JixiPix announces a major new release of VintageScene for the Mac
2011-02-16/Comments Off on JixiPix announces a major new release of VintageScene for the Mac
JixiPix today is pleased to announce that its award winning retro photography application, VintageScene is now available for the Mac at the Mac App Store. VintageScene is the premier app for converting photographs into retro, aged, and vintage style effects.
Have you ever wondered the best way to take your modern pictures and make them look like they came from your parents or grandparents photo album? VintageScene is the premier app to make new photos look vintage, old school, retro, aged, faded, or weathered. VintageScene helps photographers stand out from the crowd by taking a regular photograph and turning it into a photo that looks like it was dug out of the attic or an old shoebox. No longer do photographers and enthusiasts need to have normal looking photos. Add a little style and pizzazz with a few taps of the finger.
VintageScene allows people to:
* Take total control over the age, fade, distress, weathering, and tint of their photos
* Emulate looks from the early 1800s all the way through current times
* Control age and color of photo
* Assign paper age and color
* Choose an overlay or border to accentuate the age of the photo and add interesting details
* Save presets for any custom designed look
* Randomize effect to get a unique look with one tap of a button
* Create an infinite number of combinations with over 60 built in presets
VintageScene has received numerous outstanding reviews and awards. People love the product, its ease of use, and the ability to created unlimited custom looks. And now that it is on Mac they are going to love it even more.
System Requirements:
* Mac OS X 10.6 or later
* 149 MB
Pricing and Availability:
VintageScene 1.0 is $7.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide through the Mac App Store in the Graphics & Design category. JixiPix is a developer of premier iPhone, iPad, and Mac photography and artistic apps. These include PhotoArtista – Oil, Sketch, Haiku, VintageScene, and Romantic Photo.
Joanne Carter, creator of the world’s most popular mobile photography and art website— TheAppWhisperer.com— TheAppWhisperer platform has been a pivotal cyberspace for mobile artists of all abilities to learn about, to explore, to celebrate and to share mobile artworks. Joanne’s compassion, inclusivity, and humility are hallmarks in all that she does, and is particularly evident in the platform she has built. In her words, “We all have the potential to remove ourselves from the centre of any circle and to expand a sphere of compassion outward; to include everyone interested in mobile art, ensuring every artist is within reach”, she has said.
Promotion of mobile artists and the art form as a primary medium in today’s art world, has become her life’s focus. She has presented lectures bolstering mobile artists and their art from as far away as the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea to closer to her home in the UK at Focus on Imaging. Her experience as a jurist for mobile art competitions includes: Portugal, Canada, US, S Korea, UK and Italy. And her travels pioneering the breadth of mobile art includes key events in: Frankfurt, Naples, Amalfi Coast, Paris, Brazil, London.
Pioneering the world’s first mobile art online gallery - TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com has extended her reach even further, shipping from London, UK to clients in the US, Europe and The Far East to a global group of collectors looking for exclusive art to hang in their homes and offices. The online gallery specialises in prints for discerning collectors of unique, previously unseen signed limited edition art.
Her journey towards becoming The App Whisperer, includes (but is not limited to) working for a paparazzi photo agency for several years and as a deputy editor for a photo print magazine. Her own freelance photographic journalistic work is also widely acclaimed. She has been published extensively both within the UK and the US in national and international titles. These include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Popular Photography & Imaging, dpreview, NikonPro, Which? and more recently with the BBC as a Contributor, Columnist at Vogue Italia and Contributing Editor at LensCulture. Her professional photography has also been widely exhibited throughout Europe, including Italy, Portugal and the UK.
She is currently writing several books, all related to mobile art and is always open to requests for new commissions for either writing or photography projects or a combination of both. Please contact her at: [email protected]