HLiiC Cam

Before photography was common, a profile was how many people kept a likeness. Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century silhouettists worked by eye with a pair of scissors, cutting a face in profile from black paper, laying it on a pale ground and setting it in a small frame. Another path led to color. In a lecture in London in 1861, James Clerk Maxwell took three black-and-white pictures made through red, green and blue liquid filters, projected each through its own colored lantern onto one screen, and the colors of a tartan ribbon returned. HLiiC Cam brings both of these early imaging methods to the phone, as two cameras. Profile Studio Point the camera at a face in profile and the viewfinder shows the silhouette live. Press the shutter and the full silhouette is kept in the app's own album, exactly as framed, never cropped for you. Then swipe through the style page to give the same outline…