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

When we first reviewed Picfx, it was a quirky little square format photo app with a fairly straightforward number of filter effects. It’s grown into a pretty versatile square format photo effects app with a large number of filter presets, adjustments and other new tools that make it worth a look for square format iPhoneography.

The new update has just been released and adds a number of new effects, a new icon, and a capital “P”. The app is no longer called picfx.

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But, at least it’s getting closer….

100 Cameras in 1 is the texture app with an interesting interface, some funky Zen sounds and very obscure and frustrating filter names. It was one of the first photo apps to make iPhoneography a game and also one of the first to directly save to Instagram. Unfortunately, it’s one of the last major photo apps to support the iPhone 4S.

The new 3.1.4 update has just been released. After just seven months, 100 Cameras in One comes close to supporting full, square format resolution of the iPhone 4S. The new version now supports “higher resolution choices” on an iPhone 4S — that’s 4 MP images or 2048×2048 pixels. This is an improvement over the 1200×1200 px resolution of the previous version, but still less than the 2448×2448 pixels that nearly every other non-Instagram replacement offers.

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When I found out that the Awesomizer tool of the excellent Camera Awesome was built by Athentech, I was worried that spelled the end of life for one of my favorite photo apps, Perfectly Clear. The long lapse between update didn’t help much to dispel my fears.

The new 2.4 versions of Perfectly Clear for both iPhone and iPad have finally hit the App Store today. They are both loaded with a lot of goodness, including a sale price reduction and a lot of bug-fixes. Regardless of the iPhone or iPad you use, regardless of any other photo fixer you may have, Perfectly Clear is an app that should be in your iPhoneographer’s toolbox and should be a first step in any image processing.

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The iOS 5.1.1 update was quietly released by Apple today. It’s mainly a bug-fix release, but there is one new fix that is of interest to iPhoneographers. The new update “Improves reliability of using HDR option for photos taken using the Lock Screen shortcut”.

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LensLight features a variety of lens light effects including light Leaks, bokeh, spot lights, and surface glare. There are even a few lens flare effects added in. There are some crossover effects, but not many, including a few similar (not identical) spikes and streaks. LensLight is more about external light effects than its sibling.

LensLight, the sibling app to the popular LensFlare photo app, recently received a big update. Read more about the update and how you can win a free promo code for the app after the jump. >>>>

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Old Photoshoppers may remember Kai Krause’s Power Tools, a set of Photoshop plugins that let you quickly and easily create slick (at the time) effects. One of those filters was the Kai’s Goo effect, which allowed you to push pixels around as if your photo were made of a heavy liquid. When used to excess, the results could be pretty twisted. When used sparingly, you could achieve some pretty creative and unnerving looks.

PhotoGoo is an iPhone photo app that let’s you create goo effects similar to the Kai plugin. It’s free right now in the App Store — down from $2.99. I reviewed an early version a while back. It’s still not perfect, but several updates since have greatly improved the app.

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iPhone lomography app Lomora has a new update. Lomora 3 was just released and is a major overhaul of the app. New users may like the combinations of Lomora’s filter set and the many of the new options. Previous users may like them, too, but will have to shell out three bucks to find out. This is a paid upgrade.

It’s an ambitious update. Many of the new features are well done and great. Many others seem thrown together and poorly coded. And I’m puzzled by some of the app’s changes.

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Decim8 is a bit destroyer. Basically, it makes your images look like a damaged JPG, adding data streaks, color anomalies and other digital damage that photographers and designers really hate to see in a working file. Here in Decim8, the damage is intentional. The results are unpredictable and sometimes stunning. The app is always interesting.

Long a favorite of mine, the App Store’s best “glitch app” Decim8 has just released a major update. Version 3.0 is out and has several new filters, a new interface, a new icon (which is actually the app’s original HAL 9000-looking icon) and a few caveats to go with this update.

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It’s been a while since Nick Campbell last updated the app Cross Process for iPhone– over a year, in fact.

The 2.0 update of Cross Process has just been released. While light on new features, this is a good opportunity to revisit this simple, classic digital lo-fi photo app that adds very nice looking analog effects to your photos.

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What You Need To Know About the New Camera Prime 2.0 Update

Camera Prime is solid camera replacement app. In my original review, I said that “Camera Prime is a straightforward shooter. It doesn’t try to reinvent this style of app, but rather it takes what works from several other camera apps and integrates the features well.” It’s not an all-in-one, but a good camera replacement with an emphasis on capturing better photos. While not the most widely used camera app, it has mostly good App Store reviews and has a loyal following.

The Camera Prime 2.0 update has just been released. Among its new changes, Camera Prime has gone the “Freemium” route, much like King Camera has. The basic app is free but to unlock its more advanced features is a $0.99 in-app purchase.

Like King Camera, if you’ve already purchased version 1 of the app, you can get the update and the advanced features for free. Click on to find out how, as well as a few other things you need to know about the update. >>>

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