http://www.awesomize.com/ (the new app website for greater
understanding)
A news story in Feb 29, Wall
Street Journal. A Photo App That Makes “Awesome” a Verb by Katherine Boehret
Katherine really applauds
this new effort, and the App is free. She
says it is light years ahead of existing iPhone camera app’s, in features and
benefits. It also has unique video
capability.
1. Video : starts 5 seconds
BEFORE you push “record” --- so if a child is doing something interesting, and
you are fumbling, it is recording for 5 seconds before you push “record” so you get the beginning of the smile, not
the middle or end, for example.
2. It offers other
adjustments found in Camera + but seems
to improve upon them, (and camera + is $2.00)
Examples in the story were pretty impressive.
3. A big problem for most of
us is, the iPhone camera takes a decent picture – but when it e-mails it or
uploads it to Facebook, it cuts the megapixels and quality for ease of
transmission. This app has some
solutions, read the whole story above.
4. It offers many other nice
features, you can set it to automatically upload a full sized photo to the “cloud”
not long after you take it, and or put that photo in a file-saving and sharing
website called “SmugMug” I had not heard
of this site, but I will check it out.
It offers $5 a month or $40 a year for unlimited storage of photos ,
full resolution type. http://www.smugmug.com/
5. If you order up a year’s
supply of SmugMug when you download the app – you get it for half price – that
might be well worth looking into … free storage is risky, as we all know – I
lost all my photos on free storage with Sony, they closed their photo site
with little or no notice and didn’t send us our photos back. Other such free sites could do likewise over
the coming years, because. when they are broke, they are broke, and operations
will cease – gone will be our photos.
6. Therefore, I cheerfully
pay Google a few dollars a year for “extra storage” of my photos, I want them
to have an incentive to keep the big-cloud-in-the-sky open for business. I use Picasa.
But will look into SmugMug very soon.
8. I will probably download
this new Awesome App to my I Pad and I Touch later today. IF YOU
TRY IT, let me know what you think.
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