iPhone Photo App Update: ToyCamera

Hot on the heels of QuadCamera comes an update to one of Takayuki Fukatsu popular apps, ToyCamera.

ToyCamera is now at version 2.01, and comes with a raft of new features.

 Existing features:

• 800x600 or 600x600 resolution
• Vintage Green effect.
• Vintage Warm effect.
• Vintage Yellow effect.
• Low Saturation
• High Saturation
• Toning Sepia
• Black & White
• HiCon Black&White
• Uploader to the BigCanvas Photoshare

New features:

• Rectangle mode is added
• Now you can choose both random and effect set.
• New effect, Vintage Yellow.
• New effect, Low Saturation.
• New effect, High Saturation.
• New effect, Toning Sepia.
• New effect, HiCon Black & White.
• upload error notification is added
• new product "SepiaCamera" is added to the info page.

To see samples of these new effects, then check out Takayuki Fukatsu blog.

Priced at £1.19 ($1.99), this app offers some very cool features, and if you live in the USA and would like to try out this app, then I have 10 promo codes to give away. As with my last set of promo codes, post your request in the comments section of this post (don't forget to enter your email address in the required field, and don't forget that the promo codes are not valid outside the USA).

New iPhone Photo App: QuadCamera

Hot on the heels of BullCam comes another rapid shoot application from Takayuki Fukatsu the developer of ToyCamera called QuadCamera. Priced at £1.19 ($1.99) QuadCamera, like BullCam replicates the continuous shooting mode found on most modern cameras, however unlike these cameras, the multi-shots produced by QuadCamera are saved as a single photo with each frame being 300x200 in size.

The main features of QuadCamera are:

• iPhone OS2.1 or later
• 300 x 200 for each item
• 0.25s - 3.00s shutter interval
• 2x2, 4x1, 4x2, 8x1 layout, portlait / landscape
• Color / Black & White mode

To see how this app works check out the video below, and the photo produced during the making of the demo video.

If you would like to try out this app, I have 3 promo codes to give away, so if you want one then post your request in the comments section of this post (don't forget to enter your email address in the required field, and that promo codes are not valid outside the US).

New iPhone Photo Apps

BullCam; A Bullet Camera - Price £0.59 ($.99)

Leave Your Dramatic Moments! BullCam will realize bullet time camera on your iPhone.

Take pictures
Simply press shutter bottom at the bottom left, and your camera take picture repeatedly.
To save the pictures, select "Save to Photo Library" The pictures are saved as one screen.

Change the number of pictures.
Drag "N" bar, and your iPhone screen is divided into 3 to 16 frames.
Press the menu icon at the bottom right and tap "Switch Shot Style".
Shape of frames are changed into wide/normal.

Intervals of shutters
Drag "T" bar. Intervals are changed between 100ms and 800ms.

Send picture to Twitter
Select "Send to Twitter" after taking pictures. Pictures are saved at "Photos" at the same time.
To setting up twitter account, select "Setting Twitter Account" from menu icon.

Instant Motivator Free - Price FREE

Instantly inspire your friends and colleagues with motivational pictures, right from your iPhone or iPod touch. Snap a photo or select a picture from your photo library and convert your plain phone photography into a motivational poster within seconds. Instant Motivator will also create demotivational placards with ease, perfect for speedy satirical statements.

Features:
- Choose from three different motivational motifs.
- Selectable fonts and colors.
- Zoom, pinch, and horizontal full-screen mode.
- Upside-down editing mode for fast sharing with friends.
- Export to your photo roll for later sharing, e-mailing, or printing*.

Usage:
1. Take a snapshot or select a photo from your photo library.
2. Change the heading and tagline, adjust the font and colors if needed. The background color may also be modified.
3. Select a style that suits the theme.
4. Export to your Saved Pictures collection.

* Note: printing requires an iPhone-compatible photo printing service, Instant Motivator does not come with a printer driver.

More Macworld news, Lensbaby and TiltShift

Well Macworld 2009 has come to an end, and it is the end of an era for Apple as well as they will be no longer showing at Macworld, and in fact Macworld as an event is now under question, which is a real shame.

Anyway, as promised at the start of Macworld I said I would post items that I thought would of of interest, sadly there has been very little to report, although an item that did catch my eye was Lensbaby. Not directly connected with iPhone photography, Lensbaby have released the Composer, their latest SLR/DSLR soft focus lens, which is demonstrated below by Cali Lewis from geekbrief.tv

Although Lensbaby is a physical lens for SLR/DSLR cameras, iPhoneographers can achieve similar looking results with TiltShift, the iPhone app from Michael Krause. This app priced at £1.19 ($1.99) allows you to soften the focus of part of your photo, leaving the selected area sharp and in focus, just like Lensbaby, as the photo below shows.

Whilst this app is probably not an every day use app, it does give the iPhoneographer the ability to achieve similar results to that of the Lensbaby at a fraction of the cost.

New iPhone Photo App: Photo Vault

Like iPrivateEye, Photo Vault priced at £1.19 ($1.99) is another app designed to keep you iPhone or iPod Touch photo's secure and private, however unlike iPrivateEye, Photo Vault allows you to create and manage your private photo's directly on your iPhone or iPod Touch itself, and does not rely on any external services or sources.

With Photo Vault you don’t have to worry about who uses your iPhone or iPod Touch, as you can always be sure your “private” photos stay private.

To use the application copy any picture or pictures from the regular photo library into Photo Vault's secure area, and thee delete from the regular photo library. Your Photo Vault pictures are now not accessible unless you enter the password that you set within the app. Photo Vault provides picture security by locking the image and hiding your photo's, thus giving you the photo protection and picture privacy you desire.

If you forget your Photo Vault password, to maintain security the password reset feature will erase all pictures from Photo Vault before enabling you to enter a new password, so don't forget you password, or your secure photo's will be lost.