JOBY Photo & Video Competition – Winners Announced!
We’re delighted to announce the winners of our JOBY Photo & Video Competition that we held in June. Our theme was ‘extreme angles’ and we had some absolutely fabulous entries to our Instagram feed. We have listed all the winners below for both the photo and video categories. Take a look at the winning entries – all winners will be contacted directly for postal details so their prizes can be shipped. The prizes are as follows: First Prize – Entire GripTight Family (GripTight GorillaPod, GripTight Micro, GripTight GorillaPod Magnetic, GripTight GorillaPod Video) – Worth over $135 Second Prize – GripTight GorillaPod and GripTight Micro – Worth over $65 Third Prize –…
LG Aligns Premium Smartphone Behind New “G” Name
The next flagship device from LG Electronics (LG) will be officially known as G2 and will be the first smartphone from LG to be launched as part of the company’s new “G” premium brand. Future smartphones in the same series will carry only the G name while the branding of mobile devices that have already been in-troduced will continue unchanged. “Our vision is to make LG’s newest G devices synonymous with excellence, raising the bar even further for the ultimate in user experience,” said Dr. Jong-seok Park, president and CEO of the LG Electronics Mobile Communications Company. “The new G2 will build upon the excellent reputation established by previous G…
Photo Eraser – Remove Unwanted Objects from Pictures – Temporarily Free
Another app going free today (as well as Vintage Pro) is Photo Eraser – ‘it’s s an easy-to-use image editor to remove unwanted objects from your photo, such as date stamps, watermarks, text, building or anything else’. Usually this app retails for $0.99/£0.69 but today it is free. Click here to download.
Vintage Camera Pro & iPad Version – Temporarily Free
Both versions of Vintage Camera Pro, the iPhone and iPad versions are temporarily free, they offer some interesting retro effects to your images. Click here to download: iPhone/download iPad/download
Streets Ahead – Eleventh Edition
We’re delighted to publish the Eleventh Edition of Streets Ahead, the wonderful Women’s Street Photography Column that we publish each week. If you would like to join the Streets Ahead Flickr group, please go here. ‘The enthusiasm and support for this collective has been tremendous – and we can’t thank you all enough! Our membership in the Flickr group is now over 100 and keeps growing every week. For this week’s showcase, we thought it would be far more interesting to present a quality sampling of the work that was submitted, instead of selecting only 10 “favorites.” Please note, however, that we simply couldn’t help but comment on a few…
PhotoStation – Our Daily App Giveaway
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 PhotoStation fame, to offer you free codes today. PhotoStation brings the power and versatility of desktop editing to the palm of your hand. With advanced features like Layers and the Pen (Bezier) selection tool (for the first time on a mobile device) as well as a wide assortment of filters, blend modes, backgrounds, textures, enhancement tools and…
Top Five Photo Apps – Photo App Lounge – With Tess Gomm
Welcome to our Photo App Lounge section of theappwhisperer.com. This is an area on our site where we ask highly accomplished mobile photographers what their top five photo apps are and why. We recently published the Top Five Photo Apps as recommended by Yannick Brice , Cedric Blanchon, Irene Sneddon, our Columnist and Award Winning Mobile Artist Sarah Jarrett as well as Louise Fryer, Lisa Waddell, Davide Capponi, Ali Jardine , Clint Cline, Elaina Wilcox and France Freeman’s Top Five Photo Apps including accompanying images demonstrating these selections. Tess lives in London and works as a writer/ designer running a corporate publishing business. She also indulges her love of all…
Hipstamatic – New Brighton Pak – Now Available
Late last night (GMT) we received news from our good friends at Synthetic LLC home of Hipstamatic that the much anticipated Brighton pak is now available in the latest update to HIpstamatic. We knew this was coming, it has been available in Oggl for a few weeks and we’ve all been waiting for Apple to approve it in the classic version. So the new ‘Bright-on’ pak as we might call it over here allows for ‘sizzling summer photos’ and as we are in the midst of a heatwave currently, it’s very appropriate. Usually our beaches do not resemble the ‘sizzling summer photos’ that the developers have described, but currently they…
Tangent iOS Photo App Tutorial – By MaryJane Sarvis
Tangent, the recently released photography/design app is a very simple to use yet potentially powerful tool. This first example demonstrates a texture I picked up from the web, put through a Tangent trip, then 2 ReTangents. This app is loaded with possibilities! We’ll look at a few paths to take. Tangent retails for $0.99/£0.69 and you can download it here. The UI is very clean and easy. Your first choice is whether to shoot from in app or import from camera roll. Second choice is whether to ‘start fresh’ or begin with using one of the 15 design templates. If you Start Fresh you can jump into the…
CrazyTalk – iOS App Review
CrazyTalk is a very powerful animation app that works flawlessly allowing you to create an incredibly innovative animations that are suitably impressive. CrazyTalk really does lock into the power of the smartphone device and allow you to create the most incredible simulations. CrazyTalk comes from Reallusion the same elite developer studio as Big Lens another fabulous app. The app itself is free for iPhone or iPad but to unlock everything you will need to top up $0.99/£0.69 for the in app full version. To purchase additional characters as well, that’s an additional $0.99/£0.69. It’s important to make full use of this app that you will need to purchase…
