Daily Photo App Digest – October 18, 2011
Latest photo apps and updates to hit the iTunes store today…
PhotoForge2
PhotoForge2 is the definitive photo manipulation software for iOS. Completely rewritten from the ground up, PhotoForge2 is a breakthrough for image editing on the go. Edit full resolution photos just like on your desktop.
This update now adds full iOS5 support as well as some minor changes and several bug fixes.
10 million users love Instagram! It’s a free, fun, and simple way to make and share gorgeous photos on your iPhone. This update includes fixes for original iPhone and iPhone 3G users.
QuadCamera – Multishot
Just pressing a button, QuadCam proceeds to take 4-8 serial shoots and create one image with 6 selectable effects. The popping sound of the shutter gives you a great feeling.
This update includes quick aid for iPhone 4S and iOS supports with an additional fix for iPhone 4S support.
Air Cam Live Video
Air Cam lets you view live video feed (and optionally, audio) from your iSight webcam (or any compatible external webcam) for Mac or Windows directly on your iOS device. Need to have a baby monitor or a nanny cam? Set up your iSight webcam in the baby’s bedroom, and remotely check up on your baby with your iOS device without stepping into the room.
This update fixes an audio issue.
FlickStackr for Flickr
FlickStackr brings Flickr photo sharing to the iPad. Designed from the ground up for the larger screen, it allows you to BROWSE photos in the Flickr universe. UPLOAD photos, and EDIT your photos’ metadata.
This update fixes various problems, as shown below;
-Fix problems with 500px authentication, especially using Facebook
- Fix handling of bad connectivity with 500px
- Fix German and Japanese localization for 500px
- Fix posting to Tumblr for 500px
piRAWnha
piRAWnha will help you get the most out of your raw images when you’re on the go or at home, no desktop or laptop needed. Simply import your raw images onto your iPad, edit them with piRAWnha, and share with the world.
This update includes compatibility with iOS 5, larger photo icons that preserve photo aspect ratio and include the photo’s date and filename, writes output files to a separate directory and minor bug fixes.
Qbro
A fabulous Instagram alternative with tons of features. This update includes iOS 5 compatibility and minor bug fixes.
iDarkroom
iDarkroom is a FAST, INTUITIVE, POWERFUL photo processing app. Whether you are professional photographer or not good at taking photo, iDarkroom will add amazing effects to your photos and make them unique and great.
This is a major update and includes the following changes:
● Reduce app size ( About 12M now )
● Adjusts the order of effects
● 3 new special effects ( Zoom Blur, Circular Blur, Old TV ) added
● Totally new frame effects with adjustable texture
● 5 new noise effects
● Gamma adjust function added
● New icons
● Faster processing speed
● Fixed bugs
● Other improvements
Private Photos and Videos: Media Stash
Stash is a private media organizer and slideshow viewer in one. This update inlcudes iOS 5 compatibility.
iAlbum Pro
iAlbum Pro is the professional edition of the popular iAlbum app. iAlbum Pro turns your iPad into a beautiful fully functional virtual photo album, complete with realistic page turns, album cover, linen pages, and photo corners. You flip through the photo album pages by swiping your finger across the page, stretch or shrink your photos by pinching them, and rotate photos by twisting them.
This update includes minor corrections.
Valise
Valise is a digital portfolio for photographers and other creative artists. Create your custom portfolio with ease, using the inbuilt customizable elements, or use your own custom designed cover. Pick multiple images to add to your portfolio from any album on your iPad. We will be adding the ability to add extra portfolios and other features in later versions.
This update includes iOS 5 compatibility, better landscape mode support, custom portrait and landscape covers now easier to use.
Instant110
Instant110 is a brand new photo app that takes toy camera and analog photo style pictures. You can take strange and beautiful pictures easily by using lenses, films and developers included in this app.
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]