Photo elicitation is a technique where a single or collection of photos (or other images such as paintings, cartoons, graffiti) can be used as a stimulus for conversation. Chris Thomson’s blog is an excellent resource for all things ‘Storytelling’. Original photos or those with a Creative Commons licence can be used equally as well in a digital story and in a previous post I shared how Lumen 5 can curate these into a video. It could also include taking photos of sketchnotes or creations using Lego, playdough or anything else you might choose to use! Digital stories might be shared for example via a blog or website, through social media or in an online discussion forum. It should be noted that there are also many free online tools to create comic style stories (see some examples in the list at the end of this post).ĭigital storytelling is way of using digital artefacts such as images, film or audio that can be shared digitally. This could be done by creating a storyboard using images taken with an iPhone camera and one of the filters to produce a comic style strip as a digital story. Now whilst you may not necessarily want to create a comic selfie, and given the emphasis on my hamster cheeks maybe I won’t be using this as my next profile picture however it did get me thinking it could be a fun way to engage in digital storytelling. The filter works using both the front-facing selfie camera and the rear camera which you use to take photos. Either way, the photo is saved to your iPhone’s camera roll.

Then tap the blue-arrow button to send it or Done button to add it to your text message and return to the Messages app.

Tap the shutter button to take a photo with your chosen filter.

The Messages app chooses the front-facing selfie camera by default, but you can select the rear-facing camera instead and keep the filter effect in place.

Then tap the X button to close the Filters drawer.Next, tap the red-green-blue Filters button and scroll to the right to find the five new photo filters.Tap the camera button to open the camera and then tap the spirograph-star button in the lower-left corner.Open the Messages app and start or reply to a conversation.How to access the comic book filter on an iPhone This is partially for my own benefit so I can come back to it but also to demonstrate that it is actually easy to do if you follow the steps. The downside is you can only use these filters within Messages, but you can save to your photos for reuse later.Ībove is an example of a photo of me taken using the Comic Mono filter. I was reading up on the updates that came with iOS12 on the iPhone and I discovered you can access some new photo filters: Comic Book, Comic Mono, Ink, Watercolour and Watercolour Mono.

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