Do you want to share with us how Heliog changed your workflow? How Heliog did simplified your life? Let us know! Send us your story by email to press@heliogapp.com, and if your story gets picked by our staff, it’s going on-line. Take this chance to share a little about your work and to do some free advertising 
. You also get a free copy of Heliog to give it away as you wish. Are you ready? Go!
Heliog’s version 1.0.2 brings support for PNG files, both viewing and uploading, without downscaling or messing with the original file. Here is a quick list of what’s inside this update.
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You can download the update right now from the App Store.
Finally! The wait is over, here’s the new version of Heliog. Let’s cut to the chase.
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You can download the update from the App Store.
Heliog is today a huge success worldwide, way beyond we’ve expected for this past 6 to 7 weeks after public release. We’ve received tremendous feedback from happy users who use Heliog on a daily bases now, and they’re all glad for this app to exist in their lives. And that is amazing! To celebrate this occasion we thought we could give something back!
Here’s the deal: use your Twitter or Facebook account to tell your followers and friends about Heliog and you could win a $25 Apple App Store gift card from us! We’re giving away one $25 gift card for the most active Twitter account and another one for the most active Facebook account. That’s a total $50 giveaway!!!
Tweet or post anything related with Heliog: retweet or share our posts, check out our blog posts, our On The Press entries, other news or reviews from other sites, post photos shared with Heliog, convince your friends of getting Heliog for their iOS devices through Twitter and/or Facebook, anything counts, as long as you respect these simples rules:
On February 4th we will reveal the most active Twitter and Facebook users (scores are calculated using HootSuite social network search feature and rely on information given by Twitter and Facebook on that day) right here on this page. Only the tweets and/or posts that respect all the above rules are taken into account. If you have any questions about this contest please contact us.
So what are you waiting for? You could already start by sharing this post right now!
Good luck!
We’re thrilled with all the buzz created around Heliog this last couple of days, and because of that we’re already preparing the next update with a lot a new features.
If you want to know about it first hand, even before it is submitted to the App Store, subscribe our newsletter.
All we can say by now is that this update’s coming this month already. So stay tuned!
You you have any further questions regarding Heliog please feel free to contact us.
Yay! Have a nice 2013!
A new year is ahead of us, and we at Heliog have a lot in store for you this year.
We’ve got a new update almost ready, it has new features such us move and rename files, multiple accounts support and support for the new cloud storage provider from Portugal, CloudPT – http://cloudpt.pt, amongst other small fixes.
But that’s not all! We’re soon launching some giveaways, where you will be able to complete some small tasks and win some cool prizes!
So 2013 is going to be a great year for us all!
Regards,
Marcel
Heliog was developed in just 3 months, tested by 10 beta testers on 21 devices.
This is an interesting, short story about the creation of Heliog.
My name is Marcel, the developer behind Heliog, and I’m a teacher in a german school here in Porto, Portugal. On my spare time I’m a wedding photographer and a freelance iOS developer. Strange combination, but one helps the other, a lot!
Every wedding photographer has a portfolio, one that he shows to the general public on a website, and another that contains special shots that cannot figure the website for whatever reason. The iPad or iPhone is great for showing photos, and what I’d do was to synchronize each device with my Mac every time I had new material to show. Ok, you could open them up with the Dropbox app, but it looked ugly and wasn’t that easy to manage with the favorite feature, specially if you hadn’t any Internet access at that moment.
So, what about creating an app that looked great, was seamlessly integrated with Dropbox, and had the ability, among other features, to save complete folders with the original images to show them to the client regardless of internet availability? That is how Heliog came to live. It gives you the ability you show your client all of your work, instantly, without any previously synchronization, be it online of offline, amongst other interesting features such as zooming in to view all the detail or creating a special folder for a client and sharing it through email.
Heliog v1.0 is just the start of it, a simple app for photography enthusiasts and professionals, and we have a lot more in store for the coming versions. It is the missing app for your workflow.
Image size: 2048×1360 pixels, 590kb
This is the first tip of a series of tips we’re going to give you using Heliog. This one is about image size. Since Heliog can make small thumbnails when viewing photos, it can also download the original image. You can control what the original image is, so if you’re using Lightroom, Aperture, or other photo editing software, you can create images any size you want. We recommend you to optimize that image size, so it displays beautifully on your device and takes as little space as possible, saving storage both on the cloud and on your device.
So, when you’re rendering the final image, you will obviously render it in full resolution, but you can also render a smaller version, with the following properties:
Image Resolution: 2048 pixels wide or 1536 pixels tall, Heliog knows about your retina display and takes advantage of it showing a cristal clear image, and reducing on the fly when using a normal screen.
Image Compression: choosing a compression rate of between 85% and 75% you’ll end up with an image size of 300 to 600 kb, depending on it’s content.
Take a look at this post’s image as an example, it is 2048 pixels wide and has a little under 600kb.
With this setting you can spare space and show amazing photos, be it online or offline.
Porto, Portugal – 17th December 2012 – Heliog’s officialy launched!
Did you ever feel that the oficial Dropbox app, even after it’s update recently, doesn’t feel your needs when it comes to photography? How about having all of your photos stored on your Dropbox accessed instantly and with a great and elegant look added to it? Heliog’s the answer!
If you work in team and use Dropbox for syncing your photography artwork or want to have your photos all the time with you without carrying about syncing your device, then Heliog is for you. It instantly detects new photos and displays them in a cool way, even if you share folders with other Dropbox users. Every change to the shared folder is instantly updated and you can show the results instantly.
Using Dropbox’s new sharing capability, you can share a photo or a folder with selected photos on Facebook, Twitter, per email or by copying it’s link and using it as you like. Options are limitless.
If you’re a photographer and want to show your portfolio to your client, you can previously download and store all photos in any folder into your device and browse them offline using Heliog. All images are downloaded in their original resolution, so you can zoom in and show the details. You can mark folders as favorites and have them downloaded to your device for quicker access.
You can use your device’s camera to upload photos to a folder while you’re shooting. And if you share that folder’s link with your audience, you can let them follow your shooting session live. You can also browse your device’s albums and upload multiple photos at the same time to Dropbox. If you use an iPad and the camera connection kit, Heliog is going to be your best companion, uploading and sharing your artwork instantly.
Heliog works great on the iPhone, the iPad or iPod touch. It supports all iOS devices natively and explores all their capabilities the right way.
If you want to know more about Heliog get in touch with us using our Facebook, Twitter or Google+ page, or get in touch with us. If you want to do a review of the app and want a promo code, contact us.
We’re the proudest dev team right now, no doubt about it. After our first iOS app earlier this year, we are back again with another app, and this time it’s universal.
If you have any suggestions, question, or want support, feel free to contact us!
We really hope you like our app, it’s done with a lot of passion!