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Mobile Photography/Art Competition – FIPA/TheAppWhisperer Special Award – ‘Gates of Paradise’ – How To Enter
I’m very excited about this wonderful competition, the NEM Florence International Photography Awards (FIPA), of which TheAppWhisperer has been very generously given a special section. The theme is ‘Gates of Paradise’ I selected this theme to honour the gilded bronze doors of Florence’s Baptistery of San Giovanni and as inspiration for all mobile artists to create a magnificent work of art; not depicting the literal ‘Gates of Paradise’ but to portray, what the ‘Gates of Paradise’ represent to you. Think widely a place of contentment, a garden, being with a loved one, a tranquil location to retreat in times of stress. One question I’ve been asked quite a lot recently…
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Pixelmator – Mac Photography Software – Giveaway – Worth $29.95/£22.95
At TheAppWhisperer.com we focus on mobile photography and mobile art but we also love to giveaway related products of interest to our readers. These include digital books, printed books, smartphones (yes we give these away), hardware and iOS apps. Today, the developers of Pixelmator for Mac have updated their app. It now has support for the new Photos app, pressure sensitive painting on MacBooks with the Force Touch trackpad, and up to 5 times faster Repair tool. You can follow the link here, to view a video of the new Repair Tool in action. Pixelmator for Mac retails for $29.95/£22.95 and we have promotional codes to share with you. If…
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Mobile Photography Tutorial – Snapseed 2.0 in Depth: Part 2 (Filters) – TheAppWhisperer
We are delighted to publish Part 2 of a new three part series with the upgraded Snapseed app tested by Jerry Jobe. This is an extensive tutorial and series and we are sure you are all going to enjoy this. Previously we have published an overview video of Snapseed (here) and you can find Part 1 of this series (here). (Foreword by Joanne Carter). “Even with the controversial elimination of the Grunge filter, Snapseed 2.0 contains many filter options to take your image beyond a naturalistic representation of what was captured. There are 11 of them, in fact, so we’ve got a lot to cover. Let’s go!”
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Mobile Photography/Art – Pic of the Day (88) – via Instagram – TheAppWhisperer
Here’s day eighty eight of our new Pic of the Day section via Instagram. Each day we will be selecting one image a day for our Pic of the Day section on Instagram with this hashtag – #theappwhisperer. Furthermore, each month we will also offer an overall prize to the image that receives the most love. To ensure your image receives our attention, please upload it to Instagram with this hashtag – #theappwhisperer Today, we congratulate @marietteschrijver with this wonderful image “Minna“ Please also check out her Instagram feed, it’s full of inspiring images.
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APPart – Mobile Art – Pantone Color of the Day – ‘Deep Periwinkle’ – TheAppWhisperer
Many of you have already seen our new segment to our APPart column here at TheAppWhisperer, edited by Bobbi McMurry. We would like to inspire all mobile artists to create one image a day using the selected colour of Pantone’s ‘Color of the Day’ – see here (we will announce the colour each day). As well a ‘Color of the Day’, Pantone also link that colour with adjectives and/or nouns. For your information Pantone’s ‘Color of the Day’ was originally created by renowned astrologer Michele Bernhardt – you can read more about her here. Today’s ‘Color of the Day’ Deep Periwinkle (17-3932) and the accompanying descriptives are ‘Instinctive, Stylish…
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Mobile Photography – Portrait of an Artist – Twelfth Video Showcase – TheAppWhisperer
Welcome to our twelfth Portrait of an Artist Showcase! This Showcase complements our Portrait of an Artist Column edited by Jennifer Bracewell. Every two weeks Jennifer will review and curate work that has been submitted to our dedicated Flickr group. In addition, to creating a showcase video which features a sampling of submitted work, we will also highlight a few images that have caught our attention… offering some thoughtful commentary about technique, composition and subject matter. If you are not a member of our Facebook group… we highly recommend that you join us! This is our space for sharing newsworthy information and conducting discussions (what, when, where, why and how) regarding…
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TheAppWhisperer – Mobile Photography – Portrait of an Artist Interview with Cathrine Halsor
We are delighted to publish our twelfth Portrait of an Artist interview to this special column within TheAppWhisperer, edited by Jennifer Bracewell. This week Jennifer has interviewed Cathrine Halsor an alluring and intriguing mobile portraiture photographer, you’ll love this. (foreword by Joanne Carter). We also have a dedicated Facebook group set up for this Column too for chat and discussion – please join us here, Jennifer regularly adds and contributes to this. In addition we have set up a Flickr Group dedicated also to this column. We would like you to send all your mobile portraiture images here and we will curate and create showcases of this group. Please go…
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APPart – Mobile Art – Pantone Color of the Day – Winner Announced – 28 April 2015
Huge congratulations to our APPart Color of the Day with Pantone Daily Challenge winner. The Color of the Day was Easter Egg (16-3925) with the adjectives and nouns, ‘Verbally Strong, Striking and Motivated’. We feel that @rubyredream – Lisa Peters has captured the essence of these with this wonderful ‘I am the wind, please check out her Instagram account, it’s fabulous. Today’s ‘Color of the Day’ North Sea (18-5115) and the accompanying descriptives are ‘Leader, Idealistic and Visonary’. So, we would like to see your creations using this colour in combination with those words, if possible. It’s a challenge after all! To take part in this challenge, please create an image…
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Mobile Photography/Art – Pic of the Day (87) – via Instagram – TheAppWhisperer
Here’s day eighty seven of our new Pic of the Day section via Instagram. Each day we will be selecting one image a day for our Pic of the Day section on Instagram with this hashtag – #theappwhisperer. Furthermore, each month we will also offer an overall prize to the image that receives the most love. To ensure your image receives our attention, please upload it to Instagram with this hashtag – #theappwhisperer Today, we congratulate @trishg61 with this wonderful image “Where is my mind“ Please also check out her Instagram feed, it’s full of inspiring images.
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APPart – Mobile Art – Pantone Color of the Day – ‘North Sea’ – TheAppWhisperer
Many of you have already seen our new segment to our APPart column here at TheAppWhisperer, edited by Bobbi McMurry. We would like to inspire all mobile artists to create one image a day using the selected colour of Pantone’s ‘Color of the Day’ – see here (we will announce the colour each day). As well a ‘Color of the Day’, Pantone also link that colour with adjectives and/or nouns. For your information Pantone’s ‘Color of the Day’ was originally created by renowned astrologer Michele Bernhardt – you can read more about her here. Today’s ‘Color of the Day’ North Sea (18-5115) and the accompanying descriptives are ‘Leader, Idealistic…