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Those fun iPhone Photo Effects using PowerCam – On Sale Today

Aside from the normal filters group offered by many apps, the app PowerCam offers more than 50 real time effects for a fun twist to your iPhone photography.

As the overview help screen shows below. PowerCam offers video and photo modes, quick access to Adjustable Modes as well a button to open the Effects options to sweep through. All Effects are show in real time when your taking the photo.

Tap the magic wand button to bring up the variety of effects you can apply to the photo. Rather than choosing a filter later, PowerCam shows what your resulting photo will be as your taking it. This is particularly important since most of the options are true effects rather than a tone changing filter.

Some effects require tuning rather than just applying to the whole image. Like in the case of TiltShift shown below, PowerCam has onscreen tools showing in real time to get the effect as you want it to be in real time rather than editing later.

Whether it is a movie or photograph being taken with PowerCam, all of the on screen controls are easy to access when using the iPhone’s camera.

I had fun with the little guy using the PowerCam sketch effect:

iPhone photographers interested in video? FiLMiC Pro is free for a limited time!

Funny, I’m involved in the movie making industry, yet I record almost no video with my iPhone. I lean more towards taking photographs and playing with a snapshot of history.

An app I have had on my iPhone for those times I do want to record video is FiLMiC Pro. I bought it the first time I saw one of the team’s creations using it on their older iPhone. It’s list of features is much longer than I will most likely use in the near future. As I keep playing with it around town on photo walks, the features start making more sense to get the movie effect I was hoping for. With FiLMiC Pro being FREE right now, if you have ever thought about doing video with your iPhone, grab it quick. Share directly to YouTube, DropBox, Vimeo, Facebook, Tumblr and even to a FTP Server

From the FiLMiC Pro Developers:

– 3 separate shooting modes
– 4 selectable resolutions
– 26 different variable frame rates
– Audio monitoring levels
– Stereo recording support
– Custom slate configurations
– Grids
– Front Facing Camera Support
– Import Button for easy editing
– Overlays
– Colorbars up to 15 seconds
– 6 different upload destinations
– 4 bitrate options per resolution

Creating photo mosaics on the iPhone… for free

Normally, mosaics are a job for the desktop computer. Software has to look at a photo, examine the bright/dark areas and finding pictures that reflect the right coloring. An app that does basic cropping and image filters also offers several levels of mosaics.

The app, Fotoyaki, is a free iPhone app that produces some very interesting effects. Like any specialty photo app, some pictures produce great results, others not so much. The free price of Fotoyaki means it’s on my iPhone that I toss pictures at to see what works.

Along with the mosaics processing, there are also to levels of dot effects that can really be fun. The Fotoyaki dots have proven to work best on images I have taken with straight lines. Sharing the finished result is done by saving to the iPhone photo library, email, Twitter and Facebook.

Remembering contacts through their picture on the iPhone

Evernote has released a new free app they call ‘Hello’. The app is for exchanging Business cards. I’m not sure about ‘exchanging Business cards’, but it is a fun way of meeting people and exchanging contact information.

The idea is that you hand someone your iPhone, they fill in the slots for their contact info and snap a photo of themselves. You could enter the data for them and snap the picture if you would rather not hand someone your iPhone. You don’t have to have a picture of the person in order to create a contact, but then why would you put them in your visual contact app?

The folks you add to Evernote Hello are automatically synced and backed up to your regular free Evernote Cloud location so you can see the info on any device you have syncing to your account.

Celebrate iPhoneography show this weekend with free Perfect Photo

An app that I play with from time-to-time is Perfect Photo. It has a nice group of filters and enhancement tools. Almost all of the tools have sliders to fine tune, which is much appreciated over lesser apps that just apply and go. The undo/redo is handy too so you can play a lot with images to get just the look your going for.

The app is from a company that does a lot of iPhone Photo apps so be forewarned that even if you had the for-pay Perfect Photo app, your going to get a lot of ads pushing you to the pro version of the app that is a touch more expensive (no discount for already paying for another one of their apps).