Capabilities
  -Making Faces works in portrait or landscape mode
  -Special Effects include pinch, bulge, spike, twirl, wave and ripple
  -Making Faces provides full GOO effects animation
  -Editable effects history

Just GOO It Contest - Win $1,000 Cash and Other Prizes

MetaTools is looking for the most creative Making Faces images using the iPhone or iPod touch. To enter, owners should submit their “GOO’d” image along with the original image to [email protected] . The contest will be judged on creativity, originality and humor by a panel of experts including Dan Bialek, stand up comedian, Daniel Clark, professional graphic designer, and Jared Harris, professional photographer.

The contest opens today at 12 noon Pacific time and submissions created exclusively using Making Faces on either an iPhone or iPod touch will be accepted via email submission per contest rules through August 31, 2009. First prize winner will receive $1,000 cash, and second and third prizes include an iPhone and an iPod touch. For full contest rules visit www.metatools.com/contest.

The GOO Back Story

In 1996, MetaTools introduced PowerGOO which democratized the creative/photo experience for millions who never thought they could “enhance” a photo, becoming one of the most popular consumer graphics title of its time. In all, GOO software sold millions of retail and OEM copies and garnered dozens of awards from computing, photography and family/parenting magazines for its computer application. Making Faces was created as a result of requests from fans of the original GOO software for a similar product that could utilize the ubiquity of camera phones and the Apple touch screen for use by today’s portable computing and portable device savvy generation. Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch are the perfect platform for Making Faces.

Making Faces is available for download now for $2.99 via iPhone or by visiting the MetaTools website, www.metatools.com, and clicking on the iTunesTM App Store widget.

About MetaTools Inc.

MetaToolsTM Inc., a visual computing software company, is a developer and publisher of mobile games and social gaming applications. For more information about MetaTools games please visit www.metatools.com.

  App Store, iPhone and iPod touch are registered marks of Apple Inc.

  Contact:
  Sallie Olmsted / Jason Magner
  Rogers & Cowan for MetaTools
  (310) 854-8124 / 8128
  [email protected]
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Source: MetaTools Inc.

CONTACT: Sallie Olmsted, +1-310-854-8124, [email protected],
or Jason Magner, +1-310-854-8128, [email protected], both Rogers &
Cowan for MetaTools

Web Site: http://www.metatools.com/

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