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

Size matters. Especially in iPhoneography. Here’s Life In LoFi’s graphic showing the relative sizes of all iPhone image sizes, updated to show the new 4S. If you’re still shooting with an old iPhone 2G or 3G, this chart may give you pixel envy.

5 megapixel and 8 megapixel iPhone cameras are now the norm due the the unprecedented popularity of the iPhone 4 and 4S. Just the high-res retina displays of the iPhone 4 series have a resolution of 640—960 pixels.

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FX Photo Studio 4.0 for iPhone and iPod Touch recently hit the App Store with more filters and more features, including effects masking and excellent Instagram integration. All this, and it’s still old iOS-friendly. You can read what’s new in our previous post on the app.

It’s on sale now for a limited time for only $0.99 – that’s a dollar off the regular price. This sale is only good through the weekend, and this is for the brand new updated version of the app. It’s got a huge variety of filters and it’s from a great developer who regularly updates the app. It’s easily worth its normal price. FX Photo Studio is a steal for a dollar.

FX Photo Studio is normally $1.99 in the App Store and is on sale for a limited time. Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later.

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I love the simplicity of Simply B&W by MrBWare. It’s an easy to use color-to-black & white app that’s light on frills but does a great job of converting photos to great looking black & white. I recently reviewed version 1.0 of the app here.

The Simply B&W 1.1 update has just been submitted to the App Store and should street in a few days. The app is about to get a few cool frills. Click past the jump to find out more.

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This morning, the FX Photo Studio 4.0 update hit the App Store. This update adds plenty of new features to this excellent iPhone photo app, including new filters, masking, and new file sharing options.

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FiLMiC Pro by Cinegenix is billed as “THE Filmmaker’s App.” It adds features specifically for videographers which improve the video production experience on the iPhone. FiLMiC Pro is a full-featured video camera designed with the videographer in mind. There’s everything you could want in here to shoot some pretty serious raw video. It’s a spiffy video app that I’ve reviewed previously. I liked it a lot and it’s also averaging over four stars in the App Store user reviews.

It normally sells for $2.99. It’s on sale this weekend for only $0.99. This is a limited time sale for this excellent full-featured, video recording app.

Requirements: Compatible with iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPod touch (4th generation), iPad 2 Wi-Fi, and iPad 2 Wi-Fi + 3G. Requires iOS 4.1 or later.

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FrontView
Version 1.0
Price: $0.99

Bottom Line: FrontView is fast, easy to use, and saves at the highest possible resolution. For a buck, it’s a great addition to an iPhoneographer’s toolbox.

Right now, FrontView is FREE in the App Store. FrontView is recommended at its normal price of $0.99. It’s a must-have for free. This reduction is for a limited time, so grab it now and read my review while you’re downloading….

Sometimes, it’s just not possible to get the dead-on square, front and center shot you want. The building is too tall or there are too many people directly in front of that painting on the wall. FrontView is a simple, great utility for fixing any undesired perspective in your images like off-center snapshots of paintings, billboards, architecture, posters, etc. making them appear as if taken from the exact front and center.

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Today, GhostBird Software announced pricing and upgrade policies for the new PhotoForge2 update, which hits the App Store this Thursday, May 19. PhotoForge 2 is such a big update over PhotoForge version 1 (it really is… you can see our previous preview here), it’s being released to the App Store as an entirely new app.

Both previous users and new users will be very pleased with the launch pricing. Click past the jump for details. >>>

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A year ago, we asked the question “How many photography apps do you currently have on your iPhone?” in our first LoFi Poll.  I thought one year out, this would be a good opportunity to see how, if at all, the numbers have changed.

Click past the jump to help settle this burning question in this week’s LoFi Poll. >>>

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AutoPainter for iPhone and iPod Touch is on sale today only for $0.99 — that’s $1.00 off the regular price.

I recently reviewed AutoPainter. It turns your photos into classical-looking “paintings” that look like they were painted by classic masters. I like how well it recreates the styles of the few painters it features, as well as how well it recreates the media it’s painted on. It only saves at 1280×954 pixels, which is perfect for online sharing to Facebook, Flickr, email or blogs. Unfortunately, its file sizes are too small to do the really big enlargements that would be really cool with this app.

The app is normally $1.99, but it’s on sale today only for $0.99. Mediachance are already working on the next update, so this is a great opportunity to get into the upgrade path.

There’s also a native iPad version AutoPainter HD available for $1.99. Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.0 or later.

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My iPhone 4's memory usage before and after a quit-all and reboot.

I’m not sure why this happens. I just know that I’ve been seeing more of it recently. I’ll download the new update of an app that worked great before. And then when I try to open it… CRASH!

I’m sure it has something to do with memory or how another poorly coded app has made the stack unstable (I don’t know the exact technical specifics). The bottom line is, my app crashes.

If this sounds familiar, here are a few steps you can take to try and bring a crashy app to a usable state before you fire off that 1-star App Store review. >>>

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