{"id":7346,"date":"2012-08-17T07:50:53","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T14:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/?p=7346"},"modified":"2012-08-17T07:50:53","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T14:50:53","slug":"new-mixel-for-iphone-promises-the-easiest-collage-tool-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/17\/new-mixel-for-iphone-promises-the-easiest-collage-tool-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"New Mixel for iPhone promises &quot;the easiest collage tool ever&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2011\/11\/check-out-mixel-social-collaging-for-everyone.html\">I was enthusiastic<\/a> about the &#8220;social collage&#8221; tool Mixel when it launched last fall, and I was sad to hear last week of its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/1168093\/collage_app_mixel_will_shut_down_in_september.html#lsrc.twt_lexfri\">impending demise<\/a>. It didn&#8217;t stay down long, though, reappearing today as an iPhone app:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/47610947?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;color=c8dd63\" width=\"425\" height=\"239\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nThe previous incarnation emphasized more open-ended creativity, and in many users&#8217; hands it often produced ugly results. This new version emphasizes more constraint &#038; automation (&#8220;It does all the hard work of making your collages for you&#8221;), producing more attractive (if less flexible) results.<br \/>\nThe notion of visual conversations has changed as well. It seems the team has moved away from the notion of remixing others&#8217; artwork &#038; is instead supporting replies (e.g. you share a collage, &#038; I and others can add on our own&#8211;but we don&#8217;t start those by messing around with your creation). That&#8217;s probably a smart pivot, though some part of me still wants to think that when it comes to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2012\/03\/collaborative-drawing-is-there-a-there-there.html\">collaborative art-making<\/a>, there&#8217;s a &#8220;there&#8221; there.<br \/>\nAll in all it&#8217;s great to see Mixel continuing to evolve, and I like what I&#8217;ve been able to make so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was enthusiastic about the &#8220;social collage&#8221; tool Mixel when it launched last fall, and I was sad to hear last week of its impending demise. It didn&#8217;t stay down long, though, reappearing today as an iPhone app: The previous incarnation emphasized more open-ended creativity, and in many users&#8217; hands it often produced ugly results. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7346"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}