Add sound to your photos with Shuttersong for Windows 8.1, now 're-imagined'

Shuttersong for Windows 8

When it comes to media and social sharing, the book is still existence written on what people desire. Today, Shuttersong and Microsoft are announcing their newly redesign app for Windows 8.1. Shuttersong (www.shuttersong.com) is a costless service that lets y'all embed audio, such equally voice clips or music, directly into photos. Once completed, you lot can share those photos via e-mail or social networks like Facebook.

Shuttersong has been in an open, but placidity, public beta for a few weeks. The visitor though feels their app is gear up for prime-time, announcing today the full general availability of Shuttersong for all Windows viii.ane users.

The idea behind Shuttersong is simplicity. It is similar to creating a video just without the complicated edits. Sometimes, a unmarried photo, collage or drawing with some sound is enough to convey meaning – at least that is what the folks behind Shuttersong have confidence in. Despite being a limited beta, early on reviews in the Store provide the app high praise. The app itself is clean and minimalist, making recording and producing Shuttersongs easy. From this morning's press release:

"Shuttersong's Windows 8 app builds on the platform's strengths including system-wide gestures for playing music and sharing Shuttersongs. As a social and photograph app, the app's intuitive wordless design is positioned to thrive in Windows, where social content and sharing photos are key features of the operating system. In improver to the exceptional camera quality in Windows eight devices, Windows 8 users can also effortlessly admission their photograph library on their device or in the cloud, and easily create Shuttersongs from archived images."

Some of the features for Shuttersong include:

App design is so intuitive there are no words.
One tap to shoot photos and capture sounds.
Easy to grab music or sound effects from your music library and select upwards to a 15 2nd prune.
Shoot new photos or add sound to your existing photos (including ones created with other photograph apps) or images from the web.
With one tap, share with Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, VK and Reddit or via email and text. Many more global social networks will be added soon.
View Shuttersongs either in-the-app or on the web (even if you or a friend doesn't have the app).
Shuttersongs sent to you are immediately saved to your telephone.
Embed Shuttersongs into web pages or blog posts.

The app itself is well designed, though it remains to be seen if users follow. The app is also bachelor on iOS and the iPhone.

Windows Phone app on the manner too

Nosotros've spoken to a representative for Shuttersong and wecan confirm that an app for Windows Telephone 8.x devices is in the works besides. The timing for that release appears to coincide with the commencement update for Windows Telephone eight.i due in a few months. We'll of grade keep you abreast of any news when that happens.

For now, if y'all are on a Windows 8.1 tablet or PC, requite Shuttersong a download. It is complimentary, easy to use and it mayhap you lot can create a great memory to share with others (Tip: use #Shuttersong on Twitter). Let us know what you think most it in comments!

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