The App Store boasts more than 3000 photography apps, and that number is growing every day. Sorting through and testing each new release-every faux film filter, cropping utility, and tilt-shift tool could be a full-time job. Blogger and iPhone photographer Glyn Evans narrows it down for you on his site iPhoneography.com.
Even with the constant influx of new apps to test, Evans still has a few favorites that he uses:
The latest craze among vintage film-loving iPhoneographers is Hipstamatic . This app takes the "film look on camera phones" fad a step further, giving your photos an unpredictable (and irreversible) filmlike quality by turning your iPhone screen into a virtual "vintage film" camera with inter changeable film, flash, and lens options. You can purchase additional "equipment" from within the app. All told there are 216 possible effect combinations.
An instant photo autocorrector, the Perfectly Clear app sharpens and brightens any iPhone photo ($3; macworld.com/5922). The real satisfaction of Perfectly Clear is
seeing the split-screen, before-and-after versions of your image. What you thought was a decent shot before suddenly looks dingy compared with the improved version. You can adjust settings including exposure, sharpness, and contrast.
AutoStitch Panorama are both wildly popular tools. Each app does exactly what its title suggests. AutoStitch creates panoramas from a series of overlapping iPhone photos, and Color Splash desaturates your image and then allows you to pick which colors to add back.
There is a daunting number of black-and-white-photo apps in the App Store. Evans has two favorites he uses on his images: Spica-Super Monochrome turns pictures into grainy, high-contrast, black-and-white shots that look as if they were taken with a film camera. Vint B&W is a basic black-and-white app that creates nice tones and takes good, low-light shots.
Evans has teamed up with developers to create his own iPhone app, Format126 . The app's primary function is to crop images into a perfect square (like the square-shaped 126 film format), though it also includes a collection of film filters and effects.
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