October 07, 2009

How to Take and Print Polaroids Using Your iPhone

By Databazaar Blog

PrinTip: Polaroid-Style Photos From Your iPhone in Two Steps (Shaking Optional)

We recently covered three methods for creating and printing Polaroid-style photos — two using your Mac or PC and one using a ZINK-based gadget. But those of you with an iPhone asked us if there's "an app for that." With 85,000 apps on Apple's App Store, did you have any doubt? There's even an app for finding nearby public restrooms, but I digress.

Nick Campbell's Shake it Photo sells for 99 cents. Snap a photo through Shake it Photo, and then shake your iPhone to watch your Polaroid-style photo come to life (you don't have to shake your iPhone but shaking it makes the photo "develop" faster). You can also process existing photos.

After using Shake it Photo, you can transfer photos to your Mac or PC, and then print them, but where's the fun in that?

If you use an HP printer, install HP's free HP iPrint Photo for iPhone. Using this app, you can print photos from your iPhone to any WiFi-enabled HP printer.

If you own a non-HP inkjet printer (Canon, Epson, Lexmark, etc.), use a third-party printing app such as EuroSmartz's Print or Microtech's ePrint (each costs $2.99).

Now that we solved this problem for you, how about an app for doing the laundry? We're still researching that one.

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