3,2,1...Effects!

by kriz 20. January 2010 09:58

As of last month,

1) We have added new features to our toolbox (in photo montage, create template pages): Effects! This set of rich effects enables our users to play with their photos as they wishes : Sketch, Cartoon, Poster, Point, Charcoal, Oil Paint and Emboss. So now on you can use Montagraph as your favorite image editor. What is more, you can adjust strengths of effects and apply them sequentially.

2) Apart from effects, in adjustment section we have enriched color settings part with Sepia, Black&White, Halftone. 

3) Montagraph has been translated to Indonesian Language due to our users' demands/statistics .

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4) On Create Template page now users can Zoom In for details of their template. What is more, they can see what part to delete thanks to transparent brush recently added.


5) Lastly, we have improved speed of Montagraph and managed to compress users' montagraphs better, which means more space (effective quota) for our users.   

Hope you enjoy all these improvements and wish you happy 2010...

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Face Detection on board ! (even for online created templates)

by kriz 18. May 2009 21:31


In order to make photomontages even easier and smarter we as Montagraph team, implemented automatic face detection & smart template features to Montagraph site. Face detection feature senses the most prominent face in your (uploaded) photo and smart template feature analyses the hole in template (you created or you choose) and decides where to locate and how to resize your face.

These two feature coordinates each other well and enables you to make photomontages in one click after uploading your photo. This also means, upload your photo once and try all templates without the need of uploading your photo again and again (another first/innovation in internet/world by Montagraph). What is more, these features are valid/useful not only ready templates created by us, but also for templates created online by you. That is, not only montagraphs get smarter, your templates (created by you) also get smarter!

Enjoy these hi-tech features and wait for more innovations from Montagraph!

 

Montagraph is getting more social : Google Map Integration

by kriz 15. December 2008 12:23

Montagraph is not only a photo montage tool as we emphasize on our front page.Today, we stand behind this sentence and we are happy to announce 2 important feature together:

1) As some of you realized now user profiles are more handy and full of content. You can get a good snapshot of a user profile  and its montagraphs, templates, favorites, contacts at once. So we think you will enjoy it.   
 
2) Google maps integration is done. This means, you can easily see the other members around you or any montagraph member on the map. For this you can click on Neighbours link on the profile page of a user, there comes members near(same country) to you (or profile owner) on the map, where you can click on members to see their profile photos(avatar) and profile infos and links to its works. Needless to say you have ability to zoom in/out and pan on the map. Now we don't have location information of every member so by this time, not every member has neighbours link currently but soon we will try to cover every member on the map.   

Montagraph Shop is Online!

by kriz 26. November 2008 10:26
 

Hi,

As i mentioned in previous post we were considering different partners in printing sector. At last, we decided to go with Zazzle, which has great API and customization facilities and simple to use. As a result, Montagraph shop is open before New Year !

So, now you have chance to create UNIQUE GIFTS within a couple of seconds. You can drink from, wear, send as a postcard, use as a keychain etc. your own creations(=montagraphs). This new year, share your imag(e)nation with your friends and give them a gift designed by you in order to make them feel special (By the way if you don't get satisfied by the product quality, Zazzle guarantees you payback). 

So let's begin to present our imag(e)nation... 

Montagraph is in your language

by kriz 17. November 2008 11:20

Hello,

Today we added a Turkish language support to montagraph. Soon, we will plan to add Spanish and Italian, Russian language support to montagraph. So please do not hesitate to contact us (info at montagraph.com) if you are volunteer to help translate and see/use montagraph in your own language

 Apart from this we are planning to set a partnership in printing, we are considering zazzle.com for now but not decided yet. Any suggestion is welcomed...

By the way new and skillful montagraphers, that is, users are on board and number of our templates and montagraphs increases day by day(theoritically infinite amount of template :). 

After first week

by kriz 27. October 2008 09:04

Hi,

It has been 12 days that we have launced our beta service. Thanks to all blogs, which announced our launch, we took more visitors than we expected from all over the world.

Apart from PR(public relations) issues, we were busy to fix some bugs (after all it is new beta) and  were quite hungry for your feedbacks. So we read every comment and thought of them in order to improve our service. So we took step and made some improvements and design changes due such as :

-Fixed some bugs (mostly related to ie6)

-More information about how to begin

-Better and more demanding start page

-Improved messaging abilities, account activation

-Added some advertisement to static pages

-Added some more content (= templates), we will make regularly so come and check us.

There is some suggestion that users' public montagraphs and templates should be visible immediately to the all site (now it is visible to user only). In fact, this might be good but we should moderate this montagraphs before we present ,because we want to keep quality high and suitable to a range from age 5 to 125 (if any). So it is not feasible.

Also we want to point out that, montagraph is targeting to be more than a take-away photo montage, image editing tool. So please feel free to comment and exchangemessages with other members. Now we are thinking about what should be our privilege ?:

-Quicker effects?

-Richer image tools?(like watercolor, emboss filters)

-A new facebook application?

-IPhone webapplication?

-Ability to send your montagraphs to celular phones?

-Chrome, safari, opera browser support?

-Multi-langugage support?

-Priniting services?(such as glass, mousepad, calendar)

If you have any feature request/suggestion drop a line to info at montagraph dot com.  

Keep creative, keep montagraphing