Adobe Lightroom Updates: Become a Better Photographer, Collaborate and Edit
Today, Adobe has announced extensive updates to the Lightroom ecosystem, including new features that help you become a better photographer, collaborate and take your editing to the next level. This release introduces a new Home view in Lightroom for iOS and Android (coming soon to Mac and Windows) that contains your most recent images; interactive tutorials that are viewable directly within Lightroom; and inspirational photos with behind-the-scenes access to how each image was edited. Photography educators including Matt Kloskowski, Katrin Eismann, Kristina Sherk and Nicole Young have contributed tutorials and photos for today’s release, and more content will be added regularly. Additional new features introduced in this release include: You…
Brand New Section & Editor Added To TheAppWhisperer – ‘How I Did It’™ with Rad Drew
We are incredibly honoured and excited today to annouce a brand new section with TheAppWhisperer as well as a new editor to bring greater enhancement to our already hugely popular website, Rad Drew! As I mentioned in my recent BBC article, Drew is a multi award winning Mobile Photographer, Teacher and Author on mobile photography. He is also Associate Editor at Luminouslandscape.com a website I have long admired as well as an Affiliate Representative for Topaz software. In short, we are hugely honoured to open up a column entirely for Drew entitled with the US Trademark that he has secured “How I Did It!™. How I Did It!™ with Rad…
Mobile Photography / Art Tutorial – Abstract Painting: It’s Time to Play
We are delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest mobile photography/art tutorial for our reading and viewing pleasure. This time Jobe takes a look at the app Abstract Painting. Read his thoughts as he puts it through its paces (foreword by Joanne Carter). Abstract Painting is free and you can download it here. “Some apps I’ve discussed over the years are very serious photo editing apps, giving you’re the ability to manipulate curves or eliminate color casts. Some have given users serious painting tools, such as iColorama and Pixelmator. Some apps, though, are not serious and give users tools to experiment with or to have fun with. These tools may take…
Mobile Photography / Art Tutorial – ‘Over’ Release 3.0: Does it Add the Right Features?
We are delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest mobile photography/art tutorial for our reading and viewing pleasure. This week Jobe takes a look at the new the update to the app ‘Over’. Read his thoughts as he puts it through its paces (foreword by Joanne Carter). Over retails for $3.99/£2.99 – click here to download “Over is a type-and-clipart app that has been around for a few years. I hadn’t covered it up to now, and I’m glad I didn’t. The newest release of Over (3.0), which arrived last week, is a major rewrite of this app with multiple new features. I hate writing articles that are out of date…
Mobile Photography Tutorial – Ansel: Channeling a Master or Taking his Name in Vain?
We are delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest mobile photography/art tutorial for our reading and viewing pleasure. This week Jobe takes a look at the mobile photography app, Ansel. Read his thoughts as he puts it through its paces (foreword by Joanne Carter). Ansel retails for $0.99/£0.79 and you can download it here. “As you might guess from the title of this article, I think it’s a gutsy move to name your app after one of the greats in black and white photography, Ansel Adams. His name and several of his images are familiar to anyone who takes even a passing interest in photography. He’s known for his painstaking attention…
Mextures – iPhone Photography App Tutorial – Part 2 – By Jerry Jobe
We’re delighted to publish the second of a three part special series of iPhone Photography Tutorials with the app Mextures by our incredibly talented Contributor to our Tutorials section, Jerry Jobe. If you missed Part 1 of this series, please go here. Don’t miss this (foreword by Joanne Carter). Over to you Jerry… If you haven’t picked up Mextures yet, you can download it here. “When we left off last time, just before saving our image, we were looking at the Layers workspace. Each layer is listed from left to right along the bottom of the screen. Each layer has four variables listed in the middle of the thumbnail…
Tutorial – Color Lake – Exploring New Techniques
Color Lake was not part of my workflow prior to Joanne’s request that I write a tutorial about it. I felt like it was a very specific one-trick pony; the novelty of which would wear off fairly quickly. Only after I started to play with it did I see its potential as an app that could add twists and textures to an image. Using Color Lake, this is how I created Tipsy. Step 1 I set the carnation on my kitchen counter just below the window to take advantage of natural light. I used 645 Pro on my iPhone 4S. My film choice was E6K in a 6×6 format.…
