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iOS Photography – Halftone 2 Comic Creation App Adds 3D Perspective and Custom Shapes
Halftone 2, an Apple Editors’ Choice and App Store Best of 2013 winner, has added a new perspective feature that enables users to interactively tilt and rotate their graphic elements. The update also adds support for user-defined graphic shapes, making it easy to incorporate custom photos and artwork. “The new 3D perspective feature makes it easy to tilt captions, balloons, WHAMs, and BAMs to add more excitement and action,” says Mike Swanson, Founder of Juicy Bits. “Best of all, if you export an image using Halftone 2’s anaglyph format, you can put on a pair of red and cyan 3D glasses and see the shapes jump right out of the…
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Birth Photography – ‘The Growing Trend’
A very interesting article in The Guardian this morning by Rachel Holmes discusses the ‘growing trend’ of birth photography and birth photographers. I have to say that personally, it’s not something I wanted photographed per se although both my husband (Kevin Carter) and I always have one or more cameras with us, so it wasn’t something I was likely to avoid. Kevin only took a few images each time (3) and admits to feeling slightly ‘weird’ during the act, I was too focused on the job in hand to take a lot of notice. But as to whether I would hire a ‘stranger’ to photograph this very private moment is…
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SAMSUNG GALAXY S5 AVAILABLE TO PREORDER IN THE UK FROM 28 MARCH
Samsung Electronics has today announced that customers in the UK can pre-order the new Galaxy S5 from selected retailers, Samsung’s e-store and the Stratford Westfield Experience Store from Friday 28th March. The Galaxy S5 has an advanced camera, the fastest network connectivity, dedicated fitness tools and enhanced device protection features. With a 16 megapixel camera, the device also has the world’s fastest autofocus speed and advanced High Dynamic Range (HDR). The Galaxy S5 has the most advanced LTE experience and Wi-Fi performance available today, so you can enjoy blazing fast data speeds. Plus, for an even faster connection, the Galaxy S5 also features Download Booster, a Wi-Fi technology designed to…
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Tweeted Photos Printed at Walgreens or Delivered Direct from iPhone – We have Coupon Codes To Giveaway!
Leading photo printing app, Printicular, unveils a new way to print tweeted photos. The free app allows effortless printing of phone, Facebook, Instagram and now Twitter photos. Users can print their chosen photos direct from their iPhone or iPad to their local Walgreens or have them home delivered worldwide by Printicular. “Printicular lets you print your photos from wherever you store them, now including Twitter,” says MEA Mobile’s Managing Director Bruce Seymour “and by searching Twitter, users can print the photos of any Twitter user.” Printicular is also newly debuted on Windows Phone 8 and prints Facebook, Instagram and camera photos at Walgreens. The app is now available on every…
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Pencil by Fiftythree – Winners Announced
We are so pleased to announce the winners of our recent Pencil by Fiftythree stylus competition – if you missed the details of that, please go here. We asked readers to submit their wonderful creations to our Instagram section for this competition – #theappwhisperer_pencilcomp – we then explained that the two winning images that achieve the most likes will receive a Pencil by Fiftythree. We received some really fabulous entries and we send many congratulations to @viigge (Victor Sillanpaa) and @gericentonze (Geri Centonze) for their winning artwork. We will be in contact to obtain further details and the prizes will then be sent to you in due course. Thank you…
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Samsung GALAXY S5 : Official Hands On Video
The new Samsung GALAXY S5 with its modern design, vivid color options, advanced camera, fastest network connectivity, dedicated fitness tools and enhanced protection features, the new GALAXY S5 delivers what matters the most to users. This video below goes hands on to take you through the latest generation of the GALAXY S series. The Galaxy S5 goes on sale on April 11 in most of Samsung’s major territories, including the US and UK. The Samsung GALAXY S5 comes with a 16-megapixel sensor, some new modes and a reworked HDR function (compared to its predessor the S4). The camera sensor is 1/2.6inch – significantly larger than most. The autofocus is an…
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iOS Photography App – PicsPlay Pro – Temporary Price Drop
PicsPlay Pro is a popular photo editing app for your iOS device. It comes with over 200 filters and 10 themes. It’s a powerful editing app, usually it retails for $3.99/£2.99 but today you can pick it up for $0.99/£0.69. Click here to download.
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iOS Photography App – ProCam 2 – Temporarily Free
We’ve featured ProCam 2 many times on theappwhisperer, it’s a popular app, take a look here and you’ll see many tutorials. Usually ProCam 2 retails for $0.99/£0.69 but today you can pick it up for free. Just click here to download.
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Flickr Group Showcase – TheAppWhisperer (TAW) – March 9, 2014
We have just published this weeks’ Flickr Group Showcase and it’s one that is full of elegance, grace, style and emotion. We start with a fabulous image from Lorenka61 entitled ‘Broken Dreams’ and this sets the scene as we take you through some incredibly powerful portraiture. It then leads us deeper into some outstanding street photography, through to beautiful architecture and into some spectacular landscapes and seascapes. We then explore some fabulous still life images and end on a very spiritual note. We really hope you enjoy this journey today, it is a true pleasure to bring this to our readers every week. It embodies all that we strive for…
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Tickle Your Fancy – #28
Welcome back to our twenty eighth post in our new section ‘Tickle Your Fancy’. ‘Tickle Your Fancy’ includes a round-up of five links to articles from around the internet that have specifically interested us during the course of the week. Ones that we feel are relevant to your interest in photography and art. Just to explain the title for this section ‘Tickle Your Fancy’ is an English idiom and essentially means that something appeals to you and perhaps stimulates your imagination in an enthusiastic way, we felt it would make a great title for this new section of the site. We hope you enjoy this weeks’ selections… Should Photography…