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App Review: Real Cover

    Hey, everyone. Am I having fun today? I guess. As you know, my favorite picture is this goofy deer which I caught on camera. The flash made him go cross-eyed. Well, I like it. The first thing I do with any new photo app is try it on this picture.
     Real Cover is a great app. It works great and it's fun for older kids like myself. What you do is this. You pick a magazine cover out of several dozen. Then you pick a photo from your library, or elsewhere, to go on the front, like my friend above. Then you can put a headline on the cover, such as "Cross-eyed deer caught eating CE Wills' corn last night!" You have the ability to make the font larger or smaller and change the text color. You can also add the pics to Facebook and other places, including email, from within the app.
     So this app was on sale this morning for free, which is a great sale. There is a lite version, which is always free, by the way.
     Guess what? I put my wife's picture on the cover of a fashion magazine. Although I was having a huge time, she was not amused. Then I found an old photo from the beach. I was wearing blue speedos and a button-up blue shirt. I had been cutting up that day, pulling my shirt back like a model being photographed. It looked pretty silly and far from macho. So I took this photo and put it on the front of Marie Claire. I am about to laugh my butt off as we are going to bed. My wife is shaking her head as we lay down.
   "How can you possibly have that much fun over playing with pictures on an I-Pad? I wish I could have a good laugh that easily."
     I got up after a while and took a picture of myself and put it on the cover of GQ. The pic shows me in a closeup. I have shades on, a scroungy beard and a dumb smile. Grey hair, all that unflattering stuff. I put a caption on it in this beautiful green cursive. Is CE Wills the best blogger in America? It turned out really cool. So cool that I decided to wake my wife and show her. Halfway down the hall I came to my senses and stopped. So I settled for making it the screensaver on the PC. It was a close call between myself and the cross-eyed deer, though. You really need this app.
    From GQ's Man Of The Year and current cover model for Marie Claire, I'm CE Wills.
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