Tickle Your Fancy #41
Welcome back to our forty first post in our new section ‘Tickle Your Fancy’. ‘Tickle Your Fancy’ includes a round-up of between three to 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. This week we look at some incredible…
‘Mobile Macro Photography’ – New Column by MaryJane Sarvis
We are delighted to announce a brand new Column on theappwhisperer.com today entitled ‘Mobile Macro Photography’. This Column will be edited by MaryJane Sarvis and will include interviews, articles and showcases with macro mobile photographers. We have a dedicated Facebook group set up for this Column too – please join us here. MaryJane will be regularly adding and contributing to this and we are sure it will follow with the same success as our Streets Ahead and Portrait of An Artist columns. 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…
Alessia Glaviano – Vogue Italia’s Senior Photo Editor – Exclusive Interview with Joanne Carter
‘In the age of social networks it’s becoming harder for an image to stand out and become iconic’. Alessia Giaviano Photo Editor of Vogue Italia talks with Joanne Carter at TheAppWhisperer.com. ‘I agree with Fred Richin (Photography and Imaging at New York University‘s Tisch School of the Arts and co-director of the NYU/Magnum Foundation Photography and Human Rights educational program) when he says that ‘in the era of the image, the image loses power’. We are delighted to publish this interview with Alessia Glaviano Senior Photo Editor for Vogue Italia and L’Uomo Vogue. Born in Palermo, Italy, she is now based in Milan, having lived and worked for many years…
Olloclip – Meet Patrick O’Neill – The Man Behind The Lens
Join Patrick O’Neill, CEO of Olloclip, for a live discussion about the past, present and the future of the worlds #1 mobile photography accessory. Patrick will also be taking your questions – tune in here at 10 am PST this morning – June 19th, 2014.
iOS Photography Apps – CameraBag 2/HD – Temporarily Free
CameraBag 2 for iPhone and CameraBag 2 HD for iPad are both hugely popular photography apps for iOS. Both are also temporarily free today. CameraBag 2 Mobile includes dozens of adjustable photo styles (with new ones added regularly for free download in the Online Style Library within the app), the ability to save customized looks as your own, and the ability to import advanced styles hand-made in CameraBag for Mac and PC. It’s hi-fi because it’s built on the same 32-bits-per-channel Analog Engine that powers CameraBag 2 for Mac/PC, designed for professional photographers. This means your photos retain their smooth color gradations even when they’re heavily filtered. Unlike other apps,…
Adobe Releases New Creative Cloud Photography Plan for £8.78/$9.99 Per Month
Adobe today announced the availability of the new Adobe Creative Cloud Photography Plan. Designed for anyone interested in photography, the new plan brings together — for £8.78/$9.99 per month — Photoshop CC and Lightroom 5, two tools that have fundamentally impacted how photographs and imagery shape our visual culture, as well as Lightroom’s breakthrough mobile apps on iPad and now iPhone. Also introduced today is the all-new Photoshop Mix, a new iPad app that provides access to powerful Photoshop features normally confined to the desktop, enabling compositing and transformative edits while on the go. Built using the new Adobe Creative SDK (see separate release), Photoshop Mix delivers new levels of…
Adobe Takes Creativity Mobile with New Creative Cloud Connected Apps and Hardware
Sketching, Precision Drawing and Photography Apps Extend Creative Workflow to iPad; SDK Unlocks Over 30 Years of Adobe Innovation for Mobile App Developers Adobe today unveiled a new suite of mobile apps and complementary hardware that connect Adobe Creative Cloud, the company’s flagship offering for creatives worldwide, to iPad. A digital pen, Adobe Ink, and a digital ruler, Adobe Slide, bring true creative freedom and functionality to mobile devices. Adobe Sketch and Adobe Line enable the next generation of sketching and precision drawing on iPad, and are both optimized to support the new hardware. A third app, Adobe Photoshop Mix, offers a new Creative Cloud connected mobile workflow for anyone…
iOS Photography App – OKDOTHIS – Major Update
OKDOTHIS has proved incredibly popular since it’s birth to the Apple App Store on November 25th last year. It’s a community that inspires users to create and collaborate with each other. Many mobile photographers report how this app has helped them rebuild their lost confidence and get back into the creativity flow. This update should prove popular for many, check out What’s New below. This is a free update to a free app, click here to download/update. (Requires iOS 7.0 or later, optimized for iPhone 5) What’s New? – Support for 7 different aspect ratios in landscape, portrait, and square – Simpler and clearer design throughout the app…
Adobe Lightroom for iPhone – New
Adobe Lightroom for iPad has been available since April of this year but it’s now also available for your iPhone. It allows you to edit and enhance your images from smartphone photos to RAW images from your DSLR. It automatically syncs to Lightroom 5 on your desktop too. This app is free but there’s quite a undertone (so do bear this in mind): Adobe Lightroom mobile requires Adobe Lightroom 5 and any of the following plans: •Creative Cloud Photography plan •Creative Cloud – Photoshop Photography Program •Creative Cloud complete plan •Creative Cloud Student and Teacher Edition •Creative Cloud for teams complete plan (Requires iOS 7.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone…
Adobe: New Creatives – Mobile, Social, Versatile, Optimistic
Ninety-six percent of U.S. creatives happy in their roles; 75 percent working across mediums, Adobe creativity study finds "We all love talking about creativity, but we seldom take time to examine the state of creative professionals themselves. For those of us who chose a creative career, are we happy we did? What inspires and motivates creative professionals to do their greatest work? How do Creatives feel about the pace of change in the industry?" Today, Adobe released some striking research to delve into what really makes the creatives tick. They’re calling it “The New Creatives Report,” and it’s based on a survey of more than 1,000 U.S. creatives – all…
