Tickle Your Fancy – #8
Welcome back to our eighth post in our new section ‘Tickle Your Fancy’. We launched this eight weeks ago and it’s already becoming very popular. ‘Tickle Your Fancy’ includes a round-up of 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…
Perspective Correct App Now With Free iPad Support and Social Sharing
Perspective Correct (iOS $1.99) has just been updated with free iPad support, social sharing features and grid spacing controls. According to the apps co-developer Misho Baranovic “We’re really excited to bring Perspective Correct to the iPad at no extra cost to our users. The app now works in native resolution on both the iPad and iPad mini. We think that the larger screen size lends itself to accurate perspective adjustment. A number of professional photographers have already told us they’ll now import their shots to the iPad and make perspective edits on the fly.” The update includes new social sharing options including Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. As part of the…
EE Switches on 4G In 12 More Towns
EE, the UK’s most advanced digital communications company, today announced that 4G is available to consumers and businesses in 12 more towns across the UK. The superfast mobile network from EE is now in 117 towns and cities across the UK. Today, 4GEE is being switched on in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Beaconsfield, Blackburn, Burton upon Trent, Coalville, Chester-le-Street, Fleet, Gerrards Cross, Halifax, Hinckley, Houghton-le-Spring and Reigate as rapid roll out of the UK’s first and fastest 4G network continues. 4G from EE now covers the homes and businesses of more than 60% of the UK population, on target to reach 98% by the end of 2014. Olaf Swantee, Chief Executive…
Creative Compositing – By Irene Oleksiuk
We were delighted when Irene Oleksiuk a very talented mobile photographer contacted us to tell us about the inspiring photography workshop she attended ‘Creative Compositing’ lead by Mark S Johnson earlier this summer. We’ll let her tell you more about it in her own words below, over to you Irene (foreword by Joanne Carter). “As Mobile photographers, we know how great our little devices are at taking images and how advanced some of the apps are. I want to share with the readers of The App Whisperer and experience that showed me how true this is. This June I was attending a photography workshop in Boulder Colorado called “Creative…
olloclip iOS iPhone App – Updated
olloclip the developers of the wonderful and incredibly popular 3-in-1 lens system have just updated their olloclip app with a brand new look for iOS 7. If you’re still on iOS 6 though, you will also get the new look! There’s a custom preset system for cropping allowing you to fine tune the edges of your image for the specific Olloclip lens that you’re using, with one tap. This app is free, you can download/update it here.
Interesting Slow-Mo iPhone 5s Videos
We were pleased to discover this post on CNET (a site that our Head of Technical Hardware, Kevin Carter, also used to contribute to). With the new slo-mo feature in the iPhone 5s and over 9 million new handsets sold in the first weekend, we’re hoping to see a lot more of these. CNET have collected together 15 ‘must see’ videos. We have a dedicated Mobile Movies Flickr group and each week Donna Donato curates and presents a wonderful post with commentary on each video. We’d love for you to send your videos here, so we can include them too. To view the CNET picked videos, go here
MyBrushes Pro – Temporarily Free
MyBrushes Pro for iPhone is a fabulous unique painting app designed to create images and playback the whole painting process on UNLIMITED Size Canvas, and UNLIMITED Layers with UNLIMITED Undo / Redo Steps. Usually this app retails for $1.99/£1.49 but today it’s free. Click here to download.
Our Daily App Giveaway – The Newly Updated Tangent App
We just mentioned here, that the uber popular iOS photo editing app Tangent has just been updated with a brand new ND Patterns & Shapes pack photographer and designer Neal Dieker. We’ve teamed up with the developers of Tangent to offer this app to our readers for free. Tangent normally retails for $1.99/£1.49 but if you would like to try it for free, just join our ever expanding Twitter followers and Facebook fans, RETWEET THIS POST and send a reply to the bottom of this page telling us what you love most about theappwhisperer.com. We will select winners at random from the selection of codes that we have and send…
2014 Sony World Photography Awards Judge, Ruth Eichorn, Shares What She’s Looking For In This Year’s Competition
You have seen the call for entries to the 2014 Sony World Photography Awards but how can you make sure yours is the photograph that the judges choose? WPO gives you an exclusive insight into the thoughts of our 2014 Honorary Jury members and exactly what they are looking for in an award-winning image. This week, WPO interviews jury member Ruth Eichorn, Director of Photography, Geo. You have sat on many high profile photographic judging panels. In your opinion, what makes an award-winning image? What key elements will you look for in the entries to the 2014 Sony World Photography Awards? At the Sony World Photography Awards there are more…
Adobe Updates Photoshop Elements 12 & Adobe Premiere Elements 12
Adobe today announced the availability of Adobe® Photoshop Elements 12 and Adobe Premiere Elements 12. Customers will enjoy powerful mobile capabilities, and reap the benefits of professional-grade editing technology delivered in an intuitive experience that makes it easy to create stunning results. “Our customers have a lot of photos and videos, and they love to use their home computers to organise them and be creative, but they also want the freedom and flexibility to view, edit and share on their mobile devices,” said Lea Hickman, vice president, products, Creative Consumer Business, Adobe. “Photoshop Elements 12 and Premiere Elements 12 will provide customers with the best of both worlds, quickly, easily…
