Are you on Pinterest? What do you pin? Probably mostly images of pretty things that you like from across the web, right? I mean, that’s what Pinterest is for, isn’t it? Well in theory, yes. But what if I told you that when you pin something, Pinterest uploads a full-resolution copy of it to their own site and that you are solely responsible for all of the implications that go along with that?
Launch a social media campaign that will build your brand and deliver results in our online Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting June 7. Speakers include Abigail Cusick (Bravo Digital), Gregory Galant (Sawhorse Media), Alex Leo (Thomson Reuters Digital), Jim Tobin (Ignite Social Media), and many more. Read the reviews. 
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 enough to hang on your wall on a canvas? That’s a question that Canvaspop would like to help you answer.
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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 the iPhone 3 followed by the 3S.
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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
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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 photo or video. Belkin, however, has an app for that that works with hardware that should be available soon.
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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 can also be adjusted. Finally, a caption can be added to the photo collage.
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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 pencil drawings. One iOS app that produces what I consider to be stunning pencil drawing like modifications is free for a limited time.
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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.
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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.
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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 a truly high quality image from a good compact camera wirelessly. That’s what Panasomic is trying to deliver with the new camera under their Lumix brand.
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