A few days ago I was offered 15 pro accounts for my readers for Rollip.com in exchange for a review of the service on my blog. Although that’s about 5 accounts too many compared to the amount of people who read this blog, I thought it was a good idea especially since the service seems promising.
Rollip lets you upload and photo and apply an effect to it. But where it differs from the hundreds of similar sites already online is that instead of featuring cheesy effects like speech bubbles or a fake painting frame, its effects are actually useful. Like many photoshop actions, they let you emulate the look of cameras like the Lomo, special films, or techinques like HDR.
Rollip's first effect
The results are actually pretty good, and I could see how this service might be very useful for someone who doesn’t have Photoshop or just doesn’t want to spend hours browsing Deviantart for that perfect action.
The only thing I found disapointing is that none of the effects seem to have a name. You just pick them by clicking on a picture. This is good since it lets you pick an effect without knowing anything about photography, but on the other hand it’s a lost opportunity to educate people like me who have no idea what those effects are supposed to be (other than “pretty”).
In fact I’d love to see a short blurb about each effect explaining what photography technique it recreates, and when in time it was used. This would be invaluable for people trying to make sure that all their photos match a certain period in time.
Other than that, I liked the site and I have 15 invites for accounts with 30 free credits included to give away. It’s simple, just go to http://www.rollip.com/pro?coupon=sachagreif and sign up!
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Regards,
Bradley Holton.