Life in LoFi: iPhoneography

ZCam Pro

For a limited time, ZCam Pro and BlueCam Pro by Mother Tucker are available free! Both apps recently sold in the App Store for $0.99 USD.

BlueCam Pro is a remote control camera with Live Camera Preview over Bluetooth. Packed with features such as Full-Screen Camera Preview, a Big Photo Button, Photo Timers, Zoom, Batch and Automatic Photo Uploading, Multi Photo Sharing, Reticles and a Twitter Client.

ZCam Pro is a full-featured camera that shares many of the same features as BlueCam Pro but also adds WiFi control and preview to the mix. It’s a full-featured camera as well.

Life In LoFi hasn’t reviewed or tested either app. If you have, feel free to let us know your thoughts about either or both in the comments below.

Both apps have feature-reduced free versions. These are the full versions being offered for free for a limited time. Grab ‘em quick!

App Store links: BlueCam Pro |  ZCam Pro

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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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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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ClassicPan sample

Want a free copy of ClassicPan?

Recently, a ClassicPan update was released adding new features and fixing a couple of old ones. You can read our updated review here. ClassicPan is now a one-of-a-kind app that produces some unique photos.

Life In LoFi has some promo codes to give away. I’ll send one promo code to each of the first 15 readers who request one. Hit me up on Twitter/@MartyNearDFW, send me an email, or simply ask for one in the comments below. One code per reader, please. Codes work in the U.S. App Store only. Be sure to include an email address somewhere in your post for me to send the code to.

Be sure to leave feedback in the App Store. If you didn’t get one of the free codes, ClassicPan is only $0.99 USD . (App Store link)

Big thanks to misskiwi for providing Life In LoFi with these free promo codes!

Update 3:07 PM CST: Wow! Those went fast! We have given away all of the promo codes we have for this update of ClassicPan, but check back often or keep tabs on us on Twitter (@MartyNearDFW) for future promo code giveaways. Thanks!

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Gorillacam

Check the App Store for the great new update of Gorillacam by Joby Inc. The update adds a few great new features to this camera replacement app that we recently reviewed in our Best Free iPhone Camera Replacements article. Best of all, the app is still free.

The version 1.1 update adds anti-shake image stabilization, tap-to-focus for 3GS iPhones, selectable image sizes and a very nice full resolution 4X digital zoom. It’s a great update to an already excellent camera replacement app.

If you don’t already have a camera replacement app, Gorillacam is worth a serious look — even more so after this update.

Gorillacam is still free in the App Store. [link]

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Photoshop.com App

The latest version of Photoshop.com Mobile has just been released. We reviewed the app previously and, for the most part, this update builds on all that was good about the first release.

The new 1.1.0.21 update adds several tools which should have been included in the first release. Straighten, Sharpen and Contrast tools are now included, as well as several new borders. The Sharpen and Contrast tools work like the other adjustment tools in PS Mobile, with a finger swipe across the screen. The Straighten tool uses a two-finger gesture to rotate the image to an onscreen grid. All three tools are pretty straightforward and easy to use.

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Recently, I wrote about The Best Free iPhoneography Apps: Camera Replacements. Now that you’ve shot your image, how are you going to process it? Here are nine great image editing apps and best of all, their price is free!

I realize that this list is not complete. There were several apps that I didn’t include for various reasons. In compiling this list, I found some apps that duplicated features of others. In those cases, I chose what I felt to be the app that did the job quickest, easiest and best. Also, there are great free apps being released all the time.

Some of these apps may be ad-supported, but none of them add a watermark to your images and all save at or really close to your iPhone’s full resolution, unlike many lite photo apps available. These are all full-featured apps and they produce good, if not outstanding effects. Again, for little more than bandwidth and real estate on your iPhone’s screen, there are some gems to be found in the photography section of the App Store. These apps should start you off with a well-rounded iPhoneography toolbox or enhance your existing iPhone “camera bag” — and all for free.

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ProCamera Basic

ProCamera Basic by Daemgen.net is available for free for a limited time — down from $1.99.

ProCamera Basic is an excellent camera replacement. I’ve been using the full-version, ProCamera, as my camera replacement app of choice for the the last couple of revisions. ProCamera Basic is a full-featured camera — anti-shake with three settings, composition gridlines, full-resolution 5X digital zoom, Big Button full-screen shutter, and adjustable timer are just some of the features in Basic. Some of the missing features that the full version has are 3G tap-to-focus, video capabilities and the virtual horizon.

The ProCamera apps have become some of the premier camera replacements in the App Store, becoming the standard to beat for price and features. This is a great chance to grab one of the better camera apps available while it’s free.

App Store link: ProCamera Basic

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Updated 01.05.2010

iPhone photography doesn’t have to bust your budget. I’ve scoured the Photography section and found four great, FREE camera apps to help you step up your iPhoneography.

This list is not complete, but these are some of the best camera replacement apps I’ve found. Granted, these apps are not as feature-rich as their paid-app siblings. Some of these apps are ad-supported, but none of them add a watermark to your images, all of them save at the iPhone’s full resolution and best of all, the price is free! For no investment other than bandwidth and download time, you can improve your iPhone’s camera and get some impressive looking photographs.

These are apps that are normally free. Apps whose price has been temporarily reduced to free are not included here.

Free iPhone Camera Apps: Camera Plus, Ultimate Camera Free, Gorillacam

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PhoneGrafer

PhoneGrafer by emotionale is now available for free for the holidays through December 28, 2009.

PhoneGrafer is a camera app with a built-in self-timer, image leveling and an assortment of filters. You can upload straight to Flickr from within the app and the app saves some EXIF data with your photos.

The filter set is appealing. The Russian filter duplicates the look of a plastic toy camera, a Holga. I also like that you can add a color cast in the CMYK color space. The app supports iPhone 3GS file sizes and saves in full resolution.

Grab it now while it’s free!

App Store Link: PhoneGrafer

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