Laminar – Updated
Laminar offers one of the most stream lined work flow available on iPad to edit images when on the move. This is a great app and it has just been updated. Check out What’s New below. This is a free update, if you have previously purchased this app. If not you can download it here, it retails for $4.99/£2.99/download.
What’s New?
-> New Icon for Laminar.
a) Complete PNG workflow support. A lot of users had complained about the lack of transparency support in Laminar.
Version 1.3 has complete support for transparencies.
As a lot of users had requested, the export options have undergone a major upgrade.
->Users can select the file format while exporting/saving the image. PNG or JPG.
->Ability to resize images while exporting.
->Add a configured watermark while exporting the image.
b) Added support for automation and ability to save most of the commonly used options:
-> Presets: Most of the adjustment settings on the right, can now be saved as presets allowing one click access when needed.
-> Watermarks: A lot of users like to add watermark to their images before uploading to the social media sites. Watermark preset allows users to define a watermark to be added on the images, and it would be added automatically every time user exports the image.
b)New image picker that allows users to pick images directly from Facebook, Flick & Microsoft Bing. Can import images from Clipboard and also allows user to create a custom canvas with desired resolution and background color.
c) New Text Layers. Text tool exports layers as separate layers. Allowing users to pan & rotate the text as convenient.
d) Two new tools, custom white balance & miniature. Both can be accessed from Fx Menu.
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter, creator of the world’s most popular mobile photography and art website— TheAppWhisperer.com— TheAppWhisperer platform has been a pivotal cyberspace for mobile artists of all abilities to learn about, to explore, to celebrate and to share mobile artworks. Joanne’s compassion, inclusivity, and humility are hallmarks in all that she does, and is particularly evident in the platform she has built. In her words, “We all have the potential to remove ourselves from the centre of any circle and to expand a sphere of compassion outward; to include everyone interested in mobile art, ensuring every artist is within reach”, she has said. Promotion of mobile artists and the art form as a primary medium in today’s art world, has become her life’s focus. She has presented lectures bolstering mobile artists and their art from as far away as the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea to closer to her home in the UK at Focus on Imaging. Her experience as a jurist for mobile art competitions includes: Portugal, Canada, US, S Korea, UK and Italy. And her travels pioneering the breadth of mobile art includes key events in: Frankfurt, Naples, Amalfi Coast, Paris, Brazil, London. Pioneering the world’s first mobile art online gallery - TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com has extended her reach even further, shipping from London, UK to clients in the US, Europe and The Far East to a global group of collectors looking for exclusive art to hang in their homes and offices. The online gallery specialises in prints for discerning collectors of unique, previously unseen signed limited edition art. Her journey towards becoming The App Whisperer, includes (but is not limited to) working for a paparazzi photo agency for several years and as a deputy editor for a photo print magazine. Her own freelance photographic journalistic work is also widely acclaimed. She has been published extensively both within the UK and the US in national and international titles. These include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Popular Photography & Imaging, dpreview, NikonPro, Which? and more recently with the BBC as a Contributor, Columnist at Vogue Italia and Contributing Editor at LensCulture. Her professional photography has also been widely exhibited throughout Europe, including Italy, Portugal and the UK. She is currently writing several books, all related to mobile art and is always open to requests for new commissions for either writing or photography projects or a combination of both. Please contact her at: [email protected]
