Christmas day giveaway part 2 - AppliFX for iPhone

AppliFX (pronounced as "apply effects") is a simple photography app filled with very unique filters.

You can Mix the filters as much as you like, to create awesome pictures, then save them to your camera roll, or send direct to Facebook.

AppliFX sports 4 main categories of FX:

• PIXELS: Satur8, Sepia, Negaton, Old Fax, ColorPop, MonoMix, Flash, Bleach, Vintage, Lomo, Scanline, Poster.
• FILTERS: Refractor, 1/2Red, 1/2Orange, 1/2Violet, 1/2Blue, 1/2Grey, 1/2Brown, 1/2Pink, 1/2Green, 1/2Yellow, Fluoro, Fluoro-L, Cool, Warm, Mint.
• TEXTURES:Crumple, Canvas, Cracked, Deterior8, Leather, Scuff, Zinc, Wall
• BORDERS: Simple White, White Round, Black Simple, Black Round, Vignette, Wood, Grunge, Angel, FilmRoll, Evidence, 1920s, Stick Album, Sept'83, Stamp, Scrap.

AppliFX is available from the App Store, priced at £0.69/$0.99/€0.79, but below and to celebrate Christmas day, I have 5x promo codes to give away, on a first come first served basis.

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To redeem a promo code, go to the App Store (either on your iPhone of computer) and redeem the code as if it were an iTunes gift card.

Comments

[David de la O]

I hate these first come first served giveaways. Randomly selected is better.

[Glyn Evans]

Don't worry David, there will be a randomly select offer tomorrow ;)

[Skip Hunt]

Was too late to get any of these promos, and while much appreciated... I'm wondering if anyone else is kinda getting burned out on photo apps? I'm simply running out of room and have so many apps I've paid for and free ones, and free promos codes, etc. that it's not as much fun as it used to be.

I'm thinking of narrowing my apps down to just 2 or 3 and deleting all the rest.. at least off my phone. Which so many choices, it has sort of cut into my own creative factor.

I'm not explaining that clearly I'm sure, but when I had only a couple apps on my phone, I'd concentrate on subject matter, then mess around in a couple apps until I had something I liked. Now it's just so over the top with all the apps I've bought, installed free, promos, etc. that it's daunting now to bother with any of them.

To be honest, I'm actually shifting away from the iPhone for photography and back to my plain old point and shoot or dSLR to get back to focusing on the image more without all the appstraction distractions.

I do like editing and playing with various apps, but I'm sort of moving toward getting all this stuff off my phone/cam, just get a nicely composed shot without messing with any apps at all, then transfer to my iPad to play with apps later.

Anyone else feeling that way yet?

[John V. Keogh]

Yes, I've installed about thirty camera apps and put them in folders. When I shall try them out I do not know.

[Digital Artist]

The iPhotography stuff is great when you do NOT have the DSLR with you.

As far as images go my Canon DSLR image quality simply is no match for a iPhone and really been using that as I have always for Digital Photography.

Photoshop, Capture One, DXO and DSLR Digital Photography is the direction here.

Second uses is the iPhone, for what it does it does it well and complemented by all the great apps in the marketplace.

[Skip Hunt]

If you haven't tried it yet, try transferring either your dSLR or high-end compact images to either your iPhone or your iPad to edit using apps. None of them compare to the control of editing on a desktop with Photoshop CS5 of course, but it's a whole different experience. And using images with more meat than an iPhone camera image in some of these apps that support hi-res output has really put some fun back into the editing process. At least for me. :)

[Nox Dineen]

Skip, I feel the same way. Ive got most of my apps hidden away in folders on the final screen of my phone, where they languish unused.

[Miege]

The fault lies not with the moon, but within ourselves.

[Rajkumar]

@skiphunt I completely agree with you!
i too am overwhelmed with the no of apps on my phone and use too much time trying out apps than producing good images!
i have tonnes of CRA's (camera replacement apps), another ton or 2 of of all the various fx & filter apps..... and most of them i have used once or twice and have not launched since then!

what i am planning now is to spend just one weekend (just ONE) and take one or two dslr images and iphone images similiar in technical qualities and tryout the apps. and then whittle down to top two to three best in class apps.

from that point on i am planning to concentrate more on subject, presentation & B&W (My main passion).

will probably start a forum post as a status tracker and user input and interaction hub for this purpose,

i guess there are more people like us who feel the same way!

[Mary Sherman]

Great posts regarding iPhone vs dslr's and all those apps out there. @skiphunt great suggestion taking taking images from dslr and uploading into the iPhone for processing. Thanks to the icloud this process is so simplified. I plan on doing a big project with old family images; simply scanning, uploading through iCloud then experimenting with apps on my iPhone. I have about 30 apps and I'm finding there are maybe a half dozen "tried and true". In the end, how wonderful there are so many options for creating art in it's many incarnations!

[Skip Hunt]

@Nox.. problem is, it's really hard to decide which to delete. Some are really good, but devs don't update much. Some do something simple, but do it very well.

@Rajkumar... I'm thinking I'll narrow it down to maybe one row of 4 as my main apps. Then I will allow one folder for misc grabbag apps for when I want to play around trying to make an image that's week, more acceptable. I normally try to concentrate on getting images that stand on their own without app help, but sometimes I miss. ;) I find that it's a good creative exercise to take a couple of bad images and try to combine them in ways to make something that's actually decent out of garbage.

@Mary... it's a lot of fun editing hi-res dSLR images on iPhone/iPad. For me, editing in PS, etc. is more like work, and editing in apps is more like play. :) When you get apps you need to make sure that the app supports hi-res/original resolution. Many of them are not clear about this in their descriptions. Some of them out there support fairly hi-resolution like FilterStorm, Iris Photo Suite, and Photoforge2. There are others that do as well. But many of them will load your hi-res image, but reduce the image size on save/export.

[Mary Sherman]

@Skip I agree about PS being "work". As of late, I use it to re-size iPhone images that I post on a website I post for every 3 weeks. Iris is one of my most used apps especially for blending images seamlessly!
Thanks for the feedback!