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  • iOS Apps,  News

    iOS Photography App – Halftone 2 Adds Video In Latest Update

    2014-06-12 / Comments Off on iOS Photography App – Halftone 2 Adds Video In Latest Update

    Halftone 2 by Juicy Bits, an Apple Editors’ Choice and App Store Best of 2013 winner, has added video to its popular app for iPhone and iPad. The update makes it easy to turn photo pages into high-definition movies with dynamic camera movement, professionally designed captions, and fun sound effects. “Customers are constantly looking for ways to add more action to their homemade comics and scrapbooks,” says Mike Swanson, Founder of Juicy Bits. “With the new video feature, Halftone 2 users are literally one tap away from seeing their photo pages as exciting movies and only a few taps away from adding a soundtrack, customized camera movement, and creative sound…

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    iOS Photography – Halftone 2 Comic Creation App Adds 3D Perspective and Custom Shapes

    2014-03-12 / Comments Off on iOS Photography – Halftone 2 Comic Creation App Adds 3D Perspective and Custom Shapes

    Halftone 2, an Apple Editors’ Choice and App Store Best of 2013 winner, has added a new perspective feature that enables users to interactively tilt and rotate their graphic elements. The update also adds support for user-defined graphic shapes, making it easy to incorporate custom photos and artwork. “The new 3D perspective feature makes it easy to tilt captions, balloons, WHAMs, and BAMs to add more excitement and action,” says Mike Swanson, Founder of Juicy Bits. “Best of all, if you export an image using Halftone 2’s anaglyph format, you can put on a pair of red and cyan 3D glasses and see the shapes jump right out of the…

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    Halftone 2 Comic Creation App Adds New Content from Blambot

    2014-02-25 / Comments Off on Halftone 2 Comic Creation App Adds New Content from Blambot

    Juicy Bits today announced a new in-app purchase for Halftone 2, its Apple Editors’ Choice and App Store Best of 2013 winner Universal app for iOS. Halftone 2 makes it easy to create multi-page comic books by assembling photos from Facebook, Flickr, and the photo album. Users can add filters, customize page layouts, add speech and thought balloons, and so much more. The new in-app purchase offers over 50 licensed sound effect shapes from professional comic design and lettering company, Blambot. We have previously published Halftone 2 tutorials and articles, if you missed those, please go here.   Quote “Customers are always asking us for more WHAMs, BAMs, and POWs,”…

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  • iOS Apps,  News

    Halftone 2 – iOS Photography App – Temporarily Free

    2013-12-23 / Comments Off on Halftone 2 – iOS Photography App – Temporarily Free

    Halftone 2 by Juicy Bits helps you to create your own comic book with your images. It’s very popular and usually retails for $1.99/£1.49. Today though, it’s free. Click here to download. We have published several tutorials to help you get this most out of this app, if you’ve missed those, please go here. Video Demonstration

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    Halftone 2 – iOSPhotography App – Available For Less Today

    2013-08-14 / Comments Off on Halftone 2 – iOSPhotography App – Available For Less Today

    Halftone 2 is an excellent comic maker app for your iPad and it now works with your iPhone too! We have published a fabulous tutorial to help you get the most out of this app, by our Head of Tutorials, David Hayes, if you missed that please go here. Usually Halftone 2 retails for $3.99/£2.49 but today it’s available for $1.99/£1.49 – click here to download.

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    Technical iPhone Photography App Tutorial With Halftone 2

    2013-08-05 / 2 Comments

    We’re delighted to publish our latest Technical Tutorial, this time exploring Halftone 2, written by our Head of Technical Tutorials, David Hayes. We have published several articles and tutorials using the earlier version of Halftone and if you’ve missed those, please go here. We also published a Creative Tutorial, using Layout and Halftone apps in combination, by Nettie Edwards – if you missed that please go here. This tutorial focuses on the very latest version of Halftone, aptly called Halftone 2 and David gives an absolutely fabulous overview to really help you get to grips with it. It’s an incredible comprehensive tutorial and one that we feel you will find…

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  • Daily App Giveaway,  Giveaways,  News

    Halftone 2 – Our Daily App Giveaway

    2013-07-19 / 6 Comments

    Welcome once again to our Daily App Giveaway section of theappwhisperer.  We value our readers so much and that’s why we want to share our love of apps with you. Each day we give away free apps, you better make us your home page 😉 Today, we’ve teamed up with the developers of Halftone 2 to offer you free codes. Halftone 2 re-imagines what it means to turn your photos into professionally-themed comic book pages on a touch device. Halftone 2 was recently updated with the developer completely eliminating all in-app purchases. Halftone 2 retails for $3.99/£2.49 but would you like to try it for free? Just join our ever…

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  • iOS Apps,  News

    Halftone 2 – Updated – In-App Purchases Eliminated!

    2013-07-09 / Comments Off on Halftone 2 – Updated – In-App Purchases Eliminated!

    Yes! Halftone 2 has been updated and ‘due to overwhelming feedback, in-app purchases have been completely eliminated’. The developer has taken on board your concerns and all in-app purchases should now be gone. There are additional updates too, check out What’s New below. This is a free update, if you have previously purchased Halftone 2, if not, you can pick it up here. It retails for $3.99/£2.49/download.   What’s New?   + Thanks to your overwhelming feedback, in-app purchases have been completely eliminated. Enjoy! + Added a link to our online video tutorials from the settings panel + Even more stability during multi-page PDF and CBZ exports (thank you for…

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    Halftone 2 – Updated

    2013-06-05 / 1 Comment

    Halftone 2 can now create 3D comics! Put on your 3D anaglyph glasses, and watch your balloons, captions, and stamps pop right out of the page. Halftone 2 for iPad was released less than two weeks ago as an Apple Editors’ Choice, and since then, it’s had nearly 250,000 downloads. The developers heard from users that they wanted more graphical elements in the free version, and they’re proud to announce that the update that is now available in the store (version 1.0.1) adds more captions, stamps, paper textures, and layouts. They have also added a new 3D anaglyph feature and the ability to easily share output with the Instagram app…

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    Halftone 2 – New For iPhone Photography

    2013-05-24 / 1 Comment

    The long awaited sequel to Halftone, named by Apple as one of the best Photo apps of 2011, a Starbucks Pick of the Week in 2012, a 4½-star app, with over 2 million downloads! Halftone 2 re-imagines what it means to turn your photos into professionally-themed comic book pages on a touch device. Its extensive feature set is based on direct feedback from our most passionate Halftone users. Quickly and easily create stories that put words in your friends’ mouths and thoughts in their heads. Add some WHAMS, BAMS, and POWS, and share your creations with the world. Halftone 2 is free to try, and you can add more graphics,…

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