Video Camera App

 

i4software, a leading iPhone and iPad app developer, was awarded Best of Show at Macworld 2012, where it introduced its latest app, Video Camera, to rave reviews.

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) February 03, 2012

Thousands watched the stage presentation of the Video Camera app launch at Macworld 2012. Crowds of all ages downloaded the app and instantly began using it, while thousands more purchased it around the world as word quickly spread. Crowds stood in amazement over this all-in-one revolutionary mobile app.

Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad with iOS 4.2 or later, Video Camera allows users to shoot, preview, and edit from the live camera view. The intuitive interface design and unique features make the process simple enough for a beginner, yet powerful enough for a professional!

The patent-pending Live Non-Linear Editing (LiNE™) interface is what makes Video Camera one-of-a-kind. Users can preview and trim clips, and rearrange sequences all while never missing a beat of the action. Adding a Hollywood-style studio intro, titles and rolling credits, as well as background music, are quick and easy—and sharing the finished product via social networks and email is as simple as tapping the screen.

Triple tapping the screen gives more experienced users the ability to control exposure, focus and white balance. Video Camera also features full auto or manual zoom control, just one of many features not available on the native camera.

Perhaps the most impressive feature of Video Camera that left jaws dropping are the unbelievable built-in networking capabilities offering a new concept in movie-making as a social experience. The Remote Camera function allows live recording of up to eight iOS devices over a common WiFi network, each contributing shots from different angles or locations simultaneously. Yes, “simultaneously!” Video Camera allows groups of people to share the video recording experience together in real-time.

Video Camera syncs recorded clips from remote “Player” devices to the “Stage” device, for viewing, switching camera angles, recording and editing with all the features of a video studio on-the-fly.

When done, instantly upload movies to Facebook, YouTube, Vimeo, CNN, or email it—all from within the Video Camera app. This “Best of Show” recipient has truly reinvented the video camera.

As if that wasn’t enough to impress, i4software will soon provide its customers the ability to tap into 3G networks via a secure server to deliver simultaneous shooting worldwide. Yes, “worldwide!”

Now available on the App Store for only $7.99. Visit i4videocamera.com to see what the excitement is all about.

About i4software

i4software concentrates on the development of simple, yet powerful and creative applications. Their most successful app, Flashlight, has over one million paid downloads, and over ten thousand five-star reviews. The international i4software development team members have solid backgrounds in developing successful apps and games that are distributed worldwide.

Video Camera name, design and related marks are trademarks of ESS, International Corp, Inc. © 2012. All rights reserved. iPad, iPhone, iPod touch and iTunes are trademarks of Apple, Inc.

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Peak Systems, a full service web and mobile development firm, announced that it has released an update of Diptic. A top ten paid photography app on the iTunes Store, Diptic lets users combine multiple photos to create a collage.

Responding to customer requests, the new version has a single-frame and five-frame layouts, which more than double the amount of standard layouts (from 21 to 52). In addition to more layouts, the new version has unique features that no other photo-collaging app has: Random Photo Selection and Random Layout Selection. Designed with the indecisive user in mind, Random Layout Selection randomly picks one of the 52 available layouts. Similarly, Random Photo Selection randomly pulls photos from the user’s camera roll to create the Diptic.

“Random Layout and Photo Selection are really fun, unique features that we think our users will enjoy,” said Rob Reinhardt, Peak Systems’ director of mobile apps. “Random Photo Selection is an entertaining tool because you never know what pictures it will use to create the collage. It’s a great way to look at old photos, reminisce, and create some funny photo collages.”

More information about the update is available on the Diptic blog: dipticapp.posterous.com

This update is available as a free download to all iOS Diptic owners. Diptic is available in the U.S. for $.99 and is priced accordingly in other regions. Diptic is compatible with iPhone, iPad and IPod Touch, and it is available worldwide from the iTunes Store or at http://www.dipticapp.com.

Established in 2000 and headquartered in Seattle, Peak Systems is a full service firm that builds custom web-based solutions, with specialties in mobile applications, web design and enterprise application development. Peak Systems’ mobile applications have been featured by Apple’s App Store, Macworld, Tuaw, and other thought leaders in the industry.

“I do some specific things, and I was never able to find filters that did exactly what I wanted,” said Mr. Morgan, who lives near Buffalo, Iowa. He says he sometimes finds himself emulating Gustav Klimt, the Viennese artist.

“He did portraits, but they were full of little busy patterns,” Mr. Morgan said. “It’s a way to distort the photograph and give it an impressionist kind of look.”

