Camera Awesome Now Available For Android From SmugMug
SmugMug has launched the Android version of its super-popular app, Camera Awesome. The camera-boosting app enables users to capture, edit and share the perfect shot.
· With this launch, SmugMug also built some new Android-specific features like high-speed burst shooting mode, facial recognition and tracking, and selective filtering.
· The new app will have additional functionality on supported NVIDIA® Tegra® 4 devices through a new partnership between SmugMug and NVIDIA. Camera Awesome is pre-installed on NVIDIA’s Tegra Note, the platform for tablets such as the EVGA Tegra Note 7 and the ADVENT Vega Tegra Note 7.Today, SmugMug launched the Android version of its super-popular app, Camera Awesome. The camera-boosting app enables users to capture, edit and share the perfect shot.
· With this launch, SmugMug also built some new Android-specific features like high-speed burst shooting mode, facial recognition and tracking, and selective filtering (full list of new features below).
· The new app will have additional functionality on supported NVIDIA® Tegra® 4 devices through a new partnership between SmugMug and NVIDIA. Camera Awesome is pre-installed on NVIDIA’s Tegra Note, the platform for tablets such as the EVGA Tegra Note 7 and the ADVENT Vega Tegra Note 7.
“With 20 million+ Camera Awesome users on IOS, we received an overwhelming number of requests for an Android version” said Don MacAskill, CEO and Chief Geek of SmugMug. “We took advantage of Android-specific features–like greater access to camera controls–to help you capture great photos.”
Camera Awesome for Android works on the following:
* Samsung Galaxy SIII, S4, Galaxy Nexus, Note 2, Note 3 (UPDATE: Currently the Play Store is excluding some Galaxy SIII devices – the developers are working on a fix!) * Nexus 4, Nexus 7, Nexus 10, (Nexus 5 coming soon) * Sony Xperia Z, HTC One, MotoX, Motorola Droid Razr * Kindle Fire HDX 7″, 8.9″ coming soon to Amazon Apps
Click here to download Camera Awesome from the GooglePlay Store.
Android-Specific Features:
Camera Awesome for Android supports the following new and exclusive features:
• Shooting modes: includes high-speed burst, panorama, and HDR
• Anti-shake video mode: video image stabilization
• Face recognition and tracking: automatically identifies and tracks multiple faces in the shot to keep subjects in perfect focus
• ISO, White Balance, and Exposure: power users can choose among multiple white balance modes, exposure compensation values, and manually select ISO settings from 100 to 1600 to capture the perfect shot
• Resolution settings: shoot both photos and video in multiple resolutions
• Selective Editing: touch to add or erase which parts of the image have filter applied
• Sharing: in addition to sharing on Facebook, Twitter, Sinaweibo, Google+, Instagram, Photobucket, Picasa, Tumblr, YouTube and Flickr, users can now share to any other services via supporting apps installed on device
NVIDIA Tegra 4 Devices Get Special Power
The new app will have additional functionality on supported NVIDIA® Tegra® 4 devices through a new partnership between SmugMug and NVIDIA. Camera Awesome is pre-installed on NVIDIA’s Tegra Note, the platform for tablets such as the EVGA Tegra Note 7 and the ADVENT Vega Tegra Note 7.
Special features available on Tegra Note and other supported Tegra devices include:
• Always-On HDR (AOHDR): extends dynamic range by instantly capturing and combining high and low exposures – works with still, burst, panorama and HD video, so it can always be left on (Available with OTA update in December 2013.)
• Tap-to-track object tracking: select an item in the viewfinder and the camera will track and keep it in focus as shots are composed
• Slow-motion video: shoot great slow-motion video at up to 120 frames per second
• Pressure-sensitive stylus support: gives pin-point precision in Selective Edit mode (Available with OTA update in December 2013.)
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.
