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Italian Brother – A Photographic Journey…
This truly has been one long year, which at times almost felt rushed up! I know! You might be thinking: January is far-gone, what is he mumbling about! Well, I was just thinking about my photographic year, I am reaching my first anniversary and I cannot believe that only yesterday I was sitting in Richard Gray’s iPhoneography class, at least this is what it seems, and yet, almost a year has passed. The good thing, however, is in less then a month I will be enjoying his tutorials again! This has also been such an eventful year, full of surprises, and every day was one from which I’ve learnt and…
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Tutorial – Etchings – Mixing Etchings With Popsicolor
We are delighted to publish the second of many tutorials that we’re planning with the app, Etchings. In this tutorial, our Head of Technical Tutorials, David Hayes, mixes Etchings with another popular app, Popsicolor, with some very interesting results. Don’t miss this (foreword by Joanne Carter). Over to you David… If you would like to purchase Etchings and/or Popsicolor the links are below: Etchings Popsicolor “In my previous tutorial, I covered many of the features offered by Etchings. In this tutorial I’m going to show you how I used the app, Popsicolor along with Etchings to create something new…using the same source image! Just as a bit of…
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Gray’s Anatomy – How Ironic – By Richard Gray
Another week has come and gone but just before the weekend starts we have the pleasure in publishing the wonderful words and wisdom of none other, than our great columnist, Richard Gray. This week Richard discusses the ‘history’ of photography in his own very special humorous way, don’t miss this. (Foreword by Joanne Carter). Over to you Richard… “I love Hipstamatic’s recent Tintype SnapPak, which includes the C-type (or cyanotype) film. In the words of the Hipsta blurb, this “film” adds a hand-painted quality to your portraiture” (not sure why they mention portraiture in particular – it does allow you take photos of non-portrait things). Some interesting things…
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Shooting Star – Sequencing Still Images Into A Movie Format – By Star Rush
We’re delighted to publish this very interesting article by our Columnist Star Rush for her column with us ‘Shooting Star’, which offers inspiration and guidance in seeing as a photographer sees, for those interested in in exploring creative ways to observe, record, and comment upon the small and large moments of one’s life and those people, things and places around them with a smartphone camera. In this article Star takes a look at using still images within a movie style, as Star herself says, ‘it’s a practice for thinking about sequencing photo essays for online or print…’ (foreword by Joanne Carter). Over to you Star… “I collected many…
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Using Your iPhone Camera To Detect Diseases – Amazing Tech
I’m aware that that headline is ambiguous and I’m also aware that most of you know I’ve been unwell recently, so perhaps that helped me tune into this brand new app called Uchek. Quite remarkably it is an app that will test your urine sample, don’t worry you don’t have to bring the two into direct contact. How it works is that you produce a urine sample into a suitable container, then using a specially developed color-coded urinalysis strip, you dip that into the sample, next you take a photograph of the results and the app will then analyze it. There are twenty five diseases that Uchek can detect, including…
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Tutorial – iPhone Adobe Photoshop Touch Tutorial
Adobe released Photoshop Touch for iPhone and Android smartphones today and both versions are available to download immediately. See our earlier post here. Elaina Wilcox has written a great tutorial to help you start enjoying this app straight away, please take a look at this. (Foreword by Joanne Carter). Step 1 ‘I always start my Adobe Photoshop Touch projects by duplicating the layer. Step 2 After duplicating the layer, I used the Adjustment Brush, choosing the Saturation setting to bring more warmth and depth to the veil as well as her face. I wanted there to be a very strong definition separating the veil from her…
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A Day in The Life of Gizem Karayavuz – Interview – A Very Talented Photographer/Artist Offering A Deep Psychological Aspect To Her Art
Welcome to our very exciting column on theappwhisperer.com. This section entitled “A Day in the Life of…” is where we take 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 our eighty first installment of the series. If you have missed our previous interviews, please go here. Today we are featuring Gizem Karayavuz. Gizem lives in Istanbul, Turkey where she worked as a financial adviser for three years whilst she studied fine arts part time. She then applied to Turkey-Istanbul Marmara University Fine Arts Faculty, Painting and graduated in 2012. During…
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Wrapcam – Temporarily Free
Wrapcam is a popular app, I wouldn’t describe as ‘the coolest app’ as the developers do but you may find it to be of interest as it is temporarily free today. Usually this app retails for $0.99/£0.69, but if you click here, you can download it for free.
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Adobe Brings the Power of Photoshop Touch to Mobile Phones
Adobe today announced the immediate availability of a new version of Adobe® Photoshop® Touch, optimised for iPhone, iPod touch, and Android smart phones. Inspired by the highly successful Photoshop Touch for tablets, the phone app brings core features of Photoshop desktop software to mobile devices and offers similar intuitive, touch-based gestures and features. “Mobile phones are increasingly becoming the primary tool for people to take and edit photos," said Winston Hendrickson, vice president products, Creative Media Solutions, Adobe. “Adobe is dedicated to serving our customers’ evolving creative workflow and we heard, loud and clear, that Photoshop fans wanted some core Adobe imaging magic on their smartphones.” Adobe Photoshop Touch for…
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A Day In The Life Of Federica Corbelli – Interview – A Tremendously Naturally Creative and Talented Mobile Artist
Welcome to our very exciting column on theappwhisperer.com. This section entitled “A Day in the Life of…” is where we take 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 our eightieth installment of the series. If you have missed our previous interviews, please go here. Today we are featuring Federica Corbelli (aka Lubaluft). Federica was born in Genoa (Italy) and lives in Milan where she has been working for more than 11 years with an Information Technology company. Federica explains more about her images and emotions below in her own…