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Mobile Photography / Art Tutorial – AfterFocus: Add Some Depth To Your Photographs
We are delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest mobile photography/art tutorial for our reading and viewing pleasure. This time Jobe takes a look at the app AfterFocus. Read his thoughts as he puts it through its paces (foreword by Joanne Carter). AfterFocus retails for $0.99/£0.79 and you can download it here. If you’re familiar with shooting with an SLR, whether digital or not, you know that a wider aperture (a smaller number, f2 vs. f11 for example) will result in a narrower depth of field (area that remains in focus). The iPhone lens does not generally shoot in the widest apertures, so you lose that ability to set off your…
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Mobile Photography / Art – Three Years of Tutorials: A Recap, an Assembly Feature, and an iColorama Procedural
Huge thanks to Jerry Jobe on his Mobile Photography / Art Tutorial Third Year Writing Anniversary. We have loved and enjoyed every single one of Jobe’s tutorials and we know that you do too. This week, Jobe does something a little different, take a look…(foreword by Joanne Carter). “On November 7, 2012, I published my first tutorial on Hipstamatic. As usual, on my anniversary, I like to take a look back. But there’s more to this article than a walk down memory lane. There’s a feature currently in beta for Assembly that I’d like to show you, and an iColorama procedural on how to create a multicolored water color painting…
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Mobile Photography / Art Tutorial – Abstract Painting: It’s Time to Play
We are delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest mobile photography/art tutorial for our reading and viewing pleasure. This time Jobe takes a look at the app Abstract Painting. Read his thoughts as he puts it through its paces (foreword by Joanne Carter). Abstract Painting is free and you can download it here. “Some apps I’ve discussed over the years are very serious photo editing apps, giving you’re the ability to manipulate curves or eliminate color casts. Some have given users serious painting tools, such as iColorama and Pixelmator. Some apps, though, are not serious and give users tools to experiment with or to have fun with. These tools may take…
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Mobile Photography Tutorial – Hipstamatic 300 Part 2: No longer A Toy Camera
We are delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest mobile photograph tutorial for our reading and viewing pleasure. This week we have published Part 2 of Jobe’s two-part series on Hipstamatic 300. If you missed Part 1, please go here. Read Jobe’s thoughts as he puts it through its paces (foreword by Joanne Carter). Hipstamatic is free (there are in-app purchases) and you can download it here. “Last time I discussed the new release of Hipstamatic, and how it changed the app dramatically. I mentioned that the bug fix release, 301, still left Hipstamatic with multiple crashes. I mentioned that the new “pro mode” camera, while adding new features, did not…
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Mobile Photography Tutorial – Hipstamatic 300 – Revisit your Pictures with an Editor
We are delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest mobile photograph tutorial for our reading and viewing pleasure. This week Jobe takes a look at the update to Hipstamatic, Apple’s original App of the Year. Read his thoughts as he puts it through its paces (foreword by Joanne Carter). Hipstamatic is free (there are in-app purchases) and you can download it here. “I have a special place in my heart for Hipstamatic. As with many iPhoneographers, Hipstamatic was my gateway into the possibilities for wonderful images created with my iPhone. I selected a lens and a film, and snapped away, leaving hundreds of square images on my Camera Roll. When I…
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Mobile Photography/Art Tutorial – ‘Polarr Photo Editor’ – Part 2: A Timely Update
We are delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest mobile photography/art tutorial for our reading and viewing pleasure. This week we have published Part 2 of Jobe’s two part series on Polarr Photo Editor. If you missed Part 1, Please go here. Read his thoughts as he puts it through its paces (foreword by Joanne Carter). Polarr Photo Editor is free and download it here “Writing tutorials for brand-new apps can result in having incorrect information published. App developers, working under a deadline, will sometimes release an app that works, but is not entirely what they wanted. The app developers will then work the final changes into an update, which may…
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Mobile Photography/Art Tutorial – ‘Polarr Photo Editor’ – Part 1 – Finding a Niche
We are delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest mobile photography/art tutorial for our reading and viewing pleasure. This week Jobe takes a look at the app Polarr Photo Editor. This is Part 1 of a 2 part series. Read his thoughts as he puts it through its paces (foreword by Joanne Carter). Polarr Photo Editor is free and download it here “The iOS mobile photo app market is getting crowded as it matures. There are only so many things that people are wanting or needing to do with their photos. Developers who want to enter the market in a big way have to give users a new function, or rework…
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Mobile Photography Tutorial – Diana – When a Little Mix-Up is a Good Thing
We are delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest mobile photography/art tutorial for our reading and viewing pleasure. This week Jobe takes a look at the mobile photography app, Diana. Read his thoughts as he puts it through its paces (foreword by Joanne Carter). Diana is a free app and you can download it here “If you have ever spent any time cooking, you should know the feeling of getting to the point in the recipe when you should be adding an ingredient you were certain you had, but it’s not there. “No sage! Coriander? Rosemary? Whatever!” Sometimes the result is wonderful, sometimes it’s not – but it’s never quite what…
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Mobile Photography/Art Tutorial – Tintype by Hipstamatic: Nice results, troubling interface
We are delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest mobile photography/art tutorial for our reading and viewing pleasure. This week Jobe takes a look TinType by Hipstamatic. Read his thoughts as he puts it through its paces (foreword by Joanne Carter). TinType by Hipstamatic is free and you can download it here “Last time I covered an app that emulated a particular type of photography: Polaroid, or instant, photography. This week I go back to the dawn of photography and the time when photo prints did not come on paper, but on metal: the tintype. Polaroids were all about catching the moment; tintypes were the opposite. Painstakingly staged and allowing for…
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Mobile Photography App Tutorial – NIR: A Color Blowout – TheAppWhisperer
Photography, as with all visual media, is an examination of light. All discussions about photography eventually come down to light. A photographer will “go out to capture the light”, set up and wait for the “golden hour”, discard portraits because “the light wasn’t there”. Some photographers have found a way to capture light you cannot see, the infrared wavelengths that exist just outside the visible spectrum. It requires special equipment – in the days of film, special films were required to detect IR light; in this digital age, a special sensor is needed, meaning a photographer will usually have a camera dedicated to only shooting IR. The results are strange…