iOS Photography – JixiPix App Giveaway
JixiPix are wonderful developers and publishers of many successful iOS Photography apps, including Dramatic Black & White, Portrait Painter, PhotoArtistaHD, Grungetastic and more. They have an offer on their special Facebook page where you win an app by liking their page and supplying your name and email address. Take a look here – closing date is 30 June 2014.
SAMSUNG AND MARVEL ENTERTAINMENT ANNOUNCE GLOBAL BRAND PARTNERSHIP
Samsung Electronics and Marvel Entertainment today announced a new global partnership. Through a multi-medium creative campaign across film, digital and product, Marvel and Samsung will integrate their brands in unique and creative ways to bring their collective audiences together and showcase the best from both brands. The partnership will merge the worlds of both brands, highlighting Samsung’s technology and Marvel’s visual storytelling to offer unrivalled access to exclusive content and experiences. “Samsung is passionate about the stories around our products and the people that use them,” said Younghee Lee, Executive Vice President of Global Marketing, Mobile Communications Business at Samsung Electronics. “Partnering with Marvel gives us the opportunity to bring…
Samsung Announces Galaxy Tab S
Samsung Electronics has today announced the Galaxy Tab S, Samsung’s thinnest and lightest tablet to date. This Super AMOLED tablet combines the most advanced display technology with a full range of premium content for an unrivalled entertainment experience. The Galaxy Tab S is also powered with enhanced productivity features for effortless multitasking, all elegantly housed in a stylish, yet practical design. “The tablet is becoming a popular personal viewing device for enjoying content, which makes the quality of the display a critical feature,” said JK Shin, CEO and President of IT & Mobile Division, Samsung Electronics. “With the launch of the Galaxy Tab S, Samsung is setting the industry…
Alternative Processes – The Center for Fine Art Photography – Call For Entries Competition
As our regular readers will know, we have been looking at alternative post processing of mobile images for sometime. We have a Flickr group dedicated to this and we will be publishing tutorials and additional information soon to help you make hard copies of your mobile images using alternative processes. We have published several articles already to our new section, see here. We have today discovered a wonderful new competition from The Center for Fine Art Photography. The entry date for this competition is July 2, 2014 and it will run until July 15, 2014. All subject matter and alternative processes are welcome, including Daguerreotypes, Cyanotypes, Chrysotypes, Chlorophyll Process, Chemigrams,…
Introduction To Mobile Macro Photography by MaryJane Sarvis
We are so thrilled to publish this Introduction to Mobile Macro Photography by MaryJane Sarvis. In this article MaryJane indulges us with seductive and captivating floral macro images and she guides us through the creation process with her wonderful conversational style tutorial. We are sure you will be enticed by this article to experiment with mobile macro photography yourselves and we would love to see your results! Make sure you upload them to our main Flickr Group for curation (link). “Macro photography can become quite addictive. I find the urge to run and put on my olloclip to shoot almost every plant that I see. Actually, getting an image…
iOS Photography App ‘Afterlight’ Updated
Afterlight is another very popular app for iOS photography and rightly so. It has just received a new update, #2.4. This update introduces the new Double Exposure tool. There is also a new set of six instant film frames created by Jacob Wick (@jacobleewick). Forty three new frames have been added to the Script category, there are also performance and utilization improvements. This is a free update, if you have previously downloaded Afterlight, if not you can pick it up here. It retails for $0.99/£0.69/download.
iOS Photography Tutorial – Painted Camera – by Jerry Jobe
We are delighted to publish our latest iOS Photography Tutorial by Jerry Jobe. This week Jerry puts Painted Camera through it’s paces, with some incredible results. Don’t miss this, (over to you Jerry). Painted camera retails for $1.99/£1.49 and you can download it here. “Last August I covered Glaze, an editing app that turns your photos into painted images. You import a picture into Glaze, choose one of the presets and your image is reconstructed with paint strokes. The depth of the strokes is what set Glaze apart. How cool would it be to be able to see the ending effect as you’re snapping the photo? Pretty cool, as it…
iOS Photography App – Union – Updated
Union despite only being two months old has already proved itself as a firm favourite with many mobile photographers. It has just had a new update with new brush settings to change size and opacity. There’s also the addition of a brush zoom window for details, two new blend modes – overlay and screen, bug fixes and performance improvements. 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.
iOS Photography App – Halftone 2 Adds Video In Latest Update
Halftone 2 by Juicy Bits, an Apple Editors’ Choice and App Store Best of 2013 winner, has added video to its popular app for iPhone and iPad. The update makes it easy to turn photo pages into high-definition movies with dynamic camera movement, professionally designed captions, and fun sound effects. “Customers are constantly looking for ways to add more action to their homemade comics and scrapbooks,” says Mike Swanson, Founder of Juicy Bits. “With the new video feature, Halftone 2 users are literally one tap away from seeing their photo pages as exciting movies and only a few taps away from adding a soundtrack, customized camera movement, and creative sound…
iOS Photography App – Paint FX : Photo Effects Editor – Updated
Paint FX : Photo Effects Editor has had a major update with many new features added. Check out What’s New below. This is a free update, if you have previously downloaded Paint FX : Photo Effects Editor. If not, you can pick it up here, it retails for $2.99/£1.99/download. What’s New? Lots of new Glitter and Shape painting tools. – Get rewarded for reaching points milestones – Big performance and usability enhancements – Ability to delete previously uploaded photos – Now you can preview your effects before applying them – Share your photos on Twitter, Facebook, or send a link to friends outside of social networks – Crash…
