Dramatic Black & White – New Mac App
JixiPix Software announced the release today of a Mac version of its top-selling Dramatic Black & White photo app. The Dramatic Black & White iPhone app was released August 22, 2011 and quickly reached the App Store’s top 100 best-seller list and the top 10 in the photography category. The new Mac version is introductory-priced at $5.99 and is upgraded with JixiPix ‘ellipse spotlight tool’ that enable users to bring focus and form to multiple sections of a photo.
JixiPix bills Dramatic Black & White as a ’21st century darkroom in an app.’
JixiPix Chief Engineer, says, "This app has been about a hundred and fifty years in the making, but contains the most modern, cutting-edge technology available today. The black and white photos it creates are phenomenal; classic black and white to HDR, it’s all there. And the addition of multiple ellipse spotlight tools in the Mac version gives Mac users a real leap up in creative ability."
Dramatic Black & White 1.0 is $7.99 USD/£4.99 (launch special of $5.99/£3.99 through 10/01/2011) (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide through the Mac App Store in the Photography category.
Dramatic Black & White comes loaded with 36 presets that deliver a wide variety of classic, infrared and dramatic black and white looks. Each preset allows customization to a range of parameters, including light, contrast, texture and form. Users can name and save their own custom presets, allowing an unlimited number of combinations. Edits immediately display onscreen while final high-resolution images are rendered at save. Created photos can be saved to numerous formats including JPEG, PNG, and TIFF.
System Requirements:
* Mac OS X 10.6 or later
* 30.2 MB
Joanne Carter
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]
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