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

Global Delight’s new Camera Plus Pro update is out. This is not Camera+ by tap tap tap, but what is actually the first Camera Plus app that predated tap tap tap’s by a few months.

The 3.4 update is in the App Store and has a ton of new filters and features. It’s a pretty significant update for this camera replacement that some iPhoneographers swear by over ProCamera or Camera+. It’s pretty good. It’s a very powerful and featured all-in-one photo app, but it still has a few things that I don’t like about it. I’ll have more on the Camera Plus Pro update later, but wanted to share the info about “Metamorphosis,” the iPhone photography contest they have launched to celebrate the new release.

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PrintCalc by DIRE Studio is FREE today for one day only. It normally goes for $0.99.

PrintCalc is a tool to help you figure print sizes and get the best results from your hardcopy photo prints. The app is a fine art printmaker’s utility for calculating print sizes, image requirements and assessing output print quality. Its usefulness is not limited to commercial print houses. Photographers can use this utility to determine best output sizes for their prints by entering a combination of photo pixel dimensions and desired print size. This is especially handy if you regularly use apps with less than your iPhone’s full resolution, or if you have an older 2 MP iPhone.

PrintCalc supports dimensions in both inches and centimeters.

The interface is a little clunky and unintuitive in how it works, but once you get used to it, the frustration level is reduced. If I’d have reviewed the app, I’d have given it three stars despite the UI and recommended it to anyone who has a need for printing photos. It’s a good tool to let you know how large those Instagram prints should be.

This freebie is good for today only, Monday, November 29. Grab it now.

PrintCalc works on any iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch running iOS 3.1.2 or newer.

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Here are some random additional thoughts I had for my earlier post on printing and enlarging iPhone photos. They didn’t seem to fit smoothly in context in the earlier post, so here they all get their own bullet points in a random musing.

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It’s not if the iPhone camera can make large prints, it’s how big….

Whether to mount and frame as gifts, for sale or for gallery exhibition, more and more prints are being made from iPhones. Prints and enlargements can be made from any iPhone camera. How big an enlargement you can make depends on a number of factors — the iPhone model you use, the resolution of the apps you use, and if, how and where you are willing to resample your images.

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