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Richard Koci Hernandez Joins The App Whisperer As A New Columnist
We’re delighted to welcome Richard Koci Hernandez as one of our new Columnists to theappwhisperer.com. Koci as he is fondly known is a national Emmy® award-winning video and multimedia producer who worked as a photographer at the San Jose Mercury News for 15 years. His work for the Mercury News has earned him two Pulitzer Prize nominations and was awarded a national Emmy® award for the New Approaches to Documentary category for his work on the film,Uprooted. His work has appeared in Time, Newsweek, The New York Times and international magazines, including Stern, and he has worked with lynda.com to produce a course on iPhoneography, iPhone Photography, from Shooting to Storytelling. In 2007 after taking his…
Perfectly Clear – Photo Correction (Automatic) – Updated
The latest update to Perfectly Clear has just hit the Apple App store and this time comes with a completely redesigned interface. It’s also gone ‘universal’, meaning you can run it on both your iPhone or iPad (although there is a separate HD iPad version as well – this one has not yet been updated to the same spec). It’s also been fitted with a ‘powerful noise removal’ tool – without the need for an in-app purchase. Using technology not unlike some very popular Mac photo software developers, it promises to ‘render flawless skin, sparkling eyes and teeth’. In addition, If you are someone that likes pointing your iOS device…
Camera Boost 3 for iPad – New And Temporarily Free
The developers of Camera Boost 3 for iPad, Interealtime Software, have just sent us a head’s up about their new camera app. The developers explain that ‘It’s the result of many months of hard work, and we think it’s now the best camera app available for the iPad. It’s full featured (photo + video, and the usual ‘pro’ tools like separate focus / exposure / WB locks), includes a unique night mode for low light photo + video (true long exposure like NightCap, no other iPad app offers this) plus the most powerful image processing system available on iOS. The really cool thing about it: all the filters and effects…
ShockMyPic – 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 ShockMyPic apps, each worth $0.99/£0.69. ShockMyPic is an incredibly popular app with many iPhone photographers and artists, just recently it was mentioned in our interview with revered iPhone artist Cindy Patrick, if you missed that go here. ShockMyPic is described by the developer as ‘enhances your images by applying a Van Gogh-like painting filter. ShockMyPic should not be the only image processing…
Kuster’s Last Stand – ‘Ordinary To Extraordinary’
Recently, due to a few changes in my life and not wanting my son to deal with the inner-city school system, I’ve moved back to the western suburbs of Chicago to the neighborhood where I grew up. While I’m happy for my son, I must admit I find my surroundings very clean, convenient and peaceful. The only problem is that when you add all these adjectives together they add up to only one word…BORING! © Kevin Kuster – ‘BUS STOP’ (Photograph take at school bus parking lot) Although I love living in the suburbs, creatively I feel like I am drowning in a sea of just plain vanilla.…
Kevin Kuster Joins The App Whisperer As A New Columnist
We’re delighted to welcome Kevin Kuster as one of our new Columnists to theappwhisperer.com. Kevin is a professional photographer and was the Senior Photography Editor for Playboy Magazine and Managing Content Producer for Playboy Digital for 18 years. Currently, Kevin is producer, Chief Editor at the #JJ community (@joshjohnson on Instagram) and a partner at Creator Gallery. Kevin’s column will be entitled ‘Kusters Last Stand’, found under ‘Kuster’ on our homepage and will be focused on mobile photography and will be light, fun and informative, with lots of great images, of course. We recently welcomed Richard Gray, Misho Baranovic, Dan Marcolina and Keith Tharp as Columnists to theappwhisperer and we…
Our Flickr Group Showcase – Mobile Photography & Imagery – October 28, 2012
Don’t miss this weeks Flickr Group showcase – our group Mobile Photography and Imagery is growing all the time. Take a look at our Top Ten Picks for this week. To join our Flickr group, go here. With many thanks this week to Shel Serkin, TokyoGyango (Keisuke Takahashi), Librarymook, Veevs, Roger Guetta, Andy Royston, Lindsey Thompson, Gary Gardiner, Hans Borghorst and Souichi Furusho. Don’t forget to keep uploading your images and next week you could be featured in our showcase too. Many thanks to everyone and have a great weekend! Video Showcase
ProCam XL – Temporarily Free
ProCam XL for your iPad sports an intuitive interface that provides unobstructed control of all main camera functions through a rotatable mode dial and zoom knob. The orientation adaptive UI fully supports all orientations for the best user experience, particularly when using the volume snap & volume torch buttons. The status bar displays all selected functions and battery status. Usually this app retails for $1.99/£1.49 but today you can pick it up for free. Click here to download.
ScratchCam FX – Updated
ScratchCam FX is one of the most popular iPhone photography apps around and it has just been updated with 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 $1.99/£1.49/download. There’s a few new features in this update, but with one big impact on your ScratchCam workflow! So what’s the BIG change? Now you can stack layers from the same group using the new “Stamp” button! The stamp button also gives ultimate control over individual effects when used with the opacity slider. Other neat updates include: *…
iPhone Photography Tutorial – ‘Eternal Mystery Series’ By NaProsvet
Today I wanted to create a grand tutorial on one of my recent series’ that I have titled “Eternal Mystery”. These three final images are included within it and of course, they all are complex and made up of several images, so I have detailed the processes below and show you how to create them. Links to all the apps used and mentioned in this post are at the end of this article. Step 1 First things first I will detail the creation of the first (base) image. I shot the original image with the Pudding Cam app. Step 2 Next, I ran it through the Decim8 using FOLD4RAP5 effect. Step 3…






















