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 is a British photographer, photography journalist, editor and curator and the founder and editorial director of TheAppWhisperer.com, an independent international photography publication established in 2009.Her journalism, criticism and commentary have appeared in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, BBC, Vogue Italia, LensCulture, Popular Photography, Android Magazine, NikonPro, DPReview, Which Digital Camera and Which Camera. She has lectured internationally on photography and mobile art, served as a juror for international photography awards, and exhibited her own photographic work across the UK, Europe, South Korea and the United States.Alongside her editorial work, Joanne's photographic and postgraduate research explores death, grief, memory, representation and social inequality through contemporary photography, participatory practice and visual research methods, with the longer-term aim of developing this work through doctoral research.Through TheAppWhisperer, she continues to publish independent photography journalism spanning contemporary photographic practice, mobile imaging, photographic apps, computational photography and emerging imaging technologies.Joanne is available for editorial commissions, photography projects, judging, curatorial work, speaking engagements, consultancy and selected collaborations.