Aquarella and Aquarella HD – New App From JixiPix Developers
JixiPix Software today began shipping Aquarella, an artistic iOS software solution designed to help professional artists, photographers and amateurs quickly and easily achieve a natural looking watercolor painting with all the delicate details of a traditional watercolor. Aquarella overcomes limitations in other software products with a revolutionary new”wet” algorithm simulating overlapping strokes of pigment dried dark along the edges, delicate blooms and color washes to achieve a truly wet and natural appearance. Aquarella and Aquarella HD, available for iPhone and iPad respectively, provides all the creative tools needed to transform an image into a professional-looking watercolor and is the perfect compliment to a series of JixiPix artistic apps developed for…
Color Focus – Our Daily App Giveaway
Welcome once again to our Daily App Giveaway section of theappwhisperer. We value our readers so much and that’s why we want to share our love of apps with you. Each day we give away free apps, better make us your home page 😉 Today, we’re giving away Color Focus apps each worth $1.99/£1.49. Color Focus has not been updated for a long time and is rather dated but a new version is now imminent and the update will be free to anyone who has either already purchased the app or receives one via our giveaway. Would you like to try it for free? Join our ever expanding Twitter followers…
500px Deleted From Apple App Store – PhotoStackr for 500px Remains
Popphoto.com, the magazine version of which we have contributed to in the past published a very interesting article yesterday. They reported that Apple had pulled the uber pro app 500px from the app store because of nude images. 500px is actually a very attractive photo sharing app and while yes it may/does/did contain some nude shots as PopPhoto points out there was ‘nothing pornographic’ there- depending on your definition of porn but it wasn’t a lot different to what you might find on the popular Flickr iPhone app. PopPhoto also point out clearly perhaps the strongest argument against this removal by Apple being, “that the app comes with “safe” viewing…
Luminance – Updated
Luminance is another app, popular with iPhone photographers and it has just been updated to include: ✔ 4-Inch Retina enhancements ✔ Add caption when sharing to Facebook ✔ Choose Album and Audience when sharing to Facebook ✔ New “Brena” filter ✔ New Grain adjustment layer ✔ Visual improvements – Restored original “X-Process” filter, now named “X-Classic” – Fixed issue where cropping photo as a square would sometimes not be saved as exact 1:1 ratio This is a free update, if you have previously purchased this app. If not, you can download it here. It retails for $0.99/£0.69.
Jazz! – Updated
Jazz! is a popular app with many mobile photographers and its just received a free update to the Light Leak filter which now has three more Old School types and Hue slider to be more backwards compatible with previous versions. This is a free update, if you have previously downloaded this app, if not, you can download it here. It retails for $0.99/£0.69/download.
Lens+ – Temporarily Free
Lens+ is a cool and highly rate little photo app for your iPhone that usually retails for $0.99/£0.69 but it’s currently going free today. Click here to download.
Pixlr Express PLUS – Temporarily Free
Pixlr Express Plus from Autodesk and the developers of Pixlromatic, SketchBook is a good photo editing app for iOS albeit a controversial one. Many users report that rather than purchase the full priced version, you should download the free version as you still have to purchase the in-apps. This is quite true but the paid for version is currently going free, usually it retails for $2.99/£1.99, so this is an ‘opportunity’ to pick that up and you can compare it yourselves. Click here to download for free
A Day in the Life of Aylin Argun – The Most Wonderfully Creative And Artistic Mobile Photographer
Welcome to our very exciting column on theappwhisperer.com. This section entitled “A Day in the Life of…” is where we take a look at some hugely influential, interesting and accomplished individuals in the mobile photography world… people that we think you will love to learn more about. This is our seventy seventh installment of the series. If you have missed our previous interviews, please go here. Today we are featuring Aylin Argun. Aylin lives in Istanbul / Turkey. She attended basic photography education and darkroom seminars in 2005 at AFSAD (Ankara association of photograph artists). Afsad is one of Turkey’s most prominent photography training centers. Aylin has been an amateur…
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New Advanced iPhone Photography Course Launches In London
The App Whisperer columnist Richard Gray @rugfoot has launched an advanced course in mobile photography, The Advanced iPhoneography Group (AiG). This follows his launch of a ground-breaking introductory course in February 2012. Gray said: “Mobile photography has matured and many people are now looking for more sophisticated techniques and also new creative inspiration. This course gives them both as part a real-life community of forward-looking mobile photographers.” The course, which costs £100 for 5 weekly workshops of 3 hours from a central London venue, was launched last week and the first set of dates sold out in one day. A second set of dates has now been added with a third…
iObsess – iPhone Photography Tutorial – By Dan Marcolina
We’re delighted to publish the latest iPhone photography tutorial by our Columnist Dan Marcolina to his great Column, iObsess with us. In this tutorial Dan puts the apps, True HDR, Snapseed and Pixlromatic Plus through their paces on his latest image. Don’t miss this – just click on the image below to play the tutorial.
