Life in LoFi: iPhoneography | iPhone Photo News, Showcases, App Reviews

Stop & Frisk by Shel Serkin

We’re back with Faved on Flickr, our regular showcase of iPhoneography. One of the good things about going a while between galleries is that there are a ton of excellent photographs to choose from. That’s also one of the bad things. To help get caught up, I’m going back a few weeks and will split this week’s Faved Showcase into two posts.

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But, at least it’s getting closer….

100 Cameras in 1 is the texture app with an interesting interface, some funky Zen sounds and very obscure and frustrating filter names. It was one of the first photo apps to make iPhoneography a game and also one of the first to directly save to Instagram. Unfortunately, it’s one of the last major photo apps to support the iPhone 4S.

The new 3.1.4 update has just been released. After just seven months, 100 Cameras in One comes close to supporting full, square format resolution of the iPhone 4S. The new version now supports “higher resolution choices” on an iPhone 4S — that’s 4 MP images or 2048×2048 pixels. This is an improvement over the 1200×1200 px resolution of the previous version, but still less than the 2448×2448 pixels that nearly every other non-Instagram replacement offers.

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Snap it. Tweak it. Love it. Share it. Snapseed is one of the most powerful photo editors available for iOS. It’s got a full set of editing tools including “pins” for the very cool selective adjustments to help localize your edits and tweaks. Pretty cool! As a universal app, it’s designed to work great on iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. It supports up to 6.25 MP on an iPhone 3GS and up to 16 MP images for iPad 2 and iPhone 4 and 4S.

Today, I’ve got some Snapseed promo codes to give away. The app normally sells for $4.99. Click past the jump to grab one. Quickly — they’ll probably go fast.

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When I found out that the Awesomizer tool of the excellent Camera Awesome was built by Athentech, I was worried that spelled the end of life for one of my favorite photo apps, Perfectly Clear. The long lapse between update didn’t help much to dispel my fears.

The new 2.4 versions of Perfectly Clear for both iPhone and iPad have finally hit the App Store today. They are both loaded with a lot of goodness, including a sale price reduction and a lot of bug-fixes. Regardless of the iPhone or iPad you use, regardless of any other photo fixer you may have, Perfectly Clear is an app that should be in your iPhoneographer’s toolbox and should be a first step in any image processing.

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The iOS 5.1.1 update was quietly released by Apple today. It’s mainly a bug-fix release, but there is one new fix that is of interest to iPhoneographers. The new update “Improves reliability of using HDR option for photos taken using the Lock Screen shortcut”.

More on this update after the jump. >>>

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A while back, I reviewed PolarCam, another retro, instant-style fauxlaroid camera app. While I wasn’t overly excited about the app at first, it does shoot in full resolution and has very nice color and texture. You can also shoot retro instant video with the app.

Read my entire review of PolarCam here.

I’ve got some promo codes for PolarCam to give away. To find out how to win one today, click past the jump. >>>

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The Hipstamatic 252 update is available for download now in App Store. It’s light on exciting new features and paks, but this update features another chance to catch up on one of Hipstamatic’ deleted HipstaPaks. Hipsta completists may like that the entire Wicker Park Pak is available once again through this weekend.

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Secret Eye In The Sky by mutablend

Here is our iPhoneography showcase Faved on Flickr for the week of April 22, 2012. It’s been two weeks since our last Faved. Since then, over 6,000 images have been added to Life In LoFi’s Flickr Group. To see all of the outstanding iPhone photography, head over to the group page on Flickr and browse. I’ve also restored the Flickr widget down in the footer of the blog. It shows the most current images shared with the group.

Click past the jump to see more of this week’s Faved selections. >>>>

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LensLight features a variety of lens light effects including light Leaks, bokeh, spot lights, and surface glare. There are even a few lens flare effects added in. There are some crossover effects, but not many, including a few similar (not identical) spikes and streaks. LensLight is more about external light effects than its sibling.

LensLight, the sibling app to the popular LensFlare photo app, recently received a big update. Read more about the update and how you can win a free promo code for the app after the jump. >>>>

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Photographer Trey Ratcliff’s 100 Cameras in 1 is a texture app with an interesting interface and, for me, very obscure and frustrating filter names. It incorporates zen sounds and various textures. It’s one of the first photo apps to make iPhoneography a game. It was one of the first photo apps to directly save to Instagram.

Version 3.1.3 has just been released. It’s got a minor bug fix, but the major bug of the app still has not been addressed over six months later. The app is not fully iPhone 4S compatible. And I’m talking about the full, $1.99 version.

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