Ciel for Windows Phone 8, add weather and location to your photos

Ciel

Ciel is a photography app for your Windows Phone 8 device like to PhotoWeather Pro. It allows yous to have a photo and place an overlay that will detail your current location, the electric current conditions. Additionally there is an assortment of lifestyle tags that you can apply to your photos.

The layout is a little more straight forwards and y'all can choose between a weather condition/location or location overlay. Ciel lacks the photo editing features of PhotoWeather Pro and there was a stability consequence present that actually held this app back. Luckily, a recent update included fixes to make Ciel more stable.

In the end while Ciel lacks photograph editing, at present that the stability bug have been resolved, it's a nice Windows Telephone photography app.

Ciel's main pages take options to choose which weather/location, location (place) or lifestyle overlay y'all would like to use. Just tap the overlay pattern you like and yous're given the pick (control buttons at the lesser of the screen) to launch your Pictures Hub, save the overlay or share things via Facebook or Twitter as well every bit checking in with Foursquare. You tin sign into these services through Ciel's settings card which too includes the option to switch from Celsius and Fahrenheit.

If you lot choose to launch your Pictures Hub (the camera push button) you lot can choose an existing photo or launch the camera app to capture a new photo to utilise the overlay to. Whatever the option, you'll have to crop the image foursquare before the overlay tin be applied.

Ciel

Up to this betoken, Ciel works nicely. Just prior to the update that takes Ciel to version 1.nine, when you went to relieve the photo your get an error that prevents the photo from existence saved. The developers recognized this problem and pushed out an update that corrected the issues causing the errors preventing the app from saving images. I'm even so seeing an exception error when using the camera through Ciel just the images are captured, overlays applied and the terminate product can now be saved. The remaining error tin be a little frustrating merely it doesn't appear to effect the functionality of the app.

Ciel Sample

While the update makes Ciel usable, I have to scratch my head at the foursquare crop (thou x 1000). Why not take advantage of the total camera resolution? Or take the selection to crop your images costless-course?

It's nice to see the developer iron out the bugs with Ciel speedily. The end effect is that you now accept a simple photography app to let y'all overlay your weather condition, location or an assortment of lifestyle tags to your images. I can see it coming in handy if you want to ship a "wish you were hither" blazon photo to friends and family.

Ciel is a costless app for your Windows Phone 8 device that you can find here in the Windows Phone Shop.

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