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Mill Colour by The Mill is a classic iPhone photo editing app. While it hasn’t been updated in over a year, this app is still useful, especially to owners of older iPhones. It’s very full-featured and powerful, especially for a free app. In addition to several preset photo effects, there are no other photo apps available that can adjust image qualities with the precision that Mill Colour can. Unfortunately, the app saves at a maximum 2 megapixel resolution — 1600×1200 pixels. The app has a glitch, so getting more than 1280×960 px output involves tricking the app a little bit.

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Although the iPhone 4 camera’s full resolution is 2592x1936px, there are still quite a few apps which are unable to take advantage of the camera’s full 5MP resolution.

There are still a lot of apps that only support up to 2MP or 1600x1200px resolution. Saving full-res iPhone 4 images down to 2MP with these apps often results in an image size of 1600×1196 or 1195 pixels. What happens to the missing 4-5 pixels? It’s actually not a bug in the OS or in the apps themselves.

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UPDATE: The 4.0.1 update has been submitted to the App Store, which should address this minor issue. Until it’s released, here’s the fix. =M=

The ClassicTOY 4.0.0 update has just been released. For most users, it’s a seamless upgrade. Some users are experiencing problems with their previously purchased full lens packs. Don’t worry! It’s an easy fix. Click past the jump to learn how to restore your ClassicTOY in-app purchase.

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Hello, Life in Lofi readers! First and foremost, I would like to thank Marty for allowing me to write this guest post. I have been following Life in Lofi for quite some time, so this is truly an honor for me.

My name is Jay Lemieux. I’m a writer for i-Enthusiast where we cover a wide range of iDevice, jailbreak and Apple updates/news. I’m also an avid iPhoneographer, you can check my photos over out at jFotography.

So you might be wondering… what does being a Jailbreaker and iPhoneographer have in common? Well, let me answer the question by asking “What’s wrong with this picture?”.

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PictureShow by graf is a photo app for iPhone/iPod Touch. It has an extensive set of over two dozen effects, including some really nice analog-looking photo styles to give images the look of classic film cameras. For creating digital lofi from iPhone photographs, PictureShow has become one of the go-to apps for many an iPhoneographer, myself included. The LomoGraphy and Vivid filters are currently among my faves and the convex blur applies a great, subtle black frame around an image.

Overall, the app is pretty straightforward and easy to use, but without a bona fide online manual or built-in help, some users may be wondering what the three buttons at the top of the screen do?

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It’s not if the iPhone camera can make large prints, it’s how big….

Whether to mount and frame as gifts, for sale or for gallery exhibition, more and more prints are being made from iPhones. Prints and enlargements can be made from any iPhone camera. How big an enlargement you can make depends on a number of factors — the iPhone model you use, the resolution of the apps you use, and if, how and where you are willing to resample your images.

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Big Wheel, London, by Jason Feather

Jason Feather edits and writes the Appertunity blog. More than just iPhoneography, Jason writes about all things iPhone and does so in a very upfront and entertaining way. His blog is in LoFi’s blogroll for a reason — it’s one of my regular reads. He’s kindly let LoFi repost this recent story. =M=

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10 Brief but essential tips for taking better photos with your iPhone.

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by Jason Feather

Here are a few simple tips for taking good iPhone photographs illustrated with some of my own iPhoneography work.

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I reviewed a photo app recently that just refused to perform at all once I downloaded and installed it. The screen looked jumbled and controls failed to work. I rebooted my iPhone 4, restarted the app and many of the problems went away.

Does the app you just downloaded refuse to work right? Does it crash every time you first open it? Try rebooting your iPhone. Much of the time, that fixes the problem and helps the app as well as your iPhone run smoothly.

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Photo credit: © tap tap tap

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UPDATE: Based on Dean’s comment below, at 10:40: am CDT, I deleted and redownloaded Camera+ to my iPhone 2G, where I had NOT previously performed this feature unlock. Sure enough, the unlock didn’t work on this newly downloaded copy of Camera+. The app still says version 1.2.1. It may be because the “exploit” has already been closed and a revised version of Camera+ has quietly been uploaded to the App Store — that was fast. Or, perhaps the hack doesn’t work on an iPhone 2G. I’m still able to use VolumeSnap on my iPhone 4 where I’d applied the hack on an installed copy.

Purchase, update or reinstall Camera+ at your own discretion. At this point, the hack may not work with the app. Or it simply may not work with your device.

Are you getting this unlock to work? Let us know in the comments below.

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Camera+ is one of the best, most full-featured camera replacement apps in the App Store currently. Click here to read our recent review of the app. According the tap tap tap blog, the latest update of the app has been rejected because of a cool new feature, VolumeSnap. You should head over there – it’s an interesting peek into the backroom of the App Store.

We have a workaround after the jump >>>

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Hometown Sunset, by Jason L. Parks

©Jason L. Parks on Flickr

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Capturing silhouettes is a great way to add contrast in a photo. To do so, you must place your light source in front of you and your subject in a matter in which your subject blocks the light similar to the manner in which the moon does the sun during an eclipse. When coupled with a beautiful landscape or background, silhouettes help to add balance and depth and strengthens a photo’s composition.

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