16 May 2012 0 Comments

Create a Surreal and Dreamy Photo Manipulation in Photoshop – Tuts+ Premium Tutorial

In this Tuts+ Premium tutorial, author Marcela Bolivar will explain how create a surreal and dreamy photo manipulation using atmosphere, lighting, masks, textures, and custom brushes. This tutorial is available exclusively to Tuts+ Premium Members. If you are looking to take your photo manipulation skills to the next level then Log in or Join Now [...]

16 May 2012 0 Comments

Create a Surreal and Dreamy Photo Manipulation in Photoshop – Tuts+ Premium Tutorial

In this Tuts+ Premium tutorial, author Marcela Bolivar will explain how create a surreal and dreamy photo manipulation using atmosphere, lighting, masks, textures, and custom brushes. This tutorial is available exclusively to Tuts+ Premium Members. If you are looking to take your photo manipulation skills to the next level then Log in or Join Now [...]

14 May 2012 0 Comments

Catan: A Classic Strategy Board Game

The board game Catan, by Klaus Teuber, has been around almost 20 years now, and has gained worldwide popularity as an engaging strategic game of resource collecting and settlement building. USM, also the developer for the popular Keltis iOS game, brings us this implementation of Catan for the iPhone. In it you take on the [...]

14 May 2012 0 Comments

Thanks to Our Weekly Sponsor: MindNode

Our featured sponsor this week is MindNode, an amazing way to brainstorm big projects and organize your thoughts. Let’s say that you’ve got a report due for your history class about Charlemagne, and you need to figure out how to organize the article so it not only makes sense but also flows really well. One [...]

14 May 2012 0 Comments

The Font Wars: A Story On Rivalry Between Type Foundries

   I had thought terms like “intellectual property” and “intellectual theft” were of fairly recent provenance, so my eye was caught by the latter’s use in a headline of a 1930 edition of the US trade journal The American Printer. The article it headed proved to be equally intriguing, a response by the president of [...]

12 May 2012 0 Comments

Meet the Developer: Michael Schneider from HiveBrain Software

Bad days — we all have them and we all have different ways of dealing with them. It was a long night with very little sleep that resulted in me finding the Andrew Johnson relaxation apps in the App Store. Andrew Johnson is a relaxation coach, hypnotherapist, EFT therapist and reiki teacher. His wide range [...]

12 May 2012 0 Comments

Taming The Wild Mind

   Myths have developed around and researchers have studied how the human brain juggles creativity and organization. Popular theory tells us that the left brain is structured and logical, while the right brain is artistic and imaginative, and that all human beings use predominantly one side of the other. Working in a creative field means [...]

12 May 2012 0 Comments

The Photo Manipulations of Alla Mingalyova (AKA AllaD8)

In this article we will showcase the work of Ukrainian artist, Alla Mingalyova (AKA AllaD8). Mingalyova’s photo manipulations are fun, feminine, and beautiful. Let’s take a look! The Swan Princess I Need a Hero My Secret Friend Spirited Away 2 Waking Up Farewell Blonde Miss S. 2008

11 May 2012 0 Comments

Drafts: a Great Way to Capture and Share Ideas

Drafts from Agile Tortoise is one of the apps that, on first viewing, seems a little basic. There is no disguising the fact that it is a text editor, and not a particularly fully featured one either. Yet there is something about the app – I use it every day, several times a day. So [...]

11 May 2012 0 Comments

Thanks to the iPhone.AppStorm Sponsors

Everyone here at iPhone.AppStorm would like to send out a huge thanks to this month’s iPhone.AppStorm sponsors, for all of the great work that they do. If you would like to advertise on the site, you can purchase a space through BuySellAds. Volt — 3D Lightning Unleashed From Your Fingertips! — Volt creates vibrant and customizable lightning bolts to play [...]

11 May 2012 0 Comments

iPhone Game Friday: New Releases

Welcome back to Game Friday, everyone! For those of you who aren’t out scrambling for last minute Mother’s Day gift ideas, we’ve collected some of the App Store’s newest hits — and rising stars! Check them out after the jump…   LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7 Out on the iPhone at last, Harry Potter’s final [...]

11 May 2012 0 Comments

Interaction Design In The Cloud

   Interaction designers create wireframes in tools such as Adobe Illustrator, OmniGraffle and Microsoft Visio. Originally, these wireframes were primitive shapes drawn to represent various UI elements. Many of us cannot imagine life without them. There are, however, reasons to consider moving to the cloud to do interaction design. In short, today’s cloud-based tools are: [...]