This Week in Photo

TWiP Apps 14: RAW; Getting RAW by 500px

With the release of iOS 10, RAW image capture comes to the latest iOS devices, while RAW editing comes to even more. Many developers are rushing to bring the reality of RAW to your iOS device, and 500px is one of the first. RAW by 500px is an all-new app that not only shoots RAW, but edits RAW — even RAW files from your full size camera. In addition to a beautiful editing workflow, RAW by 500px also includes a built-in model release form and easy submission of your final image to the 500px Marketplace — release included. And finally, in the not-too-distant future, you’ll be able to review and accept paid assignments directly from the 500px app.

Join me, PhotoJoseph, for this episode of TWiP Apps with guest Adam Shutsa, VP of Design at 500px.

Find out more about RAW:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/500px

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/500px/

Instagram: @500px

Blog: https://iso.500px.com/

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RAW by 500px was demoed on an iPhone 6.

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Guest App Pick: SKRWT

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TWiP Apps 13: Priime Styles;

The awesome iOS app Priime has grown up into a full-fledged Mac desktop app that operates stand-alone, or as a plug-in for Lightroom and Mac OS X Photos. With an Explore view that makes it easy to preview dozens of styles at once, batch processing, and the raw power of the Mac, giving your photos some serious style has never been easier.

Find out more about Priime Styles:

Twitter: http://twitter.com/priime

Facebook: http://facebook.com/priime

Instagram: http://instagram.com/priime

Blog: http://medium.com/priime

Platform:

Priime Styles was demoed on a Macbook Pro and is available for OS X.

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Guest App Pick: Amazon Photos

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TWiP Apps 12: Astropad; Make Your iPad Pro Astronomical

If you’ve ever tried to paint, draw, or retouch in an app like Photoshop using the mouse, then you know how cumbersome it can be. The drawing tablet is the long loved tool of professional image-makers allowing them to incorporate pressure, tilt, and natural hand movements into their work. Tablets though are expensive, and take some getting used to while you learn to paint here, but watch there. Tablets that allow you to paint directly on the screen are incredibly expensive — or at least they were, until now. If you own an iPad Pro and an Apple Pencil, then you’re just one app away from a whole new brushing experience.

Find out more about Astropad:

Twitter: @astropadapp

Instagram: @astropadapp

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/astropadapp/

Platform:

Astropad was demoed on an iPad Pro and MacBook Pro, and is available for iPad and Mac.

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Guest App Pick: iOS app “Manual” ShootManual.co

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TWiP Apps 11: younity; Younify Your Photos

Have you ever needed a photo on your iOS or Android device, but it was stored on your Mac or PC, and had no way to get to it? Whether you're on the other side of the house or the other side of the world, today's app, younity, will allow you to find any photo, file, video or song on any of your computers from any of your mobile devices.

Find out more about younity:

Website: https://getyounity.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/getyounity

Twitter: https://twitter.com/getyounity

Platform:

Younity was demoed on an iPhone and is available for iOS, OS X, Android, and Windows.

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Guest App Pick: VSCO

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TWiP Apps 10: PhotoCard; Your Photos, Delivered

Today’s episode features a very special guest. It’s not every day that you get to sit down with one of the original developers of the Mac. The man who once wrote Quickdraw, MacPaint and Hypercard is now an avid photographer and app developer passionate about putting amazing quality prints in your hands, and the hands of your loved ones. PhotoCard is a simple app with a legendary back end — Bill Atkinson himself. Bill’s passion about image quality, color accuracy, and the value of a printed photo in your hands ensures that no matter if you’re sending a vacation snapshot back home or a thank you card to your best client, the massive 8 and a quarter inch postcard that lands in their mailbox will bring the lasting joy and happiness that only a print can.

Find out more about PhotoCard:

Website: http://www.billatkinson.com/Pages/aboutPhotoCard.html

iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/photocard-by-bill-atkinson/id333208430?mt=8

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PhotoCard was demoed on iPad, and is also available on iOS.

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Guest App Pick: LiveCollage

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TWiP Apps 09: PhotoExtension; Extending Photos Back to the Basics

For all dynamic, colorful, exciting, and even sexy photo apps that you can put on your iOS device today, one thing is consistently lacking -- basic functionality. The ability to look up EXIF data, view a histogram, add a watermark or even scale an image is non existent in Photos for iOS. The app collection “Photo Extensions” by DigiGuys aims to correct that. A series of mini apps acting as share extensions allow you to do all this and more, adding some of the base functionality to Photos for iOS that you’ve been looking for.

Find out more about PhotoExtension:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/photoextensions/

Photo Extension: https://itunes.apple.com/us/developer/digiguys-inc/id888846748

Photo Extensions Pro Bundle: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app-bundle/photo-extensions-pro/id1092200082?mt=8

Photo Extensions 2 Bundle: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app-bundle/photo-extensions-2/id1059073740?mt=8

Platform:

This app was demoed on the iPhone 6+ and is available for iOS and iPad.

