The project was developed by Joanna Yeo, Lim Jun Shan, Tan Kuan Rong and Heng Wei Jian, from the Diploma in Information Technology and supervised by Dr Eng Pin Kwang. The group was inspired to develop i-Shot as a system that would allows users to capture images and then overlay the images with their personal messages. The decorated images can then be emailed to the users, printed out in various formats, or sent to their handphones via Bluetooth or MMS.

The motivation behind i-Shot is to allow users to easily capture images of themselves (and/or their friends), creatively decorate the images with graphics and/or personal messages and conveniently send them through various channels.

While i-Shot has all the features found in conventional photo-sticker machines, it has the innovative additional delivery mechanisms of being able to send the images to the user’s handphone using Bluetooth or MMS. Not only that, the system could also send the images via email. Thus, the system not only promises the easy capturing of images with the click of a button, it also boasts powerful editing tools that enable the user to personalise the images. In addition, it provides the convenience and flexibility of sending the images via multiple representation and delivery formats: printout; email, Bluetooth and MMS.

i-Shot was also used during the IT Project Show to capture guests’ images to be printed on commemorative CD-ROMs that featured the showcased projects in the Show. This way, the guests went away happy with their personalised momentos of the event.