Mobile Photography – Popular App Distressed FX Gets Major Update and The Story Behind It
I am so proud of mobile artist Cheryl Tarrant, Distressed FX is her original idea, an iOS photo editing app that adds texture and atmosphere to pictures, giving them a dream-like quality. Popular on Instagram, with over 90,000 tagged photos, users have found it simple to turn any photo into a work of art. With well over a million users, it has reached #1 in the App Store charts in 24 countries, and the #1 Photo and Video app in in 43 countries Tarrant, who lives in the countryside in Tennessee, USA along with her many pets (including peacocks and chickens!), is a texture artist who has made a living selling…
PictureBook – ‘Stoker’ – by Benamon Tame
We are absolutely thrilled to publish Benamon Tame’s latest article (#34th) to his PictureBook Column with us. PictureBook is full of creativity and imagery in words and in pictures. It is a complete joy to read, view and publish – thank you Benamon. The concept behind the PictureBook column is not just about capturing stories but creating them, the journey behind and the image we present. PictureBook draws on Images selected from Benamon’s own story series and also looks at the work of the other story tellers within the community’. Over to you Benamon (foreword by Joanne Carter)… “Syster moved aside the heavy encyclopedia she had been using as…
Streets Ahead Interview: Shayna Schulman – Mobile Street Photography
This week, the Women’s Mobile Street Photography Collective (Streets Ahead) is pleased and honoured to feature Shayna Schulman in our interview segment. Many of you may know Shayna as ‘WitChiWotcha’ on Flickr. Her street photography frequently catches our attention. She has a wonderful ability to capture moments, especially around the streets of where she currently lives in London. We highly recommend a visit to her various galleries. I have personally met and shared lunch with Shayna in London and she’s a really wonderful gregarious person with a great sense of humour and you will see that being released within her images below. It was a pleasure to spend time with…
iOS Photography Tutorial – ‘Tune in and Drop out: Eliminating a plain black or white background’ by Jerry Jobe
We’re delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest technical tutorial here today. This week Jerry explains the intricacies of creating composites with your iOS photo editing device, don’t miss this…(foreword by Joanne Carter). “Sooner or later, we all want to create a composite. We want to add one image to another to create something new. Chances are that you only want to add part of one image to another, and we’ve discussed many ways to mask out a background, so that you’re only adding a portion of the top image. There’s masking in iColorama, Superimpose, LayerPic and Background Eraser (among those we’ve covered) and Photoshop Touch, Filterstorm, Leonardo and Handy Photo…
iOS Photography App – Distressed FX – Temporarily Free
One of the most popular aOS photography apps for adding subtle effects to your images is temporarily free. Usually Distressed FX retails for $0.99/£0.69 – to pick it up for free today, click here.
Mobile Photographer Interview – A Day In The Life of Alex Visage – A Very ‘Fashionable’ Mobile Photographer
Welcome to our very exciting interview 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 and art world… people that we think you will love to learn more about. This is our 102nd installment of the series. If you have missed our previous interviews, please go here. Today we are featuring Alex Visage, Alex works as an Art-director of a beauty salon, he is also a stylist and make-up artist. In addition he’s also an illustrator and an iPhone photographer. Alex works at various fashion shows taking photos and doing make-up for the…
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Distressed FX – Temporarily Free
Distressed FX is a hugely popular app for iPhone photography and one that we have mentioned many times on theappwhisperer.com, not least in Lee Atwell’s beautiful ‘A Picture’s Worth’ article that we published here. It has been used (among other apps) in the edit below. Distressed FX usually retails for $0.99/£0.69 but today it is free. Click here to download.
Distressed FX – iPhone Photography App – Updated – Crashes Now Fixed!
Following all the complaints of recent days regarding the previous update to Distressed FX, the developer has just pushed through another update with a fix to the social permissions bug that caused the crashes. There’s also some more filters, more birds and the facility to make your own custom textured filters. You can also flatten layers in app – via a long press and there’s faster sharing too. Distressed FX is still free and this is obviously a free update – click here to download/update.
Sneak Peek Of New Distressed FX Update – Being Released Tomorrow – August 13, 2013
Distressed FX v. 1.2 is planned for release tomorrow and will be free for 24 hours! The update includes some great new features including more filters, more birds, facility to make your own custom textured filters, abiltiy to flatten layers in app, faster sharing to Facebook and Twiter, various improvements and bug fixes. We’ve attached a YouTube video demonstrating these new features, don’t miss it tomorrow. Here’s the App Store link. Click below to watch the YouTube preview Distressed FX v. 1.2 is planned for release tomorrow and will be free for 24 hours! The update includes some great new features including more filters, …
A Day in the Life of Paul Brown – An Incredibly Talented Mobile Photographer
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 ninety second installment of the series. If you have missed our previous interviews, please go here. Today we are featuring Paul Brown (known as Skip to most), is an exhibited and prize winning iPhone photography from Lincoln, England. He is a member of the global ‘AMPt Community’, a managing member of Lincolnshire based regional mobile photography Group ‘InstaChimps’ and a…
