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Colorâ„¢ (the app) by Color is a new social photo app in a crowded field of other, established social photo apps which include the behemoth Instagram, up and comer picplz, Path, Burstn, and let’s not forget Best Camera.

I feel old. I don’t get Colorâ„¢. It’s the new social photo app that all the cool kids are going to be using, right? I guess I’m just missing it. Somebody please explain it to me.

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FX Photo Studio HD by MacPhun is an iPad-only photo processing and editing app that brings the feature set of the excellent iPhone version to a native iPad format. The app has been redesigned for the iPad and takes full advantage of its larger screen. Although I haven’t reviewed the iPad version, it’s getting mostly five-star user reviews in the App Store. You can read my review of the iPhone version with a similar feature set here.

I’ve got a few FX Photo Studio HD promo codes to give away. Click past the jump to find out how you could get one. >>>

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dyes to the evening glow by kou hattori

Here is this week’s Faved on Flickr. These images were selected from the excellent iPhone photography submitted to Life In LoFi’s Flickr group. Over the past week, iPhoneographers from around the globe once again shared excellent street photography, portraits, abstracts, concept pieces, and found moments. These are a small fraction of those excellent images.

Click past the jump to see all of the photos in this week’s gallery.>>>

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Earphone Camera By Signal9 [ ] is a simple camera app that enables you to easily take photos and take videos by using the iPhone’s earbuds like a wired remote.

Earphone Camera is a simple but handy app. I’m not sure whether the app’s funtionality changes the use of the iPhone’s hardware and violates Apple’s terms of the SDK like the VolumeSnap feature that caused several camera apps to be removed a few months ago. Regardless, there’s nothing else like it currently available. Just in case, grab it now in case Apple change their mind.

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iAMDA is now accepting entries for its first ONLINE EXHIBITION. They are calling all artists to submit works for “THE UNSEEN”, an online showcase of mobile digital works that push the boundaries of what we know and have seen in the past–visually and/or creatively.

The exhibition is open to all mobile device platforms, including iPhone photography, Droidography, and others.

Click past the jump for more info and a link for submissions. >>>

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#instameetdallas, 03/24/11

Thursday, March 24, 2011 was Instagram’s Worldwide InstaMeet. In over 300 cities worldwide, Instagrammers met, shot, shared favorite filters, and if yours was anything like the Dallas meet you also picked up a few new friends here in the real world.

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NewsFlash! by differential enterprises is an iPhone photo app that adds newsprint-style and other types of halftone effects to your photos. There are several types of halftones to choose from — lines, waves, and the traditional dots — as well as several different specialty halftone shapes. It’s not comic booky and pulpy like the cool new Halftone app and it doesn’t create the very cool Roy Lichtenstein-style halftones, but it still adds some cool printing press style effects to your photos.

And NewsFlash! is FREE right now in the App Store. These freebies often go away fast — sometimes within hours, so click the link and grab it now.

NewsFlash! normally sells for $0.99. It supports full resolution saves and works on any iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch running iOS 3.0 or newer.

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Groups from online social networks often arrange real-world meets where you can get to know people you know (or don’t know) from the virtual world here in the real one. Today — Thursday, March 24, 2011 — you can meet, shoot and share with other Instagrammers at Instagram’s Worldwide InstaMeet. It’s a locally global event where you can get together with other Instagrammers in your area (or whichever area you’re in at the time).

There are InstaMeets happening in over 300 cities all over the globe today. Finding an InstaMeet is easy. Go to meetup.com/instagram to find and join an InstaMeet near you. I’ll be at the Dallas InstaMeet in Deep Ellum (it looks like we’re meeting up at the Deep Ellum Green Line stop around 6:15 PM or so). I hope to see some of you there!

The goal of the Worldwide InstaMeet is simply to get together with other Instagrammers in your area. In Portland, @grether organized one of the very first Instameets. “Just get people in a social space (coffee shop, pub, restaurant) with their phones and start talking about this shot or that, this app or that,” he says. That same approach has worked for Instameets in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York, too.

Check out the instagr.am blog for a lot more information.

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TechCrunch recently posted a story about a tech startup that’s producing the new social photo app for both iPhone and Android. Colorâ„¢ is a group camera for recording photos and videos from multiple iPhones for sharing with everyone around you. Take pictures simultaneously with different iPhones and iPod Touches into a single group album. Albums are open to everyone to share. TechCrunch likens it to a social photo Twitter.

The app is special in that Color, the parent company, received $41,000,000 in start-up capital. That’s right… forty one million.That’s more than Google got.

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I was cleaning out old bookmarks today and ran across this link. In case you missed it a few months ago, Digital Photo ran a basic but great piece “7 Composition Questions To Ask Before You Click The Shutter” by William Sawalich with several tips to help with better composition. Sometimes, it’s easy just to point and shoot. This posts gives you several tools — questions to ask to help you approach your shot differently. It’s a highly recommended read for beginners and has great reminders for those of us who have been shooting a while. I’m keeping this bookmark.

[We] take that creative stuff for granted. It’s actually just as important—no, it’s more important than the technical settings. We need to work at being creative. We should be challenging ourselves to make better, more interesting compositions….

Click here to read the entire post on dpmag.com. >>>

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