TUTORIALS
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iOS Photography Technical Tutorial – Paper Camera & Pencil Camera by Jerry Jobe
We’re delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest iOS Photography App tutorial today. This time Jerry takes two apps Paper Camera and Pencil Camera and looks at the mechanics behind their effects. Don’t miss this, over to you Jerry (foreword by Joanne Carter). “Sometimes it’s nice to see an effect applied as you’re taking the picture or video, rather than waiting until later to see if the effect works with the photo. (I will concede that I find you get much better results by taking a normal image and apping it afterwards; I just realize that on rare occasions, a quick pic with effects already added can be fun.) Today…
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Inspired Eye – Photography Tutorial – ‘Thinking Like A Painter To Improve Your Photography’ by Olivier Duong
We’re delighted to be working closer with the Inspired Eye team as we continue to branch out and expand our reach with all things related to mobile photography. Inspired Eye is an incredible magazine and is heavily into in Street Photography but also covers other genres too. It offers a very full photographic experience. It is not ‘mobile’ per se and the following article is not directly related to ‘mobile’ but essentially photography is photography and we feel that this article is very relevant and helpful to us all. We’ve been chatting to the author and co-founder of Inspired Eye today Olivier Duong and he has given us kind permission to…
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iOS Black & White iPhone Photography Technical Tutorial by Paul Brown
We’re delighted to publish Paul Brown’s black and white iPhone Photography workflow tutorial. This iPhoneography workflow focuses on black and white photography. It touches on a combination of manual processes and quick automated processes via some powerful apps. We have published several of Paul Brown’s workflows recently. Please take a look at our Paul Brown archive here. Over to you Paul (foreword by Joanne Carter)… “Looking at black and white iPhone photography using my street image ‘municipal’ as an example. Is that an old master giving us license to go crazy in post processing or is he referring to skilled composition and exposure at capture? The answer I think is…
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iOS Photography Technical Tutorial – Dramatic Black & White by Jerry Jobe
We’re delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest iOS Photography App tutorial today. This time Jerry has put the very popular app ‘Dramatic Black & White’ by JixiPix through it’s paces. Dramatic Black and White is a hugely popular iOS photography app, we’re sure you will all enjoy this very much. Over to you Jerry, (foreword by Joanne Carter). “Last February I covered an app called Noir, which is a fast, and not very customizable, monochrome app. JixiPix’s Dramatic Black and White, available in separate iPhone and iPad versions, is much more customizable, with a wealth of presets that make good starting places for your conversion to black and white…
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iOS Photography Technical Tutorial – TypeA – Adding Text To Images – by David Hayes
We’re delighted to publish this excellent tutorial by David Hayes based on the image text app TypeA. This is a new app and has been designed to enrich your images literally with text. David has put this app through its paces and we think you’ll find this an invaluable tutorial. Over to you David (foreword by Joanne Carter). TypeA retails for $0.99/£0.69 – you can download it here. My first professional job was with a small ad agency that specialized in creating ads for a local community paper. My job was to serve first as a typesetter and once that was done, a paste-up artist. This was back in…
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Photo Tool Apps – The new SanDisk Wireless Flash Drive
We’re delighted to publish this excellent review by Emanuel Faria to our new Mobile Photo Tool Apps section. Emmanuel has recently purchased the new SanDisk 32 GB wireless flash drive and has been so impressed with it, from a mobile photography point of view, that he wanted to create this article and we’re so pleased that he has, it’s a great help to us all. Over to you Emmanuel (foreword by Joanne Carter). “I recently bought a 32GB Wireless Flash Drive. I’ve been on a quest for a memory add-on, on the move, for my iPhone, able to transfer and receive tons of images. I capture and work…
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iOS Photography Technical Tutorial – iColorama Masking Revisited by Jerry Jobe
We’re delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest iOS Photography App tutorial today. This time Jerry has revisted the iPad app, iColorama and updated a previous tutorial based on masking. We’re sure you’ll all enjoy this very much. Over to you Jerry (foreword by Joanne Carter). “One year ago I wrote my first tutorial on iColorama. It was on masking, a favorite topic of mine. It’s a step up in your thinking when you first realize that, rather than applying edits to an entire image, it’s possible to edit just part of an image. iColorama’s masking potential already set it apart from other photo/art apps a year ago. In…
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X-Rite Launches Free ColorTRUE App – Colour Calibrate your Mobile Device
Thank you to Kevin Carter for bringing this to my attention. Kevin previously reviewed the DataColor app that’s very similar to this for The British Journal of Photography (BJP). ColorTRUE creates a custom display profile for iOS and Android mobile devices using a supported X-Rite measurement device. The user simply places the connected device on the tablet or phone when prompted and the measurement process begins automatically. The profile is applied to all images displayed through the ColorTRUE Image Gallery, providing the user with the most accurate color match to a desktop reference monitor, or other color managed monitors. Steve Rankin, Product Manager, at X-Rite, commented: “While iOS and Android…
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iOS Photography App Tutorial with Printicular – An App To Print Your Social Media Images
We’re delighted to publish this tutorial/review using the free app Printicular by MEA Mobile. Essentially, it allows you to print images via your mobile and social media channels, these include Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Google+, Flickr and Dropbox using Walgreens printing service. David Hayes put this app through its paces using his iPhone and you can read all about how he got on, the process and the results below. This app is also available for Windows 8, Windows Phone 8, BlackBerry and Android platforms. We have various coupon codes for 10 4×6 or 4×4 each. They are for retail pick up at Walgreen only. Note, Walgreens is also only in the…
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iPhone Photography Technical Tutorial – Layer Pic and Background Eraser: Images in isolation – By Jerry Jobe
We’re delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest tutorial, this weeks’ tutorial is with two apps that you may not yet have tried using to create collages, Layer Pic and Background Eraser (just click on the names for a link to the app store). Jerry puts these two apps through their paces and comes up with some incredibly interesting images. Don’t miss this, over to you Jerry. (foreword by Joanne Carter). “Last May I talked about creating collages – putting various images together to create a new work. I reviewed Superimpose, which allows you to “lift” part of an image and “superimpose” it on another. During the last couple of weeks,…
