WriteOnIt turns pics into fake magazine covers

WriteOnIt is a simple service that lets you caption and manipulate uploaded photos. Just like BigHugeLabs' Flickr toys project (story), it can take uploaded photos and stick them into magazine covers. It can also slyly insert them onto coffee mugs, billboards, art easels, and fake mirrors within ready-made photos.

CNET's very own Caroline McCarthy gets a (fake) cover.

(Credit: CNET Networks)

You have very little control over the complicated bits, like transparency, placement, and cropping--which are all absent. However, with that simplicity you can very quickly put together something that both looks polished, and that could fool your viewer.

Of all the tools my favorite is the newspaper creator. You have five different periodicals to choose from including Time, Rolling Stone, and Wired. It'll take whatever photo you upload (up to 8MB) and stick it in the background. You can also change the headline and tagline underneath it, but that's the only other thing you can change.

Once you're done with any creation made on the site you can save it to your hard drive, or send it to a friend either by e-mail or through MySpace, Facebook, and Windows Live Spaces. There's also an option to publish it so that other WriteOnIt users can see it, which will put it into a bucket of recently uploaded photos and make it eligible for "battle" where users can vote on which result looks better.

(via BuzzFeed)

[CrashAndBurn79]

Ahahaha funny site and it's also one of the fastest in the field :) Nice find Josh

[Phoebe_s]

Nice find, thanks!

[gxtiou]

so many sites like this

[x10nd]

Another site to recommend would be Imagevat.com

[Gorafobik]

http://www.fakemagazinecover.com is another similar site.

[arthur4848]

I've found nice selections at www.fakemagazines.com

[davebryant500]

Although not free, take a look at http://www.mycoverpics.com who use a 'real person' (thats a novel idea - lol) design fake magazine covers.

There is also a gallery displaying examples of customers personalised magazine covers here: http://www.mycoverpics.com/gallery.html

One intersting point, legally speaking, many sites out there are flouting copyright laws with regard to interllectual property rights, they are slowly but surely being traced, prosecuted or shut down.

[davebryant500]

<a href="http://www.mycoverpics.com/gallery.html" target="_self">mycoverpics.com gallery</a>

[MaxFun]

Another great webware service to recommend is Funphotobox
http://download.cnet.com/FunPhotoBox/3000-2192_4-10911322.html?tag=mncol;lst

will be great to know your opinion about its quality of pictures.

[neo1896]

well i prefer http://www.magofun.com its a lot faster.