Images, when finished, are deposited onto your desktop, and can be moved around, Stickies style. Photodroid’s preferences even allow the automatic addition of thumb-prints and scratches to your Poladroids for the ultimate authentic look. The images come ready for print (at 400dpi), complete with the classic white border.
The theme of a realistic Polaroid is kept going with variable colour shift, ageing and blur, whilst the app must be restarted after every 10 images, to match the 10-image cartridge found in the cameras. Your Polaroid-ified image comes out of the camera, as yet not fully developed, and slowly, the image appears, just like the real thing, in the classic Polaroid white border. The unmistakeable Polaroid whirring mechanism sound is played, and, optionally, Poladroid even shows a camera flash effect. An image of your very own virtual Polaroid camera floats on your Mac’s desktop, waiting for a jpeg to be dragged and dropped onto it.
Poladroid is based on the concept of a software Polaroid camera. What the Mac needs is a unique photo-styling app of its own enter Poladroid. These kinds of quirky and simple photo styling apps are mostly not available on Mac, and those which are available seem to be cash-in copies of the services named above. Instagram, and Hipstamatic before it, made both the stylizing and sharing of photos on iOS devices easy.