Stackables – Popular iOS Photography App – Temporarily Free
Stackables is a very popular app for iOS Photography editing. It’s packed with over 200 effects including grunge textures, light leaks and bokeh textures, painterly textures, abstract sky and clouds textures, emulsion textures, grit and grain textures, analog film emulation filters, gorgeous gradients, elaborate geometric patterns and much more. In addition, Stackables comes equipped with over 20 professional adjustment tools most notably White Balance, Color Balance, Vignette, Sepia, Grain, Blur, Tilt Shift and Depth of Field. And for the first time ever on a mobile device, these tools are added as layers, giving you unprecedented control over color and tonal levels in your composition. Stackables usually retails for $0.99/£0.69 but…
Mobile Photography – A Picture’s Worth with Meri Walker – TheAppWhisperer
‘A Picture’s Worth‘… is where we ask mobile photographers that have created powerful mobile photography/art to explain the processes they took. This includes their initial thoughts as to what they wanted to create, why they wanted to create it, how they created it, including all apps used and what they wanted to convey. We also ask these incredible artists to explain their emotions and how the image projects those feelings. We have published a few A Picture’s Worth articles recently, if you have missed those – please go here. In this A Picture’s Worth today we asked Meri Walker to tell us more about her image ‘Icarus’, she has done…
Adobe to Acquire Fotolia: Adds Stock Content Marketplace to Creative Cloud
Adobe today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Fotolia, a leading marketplace for royalty-free photos, images, graphics and HD video, for approximately $800 million in cash. Fotolia will be integrated into Adobe Creative Cloud, providing current and future Creative Cloud members with the ability to access and purchase over 34 million images and videos, significantly simplifying and accelerating the design process. The acquisition of Fotolia cements Creative Cloud’s role as a vibrant marketplace for creatives to buy and sell assets and services as well as showcase their talent to a worldwide audience. Adobe also plans to continue to operate Fotolia as a standalone stock…
Shift – New iPhone Photography App by Pixite Coming Soon
Shift is a new app by developers Pixite, of Fragment, Union, Tangent, Matter and LoryStripes fame. They have produced competent apps in the past and Shift promises to be another. According to Pixite, “Shift lets you create your own personal photo filters with one tap of a button. Shuffle through an endless combination of textures, colors, and blends to produce stylish effects like grit and grunge, vintage, light leaks, and high contrast black and whites”. We have attached the developers promotional trailer below to give you an insight. We have not tested this app and so we are not able to give an independent view at present.
MIRA Mobile Prize 2014 – Book Available Of The Winning Images
After a hugely successful exhibition, of which I was very proud to have been included within the Jury, the organisers have created a book including an editorial about mobile photography authored by Manuela Matos Monterio and inclusive of the fifty shortlisted images as well as some images from the jury. This is a Blurb book and you can preview the first 15 pages here, or place an order, in the UK it retails for £31.57, in the US it’s available for $48.56.
The Rise Of The Smartphone – Camera Manufacturers Fight On
As we are all aware more images globally are being taken with mobile phones than cameras and this has been going on for some time. Great news for Apple – US and Samsung – South Korea, of course but it’s a major headache to Canon and Nikon as their sales decline and affect the Japanese economy. "Smartphones are killing cameras across the globe. There is nowhere to hide, no magic country where the market is stable," said Christopher Chute, research vice president at IDC, a global market intelligence firm. "That’s been a huge problem for Japan." Between 2013 and 2014 alone, point-and-shoot sales fell 30 percent, according to Ben Arnold,…
William Daniels Receives 2014 Tim Hetherington Grant – World Press Photo
World Press Photo and Human Rights Watch are pleased to announce that the French photographer William Daniels has been awarded the fourth annual Tim Hetherington Grant. Daniels, represented by the London-based agency Panos Pictures, was selected for his work on the Central African Republic, a project entitled ‘Roots of Africa’s Unholy War’. He will receive a grant worth 20,000 euros to complete the project. The jury, meeting in New York on 10 December, selected the winner from among 198 applications. Read more here
Streets Ahead Interview: Angelique Manchanda-Peres – Mobile Street Photography
This week, the Women’s Street Photography Collective (Streets Ahead) is pleased and honoured to feature Angelique Peres Marchand in our interview segment. Manchanda-Peres grew up in Mumbai, India. She has always been interested in people, travel and geography and indirectly studied immunogenetics and neurochemistry at University. After University she joined British Airways and spent many happy years travelling the world. In the early 1990’s she left Mumbai and went to live and work in Dubai, in the UAE for 12 years. She has been living in Ontario, Canada ever since, working as a book reviewer. One day, when asked to review a book of photographs (India) by Eric Meola, her…
iOS/Android Photography App – Photo Editor by Aviary – Updated – Free $200 Photo Editing Supplies – Extended!
We mentioned this opportunity to download $200 worth of free photo editing supplies for Photo Editor by Aviary in November. It was a limited time offer but the developers have decided to extend this it through to the end of the year as it’s been a huge hit. To find out more go here.
Mini Mobile Portfolio Review (MMPR) – Davide Capponi
I am delighted to publish in full our latest Mini Mobile Portfolio Review (MMPR), this time for Davide Capponi. As we mentioned in our original post for this new section, see here, we are committed and most of all deeply passionate about mobile photography and mobile art and we have been a leading force in this area for many years. Our new MMPR section is a fully confidential service, unless the artist agrees for us to publish the review, as in this case with Alon. Miranda Gavin is our editor for this section, she is a writer, blogger, editor, educator and photographer. She regularly reviews professional portfolios – Photomonth (2009-12),…
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