Snapseed, my perennial go-to app for almost every photo, is surprisingly available for FREE

I love this app and had myself bought it at its full price of £2.99. Seems like while going on the New Year celebrations, they decided to let the price loose... Grab it while you can!

POTD: Sunrise Landscapes - Part2 + Thank You Note

I personally don't believe too much in the concept of old year and new year – I think we live in a continuum of time moving from one moment to the other. Nevertheless, I would like to take a pause at this point in time and thank you all for your strong support and constant encouragement which prodded me on to develop this huge passion for photography. Without your help, it would have been impossible to sustain my new found hobby for this long. We have come a long distance in the last four and a half months during which our POTD membership has soared to nearly seventy (70) members (in GS) and we have been able to share 300+ photos in the group. It is a bit of an oxymoron when compared to the beginning of my note, but I would like to wish you and your families a very fun filled and dreams fulfilling Happy New Year!

 

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

-          Mahatma Gandhi

 

1)      Collage of landscapes (Original pictures) created in PicFrame app

 

2)      Magic Hour version

 

3)      Magic Hour version 2

 

POTD: Sunrise Landscape (Tarangire)

This is first of several sunrise landscapes that I will be sending over the course of next few days. This one is of a dead acacia tree in Tarangire. The original picture was taken with Nikon D5100 SLR and then apped up on my iPhone 4 in various versions mentioned below.

 

1)      Original

 

2)      Camera+ version

 

3)      Lumiere version

 

4)      Magic Hour version

 

5)      Noir version

 

6)      PhotoToaster1 version

 

7)      PhotoToaster2 version

 

8)      PicFX version

 

Yesterday’s Polling Results

Number 6 (Angry Duckling by Pranav) got the maximum likes, closely followed (trailing by just 1 vote) by Number 2 (Canary Wharf view – Bright version)

 

POTD: Canary Wharf View from Greenwich + Reader's Contributions

I took this picture at Greenwich Park last month with my iPhone 4, and then edited it using three apps – Camera+, Iris and ToonPaint.

 

1)      Dark version

Edited in Camera+ and Iris

2)       Bright version

Edited in Camera+ and Iris

3)      Monochrome version

Edited in Camera+ and Iris

4)      Painted version

Edited in ToonPaint

 

Merry Christmas

POTD: The Road Not Taken

The Road Not Taken

 

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveller, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

 

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

 

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

 

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference

 

-- Robert Frost

 

 

                Edited with Photo Toaster app on iPhone 4

 

Edited with Rainy Daze app on iPhone 4

Autostitch - a super excellent panorama app has dropped in price to £0.69

 

 

ComicBook!, an app to create comic book collages and add captions to your photos, has dropped in price to £0.69

 

 

Photo Toaster, a fantastic photo filters app, has dropped in price to £0.69

8mm vintage camera app, a vintage video shooting app, has just dropped in price to £0.69

8mm Vintage Camera - Nexvio Inc.

Gif Camera, an app to make animated gifs from your photos, is once again FREE for a limited time

Gif Camera - zhang yan

PhotoForge 2, a highly acclaimed photo editing app, is now available for discounted price of £0.69

PhotoForge2 - GhostBird Software

FX Photo Studio, a fantastic photo filters app, is available at a discounted price of £0.69

If there is only one app that you want to buy for applying photo filters, FX Photo Studio will be the right one!

Photo Splash FX, a good selective coloring app, is FREE once again

Photo Splash FX - Master.Minds

Slideshow+, a good app to make slide shows from your camera roll, is once again FREE

 

 

King Camera, an excellent camera replacement app that does both photos and videos, is now FREE

The app is FREE forever now, though you will still need to make an in-app purchase to remove the KC watermark and also to export photos in high resolution.

 

Photo Splash FX, a selective coloring app, is now FREE

Photo Splash FX

TonalTopia, an app to apply tonal depths to your photos using color filters, is now FREE

TonalTopia 

Live Filter Camera, a hugely popular filters app is now available for £0.69

Live Filter Camera 

iSupr8 - a fantastic vintage video app is now available at a discounted price of £0.69

iSupr8 

Night Fast Snap! - an app to help capture photos in low light, is FREE for a very limited time!

Night Fast Snap! 

Bracket Mode, an HDR supporting app, has dropped in price from £1.49 to £0.69

This is an excellent app for taking quick multiple exposure shots which can then be stitched together in an HDR app like Pro HDR or True HDR.

Lake in Ngorongoro

Apps used: FX Photo Studio

Effects applied: Lindale + Vintage Green

Other Apps: Camera+  to capture photo

Magic Hour, a hugely popular filters app, has dropped in price to £0.69

Magic Hour 

Picwall Plus and Frametastic - two collage making apps, are now FREE for a limited time

Picwall Plus
Frametastic

POTD: Lake Manyara Sunset

I wonder why when you say goodbye

beautiful colours paint the sky.

Shades of orange, yellow and pink too

all come out because of you.

And although I hate to see you go,

I really do enjoy the show.

I've seen you leave so many times

and still it's a favourite sight of mine.

There'll be no sadness, be no sorrow

because my sun, you'll come out tomorrow.

I won't feel hurt, I'll feel no pain

because on your way down, your colours will reign.

• Adoni Marcano, http://www.poetryinnature.com/nature/poetry.asp?poem=5928#ixzz1fwkCps2P

1)      Panorama - Autostitch

2)      Original – Camera+

3)      ToonPaint

4)      Snapseed

5)      Snapseed – Drama

6)      Photo Toaster – Color Burst

7)      Simply HDR

Apps Featured:

• Autostitch
• Camera+
• Snapseed
• Photo Toaster

St. Paul's in early morning light

Effects applied in FX Photo Studio: Gamma + Brightness/Contrast + Crystal River + Vintage

Other apps: Pro Camera + HDR Foto

Apps Featured:
ProCamera
HDR Foto
FX Photo Studio

ClassicSAMP, another classic retro filters app from misskiwi - maker of popular ClassicTOY app, is now available for £0.69

 Get ClassicSamp on iTunes store.

Squara and ClassicPan - both retro style filters apps have dropped in price to £0.69 each

 Get Squara app on iTunes store. 

Get ClassicPan app on iTunes store.

PolyMagic - a very different type of collage making app, is now FREE

I think this app looks very promising in the deluge of other collage making apps.

POTD: iPhone night shot - Piccadilly Circus billboard

Taken with and cropped in Camera+.

Apps featured:

• Camera+

Photogene2 has dropped in price to £0.69 for a limited time

It is an advanced photo editing app and is quite popular amongst iPhonepgraphers. Recommended.

POTD: Panoramic view of Canary Wharf from Greenwich Park

3 individual shots taken with Camera+ and then stitched together in AutoStitch.

Apps featured:

• Camera+
• AutoStitch

Ftp Sprite - fantastic FTP client app for iPhone is FREE just for today

This app is available for free today. It's super fast in accessing your FTP server and upload/download files from it. I have used the app and found it to be really good for my needs.

WithCam looks quite a promising customised frame making app

The app is currently available for Free, though you need to make an in-app purchase of £0.69 to remove the water mark. I have used the app and found it to be very interesting for making my own frames using existing photos on my camera roll. One of the biggest drawbacks I experienced is I can't use my existing pictures to fit into the customised frame - I have to compulsorily take a real time picture, which is quite a hindrance. I might not be able to use this app much before they add the feature to use existing photos for pictures in the frame. Nevertheless it's a very good idea and I will look forward to getting some updates on this.