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Vintage Scene Photography App Now Available for Android
Vintage Scene by JixiPix has long been a very popular app on the iOS system and we’re really pleased to see it port over to Android today. It offers the mobile photographer the opportunity to give their images a retro look, using a unique algorithm which combines, sepia tone, grain, darkened edges, distressed paper all at once. Along with that though, it gives the user control to edit each component for their individual look. Vintage Scene is available at Google Play for £1.19 or equivalent in your country and you can download it here.
iOS Photography Technical Tutorial – TypeA – Adding Text To Images – by David Hayes
We’re delighted to publish this excellent tutorial by David Hayes based on the image text app TypeA. This is a new app and has been designed to enrich your images literally with text. David has put this app through its paces and we think you’ll find this an invaluable tutorial. Over to you David (foreword by Joanne Carter). TypeA retails for $0.99/£0.69 – you can download it here. My first professional job was with a small ad agency that specialized in creating ads for a local community paper. My job was to serve first as a typesetter and once that was done, a paste-up artist. This was back in…
iOS Photography App – Handy Photo – Temporary Price Drop
Handy Photo is literally that and is used by many iOS photographers. It’s packed with a powerful suite of editing tools these include the facility to paint filters onto images and more, it’s incredibly slick. Usually Handy Photo retails for $1.99/£1.49 but today you can pick it up for $0.99/£0.69. Click here to download.
iOS Photography App – Camera Plus Updated with ‘AirSnap’
Camera Plus is a popular app for iPhone photography, not as popular as Camera+ but it has its own standing. It has just been updated with a very interesting feature called ‘AirSnap’. Essentially AirSnap enables you to turn your iOS device (Phone, iPad, Touch, running iOS 7) into a remote control for another iOS device. It works via Bluetooth or WiFi, one device acts as the lead camera and the other as the remote. This is an interesting proposition to be added to a camera app, there are plenty of trigger modules but none like this. This is a free update, if you have previously purchased Camera Plus. If not…
Samsung Announces Stylish Accessories Range For Galaxy S5
Samsung Electronics today unveiled a range of premium accessories to complement its new Galaxy S5 smartphone, on sale in the UK on Friday 11th April. The Samsung S-View cover is back for the Galaxy S5 in a range of five metallic colour options – Black, White, Green, Rose Gold and Pink – complete with a leather-look finish for a more sophisticated effect. The perfect companion for your Galaxy S5, the S-View cover allows you to see notifications of incoming calls and messages, take photos and listen to your music – all without even having to open the cover, so you can keep up with all the goings-on in your life…
Photo Tool Apps – The new SanDisk Wireless Flash Drive
We’re delighted to publish this excellent review by Emanuel Faria to our new Mobile Photo Tool Apps section. Emmanuel has recently purchased the new SanDisk 32 GB wireless flash drive and has been so impressed with it, from a mobile photography point of view, that he wanted to create this article and we’re so pleased that he has, it’s a great help to us all. Over to you Emmanuel (foreword by Joanne Carter). “I recently bought a 32GB Wireless Flash Drive. I’ve been on a quest for a memory add-on, on the move, for my iPhone, able to transfer and receive tons of images. I capture and work…
Photo Education – Accessible Photography through Switch Access in iOS 7
We are delighted to publish the second tutorial to our brand new section within theappwhisperer – Photo Education & Accessibility. There are many photographers and artists with special needs, whether this relates to visual issues even bordering on blindness (yes it’s true), to deafness (not many people know this, but I personally endure severe hearing loss) to many other challenges people have. These include mental health issues, physical issues and more. We want to ensure that whatever your difficulty you can still enjoy photography and art, it’s so therapeutic. We welcomed Luis Perez to theappwhisperer family as our Photo Education Editor last month. We recently interview Luis in our Day…
Flickr Group Showcase – TheAppWhisperer (TAW) – March 23, 2014
We are delighted to publish this weeks Flickr Group Showcase, the creativity that is produced by this medium every single week is completely mesmerizing. This week we lead with street photography, we have received a huge number of sublime images this week and it’s fabulous. We then move into the first signs of Spring that many of us have enjoyed this week, with some beautiful still life and landscape images and finally we have curated the most beautiful and inspiring portraiture. Please enjoy this journey with us and view the world through incredibly enchanting mobile photography… This week we have received more entries than ever to our Flickr Group, we…
Mobile Movies Showcase – Week 24 – By Donna Donato
Welcome back to the twenty-fourth article in the Column, Mobile Movies. We at TheAppWhisperer have been inspired by the Flickr upgrade of 1 Terabyte of storage for everyone and have wanted to launch a mobile movie section for some time. Now seems to be perfect, the new Flickr upgrade will allow for a full three minutes of 1080p HD quality video per single film and you can have as many as you have storage space for. Each week I (you can find me on Flickr here) will curate the movie uploads to our new Flickr group –MobileMoviesTheAppWhisperer – I will view all the videos uploaded and comment on the chosen ones. ”The…
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Tickle Your Fancy – #30
Welcome back to our thirtieth post in our new section ‘Tickle Your Fancy’. ‘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 site. We hope you enjoy this weeks’ selections… Fashion Magazine Shoots…
