App Detail » Ducks!

What's New

+ This app is now fully optimized for the new iPhone 5. The app takes full advantage of the enlarged iPhone 5 screen size, and takes into account the new safe areas of this device when making wallpaper.

+ You can now stretch and expand pictures, both in 4-up and 1-up.

+ Added 4-up slide shows.

+ The help file has been expanded and improved.

App Description

Why a duck app? They are so common, right? Common yes, some are common, but some are rare and they can all be quite amazing. Here you'll see one of the most beautiful and rare birds in the world, the Mandarin duck. You'll see him swim, sleep, preen, and float at sunset. You'll see his glorious colors and shape with a clarity and brilliance rarely shown, due to the exceptional equipment used to capture the images. You'll also see a Mallard doing Tai Chi, if you can imagine that, and diving ducks mid-dive, and expressiveness you'd not expect from these quakers.

Species included in the now 164 photos of this app are as follows:

• American Wigeon
• Bufflehead*
• Canvasback*
• Cinnamon Teal
• Fulvous Whistling Duck
• Goldeneye*
• Greater Scaup*
• Green-winged Teal
• Hooded Merganser
• Lesser Scaup*
• Mallard
• Mandarin
• Redhead*
• Ring-necked Duck*
• Ruddy Duck*
• Ruddy Shelduck
• Surf Scoter*
• Northern Pintail
• Northern Shoveler*
• Wood Duck

Stunning water reflections that create lovely abstract backgrounds add to the beauty of these photographs.

The photographs are all in full iPad Retina display resolution. These images will exquisitely reveal the resolving power of your Retina displays, and make crisp wallpaper for your devices' lock and home screens. The app itself has been fully upgraded for Retina iPad and iPhone 5 compatibility.

NEW: You can now send physical postcards from within this app to anyone anywhere in the world*. The picture you choose (from this app or from your own Photos library) will be on the front of the postcard. You enter a message and recipient address, and the postcard is printed and mailed.

This app can entertain in several ways. It's fun to flip through its 4-up browsing screens, and to watch 4-up or 1-up slideshows. Try stretching the images to fill their quadrant (4-up) or screen (1-up), both in portrait and in landscape orientation. Be sure to enjoy the tap-able animation on the horizontal home screen (iPhone 5 only). And do search through to find and make your favorite wallpaper images. This app can also produce lovely wallpaper for your devices.

An exclusive feature of all Pixels By Paul apps is their ability to size wallpaper to fit within wallpaper safe areas. Safe areas are the central areas in the Lock and Home Screens that are not blocked by the status bar, date/time bar, unlock slider, and dock. With our apps, you can fit pictures to safe areas while keeping their original aspect (the ratio of height to width is maintained), or you can stretch or squeeze them to completely fill the safe areas.

Stretched images have a reflection at the bottom, so that they fade smoothly behind the bottom controls. You can also wrap images, as in a gallery wrap print. Wrapped images keep their aspect ratio (remain un-stretched), but any surrounding black bars (used to keep the image in the safe area) are filled in with reflections of the image.

You can make such safe area wallpapers from the pictures in this app, and you can do this with your own pictures.

This app requires no internet connection (except for sending postcards) to run. Everything you need is included inside this application. And it's a universal app! Run it on your iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch, all for one low price.

A pictorial help file is included, with usage tips and disclosure of hidden features.

You can order large prints of these photos, unmounted or mounted, at discounted prices.

This app requires iOS 4.3 or higher.

App Changes

• June 12, 2014 Initial release