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Mobile Photography & Art – Tip of the Day – Tell Siri To Fire The Shutter Button

20/09/2018 by Joanne Carter

We are re-igniting our Tip of the Day section and we have a great one here that’s going to be of huge use to many photographers and to my mind it’s a feature that ought to be written into camera firmware too. Siri, up and until now, has not been able to handle the prospect of literally firing the shutter button. It was possible to tell Siri to open the camera but not to fire the button but now there is a way! You’re going to need the Halide app for this. If you haven’t already downloaded it, I recommend that you do so. Just click here and then follow the steps below:

App Of The Day – BrushStroke In Association with The National Gallery (and it’s free for the weekend)

25/05/201825/05/2018 by Joanne Carter

I have known about this collaboration for a few weeks and am very excited to reveal it today. Unfortunately there wasn’t time to add TheAppWhisperer into this collaboration, but the National Gallery and the team behind Brushstroke (Code Organa), did try very hard. To celebrate The Credit Suisse Exhibition: Monet & Architecture, The National Gallery have teamed up with Brushstroke app to offer you a free app download (usually $/£3.99) and a chance to enter their photography competition.

You’re all invited to follow @national_gallery on Instagram and use the Brushstroke app to experiment with filters, and share an image featuring architecture near you, inspired by the exhibition.

‘Monet & Architecture’ is the first ever exhibition looking at Monet’s career through the buildings he painted: in Normandy, in Rouen, in Paris, London, and Venice. From buildings in villages and by the coast, to some of Europe’s most famous monuments, Monet painted the architecture of his time – modern, historic, simple, and grand.

The exhibition brings together over 75 paintings by Monet, and shows how Monet used architecture to create his compositions, both in his most famous paintings and lesser-known works.

Follow @national_gallery on Instagram and share your image with us using the hashtag #MonetBrushstroke, or you can email your entry to ecrm@ng-london.org.uk.

The competition opens on 25 May at 10am BST and closes on 28 May at 11.59pm BST.

One winner will receive a framed print of their winning image with free shipping, courtesy of Brushstroke App and CanvasPop. The winner will also receive a pair of tickets to ‘The Credit Suisse Exhibition: Monet & Architecture’ in London, the exhibition catalogue and a creative goody bag from the National Gallery Company Ltd.

The Brushstroke app is free to download (and it’s rarely free) until midnight on Monday 28 May, when the competition closes.

‘How I Did It’™ with Rad Drew – ‘How To Use SnapSeed to Keep Colour in Part of a B&W Image’

20/04/201820/04/2018 by Rad Drew

I’m glad to be back again to share another video tutorial on TheAppWhisperer segment, “How I Did It!™ with Rad A. Drew.” Today I have a very short and sweet video tutorial, How To Use SnapSeed to Keep Colour in Part of a B&W Image.

SnapSeed by Google, which runs on both iPhone and Android devices, has a very robust masking tool hidden in the adjustment stacks. I’ll show you how to use masking to selectively color part of an image. Note: This video assumes some basic knowledge of SnapSeed.

If you’d like more support learning SnapSeed, see my You Tube Channel, Rad Drew Photography, LLC for additional free SnapSeed tutorials. You also may purchase my recent hour-long SnapSeed Webinar recording here. To be notified of my upcoming webinars on various mobile phone processing apps and techniques, sign up for my newsletter.

Thanks for watching and stay tuned for more to come! Until next time, keep on shooting!

Mobile Photography – Hydra App Giveaway Today – Shoot 32 megapixel images with your iPhone

01/03/201801/03/2018 by Joanne Carter

We curate mobile photography and art apps here at TheAppWhisperer as we do images, only highlightlighting ones that are worthy of your time and experience and will allow you to work at a more rewarding level. The default camera software on your iPhone is fine for most shooting situations, however Hydra allows you a little more innovation. Hydra captures more light by merging up to 60 frames to make a single high-quality picture (less noise, more highlights/shadows) on iPhone and iPad. Hydra also goes beyond the 8-megapixel sensor limit, with up to 32-megapixel high-resolution images. It uses the latest evolutions of iPhone and iPad camera hardware, as well as the latest camera APIs and GPU rendering technologies.

