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Hints & Tips For Entering The Lumen Prize Competiton
Thinking about entering your digital art into The Lumen Prize Exhibition, but want a little guidance? Read on for some handy tips… STILL IMAGES For example an iPad painting, digital collage, photo-manipulation, glitch/fractal art or similar • The formats we accept are JPG and PNG only. • The file size of your image cannot be more than 1MB. • Please note that if your work is based on digital photography, you must have used an app or computer software programme as part of your creative process. If you are unsure about whether your work qualifies, please contact info@lumenprize.com MOVING IMAGE & TIME-BASED WORK For example animation or video • Work…
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‘Impossible’ Article with Brenda Vaiani’s Head and Hands
We’re delighted to be working closer with The Impossible Project team as we continue to branch out and expand our reach with all things related to mobile photography. Analog post-processing of mobile images is becoming more and more popular and we’re going to make sure our readers are fully briefed on this very exciting development. The Impossible Project is in many ways leading the way, but there is also a growing community of mobile artists and photographers experimenting with other analog post processing techniques in an attempt to make their mobile images stand out even more, in galleries, magazines and the like and we have viewed some outstanding images and…
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Instagram Introduces New Creative Tools
Instagram have brought a set of new creative tools to Instagram with the ability to adjust brightness, contrast, saturation, warmth and more. When you select a filter, you’ll now see a new wrench icon. Tap it and you’ll find a tray of photo editing tools ready for you to explore. You can also adjust how much of a filter you apply to a photo by double tapping the filter icon. Instagram for iOS version 6.0 is now available in Apple’s App Store, and Instagram for Android version 6.0 is available on Google Play.
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iOS Photography Tutorial – PhotoCopier – ‘Emulating the Masters’ By Jerry Jobe
We are delighted to publish our latest iOS Photography Tutorial by Jerry Jobe. This week Jerry puts PhotoCopier through its paces and creates some very pleasing results. Don’t miss this, over to you Jerry (foreword by Joanne Carter). PhotoCopier retails for $0.99/£0.69 and you can download it here. “Last week I covered PicGrunger, an app that always makes a big impression. By that I mean that the effects were strong and not easily modified. But adding texture to an image is not always best achieved by scarring the image with a lot of grunge. PhotoCopier, by Digital Film Tools, is an app that gives your images the look of…
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iOS Photography App – Dramatic Black & White – Updated
Dramatic Black & White is a very popular app for many iOS photographers. It’s received an update today with a all new UI with the added ability to Pinch and Zoom along with sliding tabs for quick access, easy share menu and faster rendering. This is a free update, if you have previously downloaded this app. If not, you can download it here. It retails for $1.99/£1.49/download.
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Portrait of an Artist Interview with Rob DePaolo by Jennifer Bracewell
We are delighted to publish our fourth Portrait of an Artist interview to this very special column, edited by Jennifer Bracewell. This week Jennifer has interviewed Rob DePaolo and has created a really fabulous and interesting read with stunning imagery. (We also have a dedicated Facebook group set up for this Column too – please join us here. Jennifer regularly adds and contributes to this. In addition we have set up a Flickr Group dedicated to this column. We would like you to send all your portraiture here and we will select images for curation and showcases as well as commentary – this is the Flickr Group link). Don’t miss…
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Processing Your Mobile Images To Physical TinTypes and Ambrotypes – The Easy Way
As many of our regular readers will be aware, we have been looking at alternative post processing of mobile images for sometime. Most notably with the Impossible PhotoLab, you can read our Impossible articles here. The Impossible Project is in many ways leading the way, but there is also a growing community of mobile artists and photographers experimenting with other analog post processing techniques in an attempt to make their mobile images stand out even more, in galleries, magazines and the like and we have viewed some outstanding images and techniques. A good deal of my formal photographic training (many years ago) was spent in a huge college darkroom and…
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New For Apple Developers – Introducing Swift
Swift is a new programming language for creating iOS and OS X apps. Swift builds on the best of C and Objective-C, without the constraints of C compatibility. Swift adopts safe programming patterns and adds modern features to make programming easier, more flexible, and more fun. Swift’s clean slate, backed by the mature and much-loved Cocoa and Cocoa Touch frameworks, is an opportunity to reimagine how software development works. “Swift has been years in the making. Apple laid the foundation for Swift by advancing our existing compiler, debugger, and framework infrastructure. We simplified memory management with Automatic Reference Counting (ARC). Our framework stack, built on the solid base of Foundation…
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Apple Releases iOS 8 SDK With Over 4,000 New APIs
Apple has released its iOS 8 SDK, the biggest developer release ever with more than 4,000 new APIs, giving developers the ability to create amazing new apps like never before. iOS 8 allows developers to further customize the user experience with major extensibility features like Notification Center widgets and third-party keyboards; and introduces robust frameworks such as HealthKit and HomeKit. iOS 8 also includes Metal, a new graphics technology that maximizes the performance of the A7 chip and Swift, a powerful new programming language. “With more than 800 million iOS devices sold worldwide, the opportunity for developers is huge,” said Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering. “This…
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Biggest Developer Release Ever Includes Extensibility Features, HealthKit, HomeKit & Swift
Apple today released its iOS 8 SDK, the biggest developer release ever with more than 4,000 new APIs, giving developers the ability to create amazing new apps like never before. iOS 8 allows developers to further customize the user experience with major extensibility features like Notification Center widgets and third-party keyboards; and introduces robust frameworks such as HealthKit and HomeKit. iOS 8 also includes Metal, a new graphics technology that maximizes the performance of the A7 chip and Swift, a powerful new programming language. “With more than 800 million iOS devices sold worldwide, the opportunity for developers is huge,” said Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering. “This…