Mobile Photography/Art Competition – FIPA/TheAppWhisperer Special Award – ‘Gates of Paradise’
17 June 2015 – Update – I have now juried this part of the fabulous FIPA competition and my decision has been agreed with Andrea Bigiarini – the announcement will take place tomorrow the 18 June 2015 at 6 PM – CEST – that’s 5 pm London Time, 12 noon New York Time. Dilshad Corleone will read out the speech that I have prepared for the presentation of the Gates of Paradise Award as I cannot attend in person. There are two beautiful prizes and it’s going to be truly wonderful! In association with the NEM the Florence International Photography Awards (FIPA), Joanne Carter TheAppWhisperer has created a special mobile…
Mobile Photography/Art – Pic of the Day (75) – via Instagram – TheAppWhisperer
Here’s day seventy five of our new Pic of the Day section via Instagram. Each day we will be selecting one image a day for our Pic of the Day section on Instagram with this hashtag – #theappwhisperer. Furthermore, each month we will also offer an overall prize to the image that receives the most love. To ensure your image receives our attention, please upload it to Instagram with this hashtag – #theappwhisperer Today, we congratulate @polylm – Marco Lamberto with this wonderful image below ‘‘Men at Work”. Please also check out his Instagram feed, it’s full of inspiring images.
APPart – Mobile Art – Pantone Color of the Day – ‘Rococco Red’ – TheAppWhisperer
Many of you have already seen our new segment to our APPart column here at TheAppWhisperer, edited by Bobbi McMurry. We would like to inspire all mobile artists to create one image a day using the selected colour of Pantone’s ‘Color of the Day’ – see here (we will announce the colour each day). As well a ‘Color of the Day’, Pantone also link that colour with adjectives and/or nouns. For your information Pantone’s ‘Color of the Day’ was originally created by renowned astrologer Michele Bernhardt – you can read more about her here. Today’s ‘Color of the Day’ is Rococco Red (18-1652) and the accompanying descriptives are ‘Creative…
The Guardian – ‘Camera-makers focus on adapting to smartphones’ market surge’
Interesting article by my friend Charles Arthur (Contributing Writer for The Guardian, previously the Guardian’s Technology Editor) this morning. He talks about the demise of camera sales since 2006, starting there of course with film. Arthur discusses the research & development and money that is being poured into smartphone development. He cites my partner (Kevin Carter’s) test results in DXOMark’s testing in October where the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus reached the top of the camera site – see here. The conclusion to this piece focuses on sensors, smartphones are in need of larger sensors. "Sony announced recently that it’s going to increase its production of image sensors…
Mobile Photography – Flickr Group Showcase – 12 April 2015 – TheAppWhisperer
Wow what a week for mobile photography and art! This flickr group showcase is absolutely bursting with talent, your talent! Thank you to all artists who have uploaded their images to our flickr Group this week, it’s has been a complete joy to curate. I hope you all enjoy this as much as I do. If you would like to be considered for our weekly Flickr Group Showcase, please upload your images to our dedicated Flickr group, for this section, here Many congratulations to the following artists for being featured this week: Susan Blase, Shel Serkin, Arjan van der Horst, _fireandrain_, Hanni K, rorofot, Tomaso Belloni, Michel Pretterklieber, Jamel van…
APPart – Mobile Art – Pantone Color of the Day – Winner Announced – 12 April 2015
Huge congratulations to our APPart Color of the Day with Pantone Daily Challenge winner. Yesterday’s Color of the Day was Sangria (19-2047) with the adjectives and nouns, ‘Intutive, Theatrical and Intelligent’. We feel that @sanikdote – Stef LP, has captured the essence of these with this wonderful image below, please check out her Instagram account, it’s fabulous. Today’s ‘Color of the Day’ is Geranium (17-1753) and the accompanying descriptives are ‘Articulate, Dynamic and Communicator’. So, we would like to see your creations using this colour in combination with those words, if possible. It’s a challenge after all! To take part in this challenge, please create an image and post it…
APPart – Mobile Art – Pantone Color of the Day – ‘Geranium’ – TheAppWhisperer
Many of you have already seen our new segment to our APPart column here at TheAppWhisperer, edited by Bobbi McMurry. We would like to inspire all mobile artists to create one image a day using the selected colour of Pantone’s ‘Color of the Day’ – see here (we will announce the colour each day). As well a ‘Color of the Day’, Pantone also link that colour with adjectives and/or nouns. For your information Pantone’s ‘Color of the Day’ was originally created by renowned astrologer Michele Bernhardt – you can read more about her here. Today’s ‘Color of the Day’ is Geranium (17-1753) and the accompanying descriptives are ‘Articulate, Dynamic…
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.
Mobile Movies Showcase – Week 53 – by Donna Donato
Welcome back to the fifty-third article in the column, Mobile Movies. We at TheAppWhisperer have been inspired by the Flickr upgrade of 1 Terabyte of storage for everyone and have wanted to launch a mobile movie section for some time. Now seems to be perfect, the new Flickr upgrade will allow for a full three minutes of 1080p HD quality video per single film and you can have as many as you have storage space for. Each week I (you can find me on Flickr here) will curate the movie uploads to our new Flickr group MobileMoviesTheAppWhisperer – I will view all the videos uploaded and comment on the ones selected. ”The internet has created…
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TitleFx – Text on Photos is a good universal app to have in your arsenal, allowing you to literally add text to your images. With a vast selection of fonts to select as well as backgrounds, it’s a fast and responsive app and one we’re sure you will find valuable. It gives you complete control over font size, position, rotation, character/line spacing, transparency, colour, effects and there are no in app purchases. Developed by proactive and communicative East Coast Pixels, it comes recommended. We have been given some promotional codes to share with our readers, usually TitleFX retails for $1.99/£1.49. If you would like to be in with a chance…
