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Entries in Mill Colour (3)

Saturday
Oct172009

Photo app updates

DateSaturday, October 17, 2009 at 2:15PM | AuthorGlyn Evans

Over the past week some of my most favourite photo apps, and those that have been featured on this blog received updates, but rather than create separate posts for each I have decided to rap the updates all in one post, so here goes.

First off the mark is Best Camera, which received the following minor update.

  • New option to Auto-save your original photo when shooting with the camera
  • Facebook sharing now uploads to the "Mobile Uploads" album

Then iFlashReady was updated to address bugs related to the stability of the app, but sadly this has not fixed the app crashes I've been experiencing.

Apps that we've covered, but not necessarily recommended have also been updated, and these include...

Camera Plus, which now boasts...

  • The innovative point zoom
  • The best quality Flash for free
  • One tap access to Camera Roll

...but sadly still does not support full resolution. Despite this app being free, the same effect could be achieved by cropping your photos at a later stage.

iStalin got an update, adding a whole host of new features and bug fixes, as well as having its price reduced to £0.59/$0.99

NEW FEATURES:

  • Share your pics on Facebook directly from iStalin

NEW ADDITIONS:

  • 5 new stickers

CHANGES:

  • Changed the background colors of several stickers in order to blend better on the pictures

BUG FIXES

  • performance improvement when selecting an image
  • fix picture rotation depending on the camera position
  • fixed 2 possible memory leaks
  • less memory consumption
  • use the same background picture for stickers and texts
  • fixed stickers and texts flickering while zooming
  • keep current scroll position of background picture after selecting a new text or sticker

Mill Colour, whilst not my favourite of apps got a much needed boost for iPhone 3GS users with...

  • Added support for the higher resolution camera in the iPhone 3GS, with image sizes up to 2048 x 1536
  • Increased the default resolution to 1280 x 960, up from the more conservative 1024 x 768. Changes can be made in the Application Preferences, in Settings

...and all for FREE!!

And finally

TiltShift Generator was updated, with the most requested feature...

  • Hi resolutaion image export.

...as well as some minor tweakes like:

  • Twitpic, yfrog supports.
  • Small UI improvement
  • Tutorial is addes.

So that was this weeks key updates for me, and I may even be tempted to buy iStalin at its current low price of just £0.59/$0.99

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Thursday
Jun252009

iPhone App Review: Mill Colour

DateThursday, June 25, 2009 at 10:00AM | AuthorGlyn Evans

Mill Colour is an app similar to CameraBag but with some extra punch, and here is my review.

Launch the app and after the splash screen you are presented with the main app screen. It is from here you will either select or take a photo to edit or apply pre-defined filters to.

If you select an image as I did for this review, then as will all apps, you select one from your photo album. Once you have selected your photo and it has loaded you now have two choices to make. First off you can just select "Looks" which will load the pre-defined filters or secondly you can select "Colour Controls" which offers you a whole lot of tweaking options.

First off lets take a look at....

Looks

Looks allows you to apply a series of pre-defined filter effects to your photo, and this is done by simply stroking your finger from right to left once your photo has been loaded.

The pre-defined Looks effects are:

  • Golden
  • Print
  • Cross-processed
  • Chocolate
  • Noir
  • Instant
  • 70's
  • Milky
  • Promo
  • Bleached

When you're happy with the result simply tap Done followed by Save, and then Yes when prompted to save to the photo library. Now the good thing about this about this app is that if having saved a photo you want to apply a different effect to the same photo, you can select "Edit Image" and go back to "Looks" or "Colour Controls" and keep tweaking and saving to your hearts content.

So that's "Looks" out of the way, now its time for....

Colour Controls

As before load a photo to edit, but this time select "Colour Controls" and here you will be pleasantly surprised to find that you can adjust just about everything you would want to adjust, from Gamma, Gain and Saturation to something called Lift (which is brightness control). Not only can you adjust these levels, but you can also adjust the individual R G B channels for each of these levels, and this is all done by sliding your finger left to right, or right to left across the adjustment dial.

Again as with "Looks" when you're happy with the result simply tap Done followed by Save, and then Yes when prompted to save to the photo library.

One last thing

I nearly missed the option to set the output size, which can be 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x960 or 1600x1200 pixels, and this is all found under Settings - Mill Colour - Size.

So what do I think of Mill Colour?

I'm not a lover of this app, as its pre-defined effects are in my opinion not as good as CameraBag's, and for me I rarely use channel adjustments in an iPhone app, but this app does come recommended, as any app with this degree of control and built in pre-defined filters all for FREE is hard to beat.

AppStore Link: Mill Colour - Price FREE

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Wednesday
Jun102009

New iPhone Photo App: Mill Colour

DateWednesday, June 10, 2009 at 11:45AM | AuthorGlyn Evans

Mill Colour allows you to alter any image with the precision and subtlety of professionals and has been specifically developed by our expert team of award-winning Colourists based on extensive experience in commercials, feature film and television.

Mill Colour emulates primary grading techniques used in a high-end digital suite; instead of applying and manipulating a filter to fit an image, our app allows you to adapt and refine the source image to achieve the look and feel you want.


AppStore Link: Mill Colour - Price FREE

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