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Improve your iPhone Pictures with ProCamera
Improve your iPhone Pictures with ProCamera is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website
Price: $2.99 Score: 9/10 By M. Schusterman
I like to keep my reviews free of hyperbole – unless, of course, I’m trying to make a joke, which usually doesn’t go well – so I would never say that an app turns your iPhone’s camera into something as powerful as a digital SLR. I know what those cameras can do, and to have that on a phone is simply not (yet) possible.
I’ve checked out a lot of camera apps, and in the end, for one reason or another, I just resort to using the camera as is on my phone. But Pro Camera, designed by daemgen.net, has moved on over to the first page of apps on my screen.
What I love about this app is that it caters both to those who have a decent understanding of photography, and those who just want to enhance the iPhone’s camera. The app opens straight to the camera itself, but you can tap “Pro” in the bottom left and find a user guide in Settings to get some help. You can zoom in and out either by tapping the zoom icon in the bottom right, or by pinching. Tap the timer icon to set a timed shot (you can change the number of seconds in Settings as well). And the center icon is the anti-shake feature – find your shot, tap it, and the iPhone will take your picture the second you’re holding the iPhone perfectly still. (This is the best option when you’re zoomed in on something.)
For simplicity’s sake, you can tap anywhere on the screen to take a picture. By tapping the “Pro” icon, you can switch to the video, go to your photo album, and add or subtract the compass and other grids to help you find your focus and level the shot. Inside the albums, you can view your photos and get width and height info, email the full-size photo, or activate the photo studio, which allows you to adjust the photo settings and add effects.
It sounds like a lot – and there’s much more – but the fact is this app is very easy to use. If you’re interested in getting better shots with your iPhone camera, this one is three bucks well spent.
ProCamera [iTunes Link] is compatible with iPhone and iPod touch. Requires iPhone OS 4.0 or later. A small expedite fee was paid by the developer to speed up the publication of this review.
Camera Kompare – iPhone App Review
Camera Kompare – iPhone App Review is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website
Camera Kompare by SearchBuild LLC © 2010
version 1.2
$0.99
When you’re researching your next purchase of pretty much anything, you want to have as much information as you can, before making in decision. This applies to anything from an apple, to a new home. I especially search out the most info I can, when purchasing electronics. With so many different manufacturers and so many different retailers, it can be tough to find the best deal.
Developer SearchBuild also saw this problem in the digital camera market, and decided to do something about it. They has released a great app called Camera Kompare. Just as the name suggests, this app gives you the ability to look up just about any make and model of digital camera. You can check out all the specs, look up prices, and even do a side by side comparison. They have over 1400 cameras included, and more are added with each free update. Also, if you feel there is a camera or feature missing, you can contact them via their support page, and they’ll try to help. With all this info, you should be able to decide on which camera is right for you.
Features:
Complete specifications of 1,400+ cameras. Now you can see if a camera has all the features you need.- Camera comparison – get a feature by feature comparison between any set of cameras. We’ll help you decide which camera is the right one for you.
- Find similar – pick a camera you’re interested in, we’ll show you all the similar cameras available. You may find one even better than you had hoped for…
- Price search integrated – find out what a good price is, BEFORE you buy!
- Search – find any camera you are interested in, just type part of the model or camera name.
- Camera photos – thousands of photos of top digital cameras.
- All modern brands – choose from all your favorites including Canon, Nikon, Sony, Olympus, Panasonic and many more!
- All types of cameras – compact cameras, DSLRs, waterproof, interchangeable lens EV cameras and even digital rangefinders.
- Free lifetime app upgrades.
Camera Kompare, from SearchBuild, is available in the App Store now, for $0.99.
written by Mike McKinnon
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Mirror Face
Splash Factory
Splash Factory is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website
The Ultimate Color Splashing App Is Finally Here! Quik and Easy way to produce awesome & professional looking photos!
For a price less than a cup of coffee, you can own this app forever!
? “Splash” any object in the photo using composition of 2 methods :-
* Smart colors selection method (6 colors max)
* Area selection (Finger drawn)
This gives you 3 methods of selection
* Colors Selection Only
* Area Selection Only (finger drawn)
* Colors + Area Selection
? Choose from 7 effects to be unsplashed :-
* Black & White
* Low Saturation
* Sepia Toning
* Inverted Colors
* Pen Sketch
* Posterize
* Pixelated
The developer also created iQuikSplash, which was featured in
New & Noteworthy of the US App Store! Check it out now!
