The latest cleverly named iPhone app, iMated, lets you quickly combine photos of two people to see what their love child would look like. It was created by three Minneapolis developers.

Just take a photo of two subject or browse for stored images. Center the images, following guides. And then mate ‘em up. The results will vary widely, as the app takes the two images and blends them in different ways. It can sometimes look really rough, like overlaying two images in Photoshop and spot-erasing one layer. You can keep reloading the image to get different looks. The best results come if you take the time to select images that have matching skin tones and the same background. For instance, imagine if George Clooney and Bea Arthur had gotten together, as I’ve done. (You never know — it could have been her dying wish.) You can save the combined image to your iPhone or iPod Touch, or e-mail it.

iMated goes for $1.99 through the iTunes App Store, a little high for what it does. It would totally be worth it if the program automatically adjusted the images to match the skin tones for a more seamless composite. But maybe that will be offered later. Nevertheless, it could be a lot of fun at a party in the right devilish hands.

iMated was created by Sevnthsin, PopLife and &Yustin.

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