A good photo-to-paint app is pretty hard to find. Many paint effects simply move pixels around, smear the image and maybe add brush stroke textures. The effects have all the charm of a cheap, knockoff print of a bad sofa painting. AutoPainter by Mediachance is the little sibling of the desktop application, Dynamic Auto Painter. It turns your photos into classical-looking “paintings” that look like they were painted by masters.
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Many iPhoneographers are creating works that when viewed by the public, the response is often “I can’t believe this was done on a iPhone.” I have been witness to this reaction many times, as I’m sure many of you have as well.
iPhoneography is now finding its way into more mainstream photographic publications. A recent issue of Square Magazine has excellent showcases from Clay Lipsky, Quinn Jacobson, Stephen Gill and others. Also featured in Square Magazine 2.1 is Amo Passicos… Miss Amo and Her iPhone.
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It seems like Instagram sites on the web come and go as quickly as you can say “Instagram.” For a while, Instagram were cracking down on unauthorized use of their feed or changing how their feed works, making it difficult for many of these sites to keep up. With the recent release of the new Instagram public API, hopefully, we’ll see some stability and longevity in these third party websites.
Shane Rich over at HatchCraft has written a great post of the five of the the top Instagram web sites. HatchCraft has some good Instagram creds. They’re the company that builds the great-looking Boo Box.
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ScratchCam is an easy to use app that adds cool, distressed film and photo print effects to your pics. The app features both color and black & white effects, oversaturation and color shift combinations, and several film scratch effects. It’s at its best when it’s working all three.
It creates more scraped and damaged film and photos than the 70’s horror film effects that the app advertises. This is a good thing.
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Previously, if you wanted to shoot with a physical Hipstamatic camera, the closest you could get was an iPhone skin and a see-through case. Not any more. Hipstamatic along with Agent18 have created Hipstacase 100, a cool little case which gives your iPhone 4 the look and texture of a Hipstamatic camera.
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A great new resource for iPhone photographers, iPhoneographyCentral, went live today. Not so much a new iPhone photo blog, but a website where iPhoneographers can share their techniques with others, from the basic to the really cool. Out of the gate, some of iPhoneography’s premier names have already contributed some of their secrets.
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One of the things that I love about ShakeItPhoto is the way it alters the colors of the photo. It doesn’t accurately recreate the tones of old Polaorid images. In reality, they’re often flat and washed out. ShakeItPhoto recreates the way we remember old Polaroid photos. And that, to me, is part of its magic.
ShakeItPhoto was updated today. The 2.0 update has one new feature — a real Polaroid SX-70 border.
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Noir Photo is a new app from Red Giant Software, the developer of Plastic Bullet Camera. Noir lets you convert your images into luscious, classic, cinematic black & white and then adjust the vignette to “light” the image or draw attention to one element of the photo. It’s a fairly simple app that can be used to create classic-looking monochromes. It’s easy to use with few controls. That’s both a strength and weakness of the app.
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The speedy camera replacement app QuikCam has been renamed and is now called QuickPix. The new update is out and while light on new features — the previous 1.1 update had a ton of them — it’s got some very impressive performance improvements.
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