Filters that let people fiddle with the photos have transformed hobbyist photography from happy accidents with a point-and-shoot camera into sophisticated art projects. The ready-made filter apps found in app stores like Instagram, Hipstamatic and CameraBag provide thousands of ways to tweak the colors, rearrange the background or add new textures.

More ambitious photographers are starting to make and share filters they created themselves using tools meant to simplify the often arcane mechanisms for modifying the pixels in an image. Some work as smartphone apps; others require the greater power and more elaborate user interfaces that are available only on desktops.

 Transforming Photographs With Filters

Mr. Morgan, for instance, has done much of his recent work with a software tool called Filter Forge, which works with Adobe Photoshop, though it can be used alone. (Various versions of the software cost $149, $249 and $399 at FilterForge.com.) An artist arranges a set of basic instructions in a sequence. Some enhance the colors to give them a garish luster, while others wash out the tinting until they’re just black and white with a hint of color. There are hundreds of options and the filter creator can combine them again and again. Once a filter is created, others can download it at no cost….

Read more:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/02/technology/personaltech/with-filters-photos-take-on-multiple-identities.html?_r=1&ref=technology

New York, NY (PRWEB) February 02, 2012

Nevercenter today released CameraBag 2 for Mac and PC, a desktop photo app with a whole new approach to photos. Redesigned from the ground up, CameraBag 2′s new Analog Engine pairs a full suite of photographic tools with the high quality filters and vintage simulations the series is already known for. Its key innovation is a stunningly straightforward approach to layering, rearranging, and endlessly tweaking all of these effects in realtime. The 100+ fully-adjustable filters and 25+ professional controls CameraBag 2 ships with are only the beginning, forming the palette from which users create their own styles. (Watch CameraBag in action: http://www.nevercenter.com/cb2trailer)

“The most common feedback we got from previous versions was that the user wanted greater control, without sacrificing CameraBag’s straightforward, accessible nature,” said Tom Plewe, Nevercenter’s president. “We came up with a simple tile-based system which presents all the additional control from the new Analog Engine in a quick, intuitive way. Then we added full-screen Quicklooks and instant previews to emphasize a visual decision-making process. Instead of starting from scratch with a photo, you can compare a lot of great options, choose the very best one, and then start tweaking. And you never have to do the same work twice; once you create a new look or workflow, you just add it to the menu for next time.”

Key Features

• Choose from 100+ built-in styles and filters, or create and share your own.
• Full suite of 25+ manual photographic tools including advanced curve editors.
• Stunning new interface.
• State-of-the-art image processing via the all-new Analog Engine.
• Add any look you create to the toolset as a fully-adjustable filter.
• 32-bits-per-component color depth.
• Non-destructive editing (active history).
• Easy layering of styles and adjustments.
• Quicklooks and hover previews for visual decision-making.
• The Remix slider, which smoothly transitions between endless variations.
• Large, precise controls.
• Laptop-friendly design.
• Batch saving.
• RAW format and metadata support.

Freedom to Play
With CameraBag 2, you don’t have to know what look you want to get started. CameraBag 2 lets you see all the possibilities at once: old-school instant film or modern high-contrast portrait, subtle color adjustment or complete artistic overhaul. Choose from side-by-side comparisons with the fullscreen Quicklooks, or get large, instant previews on mouseover; the emphasis is on creative exploration. Once you’ve chosen a filter, its components are all in the tray to tweak and adjust non-destructively with large, interactive sliders. The Remix slider in particular brings back the “happy accidents” of analog film, smoothly transitioning between infinite natural variations for each style.

Advanced Control
The new CameraBag features a full suite of photographic tools, from simple exposure and cropping to advanced vignetting, color correction, and curves. The built-in styles also now have full control over their strength and variation. Since every adjustment appears as a tile in the tray, it’s easy to see everything affecting the image at once, and rearrange tiles or edit amounts without compromising image quality. Adjustments and styles can be freely layered to create new looks, which can be saved right into the interface as new filters. Whenever a filter is loaded, the user once again has full control over all of its tiles.

The Analog Engine
At CameraBag 2’s core is the brand new Analog Engine: high-fidelity, 32 bits-per-channel, non-destructive, multi-threaded image processing. In other words, it’s fast and smooth. CameraBag 2 matches the power of high-priced software, yet it’s light on its feet and starts up instantly. Its old-school looks are particularly high tech: recreating the natural blemishes and random variations of the analog world is one of the hardest digital challenges, and that’s where we’ve devoted much of our research. Even the most heavily-modified photos retain smooth, film-like colors (especially with the extra color information in RAW files).

