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Adobe Lightroom Updates: Become a Better Photographer, Collaborate and Edit

2019-05-172019-05-14 by Joanne Carter

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 can now invite others to view and add photos to your albums through email or a shared link. When someone contributes, you’ll have access to their full resolution photo in the format that was added to your album, including raw files.
A new Texture slider designed to help either accentuate or smooth medium-sized details such as skin, bark and hair.
Batch editing in Lightroom for Android, Flat-Field Correction in Lightroom Classic and Defringe for Lightroom on Mac and Windows have also been introduced.

Brand New Section & Editor Added To TheAppWhisperer – ‘How I Did It’™ with Rad Drew

2018-03-062018-03-06 by Joanne Carter

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 Drew will include tutorial videos, enabling you all to succeed even further with your mobile photography and art. We have just published How I Did It!™ – creating captivating images with DistressedFX – to view, please go here.

TheAppWhisperer is growing at a phenomenal rate and trying to include as much unique content and variety from the mobile photography world as our readers can possibly digest, you really don’t need to go anywhere else!

Please join me in warmly welcoming Rad Drew to TheAppWhisperer family, welcome to you, Rad!

Mobile Photography / Art Tutorial – Abstract Painting: It’s Time to Play

2015-11-022015-11-02 by Jerry Jobe

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 the form of stickers (which I loathe) or stock-figure cutouts (not much better). Most of these fun apps are not meant to be robust editing or painting apps, and have drawbacks in the user interface that reflect their simple nature.

Today’s app, Abstract Painting by Javier Casares Villaverde, is a free app that has the look of being as much an experiment for the developer as it is for the user. It has some very nice tools for creating abstracts, but the user interface has two minor and one major drawback that may keep it from being an essential app.

The first minor (in my eyes) drawback is that it is built exclusively for the iPad, and exclusively in portrait mode. There does not seem to be any real reason why this app could not be used on the iPhone. That is in keeping with the impression that the developer was learning as he wrote this”.

Mobile Photography / Art Tutorial – ‘Over’ Release 3.0: Does it Add the Right Features?

2015-10-302015-10-30 by Jerry Jobe

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 within weeks, so now that the rewrite is done it should be fairly stable for a while.

The new features include: Masking, Drop shadows, Color picker, Undo button, and a Font Manager. This is a significant number of new features. Does that mean that the app, up to now, has not been a value? Unfortunately, I would say that without these features, Over was an also-ran app. Did they add the right new features to make Over stand out in a crowded field of typography apps? Let’s find out”.

Mobile Photography Tutorial – Ansel: Channeling a Master or Taking his Name in Vain?

2015-07-022015-07-02 by Jerry Jobe

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 to detail, so I don’t think it’s too much to ask to have an app named after him have the same focus. While Ansel is a nice app, I don’t think it lives up to the high expectations”.

Mextures – iPhone Photography App Tutorial – Part 2 – By Jerry Jobe

2013-09-112013-09-11 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 … Read more Mextures – iPhone Photography App Tutorial – Part 2 – By Jerry Jobe

Tutorial – Color Lake – Exploring New Techniques

2012-09-242012-09-24 by Lisa Waddell

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 … Read more Tutorial – Color Lake – Exploring New Techniques