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iHueSplash Pro
iHueSplash Pro is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website
From the creator of AppliFX and iQuikSplash, comes another ground breaking effects app – Hue Splash! Selective Color Changing with 2 Taps! This can’t be ANY easier!
SEE VIDEO DEMO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FuFI4JdXzI
? With smart mathematical algorithms, this app is able to selectively changes the original color selected by user to a new color selected by user. See the screenshot for a few sample output photos of this app. No tricks!
? Splashes the photo with ANY HUES (full range of colors is available for your to select).
? And with adjustable amount, pan and zoom feature, you’d be able to fine tune the final result. Adjust further with the brightness and contrast sliders.
? And specify areas to process the the splash – target a portion of the colors your want to change!
? Save the result to your device or upload it to you Facebook account.
Envision the Impractical with My EYE
Envision the Impractical with My EYE is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website
Price: $.99 Score: 3/10 By A. Papachristos
Phones have become a suspicious tool because they simplify one’s ability to spy and cheat. With the ability to send photos and videos by pressing a single button, users can share vital or incriminating evidence within moments. However, with My EYE by TouchMeProject, users now have access to an application that promises to serve just this purpose despite the fact that it lacks even some of the most basic features you can access for free with the tools built directly into your iPhone.
With My EYE, users can connect with other users to send messages and videos right within the application. (Yes, both users have to download My EYE in order for such transfer to work.) Working in real-time via Bluetooth, My EYE does not require an Internet connection, nor an additional paid messaging plan.
When you start the application, you will see two eyes, one being the actually letter i itself. Tapping on the letter will provide you with usage information because, without such instruction, it would be extremely difficult to figure out My EYE’s true purpose. By tapping the actual image of the eye, users can then search for and connect to any local devices also running My EYE. Once you have connected, you may send text messages by using the Chat button or video by pressing the Video button. Your friend will automatically receive your messages when connected.
As the App Store description suggests, you can easily use My EYE to spy on someone or copy off another person’s class work. However, I do believe that this is the exact reason why students must either leave their phones at home or present them to their teacher when taking important exams. Such cheating can also lead to plagiarism, which can have serious ramifications.
Also, with a special introductory price available until the next update, the My EYE description also includes a list of features to be added in the next version: the ability to connect via Wi-Fi, send audio, send photo and save photo. Not to be a killjoy, but I can already perform all these tasks with the default features nearly every phone comes with these days, and I will not need to connect via Bluetooth with someone running the exact same application on their iPhone.
I can already send text messages courtesy of the data plan my phone carrier mandated upon purchasing my iPhone. And, if I do not want to text them, there are multiple applications that provide instant messaging for free. I can already connect to the Internet via Wi-Fi or 3G, allowing me to send information in this respect as well. I can send photos via text message or email, whichever I prefer, and I can save any received photos right to my photo library. And I have been sending audio messages since my very first cell phone. (That was their original use, correct?)
No offense, but if I can already accomplish such tasks without the $.99 price tag and the restrictions that come with only being able to interact with other My EYE users, why wouldn’t I simply use what Apple gave me?
My EYE [iTunes Link] requires iPhone OS 4.0 or later and is compatible with iPhone and iPod Touch. A small expedite fee was paid by the developer in order to speed up the publication of this review.
Camera+ Pulled From App Store
Camera+ Pulled From App Store is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website
tap tap tap’s Camera+ was allegedly pulled from the App Store by Apple this morning for sneaking in a hidden feature that Apple had previously denied.
The feature in question was tap tap tap’s manipulation of the volume control buttons, letting them control the camera shutter rather than a button on the screen. In their own words, by using the volume controls instead of an on-screen button, “photos can be sharper because you can now hold your iPhone steadier with two hands instead of fumbling around for the shutter button on screen.”
It makes sense, as it puts the volume buttons right where the shutter button would normally be on a camera, but Apple didn’t like it. Apple, in their statement to tap tap tap regarding their reasoning for rejecting the feature, wrote that,
Your application cannot be added to the App Store because it uses iPhone volume buttons in a non-standard way, potentially resulting in user confusion. Changing the behavior of iPhone external hardware buttons is a violation of the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement. Applications must adhere to the iPhone Human Interface Guidelines as outlined in the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement section 3.3.7.
Instead of letting the feature die though, tap tap tap threw in a hidden trick in their latest version. They released in a tweet that “by visiting the URL camplus://enablevolumesnap in Mobile Safari, one could make the volume buttons on the side of the iPhone instead act as a camera shutter button”.
