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Apple Store customer photos become part of art exhibit

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 2nd, 2012)

Image: Shutterstock.com The next time you go to an Apple store, you should resist the urge to fire up Photo Booth and snap a photo of yourself gazing into that MacBook Pro. If you don't, you may find yourself part of an art exhibit like the one created by Irby Pace. According to a Wired article, ...

TUAW Best of 2011: Vote for the best iPhone photo and video apps

by Steven Sande (Dec 20th, 2011)

The nominations are in, and the poll is ready to go! The TUAW Best of 2011 awards are all about you -- the readers -- and what you think is the cream of the crop of Apple or third-party products and software. To vote, select one entry from the top nominations made by readers. We'll be announcing ...

TUAW Best of 2011: Flare top Mac photo app; Final Cut Pro X best video app

by Steven Sande (Dec 20th, 2011)

In our TUAW Best of 2011 voting, we've come to the end of the awards for the Mac. Starting tomorrow, the winners for iPhone accessories and apps will be announced. Today we're proud to announce the winners of the voting for the top Mac photo and video apps. For Mac photo apps, the innovative Flare ...

Holiday Gift Guide: Cameras

by Kelly Hodgkins (Dec 1st, 2011)

Welcome to TUAW's 2011 Holiday Gift Guide! We're here to help you choose the best gifts this holiday season, and once you've received your gifts we'll tell you what apps and accessories we think are best for your new Apple gear. Stay tuned every weekday from now until the end of the year for ...

Daily Mac App: Image Bucket

by Kelly Hodgkins (Nov 29th, 2011)

You don't realize how important batch processing is until you are faced with 50 photos that need to be resized from 3872 x 2592 to 640 x 480. Processing each photo one-by-one in an image editing app would take an hour. Instead of wasting your time with such a tedious task, you can turn to an ...

Deep dive: Aperture and Photo Stream, how do they work?

by Richard Gaywood (Nov 6th, 2011)

I'm a bit of a shutterbug, so Photo Stream is something I was really interested in when it was announced as part of iOS 5's feature set way back in June. Frictionless, automated sending of photos from my phone to my computer? Sign me up! Of course, as is too often the case with Apple, the nitty ...

miFrame makes your iPad picture perfect

by Michael Grothaus (Oct 31st, 2011)

I usually don't review iPad stands, but the people from Striped Sail sent me a miFrames for iPad 2 to try out, and I found it quite clever. Unlike traditional iPad stands, the miFrame doubles as a picture frame enclosure. Most people aren't going to buy an iPad just to use it as a digital ...

How to use PhoneView to fix your iPhoto camera roll woes

by TJ Luoma (Oct 29th, 2011)

If the Camera app and Photos app on your iPhone disagree about the contents of your camera roll, you may find yourself needing to get "under the hood" of your iPhone to fix the issue. Fortunately, you can do this without having to jailbreak and hopefully without losing any pictures. You may know ...

Pumpkin and "baby belly" get the Jonathan Mak Steve Jobs treatment

by Steven Sande (Oct 11th, 2011)

Photo used with permission of Jorge Cardenas What are the odds of two separate TUAW readers sending in photos of objects emblazoned with Jonathan Mak's now-iconic Apple logo / Steve Jobs silhouette mashup? Apparently pretty good, because not only did we receive a pair of photos, but they came ...

Steve Jobs banner in the Windy City a nice tribute (Updated)

by Steven Sande (Oct 9th, 2011)

We've seen all sorts of Steve Jobs tributes over the last few days, with most Apple Stores worldwide being showered with flowers, personal messages, and even old Macs. TUAW reader James Risley saw a unique tribute to Steve in Chicago -- two of the ubiquitous street banners in that city, showing ...

Google's Photovine goes live with its photo sharing app

by Kelly Hodgkins (Aug 18th, 2011)

Photovine is Google's latest iOS app and it's best described as a photo-sharing app with a public twist. Unlike Instagram which lets you share your stylized mobile photos with your friends and followers, Photovine ditches the filters and has a much more public slant. You publish your photo ...

HDR Darkroom Pro is a fast and inexpensive app for creating impressive landscape images

by Mel Martin (Jul 27th, 2011)

It's nice to see more awareness of HDR (high dynamic range) photography. The iPhone has a built-in HDR mode, and more and more software is supporting the combining of images shot at different shutter speeds, combined to create an image that captures more shadow detail without blowing out the ...

Make your Mac, iPhone or iPad 2 transparent

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jul 11th, 2011)

Photojojo details an easy set of instructions that will let you create eye-catching photo-in-photo transparent images like the one shown above. You don't need a fancy camera or expensive software. All you need is a few extra gadgets, some creativity and a helper to snap the photos. The ...

No Comment: Your life in 30-second intervals with Lifelapse

by Michael Rose (Jun 28th, 2011)

Whenever we get publicity info about a new iPhone app, my personal curmudgeon radar goes to high alert if the app in question is accompanied by a precious and fashionable custom accessory. There's something about that mix of software and paraphernalia that sets my teeth on edge a bit. That's ...

Latest iOS 5 beta brings photo album curation to devices (Updated)

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jun 27th, 2011)

Update: This functionality was present in Beta 1, sorry for the error. iOS 5 Beta 2 landed in the hands of developers last week, and details on the latest version of the mobile OS are hitting the newswire. One neat feature is the ability to create photo albums on your iOS device. In this ...