[Ssc-dev] Movements.org "How To Use ObscuraCam"

[Nathan of Guardian]

Great post...

http://www.movements.org/how-to/entry/how-to-use-obscuracam/

The ability to instantly upload photos and video from mobile phones is
an invaluable tool for activists and citizen journalists. Today regular
people are able to report injustices to the rest of the world with the
click of a button. However- the ease with which photos and videos can be
shared from a mobile phone to social networking sites can also be
dangerous. Governments and extremist organizations are pouring over
YouTube and Facebook to identify people who are disobeying their orders
and this can often lead to jail time or death. ObscuraCam solves this
problem on Android-powered phones by being able to pixelate and alter
photos that you take with your phone.

Step 1.
>From the application homepage, select either a photo from your library
or take a photo within the app. Once you select the photo or take it,
the app will remove any location data, and camera make and phone
information that is associated with the photo.

Step 2.
The app then scans the picture automatically and searches for any faces
it detects. Once it is done, the user is able to make additional tags to
faces in the photo.

Step 3.
Once all the appropriate tags have been made, the user can now scroll
over a tagged person's face and select what kind of alteration they
would like to do. The options the offer are:

1. Edit: Select to scale and tag regions

2. Redact: Completely obscure a person's face by blacking out the tagged
region

3. Pixelate: Render the person unrecognizable by increasing the pixelation.

4. bgPixelate: Completely pixelate everything EXCEPT the tagged picture.

5. Mask: Select to 'gouge' the face by scratching it with colors.

6. Delete: Delete the current tagged region.

Step 4.
Once you are done editing the image, you can view a preview of the
picture by selecting from the app's main menu.

Step 5.
Select "Save" from the app's main menu to your phone's local memory.

Step 6.
You can choose to share the picture with any social networking sites
such as Twitter or Facebook that are on your phone already, as the app
does not have an option to directly share from itself. The altered
photos can be found in your phone's main photo album.



Use this QR Code to get the app now: