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  • iOS Apps,  News,  Reviews

    iOS App Review – Pixol – An Instagram Gaming App

    2014-02-10 / Comments Off on iOS App Review – Pixol – An Instagram Gaming App

    Now we do not usually review any gaming apps here at theappwhisperer.com, we specialise in photography apps, whether they’re creative or tool apps but Pixol is a gaming app with an Instagram twist, so we thought we would ask one of our Editors, David Hayes to put it through its paces. Over to you David…(foreword by Joanne Carter). "I’m stepping outside of my comfort level and taking a look at the game app, Pixol in this article. I have to confess that I am not a Gamer! Many a game app has come and gone from my iPhone and iPad…even that one where it was fun to smash piggies…for a…

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    Technical Tutorial – iPro Lens System My First Look….By David Hayes

    2013-09-19 / 5 Comments

    As more and more of us are looking to extend the ways we use our iPhones as cameras…we’re looking beyond the multitude of apps available to the many different lens systems now out there. These systems are giving us the same options as our fancy DSLR rigs. Pretty amazing from where it all began… In this article I’d like to show you a quick look at the iPro Lens System. This pro-level set-up starts with its own case to which you can attach any of five different lens: a macro lens, a wide angle lens, a super wide angle lens, a 2X telephoto lens, and a fisheye lens. Each of…

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    Technical Mobile Photography Tutorial – Going Macro with Manfrotto and Olloclip!

    2013-09-13 / 17 Comments

    We’re delighted to publish our latest Technical Tutorial by our wonderful Head of Technical Tutorials, David Hayes. This time, David takes a look at some mobile Manfrotto kit with the uber popular Olloclip lens system, don’t miss this. (Foreword by Joanne Carter).     I have long enjoying macro photography and have invested in many a close-up and macro lenses and set-ups for my SLR cameras over the years. So when third party developers started coming out with the equipment one would need to take macro shots with an iPhone camera, I was overjoyed! Two of these developers, Manfrotto and Olloclip, have just what you need to take some great…

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    Technical Mobile Photography App Tutorial With Layover – ‘Variations On A Theme’

    2013-09-03 / 4 Comments

    We have just published our latest Technical Tutorial by our Head of Technical Tutorials David Hayes. This time David gets to grips once again with the iOS photography app Layover and explores some excellent features (we have published various tutorials with Layover, if you’ve missed those, please go here). Over to you David… (foreword by Joanne Carter). Layover retails for $0.99/$0.69 and you can download it here. Over to you David …. (foreword by Joanne Carter)   Recent trends I’ve noticed amongst the photographers I follow are studies of a single image where they’ve applied different apps and techniques to create variations of that image. I’ve done likewise but what…

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  • Hardware,  News,  Reviews

    Olloclip – First Look Review Of The New Kit!

    2013-08-28 / 5 Comments

    We’re delighted to publish ths first look review of the new Olloclip kit, case, telephoto and polarizer filter by our Head of Technical Tutorials, David Hayes. David will be writing more on the subject but this review gives his first impressions and we think you’ll be very interested to read these, we certainly were. Over to you David…(foreword by Joanne Carter).   I became acquainted with the Olloclip lens systems several years ago when I purchased a set of their macro/wide angle/fish eye lens for my iPhone 4. I had to put this aside when I got my iPhone 5. Recently TheAppWhisperer sent me not only me a set of…

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  • INTERVIEWS,  Interviews,  News,  Photo App Lounge

    Top Five Photo Apps – Photo App Lounge With David Hayes

    2013-08-27 / 10 Comments

    Welcome to our Top Five Photo Apps – Photo App Lounge section of theappwhisperer.com. This is an area on our site where we ask highly accomplished mobile photographers what their top five photo apps are and why. We recently published the Top Five Photo Apps as recommended by Yannick Brice , Cedric Blanchon, Irene Sneddon, our Columnist and Award Winning Mobile Artist Sarah Jarrett as well as Louise Fryer, Lisa Waddell, Davide Capponi, Ali Jardine, Clint Cline, Elaina Wilcox, France Freeman, Tess Gomm, Lola Mitchell, Vivi, Em Kachouro, Laetitia Harnie-Coussau, MaryJane Sarvis, AlyZen Moonshadow, Ginaluca Ricoveri, Jennifer Sharpe and Natali Prosvetova’s Top Five Photo Apps including accompanying images demonstrating these…

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  • News,  Tip Of The Day

    Mobile Photography – Tip Of The Day – Day 24

    2013-08-22 / 6 Comments

    Welcome to another new section from your favorite mobile photography website and one of the most popular in the world. Today, we’re publishing our twenty fourth Mobile Photography/Art Tip Of The Day to our brand new section of the site. Each day we publish a short quick tip to help you with your mobile photography, this may be related to editing your image, capturing your image, printing your image, all manner of things, across the complete photographic and art mobile genre – we’ll be featuring great mobile street photography tips, great blending tips, great cloning tips, we will cover it all from some of the greatest mobile photographers and artists…

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    Technical Mobile Photography App Tutorial With Layover

    2013-08-21 / 6 Comments

    We have just published our latest Technical Tutorial by our Head of Technical Tutorials David Hayes. This time David gets to grips with the iOS photography app Layover and explores some excellent features. Over to you David… (foreword by Joanne Carter). Layover retails for $0.99/$0.69 and you can download it here.   “In past articles, I’ve covered the different aspects of how to use this great layering app. This time I thought I’d have some fun creating a bit of “surrealism” given Layover’s capability to work with up to five layers at once. A bit of a disclaimer here at the beginning…all the elements that I will be using in…

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    iPhone Photography App Technical Tutorial – PhotoStation – Taking A Look At Layering

    2013-08-07 / 7 Comments

    We have published many iPhone Photography app technical tutorials with PhotoStation, formerly known as AnyShape – Photo Editor here at theappwhisperer.com (TAW). If you have missed those, please go here. This time our Head of Technical Tutorials, David Hayes takes us through the practice of Layering within PhotoStation, this is a new feature that was recently included in a new update. PhotoStation retails for $0.99/£0.69 and you can download it here.   When PhotoStation first came out as AnyShape, it was a quite interesting app given its unique Bezler selection tool. My first articles focused on using this tool…. and I’ll have to say it took awhile to fully master…

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    Technical iPhone Photography App Tutorial With Halftone 2

    2013-08-05 / 2 Comments

    We’re delighted to publish our latest Technical Tutorial, this time exploring Halftone 2, written by our Head of Technical Tutorials, David Hayes. We have published several articles and tutorials using the earlier version of Halftone and if you’ve missed those, please go here. We also published a Creative Tutorial, using Layout and Halftone apps in combination, by Nettie Edwards – if you missed that please go here. This tutorial focuses on the very latest version of Halftone, aptly called Halftone 2 and David gives an absolutely fabulous overview to really help you get to grips with it. It’s an incredible comprehensive tutorial and one that we feel you will find…

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