The great comic creator App, Halftone, is this week’s Starbucks Pick Of The Week.

And, if you don’t live near a Starbucks store, I have three promo codes available- on a first-come, first-served basis – at the end of this article with some polite stipulations. 🙂

This is such a fantastic app and, obviously, if you love creating comic-styled pictures, journals or books, this is the app for you.

This is a Universal App and will work on the iPod Touch, iPhone and iPad

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The developers of the app, Juicy Bits Software, issued this press release:

Selected by Apple as one of the best Photo & Video apps in App Store Rewind 2011, the iPhone and iPad APP OF THE WEEK in Canada, and the iPad APP OF THE WEEK in the UK.

Featured in the “New and Noteworthy” and “What’s Hot” sections of the App Store. Over 1 million downloads! Thank you to all of our users for your great feature suggestions.

Halftone turns your photos into unique, vintage comics that friends and family will love! More than a simple “photo filter” app, Halftone makes it easy to add paper styles, captions, speech balloons, graphic stamps, and fonts (including built-in comic fonts). Your final image can be sent via e-mail, uploaded directly to Facebook, Twitter, Dropbox, and Flickr, shared with apps like Instagram, Camera+, and Color Splash, printed, and even sent as a real, physical postcard through the mail!

The minute you download the App, you have the option to watch the video (featured above) or to just delve into the creative process through personal discovery.

I elected to watch the video for the purpose of this blog topic and, I have to say, this is a very intuitive App that is packed with features galore:

Universal app that runs on iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch

Open images directly from Facebook, Flickr, and Instagram

Send real, physical postcards through the mail

iOS 5 face detection for automatic balloon placement

Tight integration with Camera+ for improved image capture

Upload images directly to Dropbox

Save final images to the photo album, print them, or send them to friends via Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and e-mail

Share images with apps like Instagram, Camera+, Color Splash, and many more

Full size image editing, including: auto enhance, special effects, cropping, rotation, brightness, contrast, saturation, sharpness, redeye, whiten, and blemish

More than 25 paper styles, from crisp and clean to distressed and aged

Multiple caption styles

Six speech and thought balloon shapes

More than 25 stamps (BLAM!, Arrrggh!, etc.) with customizable colors

Nine unique layouts, including layouts without any captions or borders

The ability to use any installed font at Small, Medium, and Large sizes

Three licensed fonts: Digital Strip, Alter Ego, and Billy the Flying Robot

Two of the licensed fonts include international characters (Alter Ego and Billy the Flying Robot)

Support for a front-facing camera, flash modes, zoom, and tap-to-focus

Settings screen for lots of additional customization, including halftone dot size, strength, and gain

Support for full size images

Along the way, you will be shown options to purchase additional features if you wish but, for 99 cents, this App packs a super playground for comic enthusiasts.

As I previously stated, the kind folks at Juicy Bits have given me three free download codes for Halftone.

All I ask is that you comment, letting me know which code you used.

Also, a Twitter follow @granniethegeek would be doubly appreciated.

To stay current with the innovative apps coming from Juicy Bits, you can follow the Juicy Bits Development Team on Twitter @juicybits.

And now – tada – the download codes are as follows:

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