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The Art of iPhone Photography Bob Weil and Nicki Fitz-Gerald Appendix: Apps Used in The Book The application descriptions below were edited from manufacturer listings in iTunes, and they represent a summary of each app's capabilities. For a more complete information, please visit each app listing in iTunes (just click on the icons!), or visit the manufacturer's website. The numbers in parentheses refer to chapter numbers. Apps mentioned in this book reflect features and interfaces that were current at the time the tutorials were written. The interfaces and functionality as depicted here may have changed since this book went to press. Please consult developer specifications and functionality before purchasing the most current versions of these apps. 6x6 Take square photographs like the old 6cm (2¼-inch) square medium format with 120, 220, and 620 roll film. • 1:1 image ratio • Optional real-time preview • EXIF support – including geo-tagging • Manual focus and exposure control • Framing grids and split image view • Fixed focal length lens • Saves straight to the camera roll • Manual flash control • Color or B&W • Share images via email, Facebook, etc. (Tutorials 23, 39) Alien Sky Create fantastic and futuristic visions: customize your sky with an amazing collection of high-res space objects. Also includes a set of futuristic lens flares. • Space objects (e.g., planets, moons, galaxies) • Bright suns and distant stars • Futuristic lens flares • Lens filters (Tutorial 39) AntiCrop Extend one or more edges of an image (increase the canvas size) by duplicating edge pixels. • Uncrop photos in any direction • Lossless straighten technique • Optimized for multi-core processors (Tutorials 27, 34) ArtRage Paint without the mess and expense with the tools of a real art studio. • Tools: Oil Brush, Watercolor, Airbrush, Palette Knife, Paint Roller, Paint Tube, Inking Pen, Pencil, Marker Pen, Chalk, Crayon, Eraser, Flood Fill. • Layers: Unlimited layers, Photoshop standard blend modes, visibility and opacity controls. Scale, rotate, and position layer contents independently. (Tutorials 27,29) ArtStudio A comprehensive sketching, painting, and photo-editing tool. • Flexible canvas sizes: 3264x2448(iPhone 5), 2592×1936 (iPhone 4s, iPhone 4), 2048×1536 (iPhone 3gs) • 16 tools: select, pencil, wet paintbrush, dry paintbrush, spray, dots, eraser, smudge, bucket fill, gradient, text, clone, heal, blur/sharpen, dodge/burn, eyedropper • 450 brushes (150 free, 300 paid) divided into 30 groups • Custom brushes, max size: 500x500px • 40 filters: gaussian/motion/radial blur, sharpen, unsharp mask, add noise, render clouds, edge detect, border/vignette, etc. • Select tool: rect/ellipse/lasso/magic wand/by color, add/sub/intersect, contract/expand/round corners/border/... • Text tool: over 150 system fonts, support of external TTF, text layer to edit text • Supports bluetooth styluses • Layer maskes: layer/selection transformations, 21 layer blending modes • Import from Photos, camera, iTunes, clipboard • Export as JPG/PNG/PSD to Photos, email, clipboard, iTunes • Multi-touch navigation with unlimited zoom • Undo/redo with almost infinite number of steps • Image resize (none, bilinear, bicubic, lanczos interpolations) • Elastify filter used to make incredible distortions • Adjustments: brightness/contrast/exposure, hue/saturation/lightness, color balance, temperature, shadows/highlights, Curves, auto contrast/colors/white balance, etc. (Tutorials 23, 25, 27) Autopainter HD Turn photos into authentic looking paintings with four realistic impressionistic styles: • Aquarelle: Running colors, water removal, dry scratches. Works on flowers, landscapes, buildings, or people • Benson: Inspired by work of Frank Benson (1862–1951) with a sunny palette with Mediterranean tones. Enhances light and color harmony • Cezanne: Inspired by late work of Paul Cezanne (1839–1906). Get the look of painting on art paper, with brush strokes, warm yellows, and chalk details. Works best flowers and still lifes • Van Gogh: Inspired by Van Gogh’s Starry Night. Immitates his swirls, bended reality, and blue tones with orange details. Works great on night photography and landscape (Tutorials 37) AutoStitch Panorama Take panoramas of up to 18 megapixels with no visible seams. • Snap overlapping images and tap to stitch • High quality and resolution (up to 18 megapixels) • Stitch 2 to 40, or more images, in any arrangement • Stitch photos taken with any camera app • Automatic or manual cropping • Share via email, Facebook, or Twitter (Tutorials 10, 27, 35) Big Lens Bring DSLR-level depth-of-field control to your iDevice. • Smart Focus: Use your fingers to focus without any previous knowledge in Depth-of-Field. Use geometric shapes or lasso tool to