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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 ...

TUAW's Daily Mac App: iSplash

by Samuel Gibbs (Jun 24th, 2011)

It's great to have lots of options of apps, and today's Daily Mac App adds to the plethora of colorization apps. iSplash is a selective color app just like Colorize and ColorWash, which we've covered before. iSplash is probably the simplest of the colorization apps we've played with so far. ...

TUAW's Daily Mac App: Colorize

by Samuel Gibbs (May 26th, 2011)

We've featured selective color applications before on the Daily Mac App, and today we're going to take a quick look at another -- Colorize. Colorize caters for the non-artists among us with almost idiot proof usability. To get started you simply drag-and-drop an image of your choosing and let ...

TUAW's Daily Mac App: SketchMee

by Samuel Gibbs (May 20th, 2011)

There are lots of auto-sketching applications available for iOS -- you can see their results littering Twitter every now and again. The Mac, however, has a lot more horsepower to play with, and SketchMee really takes advantage of it. SketchMee sketches you, or anything else you like, from a ...

TUAW's Daily Mac App: ColorWash

by Samuel Gibbs (May 17th, 2011)

Those with an artistic bent have been making color-isolated photos in Photoshop for years, but a recent crop of quick and easy tools for doing just that has allowed novices (like me) to create some of the same beautiful photos in a fraction of the time. ColorWash, currently US$0.99 in the Mac ...

The iPad 2 is highly unpopular... as a camera

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 13th, 2011)

Photo sharing site Flickr tracks and publishes the device origin of all the photos that are posted to its site. With over 4.5 million users uploading photos daily, this data set is enormous. Stats from a month ago show the iPhone 4 is at the top of the heap of not just smartphones, but of ...

iPad as concert camera is kind of crazy

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 26th, 2011)

Concert shots from a mobile device are enjoyable to take and so much fun to look at when the event is over. Those grainy pictures seem to capture the excitement of the moment, and you can't help but look cool when thrusting your mobile device in the air to snag an impromptu shot. That is unless ...

Blurrycam Theatre Presents: The classically fake iPod classic

by Chris Rawson (Apr 25th, 2011)

We get purported product leak pics sent to us all the time, and of course, the vast majority of them are fake. In an era when anyone with free time and a copy of Photoshop can slap together something that's convincing at first glance, we're sort of jaded when we look at these Blurrycam photos. In ...

Twitter update adds photo, video capture to iPad 2

by Mike Schramm (Mar 25th, 2011)

The official Twitter app for iPad has been updated to version 3.3.2, and it now allows you to take and share photos and videos directly from your iPad 2. This functionality was already in there for the iPhone, of course, but now that the iPad is outfitted with a camera, Twitter has made it easy ...

Instagram photo sharing service reaches 2 million users

by Mike Schramm (Feb 15th, 2011)

Picture-sharing service Instagram (driven only by the popularity of its free iOS app) has hit a whopping 2 million users already. As TechCrunch notes, the service hit its first million users in just three months, and six weeks after that, it has doubled that number. That's pretty astounding growth ...

Iomega SuperHero iPhone dock backs up photos to SD memory card

by Michael Terretta (Jan 4th, 2011)

We forget how important our photos are until we lose them. The 5 megapixel camera in the iPhone 4 encourages a lot of picture taking, but most of us put our phones on a charger over night instead of docking with our computers, so our photos aren't getting backed up. The Iomega® ...

Image Framer creates digital frames for all your holiday pictures

by Mel Martin (Dec 2nd, 2010)

Actually, you can create great looking frames for all your digital images, not just your holiday snapshots. I've spent part of the day playing with ImageFramer 3 from Apparent Software, a Mac utility that allows you to create frames and mats to give you just about any style you can imagine. If you ...

Pixelmator 1.6 "Nucleus" released

by Mike Schramm (Jul 13th, 2010)

My Mac photo editor of choice, Pixelmator, has been updated to version 1.6 just recently. It's mostly a performance update, adding performance and bug fixes, support for 64-bit architecture, and a whole lot of polish for Snow Leopard. Additionally, they've redesigned the transforming tools, added ...