The year is finally coming to a close and we are now getting ready to see what 2012 has in store. However, today we will take a look back at the best apps of 2011 for the iPhone and iPod Touch. There have been many popular applications that were released or were a hit this year. The applications ranged from those geared toward photography to social media, and even one with both all in one app.
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500px: The Ultimate Website for Photography Enthusiasts
By | August 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment
In recent years, there have been numerous websites launched targeted at photography enthusiasts. While many of these sites lets photographers upload and share their photographers, they still leave out features that would completely satisfy photography enthusiasts. From a lack of customization options to a lack of interaction with other site members, such sites come with numerous flaws.
Thankfully however, there is one site out there that will satiate the needs of all photography enthusiasts: 500px.
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SLR Camera Simulator: Simulate an SLR Camera With Various Picture Settings
By | July 23, 2011 | 2 Comments
Digital photography has quickly become a widely pursued hobby over the last few years. This has in turn brought new technologies to the SLR cameras. Modern digital SLR cameras come loaded with a plethora of advanced features such as adjusting the lighting, depth of field, focal length, shutter speed, and aperture settings. Of course, to let you control all these aspects, the camera needs to incorporate the latest technologies – technologies that are not cheap. This is precisely why modern DSLR cameras are quite expensive.
In addition to being expensive, these cameras are complicated to operate. Familiarizing yourself with the camera’s features and settings is not a walk in the park. And it becomes increasingly frustrating to struggle with something you spent a lot of money on. One way you could familiarize yourself quicker with your camera is to know how your adjusted settings will affect the final result: the pictures. This is something you can easily determine using “SLR Camera Simulator“.
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How to Create Tilt Shift Effect in Gimp
By | June 23, 2011 | 3 Comments
This isn’t something you’ll often do for work or a real project, but it’s fun and it can look cool. Tilt shifting a photo is something that can be done by expensive fancy camera equipment or, fortunately for us, free software. The idea is that when you take a photo of small scale objects like model towns, part of what reveals them as miniature is the difference in focus. When a camera is up close to small objects, it can’t focus on other nearby objects, making them blurry. Tilt shifting is applying this blur effect deliberately, to make large-scale objects appear small. Getting it just right can take a lot of time and effort, but the basic method is quite simple, and that’s what we’re covering today.
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7 Tools To Make Flickr More User Friendly
By | May 13, 2010 |
Flickr is an useful place where you can upload and share your photos with your friends, and also a source to find interesting and attractive photos. Being an active Flickr user, I used Flickr frequently to store my photos and also to find relevant pictures for my blog post. Despite the great interface, there are still several features that are lacking or less than desirable (such as photos uploading and searching).
At here, we will do what we do best, by recommending 7 different applications—some web based and some desktop— that make Flickr even better.
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Miniaturize Your Photos With TiltShift Generator
By | April 5, 2010 |
Tilt-shift photography is a technique whereby figures or objects are made to appear miniature through the manipulation of the lens. If done very well, the life-size objects or subjects will appear like miniature scale models. Although it is a technique that skilled photographers accomplish using their cameras, you can also mimic it with photo editing software, such as Gimp or Adobe PhotoShop.
In the fast-pace, social media infused society that many of us live, it would be nice to be able to apply such photo effects on the fly, directly on our digital image capturing devices (i.e. pocket cameras and mobile phones).
TiltShift Generator is an Adobe Air applications that allows users to manipulate their photos directly on their mobile devices, whether their devices are netbooks, laptosp, or mobile phones. Because it is an Adobe Air app, it will work on any device that can run Adobe Air. Furthermore, it is available for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch in Apple’s App Store for $0.99.
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