Part™ analyzes your photo creating a single shape and accompanying color. With a tap your shape multiplies. Tap or swipe again. You chose when to stop the division, and what part of the image is most important. This is a very popular app for mobile photography with your iPhone or iPad and it has just been updated. Check out What’s New below. This is a free update, this app usually retails for $1.99/£1.49 but is temporarily free. You can download it here.   What’s New?   Big News! New Upgrades Include a Breakthrough New Mosaic Feature ✦ Mosaic Mode: Create Pictures from Pictures! Select Mosaic Mode from the Settings menu.…

Everyone knows it doesn’t get better than classic Black & White. And it’s deeper than nostalgia, simpler times and less color – it’s the artistic soul of photography. Referencing one of our favorite (Ansel Adams) quotes, great Black & White photos aren’t taken – they’re made. Made where light and contrast, grit and form tell the story; where stone and sky, water and light transcend the material world. JixiPix’s Dramatic Black & White takes you there – and beyond. Easy-to-use, fully customizable presets serve up the classic Black & White looks of the past and the cutting-edge styles of the present. This app starts by leaving color in the rearview…

We thought something was ‘cooking’ over at Synthetic, ie Hipstamatic HQ and now all has been revealed. The latest edition of SwankoLab has hit the App Store shelves. Check out What’s New below to see what they’ve added in this update. 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.   What’s New?   ■ Uncle Stu is back at it again in the chemical lab, with four new ones brewed up for your developing pleasure! – Rockin’ Robin Color Booster – Haze – Insty-Tex Cool – Queen’s Vignette – Black ■ New live-preview mode, for…

FiLMiC Pro takes movie making to the next level and turns your iPhone into one of the most powerful and robust full featured HD video cameras around. FiLMiC Pro offers more ways than any other video camera app to personalize your shooting method. This app has everything you’ll ever need to create your mobile masterpiece. This is a tremendous app that has just had the Dropbox upload target updated. This is a free update, if you have previously downloaded this app. If not, you can download it here. It retails for $3.99/£2.49/download.    

Color Splash lets you quickly and easily give photos a dramatic look by converting them to black and white, while keeping your chosen details in color. We specially adapted our best-selling, award-winning iPhone app to the iPad. Check out What’s New in this update below. 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.   What’s New?   New ways to download and share your images: You can now download photos from your Instagram and Flickr accounts, and you can share your edited images on Flickr.

The BBC iPlayer app has just been updated and now allows for video downloads. Subscribers to the iPlayer service can now download video content to their smartphones and tablets at no further cost. This function is effective immediately for iOS devices and will be coming very soon to Android devices too. Intiially all downloads will be available over Wi-Fi networks and 3G in the future. Once you have downloaded a program you have 30 days to watch it before it expires. If you start to watch it, you have 7 days before it expires. Click here to update or download for the first time the iOS BBC iPlayer app.