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Hotshoe Publishes – The App Whisperer’s 2012 Mobile Photography Showcase of the Year
We’re delighted to announce that Hotshoe has published our Mobile Photography Showcase of the year 2012, just last week it was also been published to dpreview, if you missed that go here. Hotshoe magazine is a fabulous contemporary photography magazine. Where you can expect an eclectic dip into the world of photography from a multidisciplinary perspective with an emphasis on raising questions and looking at current themes and concerns. We are determined to raise the profile of mobile photography and our reach is far and wide as our roots are, if you weren’t aware, within the ‘traditional’ photography national and international press. To see the article at Hotshoe, please go…
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Hipstamatic TinType SnapPak Review
We’ve just published this comprehensive review by Egmont van Dyck on the recently launched TinType SnapPak by Hipstamatic. It’s very extensive and we think you’ll enjoy this a lot, over to you Egmont (foreword by Joanne Carter). “With the release of Hipstamatic’s new Tintype lens and two accompanying film cartridges recently there has been a very positive response throughout the social network system. I myself immediately downloaded the new SnapPak and after just two exposures, felt it was necessary to do an extensive lens/film test, since the results obtained were intriguing. It was Hipstamatic creative director Aravind taking the lead on how to bring the old traditional look of…
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Apple App Store Tops 40 Billion Downloads with Almost Half in 2012
Apple today announced that customers have downloaded over 40 billion apps, with nearly 20 billion in 2012 alone. The App Store has over 500 million active accounts and had a record-breaking December with over two billion downloads during the month. Apple’s incredible developer community has created over 775,000 apps for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users worldwide, and developers have been paid over seven billion dollars by Apple. “It has been an incredible year for the iOS developer community,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet Software and Services. “Developers have made over seven billion dollars on the App Store, and we continue to invest in providing them…
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Xtrafolio – Our Daily App Giveaway – Worth $16.99/£11.99
Welcome once again to our Daily App Giveaway section of theappwhisperer. We value our readers so much and that’s why we want to share our love of apps with you. Each day we give away free apps, better make us your home page 😉 Today, we’re giving away Xtrafolio Photo Portfolio Professional iPad apps, each worth $16.99/£11.99. This app has recently had a major update that has been many months in the making. This App provides you the possibility to personalise and to control the use your iPad as a professional photo Portfolio. With the Xtrafolio application your iPad will look as if it were designed especially for you. The…
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PictureBook – The Jealousy of Toys By Benamon Tame
Benamon Tame’s brand new Column with us is called PictureBook and this is his first article to that. In PictureBook Benamon concentrates on the the story behind the image. As Benamon himself describes it: ‘As Photographic artists we do not just capture stories but create them, the journey behind and the image we present. PictureBook draws on Images selected from my own story series but will also look at the work of the other story tellers within the community’. Don’t miss ultra inspiring and oh so creative article and from Benamon, we’d expect nothing less, absolutely fabulous. (foreword by Joanne Carter). Syster fell to the ground. Her lower arms…
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Mobile Shorts Tiny Shutter Advantage – By Keith Tharp – Blend Modes For iPhone With Image Blender
We are sure you are going to love this weeks Mobile Shorts Tiny Shutter Advantage Column by Keith Tharp. Keith demonstrates how to use the incredibly popular Image Blender app to create your very own and personal textures for your images. If you haven’t yet picked up Image Blender then we strongly recommend that you do. It’s available for $2.99/£1.99 and you can download it here. Over to you Keith (foreword by Joanne Carter). Walkthrough Video
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645 PRO – Updated
645 PRO is an incredibly popular app for iPhone photography and one that many of the highly succesful iPhone photographers that we have interviewed, use regularly. The beautiful image below, for example was captured with it and was taken by MaryJane Sarvis. This update to 645 PRO brings with an several great features which you can see below. This is a free update, if you have previously downloaded this app. If not, you can download it here. It retails for $2.99/£1.99. What’s New? © MaryJane Sarvis – ‘Ballet Pink’ – 645PRO, Snapseed, iPhoto, Shockmypic, TouchRetouch, Paintfx ➢ Enhanced live preview ➢ Enhanced saving ➢ Enhanced Q-Mode and viewfinder…
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Moku Hanga/HD – Updated
We mentioned this app yesterday, in Lola Mitchell’s new Column ‘The App Nerds Workshop Session one‘. Lola describes how she used this app to ‘hide’ the pixelation on the pelican image that she demonstrates. This app has just been updated with faster rendering, iPhone 5 support and iOS 6 support. This is a free update, if you have previously downloaded this app. If not, you can download it below, depending on whether you want the iPhone version or the iPad HD version.It retails for $2.99/£1.99. iPhone iPad
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The App Nerds Workshop By Lola Mitchell – Session One
Last week we announced Lola Mitchell as our new Columnist, if you missed that please go here. Today, we are very excited to publish Lola’s first article for her new column, The App Nerds Workshop. The App Nerds Workshop is something very different and we are very excited about it. It will become a virtual classroom, an environment for new talent to share their work, for Lola to share some of the ways she uses apps and for the not so new talent to share some secrets. Lola will sometimes assign broad themes to keep the creative juices flowing. We are hoping this will be a grand scale creative interactive…
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A Day In The Life Of Thérèse Cherton – An Incredibly Talented And Versatile iPhone Artist
Welcome to our very exciting column on theappwhisperer.com. This section entitled ‘A day in the life of …’ and this is where we take a look at some hugely influential, interesting and accomplished individuals in the mobile photography world. People that we think you will love to learn more about. This is our seventy fourth installment of the series, if you have missed our previous interviews, please go here. Thérèse lives in Brussels and studied graphic arts, typography and photo manipulation techniques in the darkroom and “photo engraving”. The arrival of the Mac as a primary tool for photogravure madeher convert her existing techniques and Photoshop. As this was not…