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Phantasmagoria Transforms Your Photos
Posted by Adam Pash at 8:00 AM on June 2, 2008
Windows/Mac/Linux: Freeware application Phantasmagoria adds effects to your digital photos through a slick, simple-to-use interface. The program provides an impressive range of effects and can upload the results to photo-sharing site Flickr or easily share your results over Twitter. You can snap and annotate screenshots, and take webcam photos and go straight to adding effects, similar to OS X's Photo Booth. Phantasmagoria is freeware, cross-platform, requires Java. Check out the sample page for a closer look at Phantasmagoria in action.
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vreesh
Posted 4:18 PM 2/6/08
there is at least not one nice effect!
vreesh
ZukeZuke
Posted 5:57 PM 2/6/08
Phantasmagoria was a video adventure game I played on the old 486 25mhz. Something like a 7 CD install. That was high-tech back then!
ZukeZuke
SonicJ
Posted 9:58 PM 2/6/08
@ZukeZuke:
I don't get it.
SonicJ
Dylan
Posted 11:15 PM 2/6/08
An awful app, to say the least: not practical in the slightest. But hey, the featured image just happens to be my avatar!
Dylan
PINKPIXEL
Posted 6:51 PM 2/6/08
LOL Yes Zuke, me too! I still have it around here somewhere,I thought I would show the kids someday what we did for gaming.:)
PINKPIXEL
Elderbear
Posted 5:29 PM 2/6/08
At very least, Phantasmagoria can serve as a Flickr uploader that automatically adds twitter comments. As far as adding special effects, I find it much less powerful (and useful ((and perhaps confusing)) than GIMP, which is also freeware and available across multiple platforms.
It is a quick and efficient way to crop and/or rotate an image. This is a nice feature with the Flickr upload. Open a file, fix it, upload it. All done.
It allows one to inflict effects with less experience than GIMP requires. It can readily correct red-eye (but what doesn't these days?) and it does a moderately decent job of contrast optimizing. It provides a number of lenses and whirls and kaleidescope effects. Yawn.
Unlike the GIMP's numerous options for selecting portions of a picture, Phantasmagoria has one simple selection tool, the "Region of Interest." This allows the user to select a rectangle and then modify that region only, finally merging it back with the original image.
It won't replace the GIMP, but I had to spend nearly $30 for a book that helped me to get efficient with the GIMP. But it will be a useful tool in my stable of image alteration programs.
Elderbear
BrianEsser
Posted 2:56 PM 2/6/08
I was hoping this was a update to the Phantasmagoria game from the 90's!
BrianEsser
Navin R Johnson
Posted 11:38 PM 2/6/08
The example images are not stellar. I guess if you don't have Photoshop and your too lazy to learn GIMP and you don't use Picasa to upload to flickr it might be ok.
Navin R Johnson
EmilBB
Posted 1:19 AM 3/6/08
Hmm I'm using Ubuntu, and i'm a newbie - How do I install it permanently? It's a .jar file, and I can run it but it doesn't install, is there a commandline for that?
thanks,
Emile
EmilBB
EmilBB
Posted 1:45 AM 3/6/08
whuops, my mistake, found out how!
EmilBB
Andronicus1717
Posted 1:54 AM 3/6/08
Does this program feature a head-popping machine or a ceiling mounted diablo claw?
Andronicus1717
BrianEsser
Posted 7:36 AM 3/6/08
Don't forget they made a part two. His wife was hot but annoying.
BrianEsser
BrookePriam
Posted 1:53 AM 9/6/08
When I saw "Phantasmagoria" the first thing that came into my mind was "Phantasmagoria of Dim. Dream" and "Phantasmagoria of Flower View", two games from the Touhou series made by Team Shanghai Alice. :p
BrookePriam
ZukeZuke
Posted 4:37 AM 9/6/08
@SonicJ:
Phantasmagoria was one of the 1st video games comprised almost entirely of real video cutscenes. Kind of like a Dragon's Lair, but a mystery-horror with real actors and blue-screen sets. You'd pick a choice of action and then that would take you down a particular story line and subsequent video scenes. It was a pretty scary game and ahead of its time (at the time). This was back in the day when a $200 external 1x CD-ROM drive was hi-tech... AND WE LIKED IT!
ZukeZuke