Hydra provides 5 specific capture modes: HDR, Video-HDR, Lo-light, Zoom, and Hi-res modes.

Artstudio Pro – Huge Update and We Have Promotional Codes To Share – worth $11.99/£11.99 each

28/02/201828/02/2018 by Joanne Carter

Artstudio Pro one of the most powerful painting and photo editing apps available for iOS has just been updated and we have codes to giveaway. Take a look at What’s New in this update below.

Artstudio Pro currently retails for $11.99/£11.99 and you can download it here but if you’d like to try to be in with an opportunity for a free code. Please join our Twitter followers here, like us on Facebook here and Instagram here then post a comment to this post (so we can obtain your email address), perhaps you’d like to give us some feedback, tell us how we’re doing, what you’d like to see and hopefully, we will then be able to send you a code. All winners are selected at random.

Mobile Photography – App of the Day – Raw! Photo Pro – Advanced DNG Camera Giveaway Today – Each Worth $19.99

16/02/201816/02/2018 by Joanne Carter

This week we’re focusing on RAW camera replacement apps and so far we have offered codes for Camera-M and ProCam (if you missed those giveaways, please click on the links within this post on our website), to leave a comment.

The reason Raw! Photo Pro is more expensive than the others we have mentioend so far this week, is because this is the Pro version, which means it includes a host of features, there’s nothing extra to pay for. We have listed the full list of features below, there’s pretty much nothing this camera replacement app can’t do.

Raw! Photo Pro currently retails for $19.99 (was £24.99) and you can download it here but if you’d like to try to be in with an opportunity for a free code. Please join our Twitter followers here, like us on Facebook here and Instagram here then post a comment to this post (so we can obtain your email address), perhaps you’d like to give us some feedback, tell us how we’re doing, what you’d like to see…and hopefully, we will then be able to send you a code. All winners are selected at random.

Mobile Art – Creative Tutorial – iColorama Procedural: Spinning Vinyl

14/02/201814/02/2018 by Jerry Jobe

We are delighted to publish this creative tutorial using the app, iColorama to create a spinning vinyl record cover by Jerry Jobe, take a look…

“iColorama can do amazing things, with a little patience. I posted the image below in several iColorama Facebook groups, and it got a lot of response, so I’ll show you how to create a 45 RPM single, from scratch, in this great app.

This image used the app Over for text and Leonardo for placement onto a background and adding a shadow. Those tasks can be done in iColorama, but they are easier in other, specialised apps. While I don’t add text in the video, I do show you how to mask the disc onto a new background and create a drop shadow”.

The Ultimate Christmas Mobile Photography & Art Competition Using PortraitCam Ultimate Camera App – Great Prizes!

20/12/201714/12/2017 by Joanne Carter

We are very excited today to announce our Ultimate Christmas Mobile Photography & Art Competition here at TheAppWhisperer.com. This competition is hosted in conjunction with BrainFeverMedia, highly accomplished app developers, with their brand new app, announced yesterday – PortraitCam Ultimate Camera. We are also most grateful to the support of our sponsors for this competition, … Read moreThe Ultimate Christmas Mobile Photography & Art Competition Using PortraitCam Ultimate Camera App – Great Prizes!

Mobile Photography & Art – My Top Five Apps by Rita Colantonio from Dennis, Massachusetts

01/11/201701/11/2017 by Rita Colantonio

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 hugely accomplished mobile photographer and artist, Rita Colantonio who … Read moreMobile Photography & Art – My Top Five Apps by Rita Colantonio from Dennis, Massachusetts

MoJo Conference – Exclusive Interview with FilMiC Pro App Developers by Tim Bingham

05/05/201705/05/2017 by Tim Bingham

RTÉ Mojocon is a leading international media conference focusing on mobile journalism, mobile content creation, mobile photography and new technology all in one event and it is currently taking place in Galway, Ireland. Our roving reporter Tim Bingham is at the conference and is covering it for us. Take a look at this exclusive interview with the FiLMiC Pro developers…