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    Mobile Photography / Art Tutorial – Photo FX Ultra Part 3: Lighting It Up

    2016-08-03 / 1 Comment

    We are delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest mobile photography/art tutorial for our viewing pleasure. This time Jobe takes a deeper look at the app Photo FX Ultra in our final part three of this series. If you missed Parts One and Two, please follow the highlighted links to view. Take it away Jerry…(foreword by Joanne Carter). Photo fx Ultra retails for $2.29/£1.49 and you can download it here “Part three of my look at Photo FX Ultra brings me to my favorite part of the app: the Light presets. Before I get to those, however, I want to show you the Crop and Straighten tools. Once again, I’ll be…

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    Mobile Photography / Art Tutorial – Photo FX Ultra Part 2: More Filtering

    2016-07-27 / Comments Off on Mobile Photography / Art Tutorial – Photo FX Ultra Part 2: More Filtering

    We are delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest mobile photography/art tutorial for our  viewing pleasure. This time Jobe takes a deeper look at the app Photo FX Ultra (Part 2 – with Part 3 to follow next week). Take it away Jerry…(foreword by Joanne Carter). Photo fx Ultra retails for $2.29/£1.49 and you can download it here “When I started working my way through the filtering app Photo FX Ultra in the last article, I thought two articles would be sufficient to cover the entire app. I was wrong. So I will have to extend it to three articles, covering Lens, Photographic and Special Effects groups this week and finishing…

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    Mobile Photography / Art Tutorial – Photo FX Ultra Part 1: Not An Editor

    2016-07-20 / 1 Comment

    We are delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest mobile photography/art video tutorial for our  viewing pleasure. This time Jobe takes a look at the app Photo FX Ultra. Take it away Jerry…(foreword by Joanne Carter). Photo fx Ultra retails for $2.29/£1.49 and you can download it here “When I decided to write iDevice app tutorials, I realised very quickly that I could never cover every app out there. Hundreds of new ones are released every year, on top of the thousands that already existed when I started writing in November of 2012. Even though I’ve covered over 140 different apps, I still have some that I haven’t touched. Today’s app,…

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    Photo fx Ultra – Temporary Price Drop

    2013-07-10 / Comments Off on Photo fx Ultra – Temporary Price Drop

    Photo fx Ultra has been developed by Tiffen, a leading manufacturer and supplier of photographic filters and lens accessories for over 70 years. Photo fx Ultra gives you the tools to edit, control and correct your images as well as create interesting effects with 934 presets, including digital optical filter equivalents for your iPhone or iPod Touch images. Usually Photo fx Ultra retails for $4.99/£2.99 but today you can pick it up for $2.99/£1.99. Click here to download.    

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    Photo fx/Ultra – Temporarily Free

    2012-09-09 / 1 Comment

    Both Photo fx Ultra worth $4.99/£2.99 and Photo fx worth $2.99/£1.99 are temporarily free. Both are fantastic, Photo fx Ultra gives you the tools to edit, control and correct your images as well as create interesting effects with 934 presets, including digital optical filter equivalents for your iPhone or iPod Touch images. Now with photo-sharing to Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, Tumblr, the Sincerely Ship & Print service as well as Email, Print Copy and Open In functions. This app has been developed by Stiffen® a leading manufacturer and supplier of photographic filters and lens accessories for the consumer/professional imaging and the motion picture and broadcast television industries for over 70 years.…

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  • Image Blender,  News,  Technical Tutorials

    Image Blender Tutorial – Creating Unique Images

    2012-09-06 / 6 Comments

    Image blender is a wonderful app to help you create unique images.  This short tutorial will show you how to accomplish this.  This tutorial was created before the recent update  to Image Blender.  There are some changes in the the update on the bottom controls. Even with the changes you can follow this tutorial easily.   Original Image Number 1   These are the two images I chose to blend, a yellow field flower and a fossil rock with interesting markings.   Original Image Number 2   Step 1   I brought the two images into Image Blender. The image on the left (bottom thumbnail) is the dominant image, which determines…

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    A Day In The Life Of The Talented And Motivational Mobile Photographer Bob Sprankle

    2012-05-24 / 2 Comments

    Welcome to our very exciting new column on theappwhisperer.com. This section entitled ‘A day in the life of …’ is where we’ll be taking a look at some hugely influential, interesting and accomplished individuals in the mobile photography world. People that we think you will love to learn more about. This is the twenty fifth installment of the series; you can read the others here, if you have missed any so far. Today we are featuring Bob Sprankle, educator, presenter, writer, and very talented mobile photographer based in Wells, Maine USA. When he’s not implementing technology training for teachers in schools, Bob is an serious photography enthusiast. He started with…

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  • iPad Apps

    iPad – Photo fx Ultra – Updated

    2012-05-18 / Comments Off on iPad – Photo fx Ultra – Updated

    Photo fx Ultra is the definitive set of digital optical filters for the iPad. Simulations of many popular award-winning Tiffen glass filters, specialized lenses, optical lab processes, film grain, exacting color correction, natural light and photographic effects plus a clever paint system with a variety of brushes are now at your fingertips. You can now enhance your photos just like Hollywood cameraman and visual effects artists do! We can safely say without a doubt that Photo fx Ultra is the most comprehensive, feature rich photo app available for the iPad.
 This app has just been updated, the first time since November 2010. This is a free update if you have…

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    iPhone Photography Tutorial – ‘How To Create A Breathtaking Still Life Using Mobile Photography’

    2012-04-11 / 2 Comments

    Our new mobile photography tutorial section is in full swing and we’ve received much acclaim from the mobile photography community, thanks to all. If you’ve missed our previous tutorials you can catch them here. We recently interviewed the creator of this tutorial, Irene Oleksiuk for our A Day In the Life of … series, if you missed that you can read it here. We also published a previous tutorial by Irene entitled ‘How to create a stunning flower shot with artificial rain’ – if you missed that you can read it here. Irene impressed us with her contemporary flower and plant iPhone photography, her images are simply stunning and so…

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