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Create Your Own One Picture Stories

If you own an iPhone and want to share with the world more than just pictures, try this: one picture stories.

They’re extremely easy to create – and fun to do. What you need is one great application from the AppStore – Type Drawing. The app is definitely worth its price – 1,99 USD/1,59 EUR (download link here). The program lets you literally paint with words. The recent update has an enhanced, intuitive interface; a choice of 22 fonts, ability to zoom, eyedropper and many other features.

What’s most important – as a background you can use pictures from your iPhone’s photo library.

How to create one picture story?

1. Pick up a photo.

2. Open it in Type Drawing.

3. Write/paint your text. Do it the way you want, it’s all up to your imagination. A useful tip here is that if you don’t want a text to be painted in a loop just enter several spaces at the end in a text input box.

4. Save picture to photo library.

5. Share with the world. If you use a tag #1picstory it’ll be easier found in the Twitterverse.

Extra tip: If you want to improve your picture before you edit a text, you can use apps like PhotoForge or RetroCamera. I’m planning to write a post on those tools as well, so stay tuned.

After creating almost 50 stories I can tell one thing – it’s true that we are a visual civilisation and that what we see is more appealing to us than what we read. The picture stories I’ve created were much more often seen, retweeted, favoured and commented than my Twitter fiction pieces.

To put things short: one picture stories are more attractive than sheer words and more meaningful than sheer photos.

What do you think? Does it sound like a fun? Will you play with it? Share your opinion! And if you’ve found one picture stories worth a try, please share this post with your friends.

Check more links:

The developer’s site
The official Type Drawing Site on Flickr
Introduction to One Picture Stories
My 1picstory profile at Twitter