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Apps

March 7, 2022 by Karen Jensen, MLS

App Review: Pxture – Creating text using photos

Teen librarian Karen Jensen reviews a new photo app that allows you to quickly add text to photos for social media, including filling a text with photo

April 3, 2019 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Digital Media: Using Photo Apps to Create a Glitch Effects

Want to create a cool glitch effect for your photos? There's an app for that.

April 17, 2017 by Karen Jensen, MLS

App Review: Enlight

For months now I have been wanting to talk to you about a photo app called Enlight, the only problem is – I can’t figure out how to use it very well. This may sound like a dig at the app but it’s not, it’s an admission of my own lack of skills. The truth […]

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App Review: Prisma

August 8, 2016 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Knowing my love of photo apps, several people have wanted to make sure I know about the new Prisma app. Prisma allows you to transform your picture into a work of art based on the styles of many famous artists. It’s actually a fairly easy app to you, in part because it is limited in […]

App Review: Pokemon Go, the very basics, safety issues, and Pokemon Go and libraries

July 11, 2016 by Karen Jensen, MLS

This weekend my timeline flooded with posts about Pokemon Go. Then on Sunday afternoon, The Teen came home from a friend’s house declaring they had walked 3 miles trying to catch Pokemons. So I decided I needed to figure out what this Pokemon Go is because my teens are definitely in to it. Pokemon Go […]

How Did You Do That? Photo Apps Version

December 24, 2015 by Karen Jensen, MLS

I get a lot of email where people ask how I created such and such of a graphic. Today, I thought I would share some of my favorite tips, tricks, and filters. A decent portion of my current teen programming involves teaching teens how to do fun photo tricks and then to translate that into […]

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App Review: FotoRus

December 22, 2015 by Karen Jensen, MLS

It’s been a couple of weeks since I talked about a photo app, so you probably thought that my obsession with photos and photo apps was dying down – but no! It is alive and well, I have just been waiting for the right moment. Like now, now feels like the right moment to discuss […]

App Review: Image Chef

November 2, 2015 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Recently, The Teen had to do a complex poetry assignment. One of the poems she had to create was a Concrete Poem, a poem that takes a shape. I would like to point out that the subject of her poem was me – go Mom! But we went looking for a way to easily create […]

App Review: A Beautiful Mess

July 28, 2015 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Last week while discussing the Candy Camera app, suggested by The Tween and the Bestie, librarian Maria Selke reminded me of the A Beautiful Mess photo app. I am a huge fan of the A Beautiful Mess (ABM) blog, so I had actually purchased the app well over a year ago. The only problem is […]

App Review: Candy Camera

July 22, 2015 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Knowing my obsession with pictures – my last smart phone had over 14,000 of them saved by the time it bit the dust – The Tween and The Bestie came to me a couple of days ago and shared that their new favorite photo app is Candy Cam. They declared it better than Instagram – […]

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