Life in LoFi: iPhoneography

I was asked to post this email from Brad Malcolm, the President of Athentech, the developers of Perfectly Clear. I have posted it in its entirety, but first, I wanted to weigh in with my thoughts on this update.

Perfectly Clear has been one of my primary go-to apps for a while. It’s one of the apps that I recommend most to new iPhoneographers. It’s an essential app for the early iPhone 2G and 3G models and I still use it to improve images on my iPhone 4.

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The 1.4 update for retro camera app lo-mob has been released. lo-mob is one of the premier retro filter apps available and it does an amazing job of recreating classic camera output and lo-fi photographic styles.

We previewed the version 1.4 update a few weeks ago, and this new release holds even a few more surprises.

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[UPDATED 09.01.10 15:08] Today was Apple’s September Event. Typically an iPod-centric event, there was plenty to please current and future iPhoneographers in today’s presentation. Today’s event was more than the traditional refreshing of the iPod line. The iPod Touch now gets not one, but two cameras — but not the high-resolution still camera that was the buzz of rumor sites.

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[UPDATED 8.31.10 @ 18:00]

We’ve got more on the Perfectly Clear 2.0 update, including a fix of sorts.

The Perfectly Clear 2.0 update is in the app store now, but use caution in updating to this version of the app at this time. It’s not as unstable as I initially feared, but it still needs a lot more coddling than an iPhone app should require in order to work. 

This release  seems to be less stable than previous versions and crashes on saving with older iPhones. If you have an iPhone 2G or 3G, I recommend not updating the app and sticking with the older version for now.

The crashes are confirmed on a 2G, 3G, and iPhone 4. The bottom line is that unlike previous versions which were pretty rock solid, the 2.0 version can be buggy on any iPhone.

Click past the jump to read more, to find out how to reduce or eliminate problems on an iPhone 4, and to find a link to instructions on how to get your previous working version back in case you already updated the app.

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Venerable image editor Photogene for iPhone got another update today to version 2.61 — a minor update which removes one of my major complaints about the last update. Photogene no longer requires you to enable location services to view or edit photos.

Photogene is still iOS 4 only and I suspect that’s permanent.

To “celebrate” the new version, Photogene is now on sale for just $0.99 — that’s a 50% discount. This price drop is good until September 1, 2010.

Two updates in. I wonder when the App Store will start displaying Photogene’s new icon….

App Store link: Photogene

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There are several iPhone apps to upload to, view and manage your Flickr account. The one that I use is Flickit. It’s easy to use, versatile, fast and there’s a free version.

Both of the 2.1.0 versions of the Flickit apps contain a bug. When set to either “Large” or “Medium” in the upload settings, they upload photos to Flickr at full resolution (up to the largest resolution the app will permit).

Read on for our workaround….

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Since its release a couple of months ago, Iris Photo Suite by Ventessa has quickly become one of the more popular photo editing apps among iPhoneographers. The new 1.3 update released today adds a long awaited feature to iPhone image editing apps – layers support and blending at full resolution. The new layers support will blow iPhoneographers away and offers a very powerful new tool for effects and blends on the iPhone.

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It was the middle of May, 2010 since the app was last updated, but aestesis has released details of the upcoming lo-mob version 1.4. While there aren’t any new filters mentioned, the app gets an under-the-hood overhaul that improves speed and output and makes the app more iOS 4 friendly.

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