RooM by Pocketstock launches: A Commercial Platform For Elite Instagramers
There are plenty of platforms for selling mobile phone images, where there are few or no barriers to entry. It’s not common then, in the fast growing mobile photography world, for a company to come along with a policy that has little interest in the numbers game but a whole lot more in absolute quality. RooM by Pocketstock, we have been told, is much more than a mobile stock photography agency that will just sell images – if they’re accepted in the first place. It’s a platform that’s being developed around promoting mobile photographers to a broadening number of clients who are looking to undertake campaigns using Instagram: any compensation…
Win A Two Day Gold Pass To AppsWorld, London – Worth £995!
As many of you know we’re the Official Media Bloggers for AppsWorld, London, as we were last year too. It promises to be a tremendous event now in its 4th year, Apps World has grown to be the leading global multi-platform event in the app industry. This year’s Earls Court 2 event is set to be the biggest yet with over 250 exhibitors and over 8000+ attendees including developers, mobile marketers, mobile operators, device manufacturers, platform owners and industry professionals registered for two days of high level insight and discussion. With 12 targeted workshop tracks, speed meeting, one-to-one meetings, parties, and awards the event will be tackling a spectrum of issues…
AN INNOVATIVE NEW PLATFORM FOR CREATIVES TO SHARE THEIR WORK IS ON ITS WAY
Creatives, photographers, designers, writers and artists will soon have a brand new platform through which to exhibit their work to a worldwide audience while being paid to do so. VIZN is a totally innovative community that seeks to empower creatives and reward them for their work, turning the traditional agency model and marketplace fee structure on its head. The arrival of the digital age has made it unbelievably easy for artists and writers to share their work with a worldwide audience through the use of blog sites, social media and other such forums. Although this undoubtedly has had a positive effect on the way creatives showcase their work, there has…
ArtRage For iPad v. 1.6 Launched – We Have Codes To Giveaway!
Ambient Design, the developers of the leading award-winning creator of realistic art painting software for Mac, Windows, iPad and iPhone, announced today ArtRage for iPad v. 1.6, upgraded with Bluetooth stylus support and other updates. Available immediately at the Apple iTunes Store, ArtRage for iPad 1.6 now supports Bluetooth pressure-sensitive styluses, including the Wacom Intuos Creative Stylus, TenOne Pogo Connect Stylus, and the original model Adonit Jot Touch. In addition to Bluetooth styluses, ArtRage for iPad also supports all traditional capacitive styluses. To activate support for Bluetooth styluses in ArtRage, users can go to the “Settings” icon on the iPad, click the ArtRage section, turn on support for the selected…
Perspective Correct – Temporary Price Drop
We’ve mentioned the Perspective Correct app several times here at theappwhisperer.com, not least because one of our wonderful Columnists Misho Baranovic is part of the development team. Perspective Correct has been developed to fix horizontal and vertical perspective distortion in your photos and we have published a wonderful tutorial by Misho, here. Perspective Correct is currently sporting a price drop and is temporarily available for only $0.99/£0.69 instead of $1.99/£1.49. Click here to download.
How New Media is helping Humanitarian Orgs to Change Lives
An inspirational story of Light and Love, told through Social Media Amsterdam, NL & Illinois, USA We’re delighted to publish this article which include our wonderful Columnist Kevin Kuster – don’t miss this… Watts of Love, a non-profit org, partnered with startup PastBook to publish an online ebook of their recent humanitarian trip to the Philippines, delivering 1,000 solar lights to remote impoverished communities living without access to electricity. The ebook binds Instagram photos and text into an emotive story, which reads stronger as a whole over single images. This innovative method demonstrates how non-profit organisations can use new media to communicate their story and change the world. Landing…
Mobile Masters | Philadelphia – Mobile Photo Lecture & Workshop
In this 4-hour session learn essential and esoteric mobile photo editing & shooting techniques from 2 of the most recognized names in what’s come to be know as iPhoneography. Also get a historical perspective on this evolving movement from one of the most respected photo historians. You will learn how to get the best quality images in and out of your mobile device. You will discover custom “app stacking” formulas that render dynamic image results. Key app techniques covered are Image Perfecting, Painting, Blur, Light, HDR, Grunge style, and Compositing. Learn insider secrets to unlock the best features in each of the 25+ apps covered. To find out more and…
Streets Ahead – Twenty Second Edition
Welcome to the twenty second edition of “Streets Ahead,” a weekly column dedicated to women mobile street photographers. Each week we review and curate work that was submitted to our Flickr Group. In addition to creating a showcase video which features a sampling of submitted work, we also highlight a few images that caught our attention… offering some thoughtful commentary about technique, composition, and subject matter. If you are not a member of our Facebook group… we highly recommend that you join us! This is our space for sharing newsworthy information and conducting discussions (what, when, where, why and how) about Women Photographers/Artists and Street Photography, in general. So, if…
Art Fund’s free Frieze Sculpture Guide app highlights striking selection of works at Frieze Sculpture Park 2013
The Art Fund’s latest app, Frieze Sculpture Guide, is a must-have for visitors to this year’s Sculpture Park, which exhibits both established and emerging artists represented in Frieze London. The app, which is free to all and available from 15 October, is the perfect companion guide to the park’s collection of more than 20 sculptures, resonating with the Art Fund’s vision of sharing art collections with as wide an audience as possible. Visitors will find their journey through the park greatly enhanced through the app’s information on each of the works as well as audio guide segments, voiced by Clare Lilley, Director of Programme at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. It is…
iPhone 5s & iPhone 5c Arrive in Italy, Russia, Spain & More Than 25 Countries on Friday, October 25
Apple today announced iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c will be available in Italy, Russia, Spain and more than 25 additional countries on Friday, October 25. iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c will also be available in more than a dozen countries on Friday, November 1, including India and Mexico. iPhone 5s redefines the best smartphone experience in the world with amazing new features all packed into a remarkable thin and light design, including the Apple-designed A7 64-bit chip, all-new 8 megapixel iSight camera with True Tone flash and introducing Touch ID, an innovative way to simply and securely unlock your phone with just the touch of a finger. iPhone 5c features…
