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If it weren’t for being selected as the 2018 App Store’s Best App of the Year, many people might not have paid attention to the mobile P-picture software with an unserious name.

This situation is basically consistent with my friends’ awareness of this app. If I make a picture using macarons and send it to a group of emoticon enthusiasts, someone will ask: What software is this made of?

Although the pictures made by non-RMB players have an obvious "macaron" watermark in the lower right corner, it does not seem to help increase its popularity. Then this article may be able to let everyone know about this "macaron play picture" from a user's perspective.

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I still remember that Apple's award speech for Macaron Play at that time was "Designers also love it".

Anyone who has used this app will definitely understand the meaning of this sentence, which means "cutting out images faster than a designer".

However, in the minds of many people, a professional designer’s P drawing tool must have a name that looks professional, such as Adobe Illustrator, Affinity Photo, and Pixelmator, no matter how bad it is, it must be Only names like VSCO and Defqt that you don’t know how to pronounce at first glance will work. In fact, the original name of “Macaron Play Picture” is Versa, which is in line with the public’s perception of this type of app. Now this name is too "Meitu Xiuxiu" and "B612 Kaji".

Last month, the App Store editor recommended this app again, still citing “smart cutout” as its main selling point.

Indeed, the ability of Macaron to cut out pictures is obvious to all.

Any picture with a human figure, whether it is a random passerby or a neat family photo, once you import the macaron picture, no matter what modifications you want to make, don’t say anything about it first Use its magical cutout skills combined with cool animations to show you its special skills.

Then the editing bar at the bottom of the interface is automatically divided into two columns: portrait and background. Pictures with multiple people recognized will also have portrait 1, portrait 2... Each portrait or background element can be processed separately. Filters, blur and some basic photo parameter modifications. You can also beautify each character and manually adjust the edges of the cutout to make up for the occasional inaccuracies of smart cutouts.

You can also click and drag each element to enlarge, reduce, copy, delete, etc. Store individually as stickers for next time. In this way, if you want to visit famous celebrity landmarks, you can avoid expensive flights, drinks and travel.

One-click to check in the same style of Jay Chou's Central Park (the background is so excited that your hands are shaking)

Even if you take a useless picture in an embarrassing situation, as long as you capture the picture The main character or subject background, you can use the above operations to improve your composition and picture content. Those photos that take up storage space in mobile phones but are reluctant to delete them because they are "only one" now have hope of rebirth.

Compared with a certain app that named itself "Trash Photo" and essentially just adds light leakage effects to photos, "Macaron Play Picture" is obviously "turning waste into treasure". Further down the road.

Compared with traditional cutout and photo repair apps such as "Easy Cutout", the intelligent cutout and repair capabilities of "Macaron Play" are even better.

It is a pity that the identification objects of the macaron picture are limited to humans, cats and dogs. Whether it is various forms of cat claw cups or the well-growing enoki mushrooms, they cannot be recognized, and there is not even a chance to pick them manually. Not given either. This is considered a serious flaw. I hope that relevant functions can be added in future upgrades and iterations, and the Enoki mushrooms also deserve a name.

A photography app with a style that can be salty or sweet, suitable for all ages

The app icon has a pink color scheme. The startup screen is a small animation, and the protagonist looks like the character in the Mario Brothers series. A certain turtle, guess this is the "dragon" of macarons?

After entering the App interface, the "little pink" button designed with the most fashionable gradient color animation effect in the lower center attracts you to click to start the P picture operation.

To be quick and easy, you can click "Popular" and then select "Smart Recommendation" to perform one-click operation and quickly generate a magical work that interweaves virtuality and reality.

For refinement, there are rich painting style filters such as Prisma and Waterlogue suitable for literary youth, two-dimensional secondary copywriting, and occasional launches including the Spring Festival (earth) flavor series. Various themed video/GIF filters, with styles ranging from salty to sweet, there is always one that suits you. Combined with a variety of text and pattern stickers, you can create freely with your wild imagination and materials ubiquitous in your life.

For more operations, please refer to the official guide released just two days ago by the development team Versa - "Macaron Playing Manual".

Is P picture social networking OK?

Instagram can create Internet celebrities. VUE has transformed into a social network and become a distribution center for Vloggers. Why can’t it do the same with macaron pictures?

It is obvious that the team behind Macaron Play Pictures is not just trying to make an easy-to-use and intelligent tool. Whether it is from the layout of the homepage or the weekly selection of edited content, Maca Longwantu is trying to create an “Internet celebrity” of its own platform. Maybe the next popular thing on social media will be “Phlogger”.

This may also be a trend for many similar products, but whether users will pay for it is another matter.

Personally, I don’t have much interest in “Internet celebrity social networking”, but as a homebody, this App can actually help me break the dimensional wall in real life: visiting relatives during the holidays. Taking one during the reunion dinner can instantly bring the chat atmosphere of "a loving family" to a climax; even the originally distant emotional relationship between colleagues has become more intense because they each hold each other's spoof pictures. bond.

Therefore, it is highly recommended that those in the minority be brave enough to recommend this app to the little fairies who usually like to post selfies with nine-square grid in their circle of friends. (Otherwise, do you think apps like Notion or Omnifocus 3 will become your best conversation partners and enhance your friendship?)

Considering how much fairies love Van Gogh and Picasso, , it is also difficult to accept that your face has been transformed into impressionism or fauvism, so I hope you can take the initiative to offer your jade photos to them as material. Accordingly, please also cherish everyone who is willing to give up their appearance just to amuse you in this age of looking at faces. They must love you very much.

If you want to "show off" your skills to your friends in person, please make sure you are in an environment with good Internet speed, otherwise your friends may lose their expectations because the recognition process takes too long.

The joy of creating is completely different from the joy of being the protagonist of a work. An ordinary picture may become a memory that belongs only to you many years later.

Finally, I really look forward to Macaron Play Pictures being able to launch more new filters and stickers while also providing a version adapted to the iPad, which is not only convenient for manual edge trimming, but also makes it easy for middle-aged and elderly friends. Play with obstacles.