Sony Ericsson t610 and t68i
mobile phone
DRAWING AND PHOTO EDITORS

DRAWING ON A SONY ERICSSON T610 or t68i MOBILE PHONE

...And no, I'm not talking about the Sony Ericsson P990, which has a touch-screen and stylus.

This owl was drawn on my old Sony Ericsson T68i, with just the joystick and keypad. The drawing could be used as a message picture. The t68i saves drawings as monochrome wbmp files, which can be sent directly by SMS to older black and white phones. At least you don't need to tie yourself in knots converting to two colours, as you do when making tiny images on your desktop computer.

The Sony Ericsson t610 has a more sophisticated drawing pad than the t68i, with colour.

You'll probably use this mostly for editing photos taken with the phone's camera, but it can be used as a plain drawing pad.

You can also punch in small black and white images for sending in picture messages to WAP 2 phones.

You'll find the t610 editing pad easiest to use if you're a gamer as it needs a bit of fancywork with the thumbs. Playing around with it is a game in itself!

You can apply effects to both drawings and photographs taken with a t610 at small size. There's an impressive range of editing effects, including mosaic, tint, negative, emboss, frosted glass, contrast, ripple and brightness. You can input coloured lettering, useful for adding a greeting to a mms picture message. You can also shoot your original photos (at large or small size) with special effects of black-and-white, sepia or negative.

It's a pity these after-effects take quite a while to apply and frankly aren't very - well, effective. This is partly because they can only be applied to low quality pictures. Small sized pictures on the t610 are only 120 x 160 pixels. Even large photos are 288 x 352, which doesn't allow for high quality.

My Sony Ericsson t68i was upgraded to a t610, and I have had a Sony Ericsson K800 and P990i since then. But when I had my t68i, I made a couple of rough pictures you might find useful.

This is the sony Ericsson t68i drawing pad.

Below are few hints on using the T68i keypad to control the tools.

To move the pen, you can either use the joystick or nudge with the keys in the direction of the purple arrows.

The centre key puts the pen to paper or lifts it up to move it somewhere else. You can choose to draw or move 1, 5 or 10 pixels at a time in the direction of the joystick or purple arrow keys.