Price and Availability
CameraBag 2 is available now for Mac and PC. A single cross-platform license is available at http://www.nevercenter.com for $29 (launch sale price: $24), and a Mac-only version is available via the Mac App Store for $24 (launch sale price: $19). A free, fully-functional 30-day demo is included in the download from http://www.nevercenter.com, where more info, tutorials, and videos can also be found.

Links
Website: http://www.nevercenter.com/camerabag
YouTube: http://www.nevercenter.com/camerabagyoutube
Twitter: @camerabag
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/camerabag.nevercenter
Press Contact: marketing@nevercenter.com
Press Page: http://www.nevercenter.com/press/cb2release

The History of CameraBag
CameraBag was initially released as an iPhone app, climbing as high as #2 across all paid apps. The first version for Mac and PC – CameraBag Desktop – soon followed, proving that the concept scaled beautifully to high res photos. CameraBag 2 for Mac and PC is a gigantic step forward from both CameraBag iPhone and CameraBag Desktop on every front. It has been rebuilt from the ground up specifically for desktop computers, now including a full suite of photo tools, a whole new interface for finding and creating filters, nearly 10 times as many built-in looks, and a rewritten engine under the hood, all while maintaining the intuitiveness and approachable feel of the original app.

With BatchPhoto by Bits&Coffee, the users can automate their photo editing workflow with a consistent process by creating hot folders with associated custom scripts that will only be applied to the newly added images.

Craiova, Romania (PRWEB) February 01, 2012

Bits&Coffee has released BatchPhoto v. 3.1, a powerful all-in-one photo manipulation program for Windows that lets photographers, web designers, business people, and families enhance photos quickly and efficiently. Simply select a group of photographs, and with a single operation annotate, touch-up, apply special effects, convert to different image types, resize, and rename every image in the group.

With BatchPhoto Enterprise the users can automate their photo editing workflow with a consistent process by creating hot folders with associated custom scripts that will only be applied to the newly added images. The Monitor is the new component of BatchPhoto Enterprise, responsible for monitoring an unlimited number of folders on the user’s computer, network or sites (through FTP), and for each monitored folder apply a custom set of edits whenever images are added or modified.

For example, with BatchPhoto Enterprise the user can transfer a few hundred RAW images from a DSLR digital camera to a hot folder and in a few minutes have all the images automatically resized, rotated, watermarked with a logo, renamed, converted to TIFF and uploaded to a FTP account. All of this without the user’s intervention.

New features in version 3.1 include the Enterprise edition with the new Monitor component, detailed logs with the processed images, new & improved predefined profiles, support for undo & redo in the user interface, a new Polaroid graphical filter, translation to Japanese, and some additional improvements and fixes.

Digital photographers who need to be able to enhance a collection of images with a single operation, real estate or construction professionals who need to process a steady flow of images efficiently, or insurance companies or law firms employees who need to annotate and watermark images for clients, can find BatchPhoto as the right tool for the job. There’s even a Home version of BatchPhoto for the amateur photographer who wants to touch up and enhance images more efficiently.

BatchPhoto v. 3.1 runs under Windows 7/Vista/XP. It comes in three editions: Home, Pro, and Enterprise priced at $34.95(US), $59.95(US), respectively $149.95(US) and may be purchased securely online from http://www.batchphoto.com/. A free trial version can be downloaded from the same web address.

Since 2005, Bits&Coffee has been developing and marketing image enhancement productivity software for business and home users. In addition to BatchPhoto, the company also offers Image Espresso, a free online image converter and editor that makes it easy to convert, resize, crop, rotate, touch up, and apply effects to images.

DENVER–(BUSINESS WIRE)–When is a camera more than a photographer’s tool? The answer is when it’s an object designed by Marc Newson, one of the most acclaimed and influential contemporary designers.

PENTAX RICOH IMAGING AMERICAS CORPORATION introduces the Marc Newson designed PENTAX K-01* interchangeable lens camera (ILC). The new PENTAX K-01 is another bold effort from the manufacturer that is known for pushing camera size, color, durability, and now, design, to the limit. Widely known for designing a wide range of objects from furniture and household products to bicycles, cars, aircraft and yachts, Marc Newson has had collected works displayed in The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City and many other major museums.

*pronounced ‘kay- zero-one’

The contemporary, timeless K-01 houses a full array of advanced functions and user-friendly features in a camera body with remarkable form and function. The elimination of an optical viewfinder and quick-return mirror gave Newson more freedom in designing the camera body, and the K-01 showcases Newson originality in every detail. Available in black, white and Newson’s signature yellow colors, the K-01 features the designer’s autograph logo stamp on the bottom of each camera.

