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TiltShift Generator is the app of choice for many iPhoneographers to create miniature toy effects. It’s also a great app to create shallow depth-of-field in an image or to apply a focus effect better than any other tiltshift apps. It also adds really nice saturation and contrast to an image.

A couple of new minor updates — version 1.55 has just been released — give this already excellent app a new blur style, eliminating one of the few advantages its competitor TiltShift has had.

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Instagram 1.6.5 is in the App Store now. Not only is it more stable than the previous 1.6 updates, it has a few new features, including “improved image quality”. Unfortunately, it isn’t the resolution image quality that we’ve been hoping for.

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There are two notable apps on sale right now in the App Store. QuikCam and TiltShift are both on sale for $0.99 each — that’s a savings of $1.00 off each app. Both are on sale for a very limited time.

QuikCam (formerly QuickCam) is a very fast camera replacement app. TiltShift is a very good app for adding tilt-shift and other focal effects.

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Taken with an iPhone 4.

Toolbox: Vint B&W, TiltShift Generator

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The recently released freeware app, TiltShift Generator Free was updated this week. What’s changed in the new version 1.01? The removal of the Library Import feature. You have two options if you want to continue to be able to import images from your iPhone’s photo library. This effects the free version of TiltShift Generator only, not the paid version.

Do not update TiltShift Generator Free until you’ve read this post.

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Level 3

Toolbox: Trusight Pro, TiltShift Generator, FocalLab

DFW International Airport
May 1, 2010

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Description from the AppStore: With Tilt-Shift-Focus you can easily edit photos to create fake miniatures, enhance or change the depth of field and focus area of your picture, or precisely soften details. Fake miniature and depth of field can improve the visual and artistic quality of your photographs and you can do all that with just a few taps in the Tilt-Shift-Focus editor.

Features:

• select one or take a new photo
• edit and adjust with 4 different blur-tools
• smooth transitions between blurred and focused areas
• tilt-shift effects on the go
• quick miniature effect
• cool zooming effect
• contrast enhancement for stronger miniature effect

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First off the interface is much more clunkier and positioning the linear position was much more fiddlier than TiltShift Generator.  Whilst the app has the option to increase contrast, unlike TiltShift Generator there are no other tweaks available.  The biggest disappointment with this app, was its out put size, that whilst not low res, was not full res either, saving on my iPhone 3G at a disappointing 1024 x 768 pixels.

Above: My "Toy Boat" photo processed with Tilt Shift Focus.

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Over all this app was disappointing and has some way to go to challenge TiltShift Generator, so for now if you want that tilt and shift effect, then I would recommend TiltShift Generator.

Tilt Shift Focus is $0.99 USD in the App Store.

App Store link: Tilt Shift Focus

The New iPad from Apple

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In about 20 hours from the time of this writing, the world changes. You are here to see it.

Tomorrow morning, Apple’s iPad will be unleashed to the world. I truly believe that the iPad will change in a very big way how we receive content and information. I believe the iPad will create new industries, rescue old ones that are embracing the new slates, and be a nail or two in the coffin of others that can’t or won’t adapt.

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Rear View Mirror

Toolbox: Perfectly Clear, TiltShift Generator

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On I-30. This was a perfect Spring evening and we were driving from Fort Worth to Dallas with the sunset in my rear view mirror.

They say I shouldn’t drive and text. They said nothing about drivin’ and shootin’.

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March 7, 2010
Oscar Night
Dallas, Texas

Diner

Toolbox: Vint B&W, TiltShift Generator

Another image in this series, “Nighthawk“, also appears through March as part of my exclusive Featured iPhontographer series on Pixels at an Exhibition.

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