I feel like i’m sometimes late to the party with content creation applications. It took me two years to sign up to Instagram, with me cursing missed opportunities as soon as I realised how great it is (find me @timlloydphoto). Pair Instagram with Twitter, and a large chunk of my social media presence is focused between the two.Storehouse is an IOS app that I had zero knowledge of until reading the blog of Vincent Laforet last week. Vincent is working in an advisory role for Storehouse, and is doing a pretty good job at getting the word out to photographers and other creatives to gain more of a community over on the app. Storehouse lets you construct a story in very little time directly from your iPhone or iPad’s camera roll. Simplicity and speed are two key features here allowing literally anyone to create a great little story feature with hardly any design skills required.Of course I wanted to try this out for myself, but was unsure about a subject for my first story. I try to keep my Instagram feed stocked with quality images that i produce for my work. With Storehouse though, I wanted to have a bit of fun for this first tryout. A friend of mine pointed out on Facebook that a lot of my recent images featured a dog.Dogs! exactly. What a perfect place to start.
To talk you through my workflow here, I made my way through my 2014 image library and dropped any dog images into a collection in Lightroom. I then synced this with Lightroom Mobile which sent the images over to my iPad. Then I simply sent the images from Lightroom Mobile to the Storehouse iPad app, dropped them in, changed the order and added some text and was good to go. Things can get even simpler if you have images on your iPad or iPhone camera role as you can upload them straight from that.What I’m liking most right now is that, despite the story being constructed on an IOS device, it looks great on a desktop computer. You really can drag and drop a collection of images and publish an amazing looking project/album/diary/drawings/videos etc in no time.I’m really looking forward to the community growing and seeing how this develops. Head over to the Storehouse website to check it out a little more, and take a look at my first story – “Dogs Life“
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