TUTORIALS
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iOS Photography Technical Tutorial – ‘VinylizeMe’ – By Jerry Jobe
We’re delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest tutorial, this week he puts VinylizeMe through its paces and strikes a beat, don’t miss this. Over to you Jerry (foreword by Joanne Carter). “Time to spin some wax, lay down a groove on the vinyl…OK, I may be showing my age. But if you’re a person who knows that record albums were for more than scratching, then you might get a kick out of VinylizeMe by BlueSpark Studios, an app that turns your images into record album covers. As for the picture below, advertisers were convinced that the average person fanned out their collection on their coffee tables. I would never…
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Brand New Section For TheAppWhisperer – Utilising Your DSLR/Mirrorless/Medium Format Cameras With Apps!
We’re very excited to launch a brand new section to TheAppWhisperer today, this section will be entitled Photo Tool Apps and essentially help you operate and utilize your DSLR’s, mirrorless and medium/large format cameras with specialised apps. We have covered these in the past, infact I was the first Professional Journalist to write about them for dpreview back in 2011, see here and I have mentioned them here of course. But now we are dedicating a complete section to this invaluable area. Mobile Photography encompasses many aspects, it’s not only about taking and editing images with your smartphone and of course this is an essential area that we already focus on…
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Technical Tutorial – DistressedFX – By Jerry Jobe
We’re delighted to published this wonderful tutorial by Jerry Jobe on the very popular effects app for iOS photography, DistressedFX. This app brings quite a sophisticated look to your art and we’re quite sure you will find this tutorial invaluable. Over to you Jerry (foreword by Joanne Carter). “There are times when the perfect finishing touch for an image is a bit of grunge. I’ve already covered two grunge apps that make the image look as though the image was taken through a haze of dust, scratches and light leaks – ScratchCam and Mextures. But there’s a different category of grunge that has a more artistic quality. In this…
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iOS Photography App – Image Blender – Updated – ‘Major Rewrite’
One of the most popular image editing apps for iOS photography has recently been updated. The developer Johan Andersson describes this update as a ‘major rewrite and just tries to do the same things as it did before in a better way’. Essentially Image Blender has been updated for iOS 7, there’s also 64-bit support, it’s faster and more stable with better quality. There’s the addition of the option to save as PNG for better image quality. Adonit Jot Touch support has been added too. There will also be some great updates coming through in the Spring. We currently have some tutorials being planned out for this update, so check…
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Creative Mobile Photography Tutorial by Natali Prosvetova
We’re delighted to publish Natali Prosvetova’s (a hugely accomplished mobile photographer) latest creative tutorial. Natali puts an array of iOS photography apps through their paces to create a unique image, don’t miss this. Over to you Natali (foreword by Joanne Carter). ‘This work is one of several my weirdest, wicked, freaky, but still funniest. I shot the original image with the ProCamera (iPhone4) Original It is a really easy-to-use tool for taking good pics with your iPhone. It has several one-touch-effects (ProFX), as well as the full photo editing control with ProLab. Today, there are so many new apps for capturing images. Some of them are great! However,…
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Technical Tutorial – Paint FX : Photo Effects Editor – Part 3 of 3 – By Jerry Jobe
Last week we published Parts 1 and 2 of this three part series, if you missed those please follow the highlighted links. Today, we’re publishing the third and final part of these comprehensive tutorials on Paint FX : Photo Effects Editor, we’re sure you’re find this invaluable. Over to you Jerry (foreword by Joanne Carter). “In the first two parts of this tutorial on PaintFX, we discussed the new community and contest features, and showed how to apply the effects using the brush and/or masks. But we haven’t shown you all the effects that are possible in this app, and that’s what this final article will do. We’re…
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Technical Tutorial – Paint FX : Photo Effects Editor – Part 2 of 3 – By Jerry Jobe
Yesterday, we published Part One of this comprehensive series of three technical tutorials based on the updated Paint FX : Photo Effects Editor iOS Photography App (if you missed that, please go here). In Part Two Jerry Jobe delves deeper into these new features and in particular the contests. Over to you Jerry (foreword by Joanne Carter). “If you read part one of my expanded look at PaintFX, you’ll remember that the app has repositioned itself to include aspects of social media – a community of users who post their works, and challenges or contests to spark your creative juices. You’ll also remember that the help function, while…
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Technical Tutorial – Paint FX : Photo Effects Editor – Part 1 of 3 – By Jerry Jobe
We’re delighted to publish the first of three tutorials on the newly updated iOS Photography app, Paint FX : Photo Effects Editor app by our fabulous Technical Tutorial writer, Jerry Jobe. We hope to publish the additional two tutorials later on this week, check back for those. Over to you Jerry. (Foreword by Joanne Carter) “As I pointed out in my discussions of iColorama, Snapseed, Big Lens, LensLight and many other apps, tutorials can have a short shelf life. Within months of covering each of these apps, major changes have made my earlier glances at their workflow obsolete. Now another big change comes along, this time to Paint FX,…
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iPhone Photography Tutorial – ‘Urban Dweller – Street Workflow’ – By Paul Brown
We’re delighted to publish Paul Brown’s Urban Dweller Street iPhone Photography workflow tutorial. This tutorial focuses somewhat on ‘covert’ capture methods with some very interesting editing techniques and at the end some great Mobile Street Photography Tips. 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)… Street iPhone photography gets me out of my comfort zone and I’m finding capturing day to day life more and more rewarding. I’ve said before that a mobile phone is pretty much the ultimate urban camouflage. I discuss a few best practice tips I’ve picked…
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Technical Tutorial – iColorama 7b: ‘Exploring Release 3.7 continued’ By Jerry Jobe
On 30 December 2013 we published the first part of this two part iColorama series by Jerry Jobe (if you missed that, go here) and we’re delighted to publish the second part today. Jerry continues his quest to master the latest features in this new update and successfully shares his workflow. Don’t miss this, over to you Jerry. (Foreword by Joanne Carter). “As I said last time, the latest release of iColorama has too may features to cover in one article. As a matter of fact, by the time this tutorial is published, yet another release should have come along, bringing new goodies. If you haven’t read the…
