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New – Vine for Windows Phone Announced!
We’re excited to note that Vine for Windows has finally arrived! It looks quite similar to the iOS and Android versions but it’s not quite so fast to process Vines as with iOS. We are having a complete ‘session’ in town/London tomorrow with the Vine team, so we’ll be able to report more following that. In the meantime, check out the video walkthrough below. If you have a Windows phone and would like to give it a whirl, go here.
645 PRO Mk II – Updated
645 PRO Mk II is one of the most popular apps for iPhone photography and rightly so, it’s supported by a dedicated and committed developer, Michael Hardaker and is regularly updated and improved. This update brings some great new features, check out What’s New below. 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. What’s New? * Digital zoom may, optionally, be disabled * Enhanced Bracket Mode performance * Numerous detail enhancements for iOS 7 & iPhone 5s * Minor bug-fixes * Now requires iOS 6.1 or higher
ProCam XL 2 – New Photo App For iOS
ProCam XL 2 is a new app for iOS from Samer Azzam – the same developer that brought us ProCam XL, ProCam, ProCam 2 and PhotoFusion. The developers explain that ‘ProCam XL has been redesigned from the ground up to perfectly compliment iOS 7 with a focus on function over form while still bringing a beautifully streamlined interface’. There’s support for true lossless TIFF (19.1MB 5MP iPad mini / iPad Retina 3rd Generation / iPad Retina 4th Generation / iPad Air / iPad mini Retina), 20 live filters, Slo-Mo mode, high speed time lapse video and more. We have published many tutorials on ProCam, if you missed those, please go…
TheAppWhisperer (TAW) ProCamera Competition Winners Announced!
We’re delighted to announce the winners of our mobile photography Night Shots competition, held in association with ProCamera app and sponsored by Manfrotto, Olloclip and SnowLizard products, if you missed this originally, please see here. Our main Judge for this competition was Miranda Gavin. Miranda a Freelance writer, blogger, photographer and educator. Additional Judges included Award Winning Mobile Photographer and App Whisperer Contributor Nettie Edwards and our incredibly talented Columnist and Mobile Photographer JQ Gaines. We have some wonderful prizes to giveaway, each first place prize winner will receive: A complete mobile kit from Manfrotto including a new KLYP iPhone Case with PIXI Tripod and continuous LED flashlight. One Olloclip…
Technical iOS Photo Watermarking/Text App Tutorial – ‘Phonto’ – A Few Words on Words – by Jerry Jobe
It’s with great pleasure that we publish Jerry Jobe’s latest Technical Tutorial, this time based on the uber popular photo text/watermarking app Phonto, don’t miss this – over to you Jerry (foreword by Joanne Carter). Phonto is free and you can download it here (although there are in-app purchases available). ‘Sometimes, when you come to the end of your workflow, you may feel the need to say a few words. While most artists are primarily visual, sometimes a verbal boost is just what is needed. A title, a quote – perhaps even a letter or two – will help you in your creative process. Phonto, by youthhr, is one…
aremaC – iOS Photography App – Temporarily Free
aremaC is a popular customizable photo app with some great photo editing effects, usually it retails fro $1.99/£1.49 but today it’s free. Click here to download.
Samsung Opens New Mobile Support Centre In Teddington, UK
Samsung Electronics UK has today announced it is working in collaboration with The Repair Station to launch a new Mobile Support Centre in Teddington, Middlesex. From Friday 15th November, the new walk-in centre will give customers the chance to get up-to-date advice on all of Samsung’s smart mobile products and check that they are performing to the highest specification. Providing advice and service support, staff will be on hand to discuss upgrade options with customers. The Repair Station will also include an in-house workshop, where customers will be able to update their products with the latest software and resolve any suspected technical issues. A premium one hour repair service will…
Camera Awesome Now Available For Android From SmugMug
SmugMug has launched the Android version of its super-popular app, Camera Awesome. The camera-boosting app enables users to capture, edit and share the perfect shot. · With this launch, SmugMug also built some new Android-specific features like high-speed burst shooting mode, facial recognition and tracking, and selective filtering. · The new app will have additional functionality on supported NVIDIA® Tegra® 4 devices through a new partnership between SmugMug and NVIDIA. Camera Awesome is pre-installed on NVIDIA’s Tegra Note, the platform for tablets such as the EVGA Tegra Note 7 and the ADVENT Vega Tegra Note 7.Today, SmugMug launched the Android version of its super-popular app, Camera Awesome. The camera-boosting app…
Creative Android Mobile Photography Tutorial – By AlyZen Moonshadow – ‘Not Quite Photoshop…but close. PART 1. AN EPIPHANY’
We’re delighted to republish a series of Android mobile photography tutorials by AlyZen Moonshadow. This series of tutorials started as an experiment for AlyZen to create seamless repeating patterns and in many ways it has now taken on a life of its own. This is is the first from the series and we’ll be publishing the others very soon. Over to you AlyZen (foreword by Joanne Carter). Click here to download PicsArt from the Google Play Store ‘So, some of you may be wondering how my adventures in Photoshop are going. Not much to report, actually, I haven’t had much opportunity to practice what I learnt the last time,…
Watts of Love – Philippines Disaster Relief With Kevin Kuster
Our wonderful columnist Kevin Kuster (previously Senior Photo Editor for Playboy magazine) is working with the non-profit @watts_of_love. They distributed 1000 solar LED lights to Ilin Island last February to the poorest of the poor and the effects were life changing. Ilin Island has never had any electricity, running water or medical assistance. The 35,000 islanders have been all but forgotten and struggle to survive every day. They have just received word that much of the Ilin island and its neighboring islands have been crushed by typhoon #hayian and #yolanda. Although they don’t have all details yet, we do know that almost every bamboo hut on Ilin has been completely…
