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Article – A Toys Story or Finding Loki By Benamon Tame
Benamon Tame has written a first class article here, looking at an image he originally captured with his iPhone 3G in 2010. He recently revisited this image and with the current crop of mobile photography apps, he takes us through the process of creating some incredible creative art from it. Don’t miss this (foreword by Joanne Carter). ‘A Toys Story or Finding Loki… (and that will be the last Disney reference!) This is a story about a grown man and dolls, not actually as dodgy as it might read, although the finished pieces end up a little more dodgy, just a different sort. This is really more a story…
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APPart – Creating Outstanding Art With Image Blender
It’s Saturday again, phew that went quick and that means that it’s time for Mel Harrison’s column – APPart. Mel’s Column APPart focuses on digital art and collage images. Mel will be incorporating different ‘mainstream’ editing apps to inspire you to try some APPart of your own. (Foreword by Joanne Carter). ‘This week I am talking about how I use Image Blender. I won’t be doing an indepth review of Image Blender but I do hope you can take away something from my process. Image Blender is a really important tool to my art, some of my images can have up to 30 steps along the way and…
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Alt Photo – Updated
Alt Photo is a popular app for iPhone photography and one that we know is a particular favorite of our Columnist Catherine Restivo, in fact, Catherine used this app in her most recent Column known as ‘parallel ll perspectives‘ with JQ Gaines. If you missed that you can view it here. This new update improves workflow for browsing and importing photos. Burst mode allows you to keep shooting with pausing to edit. Cropping has been included in this update along with user interface improvements and the added facility to automatically save to the camera roll when sharing. This is a free update, if you have previously downloaded this app. If…
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Strum – New Music Video App – From Smule
Strum is a brand new app from Smule Inc, it allows you to transform simple videos into filtered films with vignettes, viral vids or holiday greetings. There are also advanced audio filters that automatically compose music to match your video and there are over 20 different visual and audio styles from simple background melodies to outrageous remixes. It comes from the Smule stable and is free and also comes with a free Stone filter for a limited time (that’s a saving of $2.99/£1.99). Click here to give it a try.
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Fotoable – Temporarily Free
Fotoable is an app to help you organize your images within your iPhone. It’s currently free, usually it retails for $0.99/£0.69. Click here to download.
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Jennifer Bracewell Joins The App Whisperer As A New Columnist
We’re delighted to welcome Jennifer Bracewell as a new Columnist to theappwhisperer.com. We have featured Jennifer many times on theappwhisperer, from our A Day In the Life of Interview, to an iPhone Tutorial and our A Picture’s Worth section too. Jennifer Bracewell is a native of the San Francisco Bay Area. She is a mother, an avid mobile photographer and a music lover with her own personal zoo of very loved pets. Her images have been featured on many websites and blogs as well as in print for publications such as the Sydney Morning Herald. She has also had her work shown in galleries world-wide in venues such as Mobilepixelation…
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Photographer Daniel Berehulak Uses 645 PRO To Capture Stunning Shots of Kabul
The Daily Mail newspaper in the UK, has just published a great story entitled ‘Welcome to Kabul: Panoramic Postcards From The War-Torn City Circled By Mountains (and some of them make you want to vist). In essence, photographer Daniel Berehulak visited this incredibly ravaged city to capture some spectacular panoramic images using only his iPhone and app 645 PRO. The images are stunning, to read the post in full and to see all the images, please do to the dailymail here. If you haven’t tried 645 PRO we would strongly recommend it. It retails for $2.99/£1.99.
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Appstrax – ‘A Meeting With The Bungie Boys’ – By Rudy Vogel
We are so delighted to publish the latest article by our very own ‘Renaissance Man’, Rudy Vogel, for his own unique Appstrax Column with us. In this article Rudy takes us into the abyss and explores the wonderful creative world of abstract art and uses one of his outstanding images and definitely a personal favorite of mine ‘The Bungie Boys Invade Kartoonid’ to express this in his characteristic wonderful and unique way. Over to you Rudy… (foreword by Joanne Carter). ‘Having cut my teeth with you the readership in my last column, I am now ready to take a plunge into the abyss with you the reader. The abyss…
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Gray’s Anatomy – Easy To Laugh
I can hardly believe that it’s Friday again, but it is and it seems to come round faster every week. Richard Gray has sent through his regular Friday post for his column ‘Gray’s Anatomy’. This week Richard discusses the influx of images uploaded to Instragam and considers whether quantity is really any match for quality. Over to you Richard (Foreword by Joanne Carter). “You may have already seen the hilarious youtube sensation (no not Gangham style) to poke fun at some of the cliched images and lack of originality on Instagram. Set to Nickelback’s Photograph song, if you haven’t, click here, you’ll see it, in all its mocking glory,…
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iColorama S – (for iPad) – Our Daily App Giveaway
Welcome once again to our Daily App Giveaway section of theappwhisperer. We value our readers so much and that’s why we want to share our love of apps with you. Each day we give away free apps, better make us your home page 😉 Today, we’re giving away iColorama S apps, each worth $1.99/£1.49. iColorama S is an incredibly popular app for mobile photography and one that we often mention. The image below was created by Fernando Prats in our A Day in the Life Interview and he used iColorama S within that incredible creation. Would you like to try it for free? Join our ever expanding Twitter followers and…