Comments on: My Camera Bag

By: lifeinlofiblog

lifeinlofiblog — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:33:23 +0000

CameraBag was one of my first photo apps back in the day. It's gotten some good updates. I like the random feature introduced an update or two ago.

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By: greerhughes

greerhughes — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:16:41 +0000

One of my favorites is called Camera Bag. You can upload a photo and it let's you see what it looks like with 15 different photos. Very cool.

By: Will

Will — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:44:35 +0000

I have to disagree with you on Filterstorm. Filterstorm is fantastic, but the implamentation is clunky to say the least. The combination of Photoforge 2 and Image Blender seems to cover most if not all of Filterstorm’s functionality with better performance.

By: Chris Stern

Chris Stern — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 18:15:20 +0000

What app did u use to get the wallpaper background showing in the picture at the beginning of post?

By: lifeinlofiblog

lifeinlofiblog — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 08:14:41 +0000

It's pretty good. Good range of effects. Assortment of light leaks. Good looking textures and edges. i don't like how the filters are named, though. They're *named* — with people names. Not a dealbreaker but a bit unusual.

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By: @TXBzean

@TXBzean — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 03:49:51 +0000

Thanks for sharing some of these. Any thoughts on Pixlr-o-Matic?

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:21:20 +0000

thanks for this list… good to see everyone's opinion on what works. I just started using King Camera, incredible camera (time lapse, burst mode etc) and post processing features (filters, borders, textures, lightleaks etc). Photosynth for panoramas, excellent stitching. FiLMiC Pro for video.

By: lifeinlofiblog

lifeinlofiblog — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:57:59 +0000

Thanks for stopping by, Kathy!

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By: lifeinlofiblog

lifeinlofiblog — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:57:34 +0000

Thanks for sharing, Katherine. That's a great post!

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By: Katherine

Katherine — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 22:29:10 +0000

What a great blog and I've found your app reviews immensely helpful. Your Camera Bag page is one that I come back to again and again. Other than what you've listed, I also find myself using Percolator, Lomora2, Photoforge2, and PhotoToaster a lot. Just this week I went through the exercise of cleaning out my camera bag and you can find the results on my blog. http://www.katherinelightner.com/2012/01/making-s...

By: kathy

kathy — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:42:38 +0000

wow, thank you thank you, dont know what I'd do with out ya:)!!!

By: kathy

kathy — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 21:27:04 +0000

i always look forward to reading what you have to offer.. i pretty new with all of this, but im enjoyigng it very very much. so.. thnak youy fro keeping so well informed

By: Tim

Tim — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 06:15:42 +0000

Can anyone tell me is there a B&W app that gives you B&W view before you take the photo rather than converting colour to B&W after you have taken the photo. I cant find info about this in any of the apps literature. I would like to know because I like to compose in B&W. Thanks

By: Tim

Tim — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 06:15:42 +0000

By: Bari Tarmon

Bari Tarmon — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 09:11:49 +0000

As an addendum to my previous post which ended with a question about any apps that can add decent text, I have found Filterstorm to be a good text adding app. It has a nice package of fonts to choose from too.
Other apps I have found since that add new features not found or work as well as other apps, are: Paint FX, Camera360, SketchMee and PaintMee. The last one has an in app add-on that can save your creation as high as 5120×6832 pixels! Depending on the original file size, it will export the file in up to 8 separate files that you can assemble seamlessly in Photoshop to create a truly large sized file, suitable for printing on a large format printer on paper or canvas. I wish that technology would be available for other photo editing apps so we can save photos in an upscaled way and print them out in gallery sizes. Another great app for experimenting is actually a photo and video shooting one called After Image. You can get some really neat abstract results and then run the files through other filters to create some truly amazing art. If you don't already have it, SnapSeed from Nik recently updated the app and added two new features: Sharpening (includes a Structure seting) and Tilt & Shift (which includes 5 variable settings). It's a very solid performer.

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:14:39 +0000

Thanks!

By: lifeinlofiblog

lifeinlofiblog — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 15:47:29 +0000

Hi, Greg,

It has. I'm working on an updated version.

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By: Greg Mills

Greg Mills — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 02:12:50 +0000

I'm wondering if this has changed at all in the last 5 months. Is it about time for an update?

By: lifeinlofiblog

lifeinlofiblog — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 15:47:16 +0000

Hi, Bari,

Have you tried Impression for Text overlay? Another excellent text overly app is Phonto. I suggest you have a look at both of those to see if they can do what you need them to.

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By: Bari Tarmon

Bari Tarmon — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 08:40:54 +0000

Hi,
Read with interest the posts with app recommendations. I really appreciate these as they are not just random reviews that get listed with the app.
As a designer who uses PS and Lightroom, I tend to gauge apps as to how solid they work and how how versatile they are in the features they provide. There are some pretty lame ones out there and I've learned to stay away from them. Some that I've found to be a joy to work with are Snapseed, Mobile Monet, PhotoViva, and 100 cameras in 1. That last one, I wasn't going to download but I'm glad I did. It gives one a great many springboards to launch a photo early in the editing stages, as it continuously generates hundreds of variations. I just love the interface as well. I wish there was a serious, pro style text overlay capability that can be used on a layer and moved, scaled, etc. precisely. I found Photo Label to be restrictive in text positioning and the fonts are somewhat cheezy. I would like to use some standard fonts but I suppose they aren't available on the iOS yet. I;m talking Garamond, Futura, Gill, etc. There isn't even a way to use the default fonts with Photo Label that I can see. Anyone know of a good text laying app for photo editing?

Thanks.