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iSights – ‘Comedy Is Risky’ By Janine Graf
We’re delighted to publish the very first of Janine Graf’s ‘iSights’ new column with us. iSights is a Column that we have created for Janine to interpret her images into tutorials for us, other times she’s going to be telling us about her inspirations in mobile photography and art, some weeks she will be expressing her ideas and news about the community. We’re going to leave it to her to surprise us, one thing we do know for sure, is that each post will have a huge splattering of humor and we so love her humor and you will too. Janine’s Column is called iSights which she describes as ‘”a spin on…
World Photography Organisation (WPO) Interviews The App Whisperer – Now Live!
The World Photography Organisation (WPO) has just published an interview with me regarding mobile photography and art. In this interview you may find out a little more about theappwhisperer.com and myself, than you previously knew, or thought you knew. There’s even a picture! I’m on the left, second image in the article (thanks Dilshad). I also threw out a few of these questions I was asked to some of our Columnists to get a more rounded view, many thanks to Janine Graf, Jennifer Bracewell, Sarah Jarrett also Dan Berman of the MPA’s and Benamon Tame. Take a look at the interview and let me know what you think. Here’s a…
AnyShape – Photo Editor – iOS Tutorial – Using The Selection Tool & FX Filters
In this tutorial, the third in a series (if you’ve missed the others, go here), I am going to have some fun using Any Shape’s selection tool and its FX filters. I won’t be covering how to use the selection tool in any detail or the FX filters as I’ve already been there in the first two tutorials. So I’ll be moving through some steps pretty quickly. There are five separate “stages” to this project, each will have the same work flow sequence but on a different part of the image. I tell you this now so if you get the sequence down after the first or second “stage”, feel…
Mobile Shorts Tiny Shutter Advantage – Snapseed – The New Update
Keith Tharp has sent through his latest video tutorial article for his weekly Tiny Shutter Mobile Shorts Column. In this weeks tutorial Keith walks us through the latest Snapseed update and demonstrates how to use it, fast. If you haven’t picked up Snapseed yet, then we suggest you do, it’s an excellent app and following the acquisition by Google of the developers Nik Software, this app is now free and will remain so. It’s available for both Android and iOS devices. (Foreword by Joanne Carter) Android download link iOS download link Video Walkthrough
ShutterSnitch – Updated
ShutterSnitch is a great app allowing you to wirelessly transfer images to your iPad from your Eye-Fi card, PTP/IP enabled device or a Canon, Nikon or other file transmitter that supports uploading to an FTP server over your wireless network. This app has just been updated with WebDAV added to locations as well as the addition of a setting to show the network SSID in the status bar. There’s also the facility to sort the filmstrip on rating too now. This is a free update, if you have previously downloaded this app. If not, you can download it here. It retails for $15.99/£10.99 and you can download/update it here. …
Instagram – New Filter Update
Willow is the name of the new filter in this latest Instagram update and it’s a monochrome effect filter. There’s also a few other improvements including the quality of the tilt-shift effect and you can scroll infinitely on user profiles and other grid views. As well as all that, there’s also a Foursquare button on location pages that opens the Foursquare app. This is a free update, to a free app. You can download/update it here.
Twitter Adds Photo Filters To Android Mobile App – iOS Version To Follow
We knew Twitter would be launching an all out war shortly with Instagram and Facebook and this is just the start. So far only for the Android version of Twitter has updated to include photo filters. The iOS version is due to follow on shortly. Aviary are the powerhorses behind this update, very much as they were for Flickr earlier in the year. There are currently eight filters available for the Android version right now. You select a filter by comparing all your options in a convenient grid view or by swiping through each version. There’s the facility to make your photos pop with balanced light and colors by tapping…
New Android Smartphone Giveaway With TheAppWhisperer.com
As our regular readers will know we have teamed up with Virgin Mobile US to offer you some great giveaways. We recently made Daniel Hernandez in California very happy when he received a brand new HTC One V Smartphone after winning our competition in September and Camilla Sanchez from Texas wll soon be in receipt of a brand new PCD Chaser smartphone too, following our competition from last month. This time we’re giving away a Virgin Mobile Venture smartphone, worth $99, see image below. It’s a simple entry level smartphone with featuring a 2.8″ touchscreen, QWERTY keyboard, and a 2.0MP camera & camcorder. So, I guess you’re wondering what we…
Camera Awesome Now iPad Friendly
Camera Awesome by SmugMug has just received an update that brings with it native iPad support. This is a feature that many users have been waiting for, for some time. This is a free app and update, click here to download.
A Day In The Life Of Elaina Wilcox – A Very Talented Professional Photographer Turned 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 seventieth first installment of the series, if you have missed our previous interviews please go here. Elaina started working as a professional photographer in the early 90’s as an event and music photographer. She moved to Austin Texas and her music photography career went into full bloom. in 2010 Elaina moved with her husband to Los Angeles…
