Sending a photo of yourself, or posting one. Have you ever felt a little shy about how big it shows up, filling the whole screen?
Shrinking it does not help. Social apps stretch every image back up to their standard size, so a shrunken photo comes out rough and blurry. You only wanted to be modest, and it stands out more than ever.
Shy Camera places your photo small inside a canvas and turns the whole thing into one image. What gets stretched is the canvas. Your photo stays small and sharp, at the size and position you chose.
■ Good for
- A profile picture for social apps, at a modest size
- A face photo beside an introduction in a group
- A seller photo for a listing, not too big
- Kids or pets with a margin, not edge to edge
■ Three steps
1. Choose a photo or take one on the spot
2. Set its position and size on the canvas and tap Next
3. Retouch if you like, then save
■ Place
Your photo appears on the canvas at 50%, centered.
- Drag to position it. It never leaves the canvas
- Pinch to resize, from 10% to 100%
- Canvas ratio 1:1, 4:5, 9:16, 3:4 or 4:3 (landscape), to match where you post
- Background: black, white, grey, pink, light blue, or any color
- Mirror, flip, and rotate in 15-degree steps
- "Center" resets position, size and rotation at once
- Tap Next to compose. "Placement" brings you back
■ Four ways to bring a photo in
Choose Photo: pick from your library.
System camera: the best quality.
Shy Camera: for shooting in a quiet place without feeling awkward. A 3, 5 or 10 second timer, and burst from 1 to 30 shots, so you pick the one you like. Pinch to zoom, with 0.5x, 1x and 2x buttons; the lens is chosen to match, as on the system camera. Quality is below the system camera.
Extract a frame from a video: pick a moment from footage you already have, by eye, from a strip of frames.
The canvas ratio is chosen to fit your photo. You can change it with one tap.
■ Four tools for the finished image
Retouch
Finds the face and lets you smooth the skin and enlarge the eyes. Eyes, brows and lips stay sharp; only skin is softened, so it never looks fake. Detection runs on your device. Brightness, contrast and warmth are on the same screen, and work without a face.
Watermark
Add your name or handle so nobody reposts your photo as their own. Adjust size and opacity, drag it anywhere, or tile it over the image. A corner mark can be cropped away; a tiled one cannot.
Blur
Trace anything you want to hide: a sign, a nameplate, someone who walked into the shot. Only what you trace is blurred, at ten strength levels.
Compress
Make the file smaller for email or forms with a size limit. Move the quality slider and see the result and its file size right away.
■ Save and share
"Save" puts the photo straight into Photos. Long press Save to choose Files or iCloud Drive instead. "Share" hands it to someone through the iOS share sheet: AirDrop, Mail, Messages and more.
Closing before you save or share asks first: a photo taken here is not kept on the device.
■ Your original is safe, and nothing leaves your device
No tool touches the original. The result is always a new image, drawn from scratch, so it carries no location, date or device information. No upload, no account, no sign-in: everything happens on your iPhone or iPad, even in airplane mode.
■ Japanese and English, iPhone and iPad, dark mode
The app follows your device language. On iPad the controls stay within reach in the middle. Dark mode is supported.
■ One-time purchase
Placing, Retouch, Watermark, Blur, Compress and saving are all free. A single purchase unlocks the following. Nothing renews.
- Sharing the finished image (AirDrop, Mail, Messages and more)
- Tiling the watermark over the whole image
- Removing the banner ad
The price is shown by the App Store. "Restore Purchase" carries it to a new device.
■ Contact
Questions and requests are welcome.
https://tenmais.jp/contact/
Made by one person, and every message gets read.
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