The famed designer’s touch also is evident in a new smc PENTAX-DA 40mm F2.8 XS interchangeable lens. As the world’s thinnest interchangeable lens,* the new 40mm combines with the PENTAX K-01 camera body to deliver a unique ILC system that is perfect for photographers who are as keen on design as they are on performance. Together, the K-01 and 40mm lens system mark the intersection where high technology and high design meet.

Key features of the PENTAX K-01 include:

• Durable machined aluminum frame under a stylish black, white, or yellow exterior.
• PENTAX mirrorless body design is compatible with 25+ million PENTAX K-mount lenses spanning decades.
• Large 16 megapixel APS-C sized CMOS image sensor with low noise image capture and multiple aspect ratios.
• Bright, high-resolution 3-inch LCD with 920,000 dots.
• Full HD 1080p video capture at 30 FPS with h.264 compression (60 FPS at 720p) features outstanding video capture flexibility.
• Sensor-shift PENTAX Shake and Dust Reduction system is compatible with every mounted PENTAX lens.
• Fast 6 FPS burst mode is ideal for fast-action photography.
• Flexible ISO range of 100-25600 ensures gorgeous noise-free imaging in any lighting condition.
• Focus peaking mode provides fast and accurate manual focusing for critical focus applications.

* The world’s thinnest interchangeable lens for lens-interchangeable cameras, as of February 1, 2012 (based on PENTAX’s research).

The K-01 will be available in yellow, black and white in March 2012 for $749.95USD (body only) and $899.95USD (lens kit including new DA 40mm XS) in Marc Newson designed packaging and with the Marc Newson designed strap. The smc PENTAX-DA 40mm F2.8 XS unifocal interchangeable standard lens will ship at the same time for $249.95 USD.

Additional information is available here: www.pentaximaging.com/news and a video interview with Mark Newson regarding the K-01design may be viewed here: www.youtube.com/pentaxian1. Images of other Marc Newson creations are available here.

PENTAX is a leader in the production of a variety of adventure ready digital cameras including weather-resistant digital SLRs and stylish, compact, waterproof cameras, as well as lenses, flash units, binoculars, scopes, and eyepieces. For more than 90 years, PENTAX has developed durable, reliable products that meet the needs of adventurous consumers and businesses. With new headquarters in Denver, Colorado, PENTAX RICOH IMAGING AMERICAS CORPORATION is a subsidiary of PENTAX RICOH IMAGING COMPANY, LTD. effective October 1, 2011. Additional details may be found here: www.pentaximaging.com/news.

At the core of every non-profit there’s always a person with a vision and a goal. For Cameras for Kids Foundation (CFKF) it’s fine art photographer, Betsey Chesler. Funding events and programs often out of her own pocket, Cameras for Kids was founded with a goal to use photography to help abandon kids rebuild their self-esteem.

Known almost exclusively within the photographic community, CFKF is about to enter the big league of non-profit organizations thanks to a special contest by Cars.com. CFKF has been selected to participate in the Cars Cares corporate giving initiative. Cars Cares has selected seven charities to participate, each chosen because they instill confidence in children and young adults. Participation means CFKF has a chance to receive up to $100,000.

To receive the grand prize, they need to gather more votes than the other participating charities. They need everyone’s vote once a day until February 13. All it takes is a click right now and your vote. All it takes is a click right here to vote.

“It’s such an honor to be included in an event like this,” commented Chesler. “A $100,000 donation would have a major impact on so many underprivileged children living in foster facilities across the United States and would give us a chance to dramatically expand our reach into the community!”

Cars.com has added one more opportunity for you to help. If you’re watching the Super Bowl on February 5, use the free mobile app Shazam to tag the Cars.com TV commercial. Each tag puts $1.00 towards whichever charity receives the most votes on Facebook.

“I’m so excited for Betsey and the opportunity to raise awareness for CFKF,” commented board member and photo industry executive, Skip Cohen. “I’m the newest member of the board and I’ve been so impressed with what Betsey and the crew has been able to accomplish so far. It’s incredible what they could do with stronger financial support.”

Camera for Kids Foundation needs your help. Vote now and once a day until the 13th. Share and help spread the word. Then, Shazam on SuperBowl Sunday.

Here’s the link to vote and share:

https://www.facebook.com/#!/CarsDotCom?sk=app_297817783599257

For more information about Cameras for Kids Foundation contact Betsey Chesler at betseychesler(at)mac(dot)com or Skip Cohen at skip(at)mei500(dot)com.