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iOS Photography App – Camera Plus Pro – Updated
Global Delight today is proud to release a new version of their popular professional camera app. The new Camera Plus Pro brings a major redesign to the interface and workflow to complement iOS 7 and its style along with Full-Resolution Image Editing, HD Video Zoom, iMessage Sharing and much more! Users also get to experience fully featured smartphone photography with options like Focus and Exposure controls, Live Filters With Preview, Tweaking of Brightness, Contrast, Sharpness and much more in a slick and uncluttered manner. This gives users the freedom of complete control over their captures. With Camera Plus Pro users get to choose from wonderful filters (both live and post-capture),…
Phone Art – An Exhibition of The Art of Mobile Photography by Gerry Coe
We’re delighted to publish details of Phone Art – An Exhibition of The Art of Mobile Photography by Gerry Coe at Bangor Carnegie Library, Northern Ireland. This exhbtion runs from 4th – 30th April 2014. Gerry will be there in person to meet and chat with on Wednesday 9th April from 1 pm to 5 pm and also on Saturday 12th April from 11.30 am to 5.00 pm. It looks like a wonderful show, if you’re in the area, don’t miss this!
iOS – MyBrushes Pro – Temporary Price Drop
MyBrushes Pro is the ‘professional’ version available for both the iPhone and the iPad of this very popular painting app. MyBrushes Pro allows you to create images and then playback the entire painting process. It’s simple to use and fast, it offers an unlimited size canvas, unlimited layers and unlimited undo and redo. Usually MyBrushes Pro retails for $4.99/£2.99 but today it’s avaialble for only $2.99/£1.99. Click here to download.
iOS Art App – Frax – Temporary Price Drop
Frax is an app that is packed with unique effects and patterns, it’s actually completely mesmerizing and it works fast, there’s no lag. Frax raises the fractal in 3D height, uses complex color gradients to smoothly tint and shade them, adds two light sources for glossy reflections and infinitely scaleable chaotic textures – all in all using almost 100 parameters and controls. Frax allows you to create Intricate patterns, spirals, valleys, super smooth or wildly chaotic, metallic sheen or pearly white, subtle shades, stark monochrome or screaming super glossy, with scintillating color animated in realtime, as do both lights – and all that while you pan, rotate, zoom and tilt.…
Paper by Fifty Three – Updated and Revamped!
Paper by Fifty Three is an incredibly popular iOS art app. We recently hosted a competition to win a fabulous Pencil (stylus) by Fifity Three – if you missed that, please go here. This article though concerns the latest update to this app. Paper’s update consists of a visual refresh for iOS 7, allowing for simpler controls throughout Paper as well as design tweaks. They’re mostly size adjustments, strokes are smaller, variable dot sizing for the Draw and Eraser tools, automatic brush size adjustments for the Eraser and Colour and Blend tools whilst working with the Zoom loupe open. This is a free update to a free app (there are…
‘Portrait of an Artist’ – New Column by Jennifer Bracewell
We are delighted to announce a brand new Column on theappwhisperer.com today entitled ‘Portrait of an Artist’. This Column will be edited by Jennifer Bracewell and will include interviews and articles with mobile portraiture photographers. We also have a dedicated Facebook group set up for this Column too – please join us here. Jennifer will be regularly adding and contributing to this and we are hopping it will follow with the same success our as Streets Ahead Column and Facebook group. 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…
iPhone Photography Technical Tutorial – Layer Pic and Background Eraser: Images in isolation – By Jerry Jobe
We’re delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest tutorial, this weeks’ tutorial is with two apps that you may not yet have tried using to create collages, Layer Pic and Background Eraser (just click on the names for a link to the app store). Jerry puts these two apps through their paces and comes up with some incredibly interesting images. Don’t miss this, over to you Jerry. (foreword by Joanne Carter). “Last May I talked about creating collages – putting various images together to create a new work. I reviewed Superimpose, which allows you to “lift” part of an image and “superimpose” it on another. During the last couple of weeks,…
The Mobile Masters PROOF Event On March 26th!
Now that the Mobile Masters Contest is over come see the winners announced at The Mobile Masters PROOF Event On March 26th! Moscone Center – North Hall, San Francisco, CA Tap Here for Tickets and More Info http://marcolina.com/mobilemasters/mobilemasters_2014.pdf We have a limited amount of Buy One and Get One Half Price tickets please contact Dan Marcolina ASAP if you are interested >> 215.840.3355 or mm@marcolina.com Event Information Mobile Masters 2 at Macworld/iWorld 2014 March 26th is an extreme all-day (10am to 7pm) photography workshop that will lunge you deep into the Processes, Products and Possibilities of the Mobile Photo Movement. Dan Marcolina (iPhone Obsessed, AppAlchemy), Jack Hollingsworth (@photojack),…
iOS Photography – Halftone 2 Comic Creation App Adds 3D Perspective and Custom Shapes
Halftone 2, an Apple Editors’ Choice and App Store Best of 2013 winner, has added a new perspective feature that enables users to interactively tilt and rotate their graphic elements. The update also adds support for user-defined graphic shapes, making it easy to incorporate custom photos and artwork. “The new 3D perspective feature makes it easy to tilt captions, balloons, WHAMs, and BAMs to add more excitement and action,” says Mike Swanson, Founder of Juicy Bits. “Best of all, if you export an image using Halftone 2’s anaglyph format, you can put on a pair of red and cyan 3D glasses and see the shapes jump right out of the…
Birth Photography – ‘The Growing Trend’
A very interesting article in The Guardian this morning by Rachel Holmes discusses the ‘growing trend’ of birth photography and birth photographers. I have to say that personally, it’s not something I wanted photographed per se although both my husband (Kevin Carter) and I always have one or more cameras with us, so it wasn’t something I was likely to avoid. Kevin only took a few images each time (3) and admits to feeling slightly ‘weird’ during the act, I was too focused on the job in hand to take a lot of notice. But as to whether I would hire a ‘stranger’ to photograph this very private moment is…




























