Life in LoFi: iPhoneography

PhotoForge

PhotoForge by GhostBird Software is on sale right now and for a limited time, the price has been reduced to just $0.99 USD — the lowest price I’ve seen it in a while.

Several apps have tried to wear the namesake of “Photoshop for the iPhone” including Photogene and PerfectPhoto. PhotoForge truly is the image editing powerhouse for iPhone. I use both this and Photogene regularly to process my images. If you’re only using Photogene, you are missing out on so much that your iPhone is capable of.

Click here to read our recent review of PhotoForge. Recently, PhotoForge was selling for $2.99 USD. It’s a great app at three bucks and one that I use often. For $0.99, PhotoForge is an essential purchase if you don’t have it already. I’m not sure how long this sale will last, so grab it now before the price goes back up.

App Store link: PhotoForge

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Both Crop Suey and Straighten Image by appingo are free in the App Store right now. Both Life In LoFi and iPhoneography.com recently recommended Straighten Image. Glyn Evans also recommends Crop Suey as well (at this moment, we haven’t reviewed the app yet).

Straighten Image is a no frills, one trick pony app, that lets you quickly and easily realign the horizon, and straighten out any crooked photos. Besides its simplicity, what I like about the app is that it resamples images back to their original pixel dimensions even after it’s shaved a few pixels off the edges. Crop Suey is more full featured. In addition to straightening the image, you can also crop, flip and rotate images.

Recently, both apps sold for $0.99 USD. These are simple, but great utilities. Grab them both now while they’re free.

App Store links: Crop Suey |   Straighten Image

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HipstaMatic

I have much love for Hipstamatic. No other app (or Photoshop plug-in) creates such organic and analog-looking images so easily. The new Hipstamatic 150 update is available now in the App Store. From the list of features, it’s a terrific update to an already amazing app. The update adds a ton of new features and improvements, in-app file sharing to Flickr, as well as addresses several performance issues. Start-up time has been improved significantly. There’s also a new monthly photography contest accessible in-app. We’ll post more details as they become available.

As is the case with the previous Hipstamatic 110 update, there’s a new optional HipstaPak available as an additional in-app purchase, featuring two new films. I can’t wait to shoot with the new BlacKeys SuperGrain B+W Film!

The free update is live now or you can (and should) purchase the updated version if you don’t already own the app.

Here’s a list of what’s new and fixed in Hipstamatic 150:

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PhotoSize
Version 1.0

Bottom Line: Essential if you regularly buy photo apps

PhotoSize

PhotoSize by Danny Goodman is a utility that does one thing — it gives you the pixel dimensions of any image from your iPhone’s photo library or camera roll.

Previously, checking this info might involve emailing the image from one of the third-party apps that can email a photo without downsizing it and then opening the image on your computer in Photoshop, or checking the pixel dimensions using Photogene’s Crop tool. With PhotoSize, simply choose an image from your iPhone and PhotoSize quickly and easily tells you the pixel dimensions.

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From The Random Photographer blog, here’s an interesting variation of the image-a-day concept — 7 Photos, 7 Songs, 7 Days. In addition to seven (really nice) iPhonoegraphy, “Random Sam” also tagged this set with seven songs — one corresponding to each image. I like his photography, especially his photo “Friday”. The music is a nice touch and adds one more element to each piece.

Here’s the link to “7 Photos, 7 Songs, 7 Days” on Random Photographer. >>>

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February 24, 2010
LAX

Louise

Toolbox: CameraBag, FocalLab

Louise stands in the middle of the terminal, facing the travelers and the Chili’s-To-Go. She stands near her accessories, displayed in a glittered case. Her clothes say tropical, or thrift store. Her glasses implore “hide me in in First Class.”

Glyn Evans recently reviewed the app Straighten Image by appingo on his blog iPhoneography.com.

I was amazed at just how quick, easy and simple this app was to use, but the most interesting thing, and more importantly omitted from the AppStore description, is the save photos are upscaled, and so on my iPhone 3G, were saved at full-res.  Now I’m not sure if this app saves at full-res on the iPhone 3GS, so if anyone has an iPhone 3GS and this, then maybe they could comment on the resolution.

Read Glyn’s full review here on iPhonoegraphy.com. Read my thoughts below, after the jump.

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February 23, 2010
Anaheim, California

Dinner With My Dad

Toolbox: Vint B&W

I suppose I should probably get a model release for this image. I’m not worried about a lawsuit. I’m concerned about being grounded.

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Auto Adjust

I like free. As an end user, free apps are always good. It’s nicer when the free apps are well done and useful. Auto Adjust is one of those.

Auto Adjust by Joe Macirowski is free for a limited time! This is not a feature-crippled “lite” version, but the full version.

I’ve reviewed Auto Adjust and it’s one of my favorite apps here on LoFi. Unlike many of the “flash fixer” apps available, it’s more than just a flash enhancer which simply brightens images. Auto Adjust uses “contrast stretching” or normalization to help correct exposure. Its adjustable enhancement produces excellent results on many images that would otherwise be lost due to underexposure as well as automatically correcting the contrast of more properly exposed images. Auto Adjust is one of my go-to apps.

This is one of the better exposure enhancement apps available in the App Store. It’s highly recommended at its regular price of $0.99 USD. I think it’s an essential app while it’s free. I’m not sure how long the free offer will last, so if you don’t already have Auto Adjust, grab it now!

App Store link: Auto Adjust

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You just downloaded the latest update of your favorite app to your iPhone, but the new version crashes and the old version is no longer available in the App Store. Are you out of luck until the fix is released? Maybe not. If you downloaded the update on your iPhone only (not in your computer’s iTunes), here’s one way to downgrade back to a previous version of an app.

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