12 iPhone Photography Tips to Improve Your Photos

We see lots of articles that describe techniques for improving your iPhone photography. This blog post from Teddy Castelnau, professional photographer in Barcelona and owner @ Paper Prod www.paper-prod.com, includes some simple tips we haven’t seen before.

Give them a try and see your photos come out better!

Photo credit: Paper Prod

Introducing Timebox Photo Circus 3D

Timebox Photo Galleries is now Timebox Photo Circus 3D!

Timebox Photo Circus is a new kind of place where you can create crazy, collaborative 3D/AR scenes that tell your stories with slideshows and 3D models. It has all the great features of Timebox Photo Galleries plus new animation capabilities.

Animations

Animate 3D models including bald eagles, ghosts, dogs, cats and customizable emoji flags (add your country flag emoji or any other emoji). Create customizable animation sequences for your models by tapping on simple timed steps that include:

• Go Forward, Go Backward

• Circle Right, Circle Left

• Go Up, Go Down

• Fly Up, Fly Down

• Turn Right, Turn Left

• Fade In, Fade Out

• Rotate, Jump, Flip

Choose when to play the animation that’s built-in to a model (e.g., Giraffe moving its head).

Checkout the surprising special effects with Fade In and Fade Out.

Add your favorite photos and stories to new slideshows. Entertain your friends, family and even yourself.

Also New

Also new in Timebox Photo Circus 3D:

• Change a 3D object’s height above the ground or floor with the altitude customization slider.

• Include a sign with text above any slideshow.

• Animate customizable 3D models including: cars, airplanes, electric trains, balloons and your own USDZ models.

• Add customizable 3D models including: ranch house and circus tent.

• Choose from 3 styles of rug in the new Rugs category.

• Try outdoor night mode. Tap the sky to change from day to night and turn the lights on.

Bug fixes and performance improvements.

Subscriptions

New subscription pricing! Unlimited additional shared scenes plus unlimited use of all premium 3D models can be purchased with the Timebox Scene Maker Unlimited monthly subscription $1.49 / month or $14.99 / year.

We hope you love Timebox Photo Circus. Ratings and reviews are appreciated on the App Store. Just tap the Timebox icon in the app. More 3D models coming soon.

Thanks for all your suggestions and feedback!

Printing Photo Books with Timebox (Update)

We’ve always believed printing photo books was an important part of Timebox. Unfortunately, our printing partner company has concluded that they can no longer handle printing the type of books that Timebox generates. You can create a PDF from your Timebox stories and then have the PDF printed as a book by your choice of photo book printers.

We’ve done some testing with Blurb.com and they appear to be a reasonable choice for hardcover (or softcover) book printing with Timebox.

Make a PDF

If you’d like to print a book, here are the steps to first make and save a PDF in Timebox:

1. Launch the Timebox app and on the timeline view of your stories, tap Select and then tap the stories you’d like to include the in the book. Blurb requires a minimum of 22 pages in a book, so select multiple stories or stories with numerous photos.

2. Tap the action button in the lower left corner of the screen and then choose Make a PDF. That will give you a preview of the PDF as well as tell you how many pages it will contain. If it doesn’t look quite right, you can tap Cancel and edit the stories or choose other ones.

3. When you’re satisfied with the PDF preview, tap the action button in the upper right corner of the screen and choose Save to Files (or Save to Dropbox, etc.), and save the PDF file to one of your folders.

Upload to Blurb

Then here are the steps to upload your PDF to Blurb for book printing (if you saved your PDF above to iCloud Drive or Dropbox, you may want to do this part on a Mac or PC, since the Blurb web site is easier to use on a bigger screen):

1. Tap this link, https://www.blurb.com/pdf-to-book#uploadpdf, then tap Upload PDF to start the upload procedure.

2. You will be asked to log in or sign up for an account if you don’t already have one (when you first sign up, you get a 35% discount as of 7/10/19).

3. On the PDF Upload page we recommend that you tap Cover & Pages in a Single File, which will automatically create covers using the first and last pages of the PDF. Then tap the Cover and Pages PDF button, then Browse to choose the PDF file you saved above.

4. Choose the type of book you’d like: Magazine, Standard Portrait or Trade Book, the cover type, paper type, title, etc., then tap UPLOAD TO BLURB.

5. You may get a warning about the PDF page size not exactly matching the Blurb page size specifications, but choose Attempt to Correct because Blurb will just fix the size automatically.

6. Once your PDF is uploaded to your account on Blurb, you can choose to Preview then Order and/or Sell it (or Share, etc.).

We’re not happy that book printing directly from the Timebox app no longer works but we hope printing a PDF with Blurb is a reasonable solution.

Mary Ellen