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There are lots of different social networks out there for the iPhone, and although some of them work (and some don’t), one has broken through and become a popular app among iPhone users everywhere: Instagram.
It’s been over a year since we last looked at the app, and since then it’s been through a lot of changes. But what makes this social network for the iPhone work where others have failed? Let’s look at the success of Instagram after the break.
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This week is the final week you can submit entires to FX Photo Studio’s iPhoneography Exhibition – and there are 15 places reserved in New York for AppStorm readers!
You can process photos using any iPhone app so long as you also use FX Photo Studio.
International iPhoneography Show is a project by MacPhun – the team, who brought you FX Photo Studio for iPhone and MobiTog – the iPhoneography community with hundreds of members around the World.
The idea is to give everyone a chance to show his/her photography talent at international exhibitions in different parts of the globe. And it doesn’t matter where you live, whether you consider yourself a pro or just an amateur. What matters is your photography. The first exhibition will take place in New York, December 16-22, just before Christmas.
It’s an awesome chance to show off your best iPhone shots in an actual exhibition!
Head over here to check it out and enter!
Be sure to mention that you came from AppStorm, so they can select winners from the AppStorm entries!
As a professional designer, I love editing photos. Until recently, that meant hooking up your digital camera to your computer to import them, and opening said photos in a desktop program (e.g. Photoshop). However, the iPhone has made it incredibly easy and convenient to capture and edit photos all on the same device.
With the advent of apps like Instagram, editing a photo to make it look hip and cool is as easy as tapping your finger on a premade effect. The problem with using premade effects in most photo editing apps is that you don’t have control over how your photo is being changed. This downfall, however, is not the case with Luminance. After the jump, find out why this feature, and others, makes Luminance one of the best photo editing apps available in the App Store.
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Have you ever wondered what your neighborhood looked like throughout history, or perhaps the historical significance of a nearby landmark? With Historypin, you can easily get historical data through user-generated images displayed in relation to your current location, all from your iPhone.
The main feature of the app allows images and relevant historical data to pop up overlaid on the iPhone’s live camera view (thanks to integrated Google Maps and Street View technology). This allows you to quickly get a snapshot of what a nearby location looked like in the past by simply holding up your device in the street. Historypin is certainly an intriguing and extremely unique approach to augmented reality, but we wanted to find out if it was just a gimmick like so many others.
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Taking photos is easier than it has ever been with nearly every mobile phone touting a camera of some kind. Taking high quality photos with an iPhone is particularly easy especially if you own an iPhone 4. The ease of use combined with the convenience of having the device always with you make it perfect for taking photos for a lot of people.
The built-in iOS Camera app has seen some improvement in recent updates, but ultimately it is very basic. Sometimes we need a little more. Camera+ claims to be that little more and does so quite well. Let’s run through the application and see how it works in this role.
There are few categories as rich in apps as the Photography category in the iTunes App Store. The improving image quality of the iPhone’s — and more recently the iPod Touch’s — camera has led many people to replace their point & shoots with their iDevice.
While the camera can produce fairly nice images with the right lighting and a good motif, image editing can give the shots an almost professional touch. Whether it’s for editing on the fly to share among social networks or for semi-professional purposes when no “real” computer is available, Snapseed for the iPhone strives to offer a unique and complete experience. We take an in-depth look at the app and if its promise holds true right after the break.
Mobile app Piictu has been gaining some attention from the public in recent months. Since the app launched it has been in competition with other networks in the same niche, namely Instagram and even Twitter.
But Piictu has combined iOS mobile and camera functionality with the social networking craze. By using Piictu you have access to an entire community sharing their photos and streams across the globe, and their servers are loaded with tags and categories to sort and search out unique images. It’s practically an extensible mobile network of photographers! Find out more after the break.
In this Quick Look, we’re highlighting Camera Genius. The developer describes Camera Genius as the best way to take, edit and share your photos. Includes a 6x digital zoom, video with real-time zoom, anti-shake, burst mode, full screen camera button, timer, sound shot, camera guides, a photography manual, photo editing and adjustment tools, sharing with six social services including Facebook, Flickr, Twitter and email. All wrapped in a beautiful user interface with two custom themes.
Read on for more information and screenshots!
Have you ever looked at HDR photos, wishing you could produce the same fantastic images? But there’s no way you could make those kind of pictures with your iPhone’s camera, and you know that because the HDR functionality built into the Camera app just isn’t that great. What if there was a way to take truly mind blowing HDR images with your iPhone, just by using a different app?
Well there is, and one of them is iCameraHDR. This app takes your iPhone’s built-in camera and kicks it up to 11, producing some pretty stunning pictures in the process. Let’s delve into what the app does after the break.
If I told you that this is a review for an app that lets you apply filters to your photos, you’d probably roll your eyes and move on right? There are a million of these and they’re all the same: the interfaces are cute but hard to navigate, the free filters are limited and they always try to convince you to pay extra for better ones.
Well hold on, because Magic Hour is a game changer. This app not only lets you apply a number of great preset filters, it lets you build and save your own using an awesome tool set. Even better, there’s a theme marketplace full of user-submitted free downloads to add to your collection! Intrigued yet? You should be.
