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  • Interviews,  INTERVIEWS,  News,  On My Radar

    On My Radar- Eight Apps for a Desert Island with WiFi by Amy Ecenbarger from the United States

    2019-03-22 / 1 Comment

    We have another brand new section here at TheAppWhisperer called ‘On My Radar’ and this time we are asking a selection of highly talented mobile photographers and artists, which apps they would take with them on a unique desert island, that has wifi! We want to know exactly what apps are really on their radar and why. As well as eight apps, we have also allowed each artist to select a book and a luxury object on this luxury journey. Kicking us off with our sixth issue of this section, is non other than the highly talented Amy Ecenbarger from the United States. To read the others in this series,…

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  • Interviews,  News,  Photo App Lounge

    Mobile Photography & Art – My Top Five Apps by Deborah McMillion (Hotel Midnight) from Phoenix, Arizona, US

    2017-09-01 / Comments Off on Mobile Photography & Art – My Top Five Apps by Deborah McMillion (Hotel Midnight) from Phoenix, Arizona, US

    We are revitalising our Top Five Apps section to our Photo App Lounge column. This a section within TheAppWhisperer where we ask highly accomplished mobile photographers and artists to list their top five apps and to explain why they have selected them. Kicking us off today is one of my personally favourite mobile artists, Deborah McMillion. McMillion’s art is brilliantly original, elegant and often surprising, much could be said of this artist herself along with intelligent and beautifully charismatic. You’ll love this.  (foreword by Joanne Carter). To read others from this series, please go here.

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  • Creative Tutorials,  News,  Technical Tutorials,  TUTORIALS

    Mobile Photography / Art Tutorial – Alien Sky: Exploring New Worlds with Jerry Jobe

    2016-05-12 / Comments Off on Mobile Photography / Art Tutorial – Alien Sky: Exploring New Worlds with Jerry Jobe

    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 Alien Sky by BrainFeverMedia. Read Jobe’s thoughts about this app as he puts it through its paces (foreword by Joanne Carter). Take it away Jerry… Alien Sky retails for $2.99/£2.29 and you can download it here. “Many artistic/photographic apps try to cover all the bases. These “suites” offer the user many different ways to manipulate their images. Others choose to stick with a certain function. This can be tricky, because the developers need to be fairly certain that they protect their little niche by…

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  • iOS Apps,  News

    iOS Photography App – Circular+ – Temporarily Free

    2014-06-23 / 1 Comment

    Circular+ is incredibly similar to Tiny Planet which essentially turns your images into spheres. It has been developed by Brain Fever Media the same developers of LensFlare, Alien Sky, LensFX and LensLight. It’s a fun app and it is free today. Usually it retails for $1.99/£1.49. Click here to download for free today and give it a whirl! Circular+ Video Demonstration

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  • iOS Apps,  News

    LensLight – Huge iOS Update

    2013-09-09 / 1 Comment

    LensLight is a popular app for iPhone photographers, from the same developers as LensFlare and AlienSky, it offers as you might expect some great lighting effects including Bokeh, lensflares, light leaks and spotlights. It’s just had a huge update, check out What’s New below:   – New interface 
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    iPhone Photography App Technical Tutorial – Glaze – By Jerry Jobe

    2013-08-20 / 6 Comments

    Don’t miss our latest iPhone Photography App Technical Tutorial, this time featuring the very popular app, Glaze. Jerry Jobe our newest recruit and Technical Tutorial Editor has written this superbly crafted tutorial that we’re sure you are going to enjoy. Over to you Jerry (foreword by Joanne Carter)… Glaze is free to download, although there are in-app purchases. Click here to download Glaze. All other apps that are mentioned within this tutorial are in bold with app links to the Apple App Store.     ‘Perhaps because I’ve never been able to hold a paintbrush or pen in hand and create a smooth line or a valid representation of what…

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    Alien Sky – Temporarily Free – Don’t Miss Our Tutorial

    2013-07-19 / Comments Off on Alien Sky – Temporarily Free – Don’t Miss Our Tutorial

    Alien Sky from the developer of LensFlare and LensLight is temporarily free today. We published a tutorial last year to help you maximise your usage of this app, if you missed that please go here. Click here to download Alien Sky for free today and save yourselves $1.99/£1.49.      

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    Alien Sky – Temporarily Free

    2013-05-06 / Comments Off on Alien Sky – Temporarily Free

    Alien Sky is temporarily free today, it’s an effects app from the same developers as LensFlare and LensLight. It quite popular and usually retails for $0.99/£0.69. Click here to download.

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  • COLUMNS,  News,  The App Nerds Workshop

    The App Nerds Workshop – Experimenting

    2013-03-11 / 8 Comments

    We’re delighted to publish the latest installment of Lola Mitchell’s Column, The Apps Nerds Workshop. This week Lola shares her thoughts and process and encourages us all to live out of our comfort zones, in the interest of art and photography. We are sure you will love this… over to you Lola (foreword by Joanne Carter) About The App Nerds Workshop The App Nerds Workshop is something very different and we are very excited about it. It is a virtual classroom, an environment for new talent to share their work, for Lola to share some of the ways she uses apps and for the not so new talent to share…

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  • A Day In The Life Of ...,  INTERVIEWS,  News

    Mobile Photographer/Artist Interview – A Day in the Life Wayman Stairs – An Incredible Creative

    2013-03-07 / 13 Comments

    Welcome to our very exciting column on theappwhisperer.com. This section entitled “A Day in the Life of…” is where we take a look at some hugely influential, interesting and accomplished individuals in the mobile photography world… people that we think you will love to learn more about. This is our eighty third installment of the series. If you have missed our previous interviews, please go here. Today we are featuring Wayman Stairs. Wayman lives in California and works as a Physical Education teacher and Coach. He is married to his ‘beautiful school sweetheart’ and is also father to two boys, who keep him on is toes and often find their…

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