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Here’s some more Black Friday goodness. The excellent color-to-black & white apps MonoPhix for iPhone and iPod Touch and MonoPhixHD for iPad are FREE right now for a limited time. FlashPhix is also free right now. MonoPhix has been a favorite of Life In LoFi for some time. These are for the full versions of the apps, not a feature-limited “lite” version. If you don’t already have these excellent apps, grab them now!

The iPhone apps are a savings of $0.99 each and MonoPhixHD is a savings of $1.99.

Renzo Verleysen from the apps’ developer Phoenxsoftware also says on the MonoPhix Facebook page, “If you guys can get all Phix apps to a joint 10,000 downloads on Black Friday I’ll keep them free all weekend as well.”

MonoPhix (0.99$->0$) – The most powerful black & white app out there.

MonoPhix HD for iPad (1.99$ -> 0$) – The most powerful black & white app out there. (for iPad)

FlashPhix – Flash & Exposure Fix (0.99$ -> 0$) – Cross processing, automatic correction and lighting control in one easy app.

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Recently, several of the top monochrome conversion apps have been updated to add a feature that Photoshoppers have been using for years — color filters for black & white conversion, which is basically using that color’s channel as your grayscale source.

MonoPhix 3.1 recently hit the App Store. The update adds these features to this excellent monochrome conversion app.

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Simply B&W
Version 1.0
Price: $0.99

Bottom Line: A simple tool/camera app that creates great looking black & white conversions comparable to user favorite Vint B&W — but updated and with much more flexibility.

Simply B&W is a new black & white camera/processing app from developer Mr. B. Ware. It was written to fill the void left by Vint B&W, which hasn’t been updated by its developer for a long time (although it still works on the latest iPhones). Users of Vint B&W should give this one a shot — it has a better toolset and they may find this to be a good, newer, more useful replacement to the classic black & white camera app.

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Over a year ago, I wrote two stories about The Best Free iPhoneography Apps: Camera Replacements and Image Editors. Since those two stories were first posted, a lot has changed in iPhonegraphy. The iPhone is now on iOS 4.2 (soon to be iOS 4.3). Two versions of the iPhone 4 have been released and these devices have much greater resolution and a much better camera than those of a year ago. The iPod Touch 4th Generation now comes with a camera. Several of the apps originally listed are no longer available or break in the latest versions of the iOS.

Currently, many free versions of the apps are try-before-you-buy versions of their commercial siblings. Many are very feature limited or save at unusably low resolutions.

However, there are still some great free photo apps in the App Store. Some of these apps are ad-supported. Some save in usable but not full resolution. None of these apps add an obstructing watermark. All of these apps are very usable and are normally free. Apps whose price is temporarily reduced to free are not included here.

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Nobody Home, by Marty Yawnick

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Hollywood, California
January 21, 2011
Toolbox: MonoPhix, Crop Suey (2x), Tiffen Photo fx

One of my favorite captures in a long time. A nice thing about shooting on Hollywood Blvd. is that you never have to worry about passers-by getting out of the way of your shot if that’s what you want.

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MonoPhix 3.0 (and a couple of bug-fix updates bringing it to 3.0.2) was released recently. Imagine taking an excellent iPhone app and then piling about 200% more excellent on it and that’s the latest update for MonoPhix. It’s really that good. The latest version of MonoPhix builds on the already top-notch monochrome converter by adding a bunch of great new features, creating a more unified interface with the iPad version, and doing it all without piling much overhead on the app.

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MonoPhix 3 received a bump to version 3.0.2. Basically, this means that it should run on devices running a version of iOS prior to iOS 4.0. It’s now available in the App Store.

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The new 3.0 update of MonoPhix by Phoenxsoftware was released today. I’ll have a full review soon, but imagine taking an excellent iPhone app and then piling about 200% more excellent on it and that’s this update for MonoPhix. It’s really that good.

All that greatness requires a bit of screen real estate. And not only does MonoPhix 3 have a ton of new tools, but it now has a much requested larger preview area. Another new feature of the app is the ability to easily hide the tool overlays. Click past the jump to find out how.

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UPDATE: I have given away all the MonoPhix HD promo codes. I’ve still got a ton of other giveways all week, so stay tuned! =M=

It’s the anniversary of Life In LoFi this week. To celebrate, I’m giving away stuff all week… starting right now.

Have you got an iPad? MonoPhix HD is the iPad-only version of the excellent iPhone app. It was updated to version 1.1 recently and I’m giving away 5 free promo codes. Read past the jump to find out how to win one of 5 free promo codes. >>>

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My friends and I don’t celebrate birthdays. We celebrate birthdays. We’ve sometimes milked our bashes for week.

It’s the anniversary of Life In LoFi this week. Thursday, actually. I’ve got a thoughtful, retrospective post planned for then. I hope I can get the words in the post to sound as good as they do in my head right now.

This isn’t a plea for gifts and presents (although they are always welcome. Does Shiner Bock have gift cards?). In fact, I’m going to celebrate by giving away to you a ton of stuff this week. I’ve got promo codes and other cool stuff to give away this week here on the blog and on the Life In LoFi Facebook page.

I really love writing and publishing this blog. I love that I can give back to the iPhoneography community and that you all share so much here. I really do appreciate every one of you who reads, who comments, who discusses, who challenges. Thank you.

I’d buy a round for you all if I could, but there are federal laws that say I can’t do that. Instead, let me give you stuff here and I’ll buy a round of your beverage of choice when I’m in your city.

Thank you very much for reading.

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