Cloudout

Cloudout is a small app for a small group of friends. Take a photo of a cloud. Put it in a frame — a circle, a square, a triangle, a star or a crescent. The frame stays big and still, like a picture frame; drag, pinch and turn your photo inside it until the cloud sits just right, or let it spill past the edges. Post it to your circle. That's the whole thing. MAKE IT YOURS Each shape carries a feeling — Calm, Steady, Restless, Hope, Heavy — and you can rename it to whatever your cloud meant. Fine-tune the frame to stretch or slant it. Choose the light and the line. Repaint the sky in the manner of Van Gogh, Monet, Turner or Hokusai. Add a few emoji, or write a word across the sky in the font and colour you like. TWO WAYS TO ANSWER, AND ANY OTHERS YOU WANT Friends reply with cloud for "I'm here" and eye for "I see you" — the two that started it — or any emoji they choose. There are no…