Halftone – iOS App – Going Free This Weekend
Don’t miss this opportunity to grab Halftone for free from the App Store this weekend. It’s a great update and the price will go back to $0.99 after the weekend, so grab a bargain today and start making your own pulp action photos.
Check out the features below…
Halftone adds an aged halftone-style printing effect to photos to give them a unique, vintage look. With 21 paper styles, nine built-in layouts, two caption styles, six different speech balloon styles, and the ability to choose a font (including an embedded font called Digital Strip), photos can be customized, then saved to the photo album, sent via e-mail, shared with friends on Facebook and Twitter, and printed.
Features
• 21 paper styles, from crisp and clean to distressed and aged
• Two different caption styles, including one with a large initial character and a gradient background
• Six speech balloon styles
• Nine unique layouts, including layouts without any captions or borders
• The ability to use any installed font at Small, Medium, and Large sizes
• An additional licensed and embedded font called Digital Strip
• Support for front-facing camera
• Support for flash modes
• Support for camera zoom
• Support for tap to focus
• Photos are captured with the built-in camera, selected from the photo album, or pasted from the pasteboard
• Final Halftone images can be saved to the photo album, sent via e-mail, shared directly with friends on Facebook and Twitter, and printed
• Settings screen for more customization
• Ability to work with full size images
• Ability to automatically save camera images to the photo album
• Option to enable/disable blending of the original image
• Option to enable/disable pre-processing of the original image
• Control of halftone dot size, including the ability to turn them off
Free/Download
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter is a British photography journalist, editor, curator, and the founder of *TheAppWhisperer.com*, one of the world’s leading platforms dedicated to mobile photography and art. Since its launch in 2009, TheAppWhisperer has become an international hub for artists of all levels to discover, learn, exhibit, and engage with contemporary photographic practice.Built on principles of inclusivity, accessibility, and artistic excellence, Joanne has spent almost two decades championing mobile photography as a serious artistic medium. Through interviews, critical essays, exhibitions, competitions, and education, she has helped shape and document the evolution of mobile art on a global scale.Her work has taken her internationally, lecturing on photography and mobile art at institutions and events including the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea, alongside appearances in the UK and Europe. She has served as a juror for international photography and mobile art awards across Portugal, Canada, the United States, South Korea, Italy, and the UK.Joanne is also the founder of *TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com*, one of the first online galleries dedicated exclusively to collectible mobile art, connecting artists with collectors across Europe, the United States, and Asia.Before founding TheAppWhisperer, Joanne worked extensively in print journalism and photographic publishing, including roles at a paparazzi photo agency and as deputy editor of a leading photography magazine. Her freelance journalism, criticism, and commentary have been published widely in both the UK and the US, with bylines in *The Times*, *The Sunday Times*, *The Guardian*, *Popular Photography*, *NikonPro*, *DPReview*, *Which?*, *Vogue Italia*, *LensCulture*, the *BBC*, and more recently, the *Financial Times*, where her published letters on photography continue to contribute to wider conversations around the medium.Alongside her editorial and curatorial work, Joanne’s own photographic practice has been exhibited internationally across the UK, Europe, South Korea, and the United States. Her work increasingly explores themes of grief, loss, death, memory, and the body.Her current research interests centre on grief, death, and poverty, with forthcoming postgraduate study leading towards doctoral research in these areas.Joanne is currently developing new long-form writing and photographic projects and is available for commissions, editorial projects, speaking engagements, and collaborations.Contact: joannetheappwhisperer@gmail.com)
