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Mobile Photography – Brand New App -SWRLY Giveaway worth $2.99 each
There’s a brand new universal (for iPhone and iPad) app on the streets called SWRLY by accomplished BrainFeverMedia app developers. SWRLY is a modern take on the orginal swirly lens, the Petzval, created in 1840 by Josef Petzval – one of the foremost optical physicists of his day. This lens design was one of the first portrait lenses and is characterised by a unique swirly bokeh effect. Many of the earliest photos (daguerreotypes, tintypes, etc) were captured with Petzval lenses. The characteristic look developed with this app is of course over 170 years old and optical lens design, in general has developed considerably since then but the reason this app…
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LG Announce New Flagship Smartphone with First to Feature Plastic OLED FullVision Display
According to circulating rumours, LG the Korean smartphone manufacturer, have been selected to supply the iPhone 8 with an OLED screen. What we do know is that LG have invested $7 billion into OLED production facilties. So, it’s not a huge surprise to hear of LG’s brand new flagship smartphone, announced today, will feature the world’s first smartphone device to feature a plastic OLED FullVision display. “Expertise in OLED has long been a core competency of LG, and the technology has always been seen as a potential value-add for smartphones,” said Juno Cho, president of LG Electronics Mobile Communications Company. “With competition in the global smartphone space fiercer now than…
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VSCO brings Video Editing Tools to VSCO X (iOS) Members
There’s even more to be excited about if you’re an avid VSCO X subscriber because VSCO have launched a video editing tool to enable those subscribers to edit videos. Currently this is only available to VSCO X (iOS) subscribers but there are plans to release the same tools for VSCO X members on Android soon. The instructions below demonstrate how to create using the new early release feature:
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Mobile Photography – PhotoMarks Watermark Copyright Trademark Protect Giveaway worth $4.99 each
In keeping with our regular giveaways here at TheAppWhisperer, today we are offering you the opportunity to receive a promotional code for PhotoMarks – Watermark Copyright Trademark Protect app, it’s an elegant solution for visually watermarking or annotating your photos. Giving you the facility to easily add copyright protection to your images or add beautiful text comments to your photos before sharing on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Email, or other options. PhotoMarks allows you to completely customize the appearance of your text and logo marks. To find out more about this app visit the developers website here. Would you like a code to try this app yourself? If so, please join…
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Mobile Photography & Art – Portrait Of An Artist Summer Challenge
Welcome to our Fifth Portrait of an Artist Challenge. The theme of our new challenge is “Portraits Under The Rain”. The purpose of this challenge is to evoke very strong and intense feelings through the use of metaphors about the weather. How would you represent what makes Summer special where you live? How would you be like if you were the Summer? Dates for submission are from August 10th through September 10th, 2017. Please read the following instructions: All submissions must be posted ONLY to our specific Portrait of an Artist Flickr Challenge group – link here. Not to any other group from TheAppWhisperer. You will be able to add…
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Mobile Photography/Art Pic of the Day (615) via Instagram
Here’s day six hundred and fifteen of our mobile photography/art Pic of the Day section via Instagram. Each day we will be selecting one image a day for our Pic of the Day section on Instagram with this hashtag – #theappwhisperer. To ensure your image receives our attention, please upload it to Instagram with this hashtag – #theappwhisperer Today, we congratulate @mariatbellotti – Mariateresa Bellotti with this breathtaking image. Please view more of her images here. [Please visit our Artist Directory and find out how we can add you too!] While you’re here… ….we have a small favour to ask. More people than ever are reading TheAppWhisperer.com and we could not be…
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Mobile Photography & Art – My Top Five Apps by Maria Cecilia de São Thiago from São Paulo, Brazil
We are revitalising our Top Five Apps section to our Photo App Lounge column. This a section within TheAppWhisperer where we ask highly accomplished mobile photographers and artists to list their top five apps and to explain why they have selected them. Kicking us off today is highly accomplished mobile artist Maria Cecilia de São Thiago from São Paulo, Brazil enjoy! (foreword by Joanne Carter). To read others from this series, please go here. All photos ©Maria Cecilia de São Thiago “As an assumed iPhoneography junkie, with more than 950 applications downloaded on my iPhone 7plus, and the vast majority of it for image editing, it’s pretty much impossible for…
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An App For A ‘Perfect’ Selfie According to University of Waterloo, Canda
Computer scientists at the University of Waterloo have developed a smartphone app that helps people learn the art of taking great selfies. Inside the app is an algorithm that directs the user where to position the camera allowing them to take the best shot possible. “Selfie’s have increasingly become a normal way for people to express themselves and their experiences, only not all selfies are created equal,” said Dan Vogel, a professor of computer science at Waterloo. “Unlike other apps that enhance a photo after you take it, this system gives direction, meaning the user is actually learning why their photo will be better.” In developing the algorithm, Vogel and…
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Mobile Photography – TrueView Interview – How TheAppWhisperer Helps Me With Mobile Photography and Art with Carol Wiebe from Ontario, Canada
Our TrueView Interview section is an area where we ask one singular question, to mobile photographers and artists and it is captured to video. This time, we asked accomplished Mobile Photographer and Artist, Carol Wiebe from Canada, How Does TheAppWhisperer Help You With Mobile Photography and Art?”. Many artists are working on their videos right now and each video is as unique and individual as each artist. We are fully conscious and respectful that you are all capturing a part of yourself and sharing it with us and we love it. Thank you. Thank you for being a reader and viewer of our wonderful site. If you would like to…
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Mobile Photography/Art Pic of the Day (614) via Instagram
Here’s day six hundred and fourteen of our mobile photography/art Pic of the Day section via Instagram. Each day we will be selecting one image a day for our Pic of the Day section on Instagram with this hashtag – #theappwhisperer. To ensure your image receives our attention, please upload it to Instagram with this hashtag – #theappwhisperer Today, we congratulate @manuelamatosmonteiro – Manuela Monteiro with this breathtaking image entitled ‘Parada do Monte, Melgaço, north Portugal’. Please view more of her images here. [Please visit our Artist Directory and find out how we can add you too!]