Make your digital photos look, um, old
My students love playing around with the Effects options in MovieMaker that make their videos look positively, well, analog — full of scratches, and jumpy film and grainy black-and-white.
Today, I heard about a Web site, Wanokoto Labs, that will alter your photos so they were taken 100 years ago. No need for Photoshop! Upload your photo, and before you know it, you’ve gone Old School. Oh, and one tip. Instead of feeling your way through the Japanese language site, click on “English” in the top-right corner.
BEFORE: The fabulous restored medieval castle at Trakai, Lithuania, circa 2007
AFTER: Cue the music — we’re going “Back in Time”!
Think of the fun kids would have creating Wild West posters featuring themselves as outlaws (good for descriptive writing practice) or creating settings for historical fiction. Yee-haw!
Thanks Jess at All About Orange for blogging about this tool to and to this Flickr set for examples using people, not architecture.