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

A couple of weeks ago, I reviewed new iPhone photo app AnalogColor. The app has a new update that addresses a couple of the issues I had with the 1.0 release. The new 1.1 update makes it a better app — definitely more usable for iPhoneographers — and also indicates that the developer will be pushing out more of these incremental updates which address user requests.

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The lineage of Photogene2 is one of the oldest photo apps on the iPhone. Photogene was probably one of the first apps many early iPhoneographers had in their camera bag.

Photogene2, the app’s successor, recently received a big update with several new features, including several new tools and the ability to order photo products in-app.

One of the more compelling features for me is the new “Clarity” tool, made popular by all-in-one camera app Camera+. I thought I’d compare the two side by side. See how Photogene2 fared after the jump.

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One of my most-used iPhone photo gizmos is my set of Photojojo magnetic lenses, especially the wide angle lens. With its natural vignette, lens distortion and lack of edge-to-edge focus, it’s a great lens for creating genuine lo-fi effects on my iPhone.

If you’ve got some or all of the popular Photojojo iPhone lenses including the wide angle/macro, fisheye, and 2X telephoto, keeping them secure when carrying them around can be a problem. Although they’re small, you don’t want to risk dust or damage by carrying them around loosely in your pocket.

Photojojo has solved this problem. They now have a custom case that fits the set of lenses and accessories that they offer.

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Hipstamatic’s 235 update hit the App Store this afternoon and they delivered on not one but two highly sought after features: tap-to-focus (only in the zoomed-in view) and the ability to save fave combos of lens/film/flash.

With the update you’ll note that the zoomed-in (aka fullscreen) view now features a textured overlay reminiscent of looking through a dirty plastic lens. Don’t worry, this won’t show up on your photos. When you tap and hold on a spot to focus the overlay rotates, simulating the experience of manually focusing through a physical lens. Traditionalist fans argued against the idea of selective focus, pointing out it wasn’t available in the original Hipstamatic. But Synthetic’s implementation feels in line with the spirit of the plastic Hipstamatic, if not the real limitations.

Adding a favorite combination is as simple as tapping the little star underneath the viewfinder while using the setup you want to preserve. Accessing stored faves is done through the same star icon, which allows you to scroll between visual representations of your various setups.

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ClassicInstant film and Modern Border

One of the earliest and one of the premier fauxlaroid apps in the App Store is misskiwi’s ClassicINSTA, part of their ClassicCAMERA series which also include the excellent ClassicTOY, ClassicPAN, and Squara apps.

The ClassicINSTA 7.0.0 update was just released. In it, the app gets a makeover and a few new features. I’ll walk you through them after the jump. >>>

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Got Flipboard? It’s a great magazine-style content collector for iPhone and iPad. It’s easily customizable so you can add and read only the content you want to read.

Life In LoFi is currently one of the few featured sites this week as Flipboard celebrates the Art of the iPhone. Other featured sites include Knox Bronson’s P1xels: The Art of the iPhone, Instagram Popular, and Photojojo (Hearts) Phoneography.

You can add Life In LoFi to your Flipboard this week by opening the Flipboard search screen, going into the “This Week” section, pressing the Life In LoFi screen and then adding us by pressing the “+” sign at the top of the screen. Take Life In LoFi with you whereever you go with your Flipboard. Be sure to check out the other excellent iPhoneographys sites featured as well.

Flipboard is free if you don’t have it yet. You can download it from from this link here.

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As the App Store continues to return to normal after the holiday break, there has been a recent flurry of photo app updates lately. Here are some of the more notable updates. Among the dozens of photo apps updated recently are LensLight, LensFlare, Instant110, Noise Master, and Harris Camera.

We’ve also got five copies of LensFlare to give away. Find out how you could win one after the jump. >>>

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I just watched this demonstration video for AntiCrop, a new content-aware tool for iOS which claims to add image beyond the edge of your crop. If it works as well as it does in the video, this will be a really cool tool to have in your iPhone’s camera bag. It’s from the same developer who created the very good TouchRetouch app.

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Got Instagram? Got Facebook? Odds are if you’re reading this, you have both insanely popular social networks. The two just got a little closer. When you share an image in Instagram to Facebook, it now posts the full-size image to your Facebook feed/timeline/whatever.

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Squaready is the excellent free, easy-to-use app to easily make square crops and prep your photos for Instagram and other apps. It also adds a more attractive white border around the edge of an image so your portrait and landscape images view better when they show up in your Instagram photostream. I’ve previously reviewed the app here.

The app has finally been updated to support the full 2448×2448 pixel square resolution of iPhone 4S photos. Click past the jump for more on this update. >>>

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