my mostly positive review of Hipstamatic Disposable
Hipstamatic Disposable brings some fresh ideas to the iPhone photo app model and is a delight to use, but some of the in-app purchases may rub you up the wrong way, and there’s a nasty bug going round.
How to replace Instagram 2.0 with Instagram 1.x.x
A lot of people feel like Instagram 2.0 ruined all the filters. Here’s a way to get your old version of the app back.
Instagram 2.0 review: Insta-grumble
Instagram has been my favourite iPhone photo app for about a year now. It doesn’t have the nebulous wealth of filter options of PictureShow or the ubiquitous Hipstamatic but it’s simple, effective, social and fun; the dozen or so filters are varied and distinct; it includes a tilt-shift effect; it exports with just one tap [...]
One way to fix an iTunes ‘Error 1013′
Last night I was updating my iPhone 4 to iOS 4.3 (from 4.2.1) and it got almost all the way through until it sought to verify the update with Apple and failed with error code 1013. The support document said this was likely to do with security software preventing iTunes from connecting to Apple but [...]
if you like Hipstamatic, you’ll love these
There’s dozens of retro processing apps in the App Store, but Hipstamatic has captured the ol’ zeitgeist and it’s great that so many people are interested in it because it’s a cool wee photo app. I love it – to the extent that I created a huge matrix of all the lens/film combinations possible at [...]
pictureshow – stealing hipstamatic’s crown
The iPhone photo app market is saturated with apps to replicate the retro look. It’s probably a fad that should be on it’s last legs, but the apps keep coming and truth be told I do still like the look when it suits the image so purists be damned! For the last few months I’ve [...]
my latest iPhone toy: hipstamatic
(UPDATE: if you’re reading this you might be interested in a Photoshop action I wrote to sort of emulate the look of these retro camera styles – have a read of this article after you’re done here. Okay, as you were!) I recently went off iPhone photography for a while. I’d set myself the goal [...]
these are a few of my favourite… iPhone photo apps – part 1
Featuring:
- four excellent iPhone photo apps
- a review and guide to each one
- dozens of screenshots and photos
- links to their App Store pages
OMG! iPhone gallery updated!
I wasn’t completely happy with the iPhone gallery I started a few weeks ago. Two reasons really – wasn’t aesthetically pleasing any more, and had an annoying (none-existent) content management system that meant I had to re-upload the whole gallery every time I wanted to change one picture. I changed over to the latest version [...]
new iPhone photography page on ‘my glass eye’
I already use Flickr to host my iPhone photos that are worth sharing, as well as displaying the most recent 5 in the sidebar on the front page of this blog, but I decided I wanted somewhere on this site to properly showcase them so I’ve just added a new page – iPhone photos. I [...]
QuadCamera – my all new favourite iPhone camera app
I’ve got a new obsession on my iPhone, and it’s name is QuadCamera (made by Takayuki Fukatsu and available on the iTunes App Store here, currently £1.19 but apparently it will go up in price after the next update). It’s basically a software application of the popular Lomo Supersampler cameras, one of which currently resides [...]
Westfield, or “Photography, blogging & the iPhone”
(This was going to be a post about some iPhone photos I took at Westfield recently, but started to become an iPhone post instead! Photos at the bottom…) So here at mge towers we’re still devoid of connection to the real world, er, I mean The Internet. My iPhone has been pushed to the limit [...]
fun with Poladroid
Yesterday I mentioned an iPhone app called Camerabag that applies filters to iPhone photos. Today I happened across a free app for Macs and PCs called Poladroid. You drag an image from your computer onto the application (which is represented by a lovely icon of a Polaroid camera) and it makes that whizz and whirr [...]
i like my iPhone camera
I’ve been playing around a lot with the iPhone camera since I got my 3G iPhone a few months ago. I got Camerabag (£1.79 at time of writing) pretty early on, as it processes images from your Photo Library or can even capture directly from the camera itself. The selection of filters it can then [...]