Samsung Opens New Mobile Support Centre In Teddington, UK
Samsung Electronics UK has today announced it is working in collaboration with The Repair Station to launch a new Mobile Support Centre in Teddington, Middlesex. From Friday 15th November, the new walk-in centre will give customers the chance to get up-to-date advice on all of Samsung’s smart mobile products and check that they are performing to the highest specification. Providing advice and service support, staff will be on hand to discuss upgrade options with customers. The Repair Station will also include an in-house workshop, where customers will be able to update their products with the latest software and resolve any suspected technical issues. A premium one hour repair service will…
Camera Awesome Now Available For Android From SmugMug
SmugMug has launched the Android version of its super-popular app, Camera Awesome. The camera-boosting app enables users to capture, edit and share the perfect shot. · With this launch, SmugMug also built some new Android-specific features like high-speed burst shooting mode, facial recognition and tracking, and selective filtering. · The new app will have additional functionality on supported NVIDIA® Tegra® 4 devices through a new partnership between SmugMug and NVIDIA. Camera Awesome is pre-installed on NVIDIA’s Tegra Note, the platform for tablets such as the EVGA Tegra Note 7 and the ADVENT Vega Tegra Note 7.Today, SmugMug launched the Android version of its super-popular app, Camera Awesome. The camera-boosting app…
Creative Android Mobile Photography Tutorial – By AlyZen Moonshadow – ‘Not Quite Photoshop…but close. PART 1. AN EPIPHANY’
We’re delighted to republish a series of Android mobile photography tutorials by AlyZen Moonshadow. This series of tutorials started as an experiment for AlyZen to create seamless repeating patterns and in many ways it has now taken on a life of its own. This is is the first from the series and we’ll be publishing the others very soon. Over to you AlyZen (foreword by Joanne Carter). Click here to download PicsArt from the Google Play Store ‘So, some of you may be wondering how my adventures in Photoshop are going. Not much to report, actually, I haven’t had much opportunity to practice what I learnt the last time,…
Watts of Love – Philippines Disaster Relief With Kevin Kuster
Our wonderful columnist Kevin Kuster (previously Senior Photo Editor for Playboy magazine) is working with the non-profit @watts_of_love. They distributed 1000 solar LED lights to Ilin Island last February to the poorest of the poor and the effects were life changing. Ilin Island has never had any electricity, running water or medical assistance. The 35,000 islanders have been all but forgotten and struggle to survive every day. They have just received word that much of the Ilin island and its neighboring islands have been crushed by typhoon #hayian and #yolanda. Although they don’t have all details yet, we do know that almost every bamboo hut on Ilin has been completely…
Photo Competition – The Women’s Committee Of The Philadelphia Museum Of Art
THE WOMEN’S COMMITTEE OF THE PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART is pleased to announce its third biennial Photography Competition. The Competition is open to all photographers age 18 and over. A jury of nationally recognized experts will select 6 photographs by 6 different artists. Each winning photograph will enter the permanent collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and will be exhibited by the Museum as part a special celebratory event to take place in June 2014. Additionally, the winning photographs will be sold individually in editions of 15. Each winning artist will receive a cash prize of $1,000 and will be paid a 5% commission on sales of their prints…
Paper – Temporarily Free
Paper is a beautiful app for your iOS device designed to aid anything from quick sketches to note taking to inspiration. It comes with a good selection of paper textures and high res retina painting, a large selection of sketching tool and more. Usually this universal (for iPhone and iPad) retails for $1.99/£1.49 but today you can pick it up for free. Click here to download.
iColorama S – Updated
iColorama S is the iPhone version of this very popular app for iPhone photography. It’s just been updated with new flow, text with shadow and new edges. This is a free update, if you have previously downloaded this app. If not, you can download it here, it retails for $1.99/£1.49. We’ve publsihed several tutorials with this app by our wonderful tutorial edtior, Jerry Jobe, if you’ve missed those, please go here.
New Poetry/iPhone Photography Book – ‘Area 51’ – By Jay Desind And Giveaway!
We’re delighted to mention that Jay Desind’s latest book – Area 51 – is now availble for download in the iBookstore. This is Jay’s third Poetry/photography book and it fully utilises the iBook functionality with each book, all the poems can also be listened to by touching the title, and each photo can also be touched to view a drop down menu that goes on to describe Jay’s experience when taking that specific photograph and the thoughts behind the poem. All the poems are about the concept of love and relationships. Each image has been captured and/or edited with Jay’s iPhone. Area 51 retails for £7.99 in the iBookstore and…
Paris Mobile Photography Award Is Open!
Many thanks to Cedric Blanchon for bringing this fabulous Award to our attention. Organized by Tribegram, the second edition of The Mobile Photography Fair in Paris is held from Nov. 29th until Dec. 1st 2013. To celebrate this event, an international challenge is organized from Nov.7th until Nov. 21st to award the best Mobile Photographer in five categories : B&W, Portrait, Landscape, Abstraction, and Street Photography. The tribegram awards are a special nod given to emergent mobile photographers coming from all over the world. Held in France, they are designed to help Mobile Photography to become a recognized art form within the photography world, and the art world in general.…
PictureBook – ‘Compass Ways’ – By Benamon Tame
We’re delighted to publish Benamon’s 27th article to his PictureBook column with us and once again, it is outstanding, gushing with creativity and imagery both in pictures and words, don’t miss this. The concept behind the PictureBook column is not just about capturing stories but creating them, the journey behind and the image we present. PictureBook draws on Images selected from Benamon’s own story series and also looks at the work of the other story tellers within the community’. Over to you Benamon (foreword by Joanne Carter)… ‘Compass Ways -The Myrme’ – ©Benamon Tame The music played faintly behind them, ever fainter as they moved through the empty hall.…
