Life in LoFi: iPhoneography

More random thoughts and a short review. Not enough for full blog posts, but each warrants some level of discussion. A Friday edition of Musings….

• The one app that has been most indispensable to me during the iPhone 4 testing I’ve done is PhotoSize by Danny Goodman. It does one thing — it quickly and easily displays the pixel dimensions of any image in your iPhone’s photo library. This is very useful to keep tabs on how large (or small) apps are saving your images. This is also one of the first apps I use to check images from a new app, especially when the developer doesn’t state output resolutions in their App Store descriptions. It’s a free download and if you’ve got the screen space, I highly recommend this utility.
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  App Store link: PhotoSize

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• iPhone 4 is now 2 weeks old. iOS 4 is a few days older. I’m looking through LoFi’s iPhone 4 Compatibility List and I’m still amazed at the number of camera and photo apps that are still not iPhone 4 (and iOS 4) compatible. I’m even more amazed at how slowly some updates are being released to the App Store. Hipstamatic was in review for over a week.

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PhotoSize
Version 1.0

Bottom Line: Essential if you regularly buy photo apps

PhotoSize

PhotoSize by Danny Goodman is a utility that does one thing — it gives you the pixel dimensions of any image from your iPhone’s photo library or camera roll.

Previously, checking this info might involve emailing the image from one of the third-party apps that can email a photo without downsizing it and then opening the image on your computer in Photoshop, or checking the pixel dimensions using Photogene’s Crop tool. With PhotoSize, simply choose an image from your iPhone and PhotoSize quickly and easily tells you the pixel dimensions.

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