Posts Tagged ‘photography’

Instagram, now barely a bit over a year old, has over 10 million users who had posted more than 150 million photos as of August 2011. That number is probably well over 200 million now. Instagram’s photo filters help make ordinary photos interesting and really good photos spectacular. But, is your Instagram-ed filtered photo good [...]

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MacRumors noted that the iPhone 4S, released just last month, overtook the HTC EVO 4G, iPhone 3GS and iPhone 3G to become the second most popular cameraphone used to contribute photos to Flickr. Only its predecessor, the iPhone 4, remains ahead of it. Curiously, prior to the 4S’ release, the second most popular cameraphone was [...]

Kodak Gallery added several new features in an update to its free Gallery app for the iPhone. The most important of the new features is the ability for multiple poeple to upload and contribute to a single shared online album. This new feature is called Group Albums

iPhone owners like to share photos and videos. Charts and statistics are not needed to make this point. The problem is that the iPhone camera app does not have a timer function or remote shutter release. And, even if it did, it might be difficult to prop the iPhone up to include yourself in a [...]

PhotoTangler Collage Maker HD for iPad lets you easily select, assemble and arrange photos into a collage. Photos can easily be moved, resized and swiveled into various angles using two-finger gestures. Photos can also be arranged in the z-plane to let you decide which photos should be on top of the stack. The background color [...]

I don’t have a lot of interest in taking the generally sharp photos from my iPhone and degrading the image to emulate the output from cheap cameras produced decades ago. There are, however, certain photographic and graphic effects that I do appreciate. One that I’ve long found interesting are filters that make photographs look like [...]

Snapseed is a highly regarded photo enhancement app for the iPhone and iPad (4.5 stars average customer ratings with 393 ratings) that normally costs $4.99. However, if you visit Apple’s App Store between now and Saturday, you get can it for free.

If you have an Android phone, there is an interesting twist to the Google Goggles 1.6 update. There is an option to have it invoked for every photo. If Goggles is able to identify something in the photo, it notifies you of the result.

The cameras embedded in phones have gotten pretty good over the years. They’ve come a long way since the days of postage stamp sized fuzzy purple tinted photos produced by early cameraphones. But, as good as some of the cameras used in phones are today, there are times you probably wished you could quickly send [...]

Looking for a really cool way to capture photos for sharing? Yes, there are lots of great photo filters apps for the iPhone. But, if you want your iPhone 4 photos to look a different from the rest of the crowd, take a look at this pair of hardware accessories (Note: I have not tried [...]