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A diptych consists of 2 images displayed side by side, and can often be a creative and attractive way to tell an even more elaborate story with your images. While with a little bit of effort, you can create a diptych or photo collage using Photoshop, there are now web-based, desktop and mobile options that make the process a lot easier. Each of the options below offer users a different experience.
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The new version of Dropbox's iPhone and iPad app makes it easier to upload, manage, and view your photos. At the heart of it is a new design which has gone for simplicity. With the holidays around the corner, it’s going to be all about photos and photo sharing. Dropbox has revamped that experience.
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Have you ever needed or wanted to mark an image as yours to prevent others from duplicating it and/or claiming it as their own? You might already know that this is called watermarking. The process is pretty simple, but finding an efficient, easy and inexpensive way isn’t always as simple. There are some very powerful do-it-all photo editors out there, such as Photoshop, which can watermark photos.
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Very recently, Instagram pulled support for showing its photos directly in Twitter cards and Twitter seemed relatively quiet on the issue. It seemed as if Twitter did not care, and immediately after that happened, Twitter issued an update for its mobile applications that added photo filters that work in a very similar way to those of Instagram. This clearly explains why Twitter did not seem too concerned by Instagram pulling support; Twitter had its own Instagram competitor right on the horizon.
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Twitter and Instagram just cannot seem to get along. Suddenly users have found that their Instagram photos are no longer showing up on their Twitter timeline. Obviously, this has left users confused, as they had no idea if there was something wrong with their photos or there was some other reason why they had fallen off the map. It turns out, this was done on purpose by Instagram, as they disabled support for Twitter cards.
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A while ago, I told you about the 6 best place to design your own Facebook Timeline cover for free. All these places are still great, and Timeline is still very much with us, so you can definitely check all of them out and design yourself a Timeline. You might, however, want something a bit different for your Timeline, something more original or a bit more hard to make. If you’re curious about these options, there are 3 more apps I want to show you today.
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Some days just don’t start right. Do you ever have days when you wake up in the morning and things just feel off? Your work seems meaningless, your life seems boring, you feel too fat/thin/tall/short, you don’t have time to do the things you really like, and things just suck in general. If you’ve never had one of these days, I’m sure we’re all jealous, but when this happens to me, I try to find small things to cheer me up.
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WeHeartPics is part social network, part photo-sharing app, and part daily inspiration for your photography. Available as a free iOS or Android app, the network can also be accessed through its web-based interface. WeHeartPics brings its users fresh ideas to take photos of, turning your mobile photography into a game of sorts, pushing you to get more creative and see things differently.
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If you're looking for another way to share your photos and videos on your iPhone and other supporting iOS devices, you might want to check out two free apps—Cloudee and Colugo. These two apps are similar to services like Flickr, YouTube, and Instagram, but they provide a way to share your videos and photos with specific groups of contacts, without the hassle of emailing them each time you upload content to either of the accounts.
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With this immense popularity, Instagram is a great platform to take advantage of, and many Web apps, printing services and the like have sprung out all over the place. These services are now so common, that when I first heard of StickyGram, my expectations weren’t very high. We set out to test drive StickyGram, and ordered four packs of these Instagram magnets to four different places of the world. Each sheet of StickyGrams includes nine magnets, 50mm X 50mm in size, costs $14.99, and ships worldwide for free. But what are they really like? You can read our verdict below, and as usual, enter the giveaway to win one of 5 sheets of 9 StickyGram magnets, made from your own Instagram photos!
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We all work with image files, all the time; be they graphics for the Web, corporate images for work, or just holiday snaps. These days there are more digital images than ever before. Windows comes with its own built-in image viewer, and if you have Google’s Picasa, it comes with its own fancy viewer. But neither of these options surpasses a true classic.
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Fancy yourself as a bit of an international super spy, do you? Or are you all fired up to do some underground reporting on misleading supermarket pricing? Did you know you already have a powerful spy device in your pocket - a smartphone? While I can't teach you how to dress as well as Austin Powers, or give you the suave British accent of Bond, I can show you the techniques and apps you can use to take photos without being seen.
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There is certainly no shortage of photo editing apps in the iTunes App Store, but when the team behind Pixlromatic launched a new app, we knew it was going to be good. The free app, Pixlr Express, is packed with a robust set of features - from the basic autofix, red eye removal and contrast adjustment - to the more advanced effects, textures and borders.With over 100 default effects, overlays and borders, Pixlr Express is a pretty impressive offer for any serious iPhoneographer.
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Smartphone and mobile photography are becoming increasingly popular. And no wonder. Every year, mobile and smartphone cameras get better and better, until many people don’t feel the need to carry real cameras around anymore. While phone cameras still can’t replace good SLRs, they’re a very good match for the compact cameras, and since your phone comes everywhere with you anyway, it also becomes your go-to camera.
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Last May, I wrote about Apple's iOS photo sharing feature, Photo Stream, which automatically syncs photos to a users' iCloud account where they can be accessed in one or more of a user's iOS device (iPhone, iPad, iPod touch) or Mac computer. Since that time Apple has added a few important features and enhancements to Photo Stream that might go unnoticed by new Apple customers.
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