Category: social media

PhotoFunia is an app that allows you to take your stored photos on your phone and create fun images and backgrounds with them.  To test it, I found a photo one of my colleagues had sent to me of students using our new acoustic pod study rooms.  I opened the photo in PhotoFunia and chose a billboard background. I was able to give it a caption, but it could only be about 24 characters. After testing a few captions, I finally came up with one that fit the space, but there’s a darn light pole smack in the middle of the photo  giving it an air of authenticity (I guess) but totally blocking my content.  Oh well, it still looks pretty good, I think:

I then tried Quik, an app that allows you to make short videos out of the photos and videos stored on your phone.  My first attempt was a complete disaster, IMHO.  I used the highlight tool thinking it would give a slo mo effect over that section of the video,  but instead it cut the video to focus on that specific segment.  So, for my second try, I ignored the highlight tool all together, added some new text, and now have a lovely video of my Godchild:

Lots of fun, and I can think of many ways to use these tools to spruce up some social media content at my library.