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Appstrax – ‘Abstract Art And Abstractionists’
‘Joanne was kind enough to have me join her incredible stable of visual experts and writers to craft articles about those areas of image creation that they are most infatuated with. For me it is Abstract Art created with my iPhone, ergo the title of this column, Appstrax. So without further ado, I am here to shake things up a bit. My intention is to open your eyes to the unequivocal beauty of abstractions and to all those incredible lines of code that can wondrously aid you in creating these marvelous works of art. No, I am not necessarily referencing the “camera replacement apps” or, those “filter flavor of…
Rudy Vogel – ‘The Renaissance Man’ – Joins The App Whisperer As A New Columnist
We’re delighted to welcome Rudy Vogel as one of our new Columnists to theappwhisperer.com. Rudy think of himself as a ‘Renaissance Man’: schooled in several disciplines and a practitioner of commerce, computer science and, most recently my Digital Art, which he has perfected over the last ten years. Rudy has traveled the world on business and has thereby inculcated the exotic tastes, colors, and aromas of foreign lands from the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Europe and the Caribbean into his work. Having grown and traveled with his father who was in the fashion business, he learned some of his craft through osmosis and instinctually portrays some hints of textile, fabrics,…
SwankoLab – Updated
The developers of Hipstamatic have just updated their digital darkroom kit, SwankoLab. It now includes new chemicals for Stu’s Catalog, Rockin’ Robin CB02, Insty-Texture Hot and Queen’s Vignette Cool. Also, Fantabra Magic Warm is back. Plus there’s a few iOS 6 bug fixes. This is a free update, if you have previously downloaded this app. If not, you can download it here. It retails for $1.99/£1.49.
Polamatic for iPad – New
Polamatic for iPad is a brand new app, a sister to the popular iPhone version. Once you’ve captured or imported your shot, you can then select from 12 Polaroid frames, 12 photo filters, light leaks, add text and share. There are several in-app filter packs available and these retails for $0.99/£0.69 per pack. This app retails for $2.99/£1.99 and you can download it here.
AfterFocus – 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 AfterFocus apps, each worth $0.99/£0.69. With AfterFocus, you can create DSLR-style background blurred photo by simply selecting a focus area, it also comes with various filter effects allowing you to create natural and realistic looking images. We recently mentioned AfterFocus in our A Day In The Life Interview with Dilshad Corleone, if you missed that, go here. Would you like to try…
EE launches superfast 4G and fibre for UK consumers and businesses today
Superfast services are available for consumers and businesses for the first time ever today as EE, the UK’s most advanced digital communications company, launches its new 4G service in 11 cities. The launch is set to offer a timely boost to the UK economy offering firms the opportunity to increase innovation, boost productivity and cut costs, as has been the experience of companies in countries such as the US, Sweden, Japan and Germany since the technology was first introduced. Today also marks the arrival of over 700 EE stores on high streets across the country in one of the biggest and fastest transformations in UK retail history. Olaf Swantee, CEO…
Pocket Snapper – iModel and Virtual Studio – Temporarily Free
Pocket Snapper is a popular iPhone photography app by developers kdanmobile who go on to describe it as ‘offering you more than just the photo fun! We have prepared pre-installed video clips of glamorous models that allow you to practice your photo shooting skills just as if you were in an authentic photo studio! Experience the fun of being a fashion photographers first hand! Pocket Snapper makes a perfect photo shooting app for both professionals and amateurs. The creativity that goes into the app not only provides users an exclusive iModel shooting experience but also lets you take advantage of its advanced photo-taking/editing technologies to customize photos’. If you’d like…
A Day In The Life Of Millo Salgado – An Outstanding 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 fourth installment of the series, if you have missed our previous interviews, please go here. Today, we are featuring Millo Salgado, an Architect, born in Colima, México, a small city near the Pacific Coast. Millo was born in 1972 and since then the sea has been near him, both physically and in his great images. Millo…
Halftone Tutorial – A Closer Look At The Photo Editor – ‘More There Than Meets The Eye’
In the “Tale of the Tilted Lamp” I showed you how easy it was to create a great comic book style panel using Halftone. In this article, I would like to take a closer look at the great Photo Editor that comes with this app and how you can use it to change the “feel” or “mood” of your panel. I also want to show you how the different paper styles available in Halftone and the dot settings can also be put to use! Sounds like a lot to cover in one article…and it is! So I’ll be moving through some things pretty quickly with the suggestion that you open…
Ask Misho – ‘How to Add Text To Your Instagram Photo Using PicFrame’
First up, I’m excited to be writing for The App Whisperer. As Joanne mentioned in my introduction I was going to write this column about street photography and storytelling but I’ve changed my mind. Instead, I’d like to make this column into an old fashioned ‘mailbag’ where you guys can ask me anything that you’d like to know about iPhoneography. I’m open to any types of questions including shooting process, editing, apps, sharing and accessories. (We are really pleased with this great initiative by Misho, please send any requests to the bottom of this post and Misho will endeavor to answer them). JC Instagram To start off I’m…
