irista from Canon – where every image lives
Canon today reveals irista – an advanced, cloud-based image management platform that allows users to access, enjoy and manage their photo libraries like never before. People today take thousands of digital photographs which have become scattered across multiple devices, irista is built to help curate entire image libraries in one central location. Previously known in beta-form as Project1709, irista makes it easy to find any picture or any memory – regardless of which device it was shot on. The full irista service is now live. People can sign up by visiting: www.irista.com irista has been created around four consumer needs: · Simple to use: Making it quick and easy…
Olloclip – Free Quick Flip Case With 3-In-1 Lens
Olloclip are celebrating three years in the business and are offering their Quick Flip Case for iPhone 5 for free (worth $39.95), when you purchase the original 3-In-1 lens. If you haven’t picked up a 3-In-1 lens previously then we highly recommend it. The 3-In-1 comes complete with macro, fisheye and wide angle lenses and achieves fabulous results. I use the Quick Flip Case at all times on my iPhone 5, it’s incredibly useful to just be able to flip up the corner and add a lens. I highly recommend it. To pick up a brand new 3-in-1 lens with free Quick Flip Case, just go here and add the…
Hints & Tips For Entering The Lumen Prize Competiton
Thinking about entering your digital art into The Lumen Prize Exhibition, but want a little guidance? Read on for some handy tips… STILL IMAGES For example an iPad painting, digital collage, photo-manipulation, glitch/fractal art or similar • The formats we accept are JPG and PNG only. • The file size of your image cannot be more than 1MB. • Please note that if your work is based on digital photography, you must have used an app or computer software programme as part of your creative process. If you are unsure about whether your work qualifies, please contact info@lumenprize.com MOVING IMAGE & TIME-BASED WORK For example animation or video • Work…
‘Impossible’ Article with Brenda Vaiani’s Head and Hands
We’re delighted to be working closer with The Impossible Project team as we continue to branch out and expand our reach with all things related to mobile photography. Analog post-processing of mobile images is becoming more and more popular and we’re going to make sure our readers are fully briefed on this very exciting development. The Impossible Project is in many ways leading the way, but there is also a growing community of mobile artists and photographers experimenting with other analog post processing techniques in an attempt to make their mobile images stand out even more, in galleries, magazines and the like and we have viewed some outstanding images and…
Instagram Introduces New Creative Tools
Instagram have brought a set of new creative tools to Instagram with the ability to adjust brightness, contrast, saturation, warmth and more. When you select a filter, you’ll now see a new wrench icon. Tap it and you’ll find a tray of photo editing tools ready for you to explore. You can also adjust how much of a filter you apply to a photo by double tapping the filter icon. Instagram for iOS version 6.0 is now available in Apple’s App Store, and Instagram for Android version 6.0 is available on Google Play.
iOS Photography Tutorial – PhotoCopier – ‘Emulating the Masters’ By Jerry Jobe
We are delighted to publish our latest iOS Photography Tutorial by Jerry Jobe. This week Jerry puts PhotoCopier through its paces and creates some very pleasing results. Don’t miss this, over to you Jerry (foreword by Joanne Carter). PhotoCopier retails for $0.99/£0.69 and you can download it here. “Last week I covered PicGrunger, an app that always makes a big impression. By that I mean that the effects were strong and not easily modified. But adding texture to an image is not always best achieved by scarring the image with a lot of grunge. PhotoCopier, by Digital Film Tools, is an app that gives your images the look of…
iOS Photography App – Dramatic Black & White – Updated
Dramatic Black & White is a very popular app for many iOS photographers. It’s received an update today with a all new UI with the added ability to Pinch and Zoom along with sliding tabs for quick access, easy share menu and faster rendering. 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/download.
Processing Your Mobile Images To Physical TinTypes and Ambrotypes – The Easy Way
As many of our regular readers will be aware, we have been looking at alternative post processing of mobile images for sometime. Most notably with the Impossible PhotoLab, you can read our Impossible articles here. The Impossible Project is in many ways leading the way, but there is also a growing community of mobile artists and photographers experimenting with other analog post processing techniques in an attempt to make their mobile images stand out even more, in galleries, magazines and the like and we have viewed some outstanding images and techniques. A good deal of my formal photographic training (many years ago) was spent in a huge college darkroom and…
New For Apple Developers – Introducing Swift
Swift is a new programming language for creating iOS and OS X apps. Swift builds on the best of C and Objective-C, without the constraints of C compatibility. Swift adopts safe programming patterns and adds modern features to make programming easier, more flexible, and more fun. Swift’s clean slate, backed by the mature and much-loved Cocoa and Cocoa Touch frameworks, is an opportunity to reimagine how software development works. “Swift has been years in the making. Apple laid the foundation for Swift by advancing our existing compiler, debugger, and framework infrastructure. We simplified memory management with Automatic Reference Counting (ARC). Our framework stack, built on the solid base of Foundation…
Biggest Developer Release Ever Includes Extensibility Features, HealthKit, HomeKit & Swift
Apple today released its iOS 8 SDK, the biggest developer release ever with more than 4,000 new APIs, giving developers the ability to create amazing new apps like never before. iOS 8 allows developers to further customize the user experience with major extensibility features like Notification Center widgets and third-party keyboards; and introduces robust frameworks such as HealthKit and HomeKit. iOS 8 also includes Metal, a new graphics technology that maximizes the performance of the A7 chip and Swift, a powerful new programming language. “With more than 800 million iOS devices sold worldwide, the opportunity for developers is huge,” said Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering. “This…
