iOS Photography App – Distressed FX – Temporarily Free
One of the most popular aOS photography apps for adding subtle effects to your images is temporarily free. Usually Distressed FX retails for $0.99/£0.69 – to pick it up for free today, click here.
New Monti HipstaPak from Hipstamatic
Well, there’s a beautiful classic Italian style new HipstaPak available for you to download from Hipstamatic, with cool tones ‘as blue as ‘the Trevi Fountain’ appararently. The images do look gorgeous. This pack is waiting for you in the Hipsta shopping cart. It retails for $0.99/£0.69 for the Sergio lens and Maximus LXIX Film.
iOS Photography App – PhotoToaster – Temporary Price Drop
PhotoToaster is one of our favourite apps here at theappwhisperer.com, it is used by many of our Columnists and readers, even including myself. It has a great range of effects and brushes without any in-app purchases. Usually PhotoToaster retails for $2.99/£1.99 but today you can pick it up for just $0.99/£0.69. Click here to download.
New iBook – ‘A Touch of Light’ by Luis Perez and Giveaway!
We are so excited to reveal our Photo Education & Accessiblitiy Editor Luis Perez’ new iBook has been published by Apple – A Touch of Light. “You don’t have to see to have vision.” That is the Luis’ motto as a person with a significant visual impairment who uses photography to educate others on the importance of inclusive design. This book focuses on the what, why and how of adaptive photography with iOS devices. A number of video tutorials show how the author is able to capture, edit and share photos with the help of the accessibility features built into iOS devices and a number of photography apps. A framework…
Fascinating Artist Talk With Jeff Wall
This is really quite fascinating, ‘Jeff Wall (b. 1946, Vancouver) is one of the most important and fascinating artists living today, and undoubtedly one of those responsible for establishing photography at the forefront of contemporary art. From his early days to the present – varying in techniques and topics, from street photography in his “near-documentary” style, quotes and complex and original references to art history to reconstructed “cinematographic” style – the distinction between the commonplace and the spectacular is blurred, and the topics of masterpieces are converted to everyday simplicity’. Artist Talk with Jeff Wall from The Sip on Vimeo. Artist Talk with Jeff Wall from The Sip…
Kickstarter – COVR Photo – An iPhone Case with a Built In Camera Lens – An Interview
This is a cool little project with support and backing from both our Columnists Richard Koci Hernadez and Kevin Kuster among 986 others- $65,966 has actually been pledged so far to get this product into production. COVR Photo is a protective iPhone case with a lens built into it. Simply press the case onto your iPhone, download the app from the App Store, and you’re ready to shoot pictures and video. If you want to use your regular iPhone camera just slide the COVR lens back and shoot away. One of the great assets of COVR Photo is that it’s always on your iPhone ready and waiting—you’ll never have to…
Photo Education & Accessibility – ‘Getting the Picture with Panoramas on iPhone’ by Luis Perez
We are delighted to publish our third tutorial to our new section within theappwhisperer – Photo Education & Accessibility. There are many photographers and artists with special needs, whether this relates to visual issues even bordering on blindness (yes it’s true), to deafness to many other difficulties that people suffer with, these include mental health issues, physical issues and more. We want to ensure that whatever your difficulty you can still enjoy photography and art, it’s so therapeutic. Our Photo Education & Accessibility Editor, Luis Perez is an Apple Distinguished Educator whose work focuses on accessibility and inclusive design. He received his doctorate in special education from the University of…
‘Impossible’ Interview with Kate Bellm
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…
iOS Photography – Adobe Photoshop Express – Updated
Adobe have updated their Photoshop Express app bringing a new editing experience and new look for iOS 7. It also allows you to share via Instagram or SMS. There’s also a ‘green eye’ correction filter update – essentially for pets of course. You also don’t need to worry about saving your work, the app will resume where you left off. There are a few navagation improvements throughout the app too. This is a free app and you can download/update it here. (There are in-app packs to purchase)
iOS Photography App – PhotoMotion – Temporarily Free
PhotoMotion is becoming hugely popular, it allows you to turn your photographs into video with motion, titles and music. Usually PhotoMotion retails for $1.99/£1.49 but today it is free. Click here to download.
