Add A Moustache - stop looking like a mule my friend

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The original concept was simply to let people upload photos to a website and add moustaches to them. It was used by more than 300 people and some of the images where very fine indeed. With a strap line of "Stop looking like an ass and add a moustache" how could we possibly fail to attract fun loving people to our site?

Add Moustaches to your photos using this application

The site did allow you to add moustaches to photos, download the result, email it to friends and also produce a great looking printed card.

The idea was going to grow into being able to add specific items at specific times for specific things. So think along the lines of add santa hats and beards at Christmas. Wear some bunny ears at easter, or how about add a "Harry Potter" wizard hat and glasses for a fun photo. We'd also like to have seen it being used by charity sites such as Movember.

Fantastic images were loading into a public gallery which had an approval process so photos were not published automatically on the web.

Add Moustaches to photos website screenshot

This would be a great application for a business that sells comedy beards or fancy dress items with a try before you buy option. Or could be developed to produce printed cards like "moonpig.com".

Add Moustaches to photos print options to make a gift card

The project was a joint effort with myself and Ian from ThreeRooms.com design agency in Nottingham.

Source code is written in c#/dotnet v2 - it stores all the data in XML files so does not require a database. The current designs in the code were produced by ThreeRooms.com, so if you required more great designs then contact them for prices.

If you would like the project files then send me a post and I'll send it as soon as I can.

  • Contains working code with some example images

  • 10 designs to get you going including christmas set of images

  • Includes an administration screen so you can authorise gallery images

  • Advertisement links that can be replaced

  • c# / dotNet v2 / File based storage / XML controlling files

Comments

  1. Mark29 June 2011 at 23:56

    Please provide me with project files as I would like to investigate how I could use this project.

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