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Guest App Pick: Camera+

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TWiP Apps 08: It's Priime Time to Find Your Photo Style

Exposure correction. Highlight recovery. Color corrections. Color shifts. Vintage looks. Lifted blacks. Blown out whites. All capabilities found in any number of iOS apps today. But how do you settle on a true “look” that defines your photography? Professional photographers develop their own look through many years of editing thousands -- even tens of thousands -- of photos. A particular look may be comprised of dozens, if not hundreds, of individual adjustments and corrections. Today’s app, Priime, takes the combined knowledge and experience of dozens of professional photographers and assembles their looks into simple, one-tap styles that you can easily apply to your photos. Priime even analyzes your image and suggests styles that might fit your particular photo best. Designed by photographers FOR photographers, Priime is a deceivingly simple app that may very well change how you look at image editing on your iPhone… completely.

Find out more about Priime:

Website: http://priime.com

Instagram: http://instagram.com/priime

Twitter: http://twitter.com/priime

Facebook: http://facebook.com/priime

Platform:

Priime was demoed on an iPhone and is also available for iPad and OS X.

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Guest App Pick: AvgNiteCam

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TWiP Apps 07: Fripito-ing Around the World

Do you like to travel? Of course you do. Do you like to take pictures when you travel? Of course you do! Do you spend the time before you go to research the best locations for photos, what equipment you should or shouldn’t bring, plan how long it’ll take between locations to maximize your opportunities on the ground, and just ensure you won’t miss anything epic while there? Of course you… oh. No? I know… me neither. Research takes time! And there’s only so much googling you can do before you become inundated with options… and just give up. You say to yourself, “I’ll figure it out when I get there”. Then invariably, you find out once back home that you missed opportunities and locations, and brought gear you didn’t need or worse, left gear at home that you wish you hadn’t. The solution to all this — is Fripito. Fripito is a photographer’s guide to some of the world’s most photogenic locations. A powerful iOS and Android app that lets you not only enjoy beautiful images from around the world, but also to see exactly where they were taken, read a description of the scene, and even learn the camera settings. These collections aren’t random photos pulled from google or even just carefully curated photos from hundreds of photographers. No, each of Fripito’s cities are shot by a single photographer, selected among many candidates who can best represent the city of choice. And there’s more good news. You — can become one of those photographers. Fripito has a generous revenue share plan for a few talented photographers who can contribute new cities to their app. Maybe one of them… could be you!

Find out more about Fripito:

Website: http://fripito.com/

iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/cz/app/fripito/id838815010?mt=8

Facebook: @fripito https://www.facebook.com/fripito

Twitter: @fripito_news https://twitter.com/fripito_news

Instagram: @fripito https://www.instagram.com/fripito/

Get a 30 day free trial for Fripito using the code: GOLD_TWiPA  

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Fripito was demoed on an iPad Pro, and is also available on iOS and Android.

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Guest App Pick: Aperture

TWiP Apps 06: DxO OpticsPro 11; A PRIME Upgrade

In this episode of TWiP Apps, I welcome a very special guest and long time friend, Kirk Paulsen, from the company DxO. DxO is a name you’ve undoubtedly heard before; possibly as the DxO Mark score on a camera or lens you were researching, or on their new camera, the DxO ONE. Perhaps you own some of their software, such as DxO FilmPack or ViewPoint, or Optics Pro. And that last one is what we’ll be looking at today. DxO has just released a major update to DxO Optics Pro, now at version 11, and in today’s show we’ll get a close-up look at what’s new and improved in this release, as well as talk about workflow and integration between Optics Pro and Lightroom, or whichever digital asset manager you use.

Find out more about DxO OpticsPro 11:

Website: DxO.com

Twitter: @dxolabs

Instagram: @dxo

#DxOmade

Platform:

DxO OpticsPro was demoed on Mac OS, and is also available on Windows.

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Guest App Pick: Aperture

TWiP Apps 05: Polarr; Leaving Other Apps in the Cold

In this episode of TWiP Apps, Borui Wang from Polarr Inc joins me to discuss their incredible photo editing app; Polarr. Today we’ll be looking at it on an iPhone, but not only does the app scale all the way up to the iPad Pro, Polarr also has a sister app on Mac OS X with near feature parity. Between the extensive editing tools, beautiful effects library, and innovative way to share presets, you’ll soon see why Polarr is leaving other photo editing apps… in the cold.

Find out more about Polarr:

Website and products: https://www.polarr.co/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/polarrist

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/polarrian

Digital Magazine/Blog: https://medium.com/@pixelmagazine

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