iColorama for iPad – Updated
iColorama for iPad is a very popular app for mobile photographers and it has just been updated. It’s now possible to zoom and move the image while applying effects and masks by pressing the button with the hand. There’s also a minitutorial for masking. This is a free upgrade, if you have previously purchased this app. If not, you can do so here. It retails for $1.99/£1.49/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)
One Comment
Carolyn Hall Young
This is what I just posted on the app store about the update:
January 3, 2013:
I am placing my most current comment here at the top, the prior ones, in oldest to newer order, are below.
I am swooning! The masking brushes in iColorama for the iPad are absolutely elegant. Once again, iColorama has opened up a bigger world of possibilities, and the UI, though great before, is even better! New to this version is the ability to zoom in to refine my masking, and blending placements!
I still need Procreate for free form painting/drawing, skewing, smearing, and some of the layer blend modes, such as luminousity. I can now drop Image Blender from my tool box –iColorama’s many adjustable masking brushes with opacity sliders are light years better than any other app I have found. I will keep TouchRetouch for cloning and retouching minor details, and until I am more fluent in iC darkroom adjustments, Snapseed will remain in my bag of tricks. For sharing to a specific FB album at the highest resolution possible for Facebook, I will keep using Halftone. I love the borders, in iC, especially 4/5 & 5//5, but I continue to return to Photo Toaster for the torn edge frame. Soon enough, iColorama will offer these few things that I look for in other apps.
I am reeling with delight, because of the deliciousness and playfulness of iColorama. I am grateful for the brilliance of Teresa – who I don’t know in real life, but I have grown to love because of what her work has allowed me to do. I can achieve most of what I want without having to strategize while jumping back and forth between so many different art/photo apps. I can immerse more fully. What a joy!
Take your time, explore the power and possibilities, uncover surprises, and exercise your creativity in ways that will thrill you!
OLDER REVIEWS are below. With the 1/3/2013 update, you can feel free to multiply my praise exponentially:
I use this app, every day, for the sheer pleasure of discovery, and for its boundless creative possibilities. The app store description is an understatement of the capabilities of this program. The only way to understand the range of this app is to take the time to explore it.
I fully, completely, and without reservations, recommend iColorama. I downloaded the most recent update, this morning, and had to tear myself away from it, to write this review, out of gratitude.
I have worked In Photoshop, ever since it first appeared for the Mac, using it professionally, for both design and fine art. Move over, Photoshop. iColorama is a deep and rich experience. I am impressed by the elegance of the interface, the thoughtfulness of the developer, the originality of the effects, the abundance of tools for creating, enhancing, masking, layering, enriching, and expressing one’s own vision. The developer continues to upgrade, refine, and expand the features — my appreciation and surprise grows every day.
This is a truly excellent art and photography tool for a mature artist or a curious dabbler. If you care at all about the visual arts, buy iColorama, and watch your own creativity grow.