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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.
Portrait of an Artist Interview with Rob DePaolo by Jennifer Bracewell
We are delighted to publish our fourth Portrait of an Artist interview to this very special column, edited by Jennifer Bracewell. This week Jennifer has interviewed Rob DePaolo and has created a really fabulous and interesting read with stunning imagery. (We also have a dedicated Facebook group set up for this Column too – please join us here. Jennifer regularly adds and contributes to this. 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 for curation and showcases as well as commentary – this is the Flickr Group link). Don’t miss…
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…
New For Apple Developers – Introducing Swift
Swift is a new programming language for creating iOS and OS X apps. Swift builds on the best of C and Objective-C, without the constraints of C compatibility. Swift adopts safe programming patterns and adds modern features to make programming easier, more flexible, and more fun. Swift’s clean slate, backed by the mature and much-loved Cocoa and Cocoa Touch frameworks, is an opportunity to reimagine how software development works. “Swift has been years in the making. Apple laid the foundation for Swift by advancing our existing compiler, debugger, and framework infrastructure. We simplified memory management with Automatic Reference Counting (ARC). Our framework stack, built on the solid base of Foundation…
Apple Releases iOS 8 SDK With Over 4,000 New APIs
Apple has released its iOS 8 SDK, the biggest developer release ever with more than 4,000 new APIs, giving developers the ability to create amazing new apps like never before. iOS 8 allows developers to further customize the user experience with major extensibility features like Notification Center widgets and third-party keyboards; and introduces robust frameworks such as HealthKit and HomeKit. iOS 8 also includes Metal, a new graphics technology that maximizes the performance of the A7 chip and Swift, a powerful new programming language. “With more than 800 million iOS devices sold worldwide, the opportunity for developers is huge,” said Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering. “This…
Biggest Developer Release Ever Includes Extensibility Features, HealthKit, HomeKit & Swift
Apple today released its iOS 8 SDK, the biggest developer release ever with more than 4,000 new APIs, giving developers the ability to create amazing new apps like never before. iOS 8 allows developers to further customize the user experience with major extensibility features like Notification Center widgets and third-party keyboards; and introduces robust frameworks such as HealthKit and HomeKit. iOS 8 also includes Metal, a new graphics technology that maximizes the performance of the A7 chip and Swift, a powerful new programming language. “With more than 800 million iOS devices sold worldwide, the opportunity for developers is huge,” said Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering. “This…
Apple Unveils iOS 8, the Biggest Release Since the Launch of the App Store
Apple today unveiled iOS 8, the biggest release since the launch of the App Store, giving users incredible new features and developers the tools to create amazing new apps. iOS 8 delivers a simpler, faster and more intuitive user experience, including iCloud Photo Library, allowing you to enjoy your photos and videos more easily across your devices; new Messages features to easily share voice, video or photos with just a swipe; and an entirely new Health app that gives you a clear overview of your health and fitness data all in one place. iOS 8 also includes predictive typing for Apple’s QuickType keyboard; Family Sharing, the easiest way to share…
Apple Announces OS X Yosemite
Apple today announced OS X Yosemite, a powerful new version of OS X redesigned and refined with a fresh, modern look, powerful new apps and amazing new continuity features that make working across your Mac and iOS devices more fluid than ever. The new Today view in Notification Center gives you a quick look at everything you need to know, all in one place; iCloud Drive is located within the Finder and can store files of any type; and Safari has a new streamlined design that puts the most important controls at your fingertips. Mail makes editing and sending attachments easier than ever; Handoff lets you start an activity on…
Apple’s WWDC 2014 Keynote
We are covering this event live today, here but also on our Twitter feed @theappwhisperer. Keep refreshing this page and we bring you the latest news as it happens! iOS 8 – 3rd parties can use TouchID – cannot gain access to your personal security info though iOS 8 – you can install 3rd party keyboards if you do not like Apple’s new one iOS 8 Apple allowing developers to build widgets and extensions – new photo app will allow 3rd party filters TestFlight beta incorporated into iOS 8 – making beta testing easier for developers iOS 8 explore tab, trending searches, editors choice logo and app bundles from the…
Streets Ahead – Thirty Sixth Edition – Mobile Street Photography
Welcome to the thirty sixth edition of “Streets Ahead,” a weekly column dedicated to women mobile street photographers. Each week we review and curate work that was submitted to our Flickr Group. In addition to creating a showcase video which features a sampling of submitted work, we also highlight a few images that caught our attention… offering some thoughtful commentary about technique, composition, and subject matter. If you are not a member of our Facebook group… we highly recommend that you join us! This is our space for sharing newsworthy information and conducting discussions (what, when, where, why and how) about Women Photographers/Artists and Street Photography, in general. So, if…
