Create postcards with works from the Prado Museum with this app
Photographs are the witness of an event, a place or a situation in which we have been. Before that there were pictures And with today's technology it is possible to put it all together to enjoy an interactive, social and cultural experience This has been demonstrated by the Museo del Prado in collaboration with Samsung , who have developed an application designed to create postcards in which both the main works of art from this art gallery appear , like the users themselves who are visiting it.A fun way to record your visit to the Museo del Prado, but by participating and starring in your own postcards. Of course, all this in the virtual world.
This is the application Photo Prado A tool available for the main platforms of smartphones that allows you to create personal postcards in which the user, alone or with a group of people, is photographed together with one of the 50 key works of this museum With this it is possible to immortalize the visit with a very personal touch and in situations that, otherwise, could not occur. To do this, this simple application takes advantage of augmented reality technology, readjusting and resizing famous works to be captured together with a group of people at three special points along the route of this museum Points where a connection has been activated Free WiFi with which to download the application, and where a keycode has been printed that allows the application to place any artwork on the wall.
Just start Photo Prado and choose among the 50 paintings from the Permanent Collection such as Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights, Fra Angelico's Annunciation, Las Meninas or Velázquez's Lances After that, the application activates the main camera of the terminal to point towards the wall code, where Photo Prado places the painting. This is just a small sample, allowing the user to adjust the size of the box to get it to fit in with the rest of the frame. When everything is in place, including the people who will appear in the photo, all that remains is to capture the moment as a normal photo
This results in an image of a person or a group along with a representative work that otherwise could not be portrayed .All this without importing the space or the real size of the frame, since the framing is customizable Something that can give rise to all kinds of funny postcards, to remember or to remember someone. And it is that another important point of Photo Prado is to share the final result through the social networksQuestion that, without a doubt, will be able to give a lot of play, especially with the most creative and original users.
In short, a fun cultural tool that, as a negative point, it could only be said that it does not have a mode for selfies or selfies The good thing is that it is available in 13 languages for both Android and iOS In addition, is available for full download for free via Google Playand App Store
