iMailShot: why such an app ? / iMailShot pourquoi une telle application ?

Hi all,

I would like to present you the iPhone application iMailShot. This app is meant to ease the way you communicate with your friends, family or even customers !

With this app, you're able to reach a group of people by email or sms with pure text as content or stunning customizable flyers.

Thanks to this app, you can invite for a party, a cinema session, even send prospectus to your customers in very few steps.

Easily navigate among the available templates, create yours and keep them stored in your iPhone so that you can re-use them !

Enjoy !

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Salut tout le monde,

Je souhaite vous presenter l'application iPhone iMailShot. Cette application est faite pour faciliter votre manière de communiquer avec vos amis, votre famille et même vos clients !

Avec cette application, vous êtes capable d'atteindre un groupe de personnes par email, sms avec du simple texte en contenu ou avec de superbes flyers personnalisables.

Grâce a cette application vous pouvez envoyer des invitations pour une fête, une soirée cinéma et même envoyer des prospectus a vos clients en très peu d’étapes.

Naviguez aisément parmi les différents modèles, créez les votre et sauvegardez les sur votre iPhone afin de les réutiliser plus tard !

C'est a vous :)

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Templates Design: using open source materials

Hi all,
I decided to keep you informed about my current investigations and work on the iMailShot application.
I have now finalized the application framework so that I can now concentrate on the templates.

Templates have to meet several requisites:
  • Each picture has to be licence free, so I often use the Wikimedia website to find my background pics.
  • Each template has to be original and eye catching, so I heavy use Gimp to enrich the content of the templates
I am currently working on the brush feature of Gimp: I found several websites that propose free brushes for Gimp (Gimp > 2.6 accepts Photoshop brushes btw) like BrushEzzy or FreeBrushes

A brush effect alone is not that sexy to use alone, so I often use it as a basis for the mapping feature of Gimp, thus you can have very beautiful embossing effects on your bakcgrounds.

I also found very usefull informations about perspective effects : yet, Gimp has the feature built-in but the user is still responsible to define the line of horizon and the creepage. Here the french website Bases du Dessin helps (if you speak french :)

See ya
Seb

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