Before putting in a penny, he threw himself into Instagram, helping Systrom with a strategy to transform a photo-filter app into a ubiquitous mobile platform.
Some software can actually transform a regular photo into a watercolor or oil type painting in only a matter of seconds.
Prisma's consumer app shot to painterly popularity last summer, offering smartphone users the ability to transform a standard smartphone photo by quickly and easily applying different graphical styles — to create, for example, a pastiche of a particular artwork or graphical effect.
This information, like location, weather, or even radiation levels, can transform an otherwise innocuous photo of an empty field near Fukushima into an entirely different object.
Paper or cloth backgrounds can transform an ordinary room into a photo studio.
Then, when they take their honeymoon, they can upload a photograph of themselves enjoying their honeymoon gifts — a massage, a bicycle tour, a room in a hotel, a bottle of Champagne — and Wanderable will "auto-magically" transform the photo into a postcard with a printed thank you that will arrive at the giver's home a few days later.
Once you've selected your desired effect, you can upload a pic and Rollip will automatically transform your photo to look like an ancient Polaroid shot, complete with fitting discoloration, blurryness and the trademark frame around it.
Is the fear of a tantrum so great that a Brueghel painting, say, must transform into a large photo of a gumball machine just because an 8-year-old has walked into the room?
In other words, Ador's services sound similar to some of those being offered on Lockerz, which has been transforming itself from a photo sharing service into a photo sharing service with a fashion/celebrity/e-commerce angle to it.
Last month, the KeySpan Energy Corporation had to jettison a print campaign that sought to transform stock photos of a fish market in Seattle into Mid-Island Fish, ostensibly a Long Island retailer.
