Technical Tutorials
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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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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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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,…
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iPhone Photography Technical Tutorial – VectorSNAP and iColorama: Step-by-Step Pop Art – By Jerry Jobe
We’re delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest tutorial, this weeks tutorial is with the VectorSNAP app along with a step-by-step procedural for using the output of VectorSNAP as a mask. I think you will enjoy this very much, over to you Jerry. (foreword by Joanne Carter). “About a week ago, a friend alerted me to the app VectorSNAP, which creates a black and white version of your images – solid black and white – with smoothed edges. This image can either be saved as a normal image file or as a vector file that can be adjusted with desktop products like Adobe Illustrator or Inkscape. However, the first thing I…
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iPhone Photography Tutorial – PopAGraph – Part 2 – By Jerry Jobe
We’re delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest tutorial this time it’s on the app ‘PopAGraph’ and is in two parts, this is part 2. We published Part 1 last week, if you missed that, please go here. We think you will really enjoy this, over to you Jerry (foreword by Joanne Carter). PopAGraph is free and here’s the link to download it “In the last entry we started discussing the PopAGraph app. One thing I didn’t mention is that typing the name of the app over and over is like typing a secure password – all those random capitals! But that’s my problem, not yours. At this point, our image…
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iOS Photography Technical Tutorial – PhotoMotion – By David Hayes
We’re delighted to publish David Hayes’ latest technical iOS Photography tutorial. This time it’s on the very new and popular app, PhotoMotion. We are sure you will really enjoy this, over to you David(foreword by Joanne Carter). “East Coast Pixels, the same group that produced such winners as PhotoToaster and TitleFx, have recently released PhotoMotion. This app allows you to add “motion” to your stills…and in the spirit of all filmmakers…gives you the chance to create narratives ala Ken Burns. If you are a follower of the mobile photographers, Cat Morris, Andrea Koerner, Roger Guetta, and myself you have already seen what this app can do! I’d like to…
