I dare you to use some photo apps
March 22, 2010 by Bibi
6 photo apps you just need on your iPhone
After my former blog ‘How to make the perfect iPicture‘ you should now be able to make okay pictures with your iPhone camera. But the question is, are you ready for a whole new step? Which is post processing with some great photo apps to take your pictures to the next level. I challenge you to be different…
There are quite a few cool photo apps that add a really nice touch to your iPhone photo’s, even if the 2 MP lens is a bit crappy now and then. Especially when the light is bad and you are shaking too much the result can be a bit delirious: way out of focus, grained, blurry. Well, you know what I mean! But while using a post processing application in combination with the very low MP lens, it has its charms.
Why? I think that the rough touch of the iPhone lens with a post processing app, for example Hipstamatic makes your photo’s rather arty, original and -yes yes, it is cliché- seriously unique. I always like the result. It makes photographing with the iPhone fun and you certainly make some snapshots of subjects you will never shoot with a DSLR. Because the result of a pro cam has to be good. Or, that is what we like to think anyway.
So there are six applications I’d like you to try which can do wonders with a boring and plain image.
Hipstamatic (€1,59) is far out my favourite. They simulate an old school analogue camera. What makes it special is that you can choose from an amount of camera’s, flashlights, types of film (you have to buy them separately within the application, €0,79!) and they all have a different look and feel: a spectrum of diverse colours, frames and style.
Another fun app to work with is CameraBag (€1,59). However, less diverse than Hipstamatic, the post processing has a nice and authentic vibe.
If you are as crazy as I about polaroids, Polarize (free app, check their Flickr page) certainly is a must have. You can totally bring back the seventies with this application. It looks like a real polaroid including the unique frame and vintage tones.
Too much objects on your image? No worries, with PS Mobile (free app) you can crop or rotate your picture and isolate the object that needs to be framed. PS Mobile offers some other tools to process the image. I don’t think they are really interesting, because there are lots of fine post processing tools. But PS mobile is pretty useful to -like I said- crop, a functionality that most of the apps lack.
Two more apps I use for fun. Pano (€2,39) for beautiful, seamless panoramic photos. It is very nice shooting some panoramas when you have a lovely view. With the semi-transparent guide within the app you can line up each shot perfectly. Handy, isn’t it? Or for a silly yet funny and interesting effect, Tiltshift Generator (€0,79) which allows you to create retro miniature pictures.
Well, I think you have enough tools to blow me away with your stunning iPictures and I hope you will find them useful. However, it wasn’t my intention to lecture though 
What I was trying to show you by writing these blogs, is that you can create something beautiful out of a boring, plain and rather bad quality camera or image just by adding some adjustments. Easy, peasy!
Have fun.
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