Flipboard App and Pocket App

These are 2 of my favorite go to everyday apps. They are where my daily fix of reading material comes from. It helps too that they both allow screens is photo viewing as well.

With the Pocket App I simply install a code to my bookmarks then when I see something of interest I return to that bookmark. Click to save for future reading later. Easy peasy!

Flipboard is like your own personal magazine created by you. You choose your content. You choose where the content sits on the page and even choose which page will have which content. Wonderfully practical and able to be changed as your interests change. I do not choose the list view but it is available. My first 2 pages from my flipboard are included below as an example. My main interests are photography and art. Any interest you may add to yours.

These 2 apps are really worth having and you will find yourself reading more since the material is based on your choices.

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Been there, done that .....

But done a bit differently this time. I downloaded a stock photo from fontplay.com to process in a few new iPad apps. This time my artsy painting like outcome was achieved without a PC or Photoshop. I took the photo and cycled through the possible presets in Portrait HD app. The preset Portrait 1 was my final choice.

I saved the image back to the camera roll then opened it in the Photocopier App. So many I liked there. I chose Carpaccio after much playing. I again saved to camera roll.

The collage was created using The Picframe App set to 2400 x 2400.

 

I am very satisfied with the results and will use these apps again .... Maybe even often.

Photo: fontplay.com

Apps: Portrait HD, Photocopier, PicFrame

 

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Say no to small phone app photos forever .....

I took this photo previously with my iPad 3. I actually think this was the second picture I took with my new iPad. Although I liked the photo was disappointed with the resolution size. Being printable is important to a finished photo or art project to me. I purchased the Big Photo app yesterday which upscales images fairly well. I tried it on. The photo above was used as my test sample and I was satisfied with the resulting upscales. The photo below is the above photo doubled. Not a bad result.

I then tried 3x and still think it is a usable result. I have not printed anything however. Printing is my goal so hopefully I will have a happy solution with my recent app purchase.

 

 

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Say yes to these 2 IPhone Apps

I had a few minutes last night so I played with 2 new iPhone Apps and really enjoyed playing with them ... I ran the photo through Popsicolor first. That was where I spent the most time. There was so many cool choices as I tried to find the choice I liked best. After I decided I did some color & texture changing in DistressedFX.

These were really fun apps to play with and I highly recommend them. I also recently bought icolorama but haven't played with it yet. Maybe later.

 

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What's still possible ....

... Taking indoor photos with my iPad.

I downloaded an app called "NightCap" to try to use my iPad for photos taken inside. It worked better than other camera apps that I tried.

Lite retouching done in PhotoForge2 and texture overlay masked in using the Blender App.

 

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A window into a new phase ....

I discovered an iPad app journal from Happy Tapper that I would like to play with for awhile ..... Gratitude for iPad.

(Gratitude is an emotion expressing appreciation for what one has—as opposed to, say, a consumer-oriented emphasis on what one wants or needs.)

It is pretty easy to use and is straight forward. I simply jot down my blessings of the day and add a few photos as a visual reminder of the day if I wish. Kinda fun for now and won't take too many minutes to update each day. There is the possibility of emailing your page or exporting as a .pdf. Worth a second look if you believe positive memories make positive attitudes.

 

 

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Daring Myself

Today is day 1 of blogging about iPad/iPhone apps, photography and all things related. It should be an interesting adventure .... One that I look forward to undertaking. To start I plan to jot a few notes here a couple of times a week. To start I offer 2 random plays with photos and iPad apps.

Done using Graffiti Me iPad app

Done using a texture layer set to exclusion blend mode.

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Test

First post from iPad 3


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Instagram ID

Created with PhotoShake

I am getting a dose of spring fever. I love flower photography!

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GIVEAWAY !!

Win a $500 Gift Card to Adorama Camera from @mcpactions and @adorama. Enter here: http://www.mcpactions.com/blog/2010/12/13/500-gc-to-adorama/

Canon's A-DEP mode

Well, I learned what the A-DEP mode is actually about today while watching a Rick Sammons video from his Canon EOS personal trainer series. The A-DEP mode uses all the focus points so everything in the frame is in focus. This results in the frame having the maximum depth of field.

I had the belief it focused the main subject only or something similiar. Boy was a ever wrong.

Ever have a photography enlightening moment like this before? Care to share?


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EW COUTURE Giveaway

EW Couture is excited to give away 2(two) $50 gift certificates to the MCP Actions Photoshop Store, good towards any actions MCP offers.

Test

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Test blog upload with multiple photos using Blogpress iphone app

Today is an off and on rainy day so I downloaded some iphone apps to re-tag my flickr account photos.


And downloaded another app to attempt blogging without a computer. And I will add an attached photo to see how that goes. Cheers!

Iphone app - yes we can

Takes an ordinary picture and adds red/white/blue to simulate the Obama Hope poster. I grabbed an older model truck photo that i had taken and thought the result was pleasing. But not really usuable with the word hope or change at the bottom. There didn't seem to be an option for adding your own word.

I could save it or email it but could not upload it nor edit the end result in any way. A "few uses" fun app but not a useful usable app

Blogpress app - review

I decided to give blogging a try again a couple of weeks ago since i can blog with iphone apps. I decided on the Blogpress app after reading reviews from other users. So far though i overall like the ease of use for the app. I do dislike that i cannot determine the end size of a photo that i add to the blog. Only thumbnail size is offered. Various photo apps output various sizes so i wish this one did as well.


What i have done is later gone onto a desktop and adjusted the size in the code. An extra step yes but i do like the fact that i can post to the blog on the fly.



I have also found a way of adding more than one picture to a post. Simply place the curser and add pictures as desired. There are connections for facebook and twitter but i use other apps for them.
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See you can teach an old new tricks.

Family

Family

Reading Histograms (John Mireles/Mirolassa) Parts 1, 2, 3

I try reading histograms and still amnot hitting the perfect shot everytime so I am watching another histogram tutorial series to try and nail reading them.
Part 1


Part 2


Part 3

This tutorial is for what I want to get good at ..... someday soon ....

July Photos

More July Photos

July Flowers