Gone are the days where we were all satisfied with just a sizable collection of filters in our camera app. As users get more sophisticated and creative with their phone cameras, many are demanding more options, such as beauty touch-ups, decorative stickers, handwriting functions with a wide range of pen styles etc.
More camera apps, particularly in Asia, are starting to resemble purikura machines, the uniquely Japanese photo booths that allow you to decorate your photos with a stylus on a touch-screen.
Purikura originates from the word Print Club (Purinto Kurabu) and back in the early days, you could only take photos with cute frames featuring Japanese cartoon characters such as Hello Kitty. However, the latest purikura machines do more than that – eye enlargement, leg slimming effect, skin whitening, lip and hair color change are just some of the beauty features you.
Photo booths? That allow you to decorate your images by using a touch screen inside of the Purikura booth. Pretty cool that they have sized this down to a photo-editing program. I like decorating my own photos but this may be for those who really want to go full out and beyond.