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

Noise Master
Version reviewed: 1.1
Price: $2.99, on sale now for $1.99

Bottom Line: One of the best noise reduction apps in the App Store. Reduces noise while holding most details.

Noise Master is a new app from Lucky Clan, the developer of the popular Top Camera photo app. It claims to be the fastest, most effective app to remove noise from photos. The app is designed to produce clean, smooth, noise-free images while preserving important details.

There are other noise reducers available — mostly as tools in other apps. I tested Noise Master against several of the more notable noise reduction tools — Adobe Photoshop Express, Perfectly Clear, and PhotoForge2. Click past the jump to see how Noise Master stacks up. >>>

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Pop Camera
Version reviewed: 1.0
Price: $1.99

Bottom Line: Fun interface, but as a camera, it’s low res, the UI is slow to move through and the app has too many problems in this release.

Pop Camera is a collection of unique and funky camera types wrapped in an animated interface that gives the sense of an analog feel and the originality of the “toy camera.” It features wide range of SuperSampler-like shot types, including 1, 2, 4, 8, 9, 12, 16 successive shots as well as a double exposure shot. Version 1.0 also includes 14 film effects.

Pop Camera is fun to play with. The UI animations are very well done. Many of the retro film effects look good, but this photo app is still unfinished and has problems. Among them, its low resolution output offsets all the spiffy features of the app.

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Super Retro
Version Reviewed: 1.0.3
Price: $1.99

Bottom Line: Super Retro has potential. Some really great features throughout the app, but this version is too slow, buggy and unstable.

Super Retro is a recent photo app that’s a combination image editor and retro photo filter app with a few advanced camera features thrown in to boot. It’s had a few updates to work out the bugs. It’s an interesting app with a lot of options — more than you’d expect from a retro camera app. Unfortunately, it’s still a few updates away from working out all of the kinks.

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New photo app Ripped from Reality creates interesting juxtapositions in your photos. It combines both photographic and pencil sketched elements in your photograph — as if the photograph were “ripped” from the initial sketch of the scene. It’s a pretty cool effect.

The app is on sale now for a limited time for only $0.99 — that’s half off its regular price. It’s not a bad app and worth trying for a buck. Read what I think about it after the jump. >>>

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TapShot is a new camera app from Two Teeth Technologies, the developer of the impressive and popular QuickPix. TapShot changes the way you interact with your iPhone’s camera. It’s a gesture-based app, rather than a button-based app.

TapShot also gives you an amazing amount of feature customization, allowing you to build the interface that works for you. Read more after the jump. >>>>

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Here’s a cool new app from Infoding.com, the developer of the popular Tiny Planets app. TwistCam ripples your photos. It creates a series of concentric circles, each turned at an angle. These work to shift the reality of your photo.

I played around with the app tonight and looked at some samples created by others online. TwistCam is an easy way to add cool-looking distortion effects.

Read more on the other side of the jump. >>>>

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iPhone 4 fitted with a POPA and an Olloclip. Photo by Kevin Buchanan

iPhoneographer Kevin Buchanan is an intersting and creative Fort Worther. I had been reading his blog FortWorthology for years before we finally met this year at a local showing of his iPhone photography. Kevin has also had some of his photos selected for our regular “Faved On Flickr” feature as well.

Kevin recently reviewed two accessories for iPhoneographers — the POPA shutter release and the popular Olloclip, both for the iPhone 4 and 4S. Click past the jump for my thoughts and for a link to the review on Kevin’s blog. >>>>

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Snapheal screenshot

A few days ago, I posted a preview of Snapheal, a new content-aware Mac app from MacPhun which claims to let you quickly and easily remove unwanted objects from your photos.

Snapheal for Mac is now available for download in the Mac App Store. I’ve had a chance to play around with the app. While it won’t fix everything you throw at it, Snapheal fixes a lot more than you’d think. It’s a very powerful tool and it’s very reasonably priced at under $20. Right now, Snapheal is introductory priced for only $9.99 for a limited time. Click past the jump for examples.

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Percolator is the Retro, coffee-inspired, modernist photo app that adds colorful, unique, geometric effects to your photos. I reviewed the original release here. I loved it then and subsequent releases have improved the app signficantly.

Percolator 2.0 has been “brewing” for a while. It’s the biggest update yet to the app. The update includes new “brews”, new controls, and some spiffy new animation. It’s a great, fun update packed with new features, but still retains the ease of use that made the previous versions great to work in.

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New retro photo app Vintage Camera Pro by Presselite is starting to make it’s slow journey up the sales charts. It’s yet another entry in the square format, analog photo app category. It has an impressive App Store description, but it’s definitely not a “Pro” app. The initial release of the app falls short in a lot of ways. You’re better off with Squara, Cameramatic, Hipstamatic, Leme Leme Pro… well, you get the idea.

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