Mobile Photography Awards 2013 – Winners & Honorable Mentions Announced!
We’re delighted to reveal that the Mobile Photography Awards (MPA) 2013 Winners and Honorable mentions have now been announced. As always we (I speak as a member of the Jury) were succumbed by the wealth of talent displayed across our screens. We’ve had more entries to this competition than ever before and the quality of submissions has been totally outstanding across all the categories. For my part, I was Lead Judge for one of the largest categories, if not the largest category ‘Digital Fine Art’. I am very pleased to announce that Cedric Blanchon took First Place here. The image that Cedric contributed ‘Unilateral Selection’ matched the criteria for this…
LG G Flex Smartphone Rolling Out To More Than 20 EU Countries
LG Electronics (LG) will be rolling out the innovative and award-winning G Flex, the world¡?s first smartphone designed to follow the curve of the human face. Starting next month, consumers in major European markets including the U.K., Germany, France, Italy, Sweden and Austria, among others, will be able to experience for themselves ‘the most innovative device in today’s smartphone industry’. To date, the LG G Flex has only been available in Asia (Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore) and was announced at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) earlier this month that it will launch in the United States sometime this quarter on three of the country¡?s biggest wireless carriers: AT&T,…
The Guetta Fringe – Art’s Purpose – By Roger Guetta
We’re delighted to publish Roger Guetta’s latest article to his ‘The Guetta Fringe’ Column with us. This time Roger delves into the very depths of the meaning of art. We have created a video showcase of Roger’s images as well as including each one separately below too. Don’t miss this… over to you Roger (foreword by Joanne Carter). “I sometimes ask myself: “Roger, why do you produce art?” Mick Jagger once said: “What else would I be doing in this life, meditate on a mountain?” Bob Dylan once said: “I do it for one reason or another, but I can’t remember what the reason is anymore.” Jasper Johns…
Technical Tutorial – Paint FX : Photo Effects Editor – Part 3 of 3 – By Jerry Jobe
Last week we published Parts 1 and 2 of this three part series, if you missed those please follow the highlighted links. Today, we’re publishing the third and final part of these comprehensive tutorials on Paint FX : Photo Effects Editor, we’re sure you’re find this invaluable. Over to you Jerry (foreword by Joanne Carter). “In the first two parts of this tutorial on PaintFX, we discussed the new community and contest features, and showed how to apply the effects using the brush and/or masks. But we haven’t shown you all the effects that are possible in this app, and that’s what this final article will do. We’re…
Mobile Masters – iPad Book – Temporarily Free
We just mentioned (here) that Dan Marcolina’s AppAlchemy is sporting a price drop today. So too is Mobile Masters, in fact the price is totally free today. The current version features over fifty of the world’s most notable mobile photographers from around the world, including Karen Divine, Jennifer Bracewell, Carlein van der Beek, Natali Prosvetova, Misho Baranovic, Cindy Patrick, James Clarke, Jamie Stewart, Roger Guetta, Nettie Edwards and many more. There’s a new Mobile Masters 2014 contest, which we mentioned here – that enables you to have your work featured in the next update – plus we’re contributing a wonderful prize too! So, take a look at the above links…
AppAlchemy – Dan Marcolina’s Interactive iPad Book – Temporary Price Drop
Dan Marcolina (one of our Columnists) as well as phenomenal author of the iPhone Obsessed Series of books has dropped the price of AppAlchemy. AppAlchemy features overviews of Marcolina’s 40 essential apps and 32 image formulas some with detailed step by step video tutorials. Over 5 hours of video instruction altogether. It also includes many, many resource links and examples of work based around each app by some of the worlds best iPhoneographers. If you haven’t picked up this book yet, today is a great day to do so. Usually it retails for $6.99/$4.99 but today you can pick it up for only $4.99/£2.99 – click here to download. …
Grungetastic/HD – iOS Photography App – Temporarily Free
We just mentioned that Portrait Painter/HD by the same developer, JixiPix as Grungetastic/HD is free today. Seems they’re having a sale, so don’t miss this opportunity to pick up Grungetastic for iPhone and Grungetastic HD for iPad, both free. If you want to create distressed, distorted, ultra grungy images, this is the app for you! Click below to download whichever version you prefer: iPhone iPad/HD
Portrait Painter/HD – iOS Photography App – Temporarily Free
Portrait Painter for iPhone and Portrait Painter HD for iPad by the incredible photography app developer, JixiPix, allows the user to create a finely painted portrait from an image and adds colour, light and texture to harmonise intelligently. Usually the iPhone version retails for $1.99/£1.49 and the iPad for $2.99/£1.99, today both versions are free. Click the links below to download the version you require. iPhone iPad/HD
Cycloramic Pro 360 Panorama – iOS Photography App – Temporarily Free
Cycloramic is the app that Steve Wozniak famously described as ”unexpected, fanciful and useful all at the same time!’. It really is a great panoramic capture tool, utitlising both visual and auditory cues. It also comes complete with Aviary’s best in class photo editing tools. Usually this app retails for $1.99/£1.49 but today you can pick it up for free. Click here to download, Video Demonstration
Tickle Your Fancy – #23 – NSFW
Welcome back to our twenty third post in our new section ‘Tickle Your Fancy’. ‘Tickle Your Fancy’ includes a round-up of 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. We hope you enjoy this weeks’ selections… American Apparel…
