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Daily iPad App: Deco Sketch Pro is a unique photo editor and graphics creation tool

by Mel Martin (Mar 15th, 2013)

Deco Sketch Pro is a universal iOS app that features geometric effects that can be added to images you have, or you can start from scratch. The US$2.99 universal app includes 10 brush types with 130 variations. You can extract color from a photo and use it as the base for an effect. You can ...

PhotoFunia creates seamless Special FX on your iPhone

by Mel Martin (Apr 29th, 2012)

PhotoFunia is a clever and free novelty app for iPhone camera buffs. It will allow you to create a variety of special effects that would take quite awhile in something like Photoshop. Here are some examples: Using face detection, it can take a photo of a friend and cleanly insert the face over ...

Unity 3.5 available now, with new effects and performance updates

by Mike Schramm (Feb 14th, 2012)

There are quite a few ways to make and build iPhone and iPad apps and games, but one of the most popular tools to create iOS games is the Unity engine, and that system has released version 3.5. The new version offers a number of improvements and upgrades, with lots of new particle and lighting and ...

iShred jumps up the charts thanks to viral video

by Mike Schramm (Oct 19th, 2010)

Last Saturday, we posted this video of the band Atomic Tom singing with their iPhones on the B train over the East River. Since then, the video has gone viral, nabbing more than a million views on YouTube. But the band isn't the only group benefiting from the attention -- we heard from the ...

AmpKit, a new way to shred with your iPhone

by Brett Terpstra (Aug 25th, 2010)

Peavey and Agile Partners have just introduced AmpKit and AmpKit LiNK, an iPhone-based hardware/app combo that takes portable guitar and bass effects to a new level. It's loud, it's lightweight, and it's an extremely flexible (and relatively inexpensive) alternative to a floor full of pedals. Matt ...

First Look: Best Camera App for iPhone

by Steven Sande (Sep 22nd, 2009)

The first thing I normally do when someone names their application "The Best..." is roll my eyes and delete the PR email. However, when I saw a press release about the Best Camera app for iPhone, I decided to take a look and I'm glad I did. Best Camera [iTunes link] is a collaboration between ...

Star Wars Kid revisited with MacBook

by David Chartier (May 24th, 2006)

I'm finally done being in pain from laughter to post this hilarious revisit of the Star Wars Kid using that MacSaber app we found over the weekend. Great work, YouTube user mathowie. [via Waxy.org] ...

ChatFX - video effects within iChat

by David Chartier (May 22nd, 2006)

ChatFX can bring some fun to your iChat video conferences by adding quirky video effects; basically it's like Apple's Photo Booth for iChat. Using the power of Quartz Composer (built into Mac OS X 10.4), ChatFX can apply eight different effects to your video conference in real time, including a ...

Apple releases Final Cut Express HD 3.5

by David Chartier (May 18th, 2006)

Apple has released Final Cut Express HD 3.5, what they are calling "a significant upgrade" to their "software solution for video enthusiasts, schools and small businesses". It is now a Universal Binary, and amongst its new features is Dynamic RT for real-time playback of multi-streamed effects and ...

ChocoFlop - powerful image editing

by David Chartier (May 4th, 2006)

Even as an alpha image editor, I think it's safe to dub ChocoFlop a true "poor man's Photoshop." It offers layers, real-time preview of filters and effects (of which there are many), a slew of selection tools, blending modes, masks, color adjusting and a whole bunch of file formats it can ...

Image Tricks 2.0

by David Chartier (Apr 27th, 2006)

I'm beginning to think that today is some kind of image editing holiday, as Image Tricks, the freeware image editor that leverages Mac OS X Tiger's Core Image features, has been updated to version 2. New features include 'generators' - the ability to "randomly and manually generate images with ...

ImagePlay, an open source, layered image editor

by David Chartier (Jan 14th, 2006)

I stumbled across another interesting (and free) image manipulator in Apple's downloads section by the name of ImagePlay. It's actually an open source editor with versions available from Sourceforge for OS X, OS 9 and even Windows, but because of that open-sourceness it doesn't appear to be ...