auto-focus your target, or use advanced mode to manually define your focus area. It will then automatically refine your selection. • Aperture Control: Adjust the aperture with a single gesture to change the blur level of the out-of- focus area. Offers 9 lenses that allow out-of-focus light points to blur into shapes like hearts and stars (Bokeh effect). • Filter Effects: 18+ filters to enhance color, increase contrast, or add Lomo effects. • Instant Focus/Blur: Modify focus and blur areas with your fingers. Use simple gestures to enhance and retouch focal areas. • Before & After Preview: Compare before and after images. Review your images at any time during your process. (Tutorial 26) BlendCam Superimpose pictures by taking a picture with the app or use pictures from your photo album. Six methods include: • Balance: Superimposes 2 pictures with half brightness • Thin: Cuts the brightness of the upper layer image in half when superimposing • Original brightness: Superimposes pictures without changing the brightness • Black and white: Converts the upper layer image to black and white when superimposing • Sepia: Converts the upper layer image to sepia color when superimposing • Darkness priority: Superimposes the darkness while above five options superimpose brightness • Creates a picture as if you cropped the dark part from the picture (Tutorials 37) BlurFX provides a variety of great selective blur effects. • Variety of the blur effects (Gaussian blur, Median blur, Noral blur) • Zoom with two fingers to change scale and move photo. • Photo filter. • Color filter (Hue, Saturation, Lightness, and Colorize) • Supports all resolutions (from 480x480 to 1800x1800 to Full RES) • Saves multiple sessions. • Upload to Facebook, Flickr, Twitter (Tutorial 24) Bracket Mode Exposure bracketing, otherwise known as HDRI (high dynamic range imaging). Capture your under/over exposed pictures and merge them later using your HDR app or desktop application. Features real time image analysis. Bracket Mode designed so you can quickly catch unique moments. • Automatic mode with real time image analysis • Manual mode with exposure points selection • Rapid mode switching • Fast saving with Auto-Save option • Instant result preview • Volume Shutter • Self-Timer (Tutorial 10) Brushes A universal painting app that runs on your iPhone or iPad. Move paintings between devices and keep working wherever you go. • Create paintings with szied to 2048x2048 • Support for all Retina devices • Background autosave • Unlimited undo/redo • Full screen painting • Record and replay paintings • OpenGL-based painting engine • Brush sizes to 512x512 pixels • Simulated pressure 64-bit painting on the latest hardware • 14 brush shapes • Adjustable brush settings (spacing, jitter, scatter, etc.) • Adjustable color opacity • Invert color and desaturate • Flip and arbitrarily transform layers • Adjustable color balance (iPad only) • Adjustable hue, saturation, and brightness (iPad only) With Layers In-App Purchase: • Create up to 10 layers • Lock and hide layers • Lock layer transparency • Adjust layer opacity • Duplicate, rearrange, and merge layers • Change blending modes: normal, multiply, screen, exclude (Tutorial 1) Camera Awesome Shoot fast, sharp, better-exposed images. • 1-Tap and 0-Tap Sharing to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, SmugMug, Picasa, Photobucket and Flickr • 1-Tap Awesomize: Touch just once for perfect pictures • Professionally designed special effects from renowned photographer Kevin Kubota (Tutorials 1,14) Camera+ Camera replacement app, also includes filter effects and basic editing tools. • Touch Exposure & Focus: Set exposure separately from focus. Control how light or dark your shots come out. • Shooting Modes: Stabilizer to steady your iPhone and get sharp photos. Timer for taking high- quailty self-portraits. Use Burst for rapid streams of shots to caption action. • Digital Zoom: Up to 6× zoom with advanced digital processing. • Front Flash: Take a pic of yourself in a dark room. • Horizon Level: Eliminate taking crooked shots. • Clarity: Analyzes your photos and makes several intelligent adjustments that bring out details and add life to dull photos. • Scene Modes: Get the best photos for your particular situation. Includes Food, Sunset, Night, Portrait, Beach, and many more. • Effects: Photographer Lisa Bettany created a beautiful effects such as HDR, Grunge, and So Emo. There are dozens of 1-touch effects to experiment with. (Tutorials 1, 2, 4, 5, 9. 11, 27, 30, 33, 37, 40) Cameramatic A toy-camera application for iPhone and iPod touch. Take strange and beautiful photos by using filters and frames included in this app. • 51 built-in filters, or create your own custom filters • 41 frames • Light leak effects (31 patterns) • Resolutions: 650x650, 800x800,