From there, you can move photos around the page and alter their aesthetic with a right swipe, choosing from nine filters, each playing into the app’s overarching vintage aesthetic, with black and white, sepia tone, Ben-Day dots and the like. It then dumps them all on a blank canvas. Failing that, it attempts to isolate the focal point. It uses open-source facial recognition technology to spot people and cut around them accordingly, in a choppy sort of triangle shape. You start by selecting images from the your camera roll - as many as you want, essentially, all at the same time, and the app cuts them out, collage-style. Somewhere along the way, one of the owners had cut out some photos of all of the regulars and they had made one of those old-fashioned collages.”Īnd that’s the basis of the app, really. “I was vacationing with my family in Hawaii, and there’s a little restaurant in Kailua called Buzz’s,” Mercer, a 50 percent partner in Spruced, tells TechCrunch. The dream of the ’90s is alive on Pasted, and the app is, fittingly, a pretty good way to go about putting birds on things.Ĭo-founders Zeke Howard and Ben Fogarty say their team was searching for inspiration to launch its first app, when Shins frontman James Mercer approached them with the idea for a simple collage tool. The app is the first from Spruced LLC, a spin-off of Portland, OR-based creative firm The Brigade - and really, it’s got the vibe of an Instagram based out of that Pacific Northwestern city. The app’s primary trait is its simplicity, and its greatest asset upon launch is its connection to perennial indie rock darlings, The Shins. It’s an appeal to Gen Xers put off by the overly complicated world of photo apps - or just searching for some inspiration through nostalgia. Launching out of beta today on iOS, Pasted is a throwback to simpler times - when making a collage meant picking up a pair of scissors.
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