The tweet was pulled soon after, but tap tap tap had to have known that the feature would be widely publicized and eventually found by Apple. They said themselves in their blog post regarding the initial feature rejection that, “When Apple finds out about these incidents, they tend to crack down pretty hard on them, sometimes going so far as completely banning the developers from the App Store. So this is definitely not the smart way to go.”
Now what are the chances that tap tap tap, in order to spur sales for an app that was admittedly slumping in sales, planted the Twitter post, knew that big sites would pick up on the story, and then pulled the app themselves?
Regardless, the app is not in the App Store anymore, and it is unclear if Apple will do/ has done anything about the situation. There have also oddly been no comments from tap tap tap on their blog or elsewhere about the app being pulled, which, considering the apps popularity, would be expected if they were going to try to force Apple’s hand through public support. Media stunt or not, it’ll be interesting to see how it all plays out.
[Source: MobileCrunch, Gizmodo, tap tap tap]
[ Camera+ Pulled From App Store is a post from 148Apps ]
Realtime FX
SwankoLab Review
SwankoLab Review is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website
Developer: Synthetic Corp
Price: $1.99
Version Reviewed: 1.0.1
Device Reviewed On: iPhone 4
Price: $1.99
Version Reviewed: 1.0.1
Device Reviewed On: iPhone 4
iPhone Integration Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
User Interface Rating: 4.25 out of 5 stars
Re-use Value Rating: 4.25 out of 5 stars
Overall Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
I was part of a school camera club when I was a kid. We took photos for an hour and then headed back to the ludicrously cool dark room to develop our snaps of fairly boring subjects like fields and trees. I always thought we could have made these aesthetically dull pictures a little more exciting if we could have at least experimented with a few new chemicals during the development process but sadly, according to Mr Slatter, that’s not the way it’s done.
Prasie be then that SwankoLab has emerged from the same snap-happy bunch that brought us the excellent Hipstamatic, allowing me to indulge my photographic alchemy right on my iPhone without a teacher to stunt my manic creativity.
A virtual darkroom filled with image-adjusting chemicals awaits when you first fire up SwankoLab. It won’t take much play with the delicious interface before you’re applying saturation and bleaching effects to your existing iPhone snaps. Pick from any of the available bottles on the shelf above your development tray, read what their effect will be and then drop them into the mix. There is a limit to how many chemicals you can use in one sitting (as should be the case with all hazardous materials you experiment with) which is a blessing given how easy it is to get carried away.
Your image is then processed in an attractive yet fairly time consuming manner before being hung out to dry while you preview it. From there you can share your image, name the formula used or trash it altogether. On more than one occasion I did find that an image didn’t develop at all, however. Rather than feel my pride swell as my original image appeared from its bath of property tweaking liquid, my heart sank as I looked at a blank print. Whether it was the photo I chose, the type chemicals I mixed, witchcraft or perhaps FBI censorship, I don’t know. I guess, as is true of any experiment, sometimes it just doesn’t work.
That slight niggle aside, SwankoLab is a fun app that allows you to achieve similar retro effects to your Hipstamatic shots but using photos you’ve already taken and even those imported from your computer which makes it endlessly reusable. Combine that with the many chemical combinations at your disposal and the option to buy more and you’ve got an immensely enjoyable and creative tool at your disposal.
With IncrediBooth and Hipstamatic already under their belts, the guys at Synthetic Corp are quickly becoming the best photography developers in the business. And now they’ve added SwankoLab to the fold, I mean “developers” in more than one sense of the word.
[ SwankoLab Review is a post from 148Apps ]
ReColor Review
ReColor Review is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website
Developer: Sebastian Heymann
Price: $1.99
Version Reviewed: 1.0.0
Device Reviewed On: iPhone 3GS
Price: $1.99
Version Reviewed: 1.0.0
Device Reviewed On: iPhone 3GS
iPhone Integration Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
User Interface Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars
Re-use Value Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Overall Rating: 3.33 out of 5 stars
Ever taken a photo on your iPhone and wished you could brighten up the image, or even change the color completely? ReColor, a new photography editing app, is boasting that it can do just that.
This is the first app from German developer Sebastian Heymann. The app is designed to change the color of people and objects in a natural way, so no masking the highlights or lowlights of an image or going ‘over the lines’.
ReColor certainly does what it describes. After uploading a picture to the app (you can use the camera inside the app too), all you need to do is select the “add” button from the side menu and tap where you want the new coloration to go. A point mark will be then added to the image for the chosen area. The points can be moved around the image and also removed with the side menu options and tapping on the selected point. The color, contrast and visibility can be altered on the menu at the bottom of the app.
