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Distressed FX Plus Update and Work-Around
Distressed FX Plus Update and Work-Around Last year the mobile photography community world-wide mourned the untimely death of the talented artist, Cheryl Tarrant, creator of the highly acclaimed and much loved iPhone app, Distressed FX Plus. I had the opportunity to interview Cheryl for a blog post a few years ago and learned that she was not only a talented artist, but a truly lovely person who appreciated the simple things in life, especially living in rural Tennessee with her dogs, cats, peacocks, and other animals. Her death was a shock to us all and she is missed by many around the world. Status of Distressed FX Plus A few weeks…
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On My Radar- Eight Apps for a Desert Island with WiFi – Fiona Christian from the United Kingdom
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 eighth issue of this section, is non other than the highly talented Fiona Christian from the UK. To read the others in this series, please…
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On My Radar- Eight Apps for a Desert Island with WiFi by Amy Ecenbarger from the United States
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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Mobile Photography & Art – Portrait of an Artist – Seeing Through The Eyes of Catherine Caddigan
We are delighted to bring to you the fourth of this years series of interviews and the sixteenth of this fascinating series, within our Portrait of an Artist column entitled “Seeing through the eyes”. This is a section that has been created by our wonderful Portrait of an Artist Editor, Ile Mont. Mont has been inspired by the life and works of Carolyn Hall Young, as so many of us have. Young was the main contributor to our Portrait of an Artist Flickr pool and filled it with portraits of so many wonderful people, not only of herself. It is for this reason that Mont wanted to create this section, to…
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DistressedFX+: a surprisingly worthwhile upgrade
Five years ago I wrote a tutorial on DistressedFX, a texture app to go alongside Stackable’s and Mextures in my library of apps. I couldn’t help but compare it to those giants in texture apps, and although I loved the textures, I found the interface clunky without the versatility of Stackable’s or Mextures. In the intervening years DistressedFX has soldiered on, occasionally releasing new texture packs. But we have recently discovered that Stackable’s has ceased updates, and it is only a matter of time before that app crashes and burns. So I have revisited DistressedFX over the last few weeks, buying several packs that I had bypassed earlier. So, having…
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Mobile Photography & Art – The Recipe I Can’t Live Without with Kerry Mitchell from the United States
We have a new section at TheAppWhisperer.com and it’s called ‘The Recipe I Can’t Live Without’, within that we are asking highly successful mobile artists to give us their one recipe they can’t live without in relation to editing their images. Kicking us off today, is Kerry Mitchell and she has created a recipe for her image of a camilla flower. To read the others in this new series, please go here. (foreword by Joanne Carter) Serves: All Cooks: In 30 Minutes Difficulty: Not Too Tricky Genre: Super Floral Family Classics
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‘How I Did It’™ with Rad Drew – Creating Captivating Images with DistressedFX
We have just mentioned this brand new section in our post here. We are delighted to publish our very first ‘How I Did It’™ with Rad Drew tutorial, this time with the iOS app – DistressedFX. Please take a look below…
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Brand New Section & Editor Added To TheAppWhisperer – ‘How I Did It’™ with Rad Drew
We are incredibly honoured and excited today to annouce a brand new section with TheAppWhisperer as well as a new editor to bring greater enhancement to our already hugely popular website, Rad Drew! As I mentioned in my recent BBC article, Drew is a multi award winning Mobile Photographer, Teacher and Author on mobile photography. He is also Associate Editor at Luminouslandscape.com a website I have long admired as well as an Affiliate Representative for Topaz software. In short, we are hugely honoured to open up a column entirely for Drew entitled with the US Trademark that he has secured “How I Did It!™. How I Did It!™ with Rad…
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Mobile Photography & Art – My Top Five Apps by Clarisse Debout
We are revitalising our Top Five Art 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 highly talented mobile photographer and artist Clarisse Debout take a look, we have long admired her beautiful work! (foreword by Joanne Carter). All images ©Clarisse Debout “I started working with my iPhone in 2014, at the time I did not know that there were applications for retouching, collages, textures etc …! I was content with Instagram filters! The first application I used was…
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Mobile Photography & Art – My Top Five Apps by Gerry Coe from Northern Ireland
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 accomplished mobile photographer and artist Gerry Coe from Northern Ireland. Take a look at his Top Five Apps… (foreword by Joanne Carter) “I have been reading a lot of what all the other people who have contributed to the Top Five Photo Apps have been using and a lot of them are not very different from what I use. So in this little article…