Tickle Your Fancy #39 – #NSFW
Welcome back to our thirty ninth 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…
Click Copa – Another iOS Photo App Giveaway
Click Copa is a brand new app developed to enable you to personalise your images with World Cup Football effects to create photo collages. It comes from the same developer house as Lumie and Cine Lumie. If you haven’t picked up Click Copa ($0.99/£0.69) yet and would like to give it a try, RETWEET this article, FOLLOW US on Twitter, also reply to this post, telling us what you love most about theappwhisperer.com and we will select some winners and send you an email with a code if you win.
XnSketch, XnRetro, XnBooth Pro, XnView Photo Fx Editor, XnShape – All Temporarily Free – iOS Photo Apps
Pierre Gougelet, the developer of XnSketch, XnRetro, XnBooth Pro, XnView Photo Fx Editor, XnShape for iOS photography has temporarily reduced the price to free for each, details below. XN View Photo Fx Editor Super fast editing of your images. Download XnSketch Turns your images into drawings, cartoons with one click. Download XnRetro Fast ‘vintage’ effects. Download XnBooth Pro Quickly create photo booth transitions. Download XnShape Wonderfully fast way to add abstract compositions. Download
irista from Canon – where every image lives
Canon today reveals irista – an advanced, cloud-based image management platform that allows users to access, enjoy and manage their photo libraries like never before. People today take thousands of digital photographs which have become scattered across multiple devices, irista is built to help curate entire image libraries in one central location. Previously known in beta-form as Project1709, irista makes it easy to find any picture or any memory – regardless of which device it was shot on. The full irista service is now live. People can sign up by visiting: www.irista.com irista has been created around four consumer needs: · Simple to use: Making it quick and easy…
Olloclip – Free Quick Flip Case With 3-In-1 Lens
Olloclip are celebrating three years in the business and are offering their Quick Flip Case for iPhone 5 for free (worth $39.95), when you purchase the original 3-In-1 lens. If you haven’t picked up a 3-In-1 lens previously then we highly recommend it. The 3-In-1 comes complete with macro, fisheye and wide angle lenses and achieves fabulous results. I use the Quick Flip Case at all times on my iPhone 5, it’s incredibly useful to just be able to flip up the corner and add a lens. I highly recommend it. To pick up a brand new 3-in-1 lens with free Quick Flip Case, just go here and add the…
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…
‘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…
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.
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.
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…

























