Mobile Photography – The Software behind the Cameras in Google’s Pixel Devices – Gcam
A really interesting article by my friend and colleague, Lars Rehm in DPReview yesterday, links to a collection of stories about Google’s now independent X research division, known as the ‘moonshot factory’. These stories relate to the group’s graduated projects and where they stand today. Rehm explains, “The blog post outlines how the Gcam team was set up back in 2011 to find a solution for the Google Glasses smart goggles’ most pressing challenge: providing a high-quality camera in a very small device. As using bigger hardware wasn’t an option, the Gcam team developed a method called image fusion, which uses multi-frame-stacking techniques to create a single, higher quality image with…
Instagram Mobile Photographers To Follow Now @kerenzayuen by TheAppWhisperer
TheAppWhisperer.com is about nurturing mobile photography and mobile art as well as discovering new art, photography and of course, artists. This new section is an area where we can really explore and identify new talent. We are paying attention and we hand-pick highly talented mobile photographers and artists from Instagram and present them here. Today, we are featuring and not a moment too soon @kerenzayuen – Kerenza, a student based in Toronto, Canada. Please take a look below. To follow this new series, please go here. [Please visit our Artist Directory and find out how we can add you too!]
Mostly Mobile Photography & Mobile Art – Tickle Your Fancy #56
Welcome back to our fifty third post in our ‘Tickle Your Fancy’ section. ‘Tickle Your Fancy’ includes a round-up of between three to five links to articles from around the internet that have specifically interested us during the course of the week. Ones that we feel are relevant to your interest in photography and art. Just to explain the title for this section ‘Tickle Your Fancy’ is an English idiom and essentially means that something appeals to you and perhaps stimulates your imagination in an enthusiastic way, we felt it would make a great title for this new section of the site. Enjoy!
LG, Huawei and Google Team Up – Introduce Two Nexus Phones and One Tablet
Google made Android to be an open platform that anyone can build on, and today there are 4,000+ Android devices in all shapes and sizes. Android’s diversity is why it’s become the most popular mobile platform in the world, and the latest version, Marshmallow, takes Android to a new level of performance. Today they are introducing the latest Nexus hardware, both running Marshmallow, sweetened by amazing apps and sandwiched by some cutting-edge hardware: Nexus 6P is the first all-metal-body Nexus phone. Built in collaboration with Huawei, this 5.7” phone is crafted from aeronautical-grade aluminum, with a USB Type-C port for fast charging, a powerful 64-bit processor, and a 12.3 MP…
New Photography App – Google Photos and It’s Amazing!
Google Photos allows you to organise and store all of your images, across all of your devices for a lifetime, literally. They’re automatically backed up and synced, so you can have peace of mind that your photos are safe, available across all your devices. With Google Photos, you can now backup and store unlimited, high-quality photos and videos, for free. They maintain the original resolution up to 16MP for photos, and 1080p high-definition for videos, and store compressed versions of the photos and videos in beautiful, print-quality resolution. Google Photos automatically organizes your memories by the people, places, and things that matter. You don’t have to tag or label any…
iOS Photography App – Snapseed Brings Grunge Back!
The previous update to Snapseed brought with it huge controversy as the Grunge effect had been removed. Well, now it’s back! This update by Google to their uber popular photography editing app also adds selective advanced functions such as copy/paste and hide control points, improved look in HDR Scape, the saving option “Export” saves a new copy of the image without embedded editing information and some serious bug fixes. Snapseed is free and of course this is a free update – click here to download/update. The image below demonstrates the Grunge effect.
Mobile Photography App – Snapseed – Updated – Complete Instructional Course FREE
Snapseed has received a huge update with a good volume of new features for both iOS and Android versions. Google, who now own Snapseed, since they purchased it from Nik Software have also added a Stacking feature, allowing you to undo and re-edit any image. There are some great tools including Lens Blur, Perspective Transform and Spot Healing as well as that, there’s a new Brush tool and the UI has been completely and aesthetically upgraded. Best of all Kelbyone have published a complete free course of this new version of Snapseed to help you become as one. To view that, please go here.
New iOS Photography App by Google – Photo Sphere Camera – Now Available
Google have launched a brand new iOS Photography application called Photo Sphere Camera. Essentially, it allows the photographer to capture 360-degree images and publish them directly to Google Maps or other social networks. Panoramic apps or even the iOS ‘Pano’ mode is not a new feature to iOS photographers, one particularly notable app which became hugely popular for this was Cycloramic. The difference with Photo Sphere Camera is that the photographer can use the app in a similar way to Google Street View, in as much as you can view up and down as well as left to right. When you have captured your Photo Sphere you’ll find that there’s…
Snapseed Updated – Not For iOS 5 or 6
Snapseed has been updated with a new HDR SCAPE filter, a new Shadows slider in Tune Image brightens dark areas naturally. Plus bug fixes and other small improvements. This is not an improvement if you’re still running iOS 5 or 6, far from it and Google advise you not install this update in that case. It has a bug that leads to problems when saving or sharing images on these versions of iOS. This is a free update to an already free app and you can download/update it here.
Google Buys Nik Software – Acquires Snapseed
I don’t know one mobile photo app user that doesn’t love Snapseed and it seems Google fell in love too. According to The Verge, ‘Google has agreed to acquire Nik Software for an undisclosed amount’. You can read more here.
