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ShakeItPhoto.com showcases several photos with the Polaroid-esque look the app gives them.

One of funnest and useful iPhone apps I have been waiting months for finally became available last week—Shake It Photo. The app has one single purpose—to turn a regular photo taken with your iPhone into a Polaroid-esque snapshot Available in the iTunes store for 99 cents, ShakeItPhoto has replaced the default camera app for me. It provides pictures with over-saturated colors with various tints. Half the fun is shaking your iPhone to get the photo to develop quicker. It’s a great initial release but I would recommend some improvements:

• Bug fixes: One major bug occurs when the Polaroid-esque process begins. Sometimes as soon as I hear the photo-ejection sound, the app crashes and I’ve lost the photo. I currently have firmware 2.2 on a jailbroken 8GB iPhone 3G, so it could be firmware related.
• Added Features:
  • Polaroid frame during live-view—This would be a great addition so you can tell exactly what will show up in the end result. Portrait-oriented shots are pretty easy to guess, but landscape-oriented photos can leave you guessing as to what will actually show in the final image.
  • Sharing options—The ability to email, use as lockscreen wallpaper, or post to social networks (Twitter, Flickr, etc.) would be a great option. Creator Nick Campbell has a posterous.com blog where he has been posting ShakeItPhoto pictures for months now. Adding this kind of option into the app would be great.
  • Polaroid old photos—A great feature would allow the user to chose an existing photo and add the Polaroid effect to it.

Overall, a great initial release that you’ll enjoy. Do yourself a favor and pick up ShakeItPhoto today.