Just for fun, put a little fur (or fin) in your photos with Picture Perfect Animals, a photo app that lets you frame your subject alongside a variety of selected animals. This iPhone app by MilkDrinkingCow, is a different, but whimsical kind of photography app that allows you to create photos with animals. Choose from 60 different animals in air, water, or on land and frame your subject to be silly or serious.
With Picture Perfect Animals you can create comical photos of people doing impossible things, like kissing a lion, high-fiving a panda, or holding a humming bird. Rather than editing in an animal, Picture Perfect Animals puts the animal on screen before you take the picture. While it’s not much use for pictures already on your camera roll, it does make creating new photos fun. (…) Read the rest of Give in to Your Animal Instinct with Picture Perfect Animals
Camera All in One is a new app for the iPhone by Joypiece software. Camera All in One gives you so many more functions for your iPhone camera that the stock camera app does not.
Ever wanted your iPhone camera to have Face Detection or Anti-shake? Well now it can with this great app. Other features include Voice shutter, Self timer, Countdown shutter, continuous shutter and soft flash for night time picture taking… Read More
One of the simplest ways to increase the visual appeal of your photos is with different points of view. This is possibly the one area the iPhone excels at when it comes to taking photos. The diminutive size, coupled with a large “view finder”, means you can easily play with varying angles to create spectacular, different, and enjoyable photos.
Here is what I mean by changing your angles. We have all seen photos where the subject is straight on, with a relatively generic background. While the scene might be nice, it does not do enough to differentiate itself from the flood of these types of photos online. This is where you, your eye, and a bit of work come into play. Prepare to lie on the ground, climb a tree, and generally look like a goon while you try to catch “the shot.” There is a reason why professionals are willing to lay in the dirt, and that is to create an image that is both pleasing to the eye while providing a different view point to set the photo apart.
Let us take an example of how a simple change of angle creates a more dramatic and interesting photo. Here we start with a photo taken straight on. Sure, the Lego Falcon adds a little to the photo, but the overall feel is a bit bland and over done. We get the idea, but the photo is lacking personality.
Now, take the same setup and change the angle you are going to take the photo. Get in close, get low, go high, go somewhere other than just the run of the mill head on shot. Here are a few examples of the same setup, but with varying angles.
Changing the perspective for a photo works on just about every subject there is for a camera lens. The iPhone camera just lends itself to changing up how you construct your shots. This includes when you are doing portrait photos. Try to change the angle you shoot a portrait and see just how a standard headshot can become so much more.
[ iPhotographer: Break Out Some Angles is a post from 148Apps ]
Price: $2.99
Version Reviewed: 2.6
Device Reviewed On: iPhone 4
iPhone Integration Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
User Interface Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Re-use Value Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Overall Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
I’m a keen amateur photographer. The emphasis is clearly on amateur as I’m really not very good. So to make up for this, I like to look at other people’s photography and quietly wish that I could be half as good as them. Enter Mobile Fotos, a handy app which allows you to check Flickr easily on the move while also uploading your own contributions whenever you please.
It’s a simple process to log onto your Flickr account through Mobile Fotos; you can then access nearly everything possible. You can browse your own photos, which is convenient if you want to show someone your prized photographs. More entertainingly, you can browse other people’s photos. Besides being able to check what photos your contacts/friends have uploaded, you can also browse Flickr’s idea of interesting photos or go for a more random approach through tapping the Ling Ling or Hsing Hsing buttons which offer up an array of random photos to admire.
You can also use the nearby photo search, which is rather interesting. It offers a selection of photos from people who live near you which makes for an interesting cross section of your local area. I found it the most compelling part of the app as I liked to be nosey and see what local people were up to. If I lived in a bigger city, I think it’d be even more interesting.
Besides the various exploration options, you can also upload your own images and videos. It’s a simple process made all the better by the fact that you can upload in the background and get on with other things. You can also add GPS information and EXIF details.
Mobile Fotos offers plenty of uses for the price. I can see it being particularly handy if you’re a photographer (aspiring or otherwise) who wants to show off their handiwork easily. As an amateur however, it’s just nice to have something interesting to browse whenever I want without having to load up a browser window. The added bonus of being able to upload direct from my iPhone is welcome too, especially having been the victim of phone theft in the past. A useful little tool indeed.
Call me a cynic, but it seems to me that year after year, we find ourselves being inundated with reminders of the holiday season earlier and earlier. I used to think that it was crazy to hear Christmas music on the radio before Thanksgiving, but a recent addition to the App Store seems to be taking this pre-celebration insanity that to another level. Gifts HD, a new app being promoted as a holiday shopping organizer, is hitting before the trick-or-treaters have even had a chance to knock on your door.
Trust me, in my exceedingly old age, it is becoming increasingly difficult to keep track of basic daily information, so something that could help me tame the insanity of my Christmas list would be amazing. I guess that has a tendency to happen when you come from an extended family that consists of over fifty cousins! So how exactly is this supposed to redefine how I experience the holiday rush?
Add a Budget for each “Person to Buy For” and see if your exceeding your limit in one easy screen.
Track Gift Purchased, Gift Mailed and Gift Wrapped for each person.
Settings configurable to cross people / gifts off your list when a threshold has been met.
Countdown to Christmas and Chanukah – Both Configurable.
Summary screen shows Total Gifts, Purchased Gifts, Gifts Left to Purchase, Gift Wrapped, Left to Wrap, Estimated Budget, Actual Cost and Cost Per Gift.
TO DO list is a quick glance of who still needs gifts and what actions need to be preformed. (Purchase, Mail, Wrap)
Built in calculator in App.
Built in Web Browser built in the app – Browser automagically bring over your TO DO list so you can see what gifts you need to purchase.
Just tap on the TO DO list in the browser and it will go out and search Google Products for the best prices.
Email the Summary and TO DO list off to your phone so you can see what you need to purchase and for who on the go! –via MacSpots Developer Blog
Just looking at this list of features leaves my mind swimming with possibilities. If you were curious on how all of these seemingly different features work together, check out this handy tutorial trailer below. The background Christmas tunes alone make it well worth your time.
Productivity apps like this one prove why the iPad is the kind of device that can redefine your lifestyle. Gone is the nonsense of pen and paper, replacing it with the glory that is multi-touch. Now is the time to embrace the future possibilities that only this device can provide. This could very well be a godsend to countless “Secret Santas” out there – will you be one of them?
Just for fun, put a little fur (or fin) in your photos with Picture Perfect Animals, a photo app that lets you frame your subject alongside a variety of selected animals. This iPhone app by MilkDrinkingCow, is a different, but whimsical kind of photography app that allows you to create photos with animals. Choose from 60 different animals in air, water, or on land and frame your subject to be silly or serious.
You can also use the nearby photo search, which is rather interesting. It offers a selection of photos from people who live near you which makes for an interesting cross section of your local area. I found it the most compelling part of the app as I liked to be nosey and see what local people were up to. If I lived in a bigger city, I think it’d be even more interesting.
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