The app is definitely easy to use, with settings and options kept to a minimum so the user doesn’t get too confused. The side menu could do with a little more explanation, but simple tapping around when you first get the app sorts the problem. The coloration is particularly striking with bold objects, especially linear objects. It’s easy to get carried away snapping random objects and changing the color for fun.
The appearance of the app, however, could be neatened. Although the app is clearly aiming for simplicity, which it does well, the app’s design is a little too simple, especially the random hand icon on the loading page. Also, the color change does have a flaw — it struggles with more obscure shapes, rough edges or small areas. It doesn’t matter how many points you add to the area or how visible/contrasted the change is, the color barely changes. The app seems to merely tint rough edges.
However it could be argued that it’s a fault with the iPhone 3G/3GS’s camera being occasionally low in photo quality in bad lighting. The tint can have its bonuses though; if you are trying to give yourself a tan in holiday photos, you can rest assured it will definitely look natural and subtle!
Overall, ReColor is a great app for changing the color on clear, bold images, and you are bound to spend hours fiddling with the pictures already stored on your iPhone. The app is also superb in not taking away the natural proportions of a photograph. However, the app is hindered somewhat by the limitations of the camera which can be very frustrating, and the appearance could be improved. Overall, this app has a lot of potential, and is a wise investment at $1.99.
[ ReColor Review is a post from 148Apps ]
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SnapTap Updated for 4.0 – Make Volume Buttons Snap Photos
SnapTap Updated for 4.0 – Make Volume Buttons Snap Photos is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website
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This app allows you to take pictures or video with the volume buttons instead of trying to hit the little button on the screen. It should help you to keep the camera more still and keep from blurry photos. This only works when the camera app is open or other apps using the camera feature. The news here is that it had been updated to work with 4.0 firmware so now you can use it to take HD 720p video! This is one of my top jailbreak apps that I just gotta have. … [visit site to read more]
StopMotion Recorder Review
StopMotion Recorder Review is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website
Developer: graf
Price: $0.99
Version: 1.0.2
App Reviewed on: iPhone 3GS
iPhone Integration Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
User Interface Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Re-use / Replay Value Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Price: $0.99
Version: 1.0.2
App Reviewed on: iPhone 3GS
iPhone Integration Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
User Interface Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Re-use / Replay Value Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Overall Rating: 4.33 out of 5 stars
The art of stop motion is a filming technique that’s been around since the late 1800s and popularized in the swinging 1960s. It’s created by photographing every movement a character or prop makes, then stitching them together in rapid succession. Although, it’s quite complicated and therefore mainly left to the pros. Now, you can make your own stop motion film easily with just your iPhone and StopMotion Recorder.
The app is basic; just point and click. When you first go into the app, the camera will be deployed. The principal is easy – pose your characters and touch the screen to take pictures. A nifty feature to make sure you line up each shot from one to another is a shadow of the previous picture (aka onion skin), so there will be no unwanted differences once you put the frames together.
Once finished, you get a chance to review all the frames, cut ones you don’t want and set the speed of your movie (how many frames you want to play per second) and that’s it! A stop motion movie in minutes. The list of your finished movies can be accessed any time from within the app.
There are lots of options to chose from for sharing for creations; send to Twitter using YFrog or TwitVid, mail it or upload it to Flickr or YouTube. Interestingly, if you want it in your camera roll, you have to export it from the app first. It would be much better if the movie was automatically added to the camera roll, like many other picture and movie apps do. There is a settings menu, but nothing there is too complicated and instead just invites you to try different effects on your pictures.
The photo quality of the movie is also only as good as the iPhone camera. Don’t expect to have a very high quality movie unless you are in natural sunlight. Though the app does try to focus each frame as you take it, giving each frame a much crisper look. Due to the quality restrictions of the camera, StopMotion Recorder might be a little too irritating for those without patience or a steady hand.
One very strange detail is the lack of auto-rotation when taking the photos. If you hold the iphone on its side to make the most of the screen, then you might end up with an upside down or sideways movie that needs editing once uploaded to a computer, defeating the object slightly.
Anyone looking for a bit of fun should give StopMotion Recorder a go, as it’s bound to bring hours of entertainment to an individual or a group. The creativity is pretty much boundless, only tampered slightly by the lack of rotation and camera quality. For just $0.99, this is an absolute steal.
[ StopMotion Recorder Review is a post from 148Apps ]