Category Archives: Future Shop Tech Blog

The best thing about a birthday is the presents

Tweet I’ve writ­ten before about Silent Film Direc­tor for iOS — a cool movie shoot­ing and edit­ing app — and I’m  writ­ing again about it today is because today, for today only, it’s free (and you know how I’m all about the Free).

Unleash your inner Spielberg

Tweet I’m sure all of us have, at one point or another, dreamed of releas­ing that movie direc­tor deep inside, and mak­ing our own movie, com­plete with music and spe­cial effects. Well, if your dream is to make one that hear­kens back to the golden days of silent cin­ema, then I’ve got an inex­pen­sive app…

Fast and free Photoshop Express app gets an update

Tweet I’m a big fan of Adobe’s Pho­to­shop Express as an online ser­vice. Basi­cally it’s a free online image orga­nizer / stor­age box and a col­lec­tion of robust image edit­ing tools (Sim­i­lar to Flickr and Picasa). But where Adobe’s tried to dif­fer­en­ti­ate Pho­to­shop Express from the com­pe­ti­tion is by also releas­ing a free and powerful…

From Glass to Tablets — Tiffen Photo FX Ultra

Tweet One of the long-time play­ers in the glass photo fil­ter and acces­sory space is com­pany called Tiffen. And recently I learned that they were also in the iPad  image edit­ing space with Photo FX Ultra –a very pow­er­ful image edit­ing app that includes a sur­pris­ing num­ber of fil­ters and a few effects I’d not…

Learn how to make the light work for you

Tweet One thing about being into pho­tog­ra­phy; you quickly real­ize that there’s a lot to learn from other pho­tog­ra­phers. A sub­ject that’s always chal­lenged me has been the con­cept of mak­ing light work for me rather than forc­ing me to adapt to the demands of the light sources. Learn­ing from other pho­tog­ra­phers through their lighting…