All Entries in the "Photography" Category
ArtStudio in Review – the glass canvas
Yeah, I is an artist (had help though)
You know, when Steve Sprang demoed the iPad version of Brushes at Apple’s Jan 27 event, I swallowed a filthy lot of inundating and excited ohmygawdthatsgreat saliva. All that screen real estate. All that room for erasing mistakes. But brushes is simple, meant for attacking a little creativity. Lucky Clan’s ArtStudio sends in the calvary to strike more advanced enemies: transparencies, layers, and needem’ filters. In many ways, it is the best drawing app for the 3,5 inch screen. Feel free to discuss this review of ArtStudio in our forums.
TimeSqueeze In Review – Record Your Life Benny Hill Style!
Time is something that we could all definitely use more of. When it comes to something like videos, time can sometimes be the killer. Time to load, time to play, it’s everywhere. As an answer to this potential issue developer Infoxenter have released a handy little app called TimeSqueeze. Read on to see what I thought, if you have the time. Feel free to discuss this review of TimeSqueeze in our forums.
Today’s Cutie: Faces of Met – iPhone’s Hot or Not?
Minus a few key features, Faces of Met is Hot or Not for photographers. Click, slide and rate – just like the real thing, but much, much more airbrushed. Not sure how Met distinguishes its famous photographers, but I bet it goes something like this:
SoftMobile: Okay, so you have the shots?
Budding Ph’ger: Yessir.
SoftMobile: And bio information such as adorns gravure?
Budding Ph’ge: Check.
SoftMobile: You sir, are a great photographer!
Budding Ph’ge: Where’s my cheque?
Can’t be much different than that. Rate the pics with 1-5 stars, but don’t expect to meet any of Met’s mostly female cuties – it ain’t a dating service, but still is fun to touch through! In the back of my seldom-used brain, I get the feeling that face photos could be used as a catch-all for the p-word, just like Hottest Girls was. Whatever the case, Faces of Met is out, seems oddly cast in its parent directory of photography, and may be set to re-introduce other fun artefacts into the App Store.
Softmobile, Faces of Met – $0.99
Piccies and more after the gap:
paintingWalls with Enginy – for those ‘mauve or yellow?’ moments
Enginy Studios have it right – make an app which allows you to argue with your wife before ruining the house with hundreds of dollars of polka dot paint. A few taps of the finger and some twirls later, and paintingWalls will have your walls, ceilings, and even skylights pretty in pink (or blue, or mauve, etc.): magical, but not _that_ magical. paintingWalls requires you first to take photos of your rooms. Then you can splash virtual colour around. And when shade vacillation strikes, paintingWalls allows you to add virtual lighting for that extra touch of home. It all comes packaged in a pretty easy to use interface replete with save, email, Facebook, Twitter functions, a comparator engine, and more.
Enginy Studios, paintingWalls – $0.99
Video, piccies, and more after the gap:
G700-1st Soft Camera in Review – An Entire Digital Camera Inside Your iPhone
There are tonnes of camera related apps available at the app store, enough to warrant their own official spot. The majority of the good ones carry a single-function such as: zoom, black and white, etc.. There are some multi-function apps but a lot most are photo-editors instead of camera apps. ShiningWorks G700-1st Soft Camera is a pretty well-focused software camera for your iDevice.
Pano in Review – Love is all around you!
I love taking pictures. When digital cameras got bit on the market, I finally felt free! And when I got the iPhone, I was stunned by the rather good quality of the photos from it and even printed out quite a few of them. Since then, I’ve been taking pictures left and right and noticed that one of my favourite shots is the panorama – you know, the extra wide or long shot which looks great for landscapes. Well, now you can do that on the iPhone!
Photoscatter in Review – Mass Photo Sharing Made Easy
Everybody likes to share photos. Unfortunately, with all the various social networking and storage sites, one of the biggest problems is sharing said photos with everyone. Thanks to a new app Photoscatter from the folks at Unique Apps, things just got a whole lot easier.
Brain Controller in Review – the view from on top
Brain Controller is a clever demo for Motion Portrait’s photo-to-animation technology, a sometimes funny, sometimes scary application which morphs digital animation from still photos. The iPhone version is a port of Motion Portrait’s PC application, and while extremely simple, exhibits the company’s expertise in enslaving humanity to their alien overlords… and animation. Brain Controller came to me at a strange time too: in Dune’s prequel, House Corrino, the skin of my neck has been crawling at the constant mention of biological tampering. This app ain’t going that far, but after a good dose of coffee, I can see the tainted future, and it isn’t great!
Motion Portrait’s app has managed to remote control itself into TMA thanks to a few good videos which you can see here.
QuadCamera in Action – Apple’s finger poised to Shut or Release
The drama is long over - QuadCamera for 3.0 has been in the App Store now the better part of a month thanks to the efficient App Store approval team. So far, out of 100 reviews, the current version is predominantly valued by the numerical score of 5, and in the meantime, 2.0 version of the software has been given to Apple to approve. While QuadCamera isn’t the camera app for everyone, it seems to have the ability to inspire creativity in a vast number of people. For example, the below firework shot (from creator Takayuki Fukatsu’s Flickr portfolio) was taken with QuadCamera, showing the power of an emulated shutter burst.
Takaki Fukatsu, QuadCamera, 1.99$, 0.3 MB
AutoStitch in Review – Create panoramic photos on your iPhone
AutoStitch, developed by Cloudburst Research, is an iPhone app that allows you to stitch multiple images together to create seamless panoramic photos quickly and easily. Just how well does such a tool perform on a mobile device? Read on to find out.
