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Diptic is the iTunes App Store Free App of the Week

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Diptic

Diptic Sample from iPhone 4S

Diptic is currently available for FREE as the App Store “App of the Week.”

Diptic is an app designed to quickly and easily combine multiple photos to create a new image collage. It offers over 52 frames to choose from and the user is able to tweak brightness, contrast and saturation, adjust border color, width and curvature.

The new features added include 14 free filters to customize images, iPad 3 Retina Display and higher resolution export of the image collage created. Once created, the image can be saved to your device or shared with friends and family via email, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Tumblr or Posterous. Diptic will return to its normal price of $.99 once the promotion ends on July 19.

You can find Diptic here on the iTunes App Store.

Tiffen Photo FX and Photo Fx Ultra 5.0

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Tiffen Photo FX Ultra

Tiffen’s Photo FX 5.0 and Photo FX Ultra 5.0 are now available via the iTunes App Store for the iPhone and iPad.

New features in version 5.0 include the following:

Share with the World: Photo fx and Photo fx Ultra now provide a number of ways to share enhanced or retouched images. Choose from Facebook, Flickr, Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr, the Sincerely Ship & Print service as well as Email, Print, Copy, and Open In.

Bring Your Favorite Photo fx Looks into Tiffen Dfx v3: Users can save their favorite Photo fx looks into presets and import into Tiffen Dfx 3. This amazing interoperability allows users to create a “look” anywhere and bring it into Tiffen’s world-class image editing suite for use in professional production.

Get the Look You Want Faster: The latest update to Photo fx and Photo fx Ultra provides faster processing for even quicker results.

Better Resolution Quality: Icons, sliders, and text take advantage of the latest iPad Retina display, resulting in much higher resolution controls than before. This is available in the Tiffen Photo fx Ultra version only.

 Tiffen Photo fx 5.0 and Tiffen Photo fx Ultra 5.0 apps are available today for $2.99 and $4.99, respectively

Facebook Launches Its Own Camera App

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Faceboook Camera

A wee bit over a month since Facebook announced its plans to acquire Instagram for a cool billion, Facebook has launched its own camera app for the iPhone.  The new camera is aptly called Facebook Camera.

On the plus side, it seems rather quick and offers access to Facebook photo feeds if you are interested in only checking out the latest images from your friends.  It also includes a set of filters that will remind you of Instagram filter effects.   [Read more…]