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PowerSketch – Temporarily Free
PowerSketch is described by the developers as ‘a fascinating yet easy-to-use app that brings out the Picasso in you. 10+ realistic and creative sketch effects come standard with PowerSketch, including rice paper, picture-in-picture, shadow, wash, neon, and more. You can capture an image and turn it into a sketch or select an image from your camera roll or gallery to convert to a sketch’. This app usually retails for $0.99/£0.69 but today you can download it for free. Click here to download.
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Tutorial – Technical – Layover – A First Look
For a long time there were only a couple of apps that everyone seemed to use when they wanted to blend layers. Apps like Iris, Image Blender, and Juxtaposer. Each of these have their strengths and are quite dependable blenders. However, you can only blend two layers at a time when using these which can slow you down if, you’re working with more than two layers while building your image. Recently the same folks, Peak Systems, that brought us Diptic introduced a new blending app, Layover. It’s been out long enough to work out some of its newness and was updated back in mid-October. What’s special about Layover is that…
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DS Styles – Camera Crystallized Swarovski iPhone 5 Case
We’re currently running a wonderful competition to win a $250 Swarovski iPhone 5 case and we have ten runner up prizes of awesome cases worth $25 each, so in total that’s a $500 giveaway we are currently running, see here for more details on that. I want to tell you what my iPhone 5 is currently dressed with. It’s this gorgeous 1,000 handcrafted crystallized Swarovski Camera Case (seen below). It is beautiful and I just love it. It comes in a beautiful box with cleaning cloth, superior soft pouch, phone strap and product certificate, there’s also a few spare crystals in case you need them too. My white iPhone 5…
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ColorStrokes HD – New
ColorStrokes is a new app for your iPad or iPad Mini which lets you create stunning images with selective colors and mix and play with the colors on all your photos too is so many ways. There’s also an iPhone version available as well as a Mac version, see here, and this iPad/Mini version comes with similar powers of the Mac app but optimised for the tablet. If you’d like to try the iPhone or HD versions, just click on the links below: iPhone/$0.99/£0.69/download iPad/$0.99/£0.69/download
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LensLight – Updated
LensLight is another very popular app with iPhone photographers and it’s just had a huge update for iOS 6, iPhone 5 and new content. There’s new effects, new improved interface, social sharing and universal support. This is a free update, if you have previously downloaded this app, if not, you can download it here. It retails for $0.99/£0.69/download. Video Demonstration
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A Day In The Life Of Kimberly Post Rowe aka @iPhotoArtist – The Most Incredible Botanical Mobile Photographer
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 sixty sixth installment of the series, if you have missed our previous interviews, please go here. Today, we are featuring Kimberly Post Rowe also known as @iPhotoArtist who currently lives in Maine, USA. Kimberly holds a BFA in Fine Art Photography and MEd, and is passionate about teaching and learning. Although she is a working artist, her “real” job…
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Virgin Media Launch Their TV Anywhere App For The UK
We were recently invited to Virgin Media’s Head Office in London to view their brand new TV Anywhere app, we were incredibly impressed and wrote more about it here. We knew that this new app would be launched soon and we’re really delighted to announce that it is now available to download. This app is free to download and is available for both iPhone and iPad. You will need a TiVo box and of course, be a Virgin Media customer. Click here to download and read more about the great features of this app below. Features If you’ve got Virgin Media: TiVo Service on your television then you’ll…
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Samsung GALAXY Camera – First UK Stock
It’s arrived folks! If you’ve been eager to get your hands on the The Samsung Galaxy camera and you’re based in the UK, you can now head over either online or physically to any Jessops store today and pick one up. This is a great product and Kevin our Technical Reviewer tried one out at Photokina back in October last month and was very impressed. Our review sample will be landing in our labs any day now so we’ll be able to run through it with you. Jessops are currently selling this camera in white or cobalt, for £399.99 including VAT with free delivery. Click here to take a look…
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AnyShape Photo Editor – Our Daily App Giveaway
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 AnyShape Photo Editor apps, each worth $1.99/£1.49. Our Head of Technical Tutorials, David Hayes has written several tutorials on this app, you can read the first one here and the second will be published shortly. David describes this app as a ‘real sleeper’ and he didn’t expect it to be as good and versatile as it really is, the more he used…
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Bleach Bypass – Updated
Bleach Bypass is a popular app for iPhone photographers that adds a cinematic quality to your images. It has just been updated with a bug fix for receiving images from other photo apps via PhotoAppLink. Also, the developers have added applied filter details to IPTC tags within output range. This is a free update, if you have previously downloaded this app. If not, you can download it here. It retails for $0.99/£0.69/download,