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These days you don't have to get your hands dirty with photo chemicals and paper in order to enhance your images. There are several relatively easy to use photo enhancement iOS apps that require little or no prior knowledge about photo processing in order to produce quality images. One such app for the iPhone and iPad is Nik Software's Snapseed, which is listed on our Best iPad Apps page, and is a free universal app that works on iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.
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Photos are fun – the rise of successful snap-and-filter apps and services such as Instagram and its "fake Polaroid junkies" are proof of this – but sometimes it’s possible that we don’t fully realise the potential of the images we snap, particularly on digital cameras and smartphones. I stumbled across Morfo back in 2010, shortly after the release of Windows Phone 7.
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Photoshop is not just a strong brand. In the world of photo manipulation, it's pretty much the only brand. When your product's name becomes a verb ("photoshopping" images), that says something. But there's a reason it's such a strong brand - on the desktop, it is very, very good. So naturally, when looking to review the free Android version of Photoshop called Photoshop Express, I was expecting to be wowed by something at least as awesome as Snapseed.
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Thanks to a new app called FaceTune ($1.99, currently priced at 50% off), you just may be able to use many of the advance portrait editing tools in Photoshop on your iPhone. FaceTune is not a single-click solution to editing and enhancing portraits. The editing does take some time and skill, but if you're looking to do some major editing to a portrait, you may find most of what you need in FaceTune.
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If taking photos on your Windows Phone is your thing, then you’ll need a good processing app that is capable of offering a variety of tweaks and adjustments. Of course, on a desktop computer such software can set you back, sometimes up to $100 – not the sort of price you would want to spend on mobile phone apps. Thankfully, that sort of price is something you don’t have to worry about.
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Cinemagraphs blend selective animation and a static image to create a unique looping scene, popularised using Photoshop to adapt famous film scenes into contemplative GIFs a few years ago. Since the concept is so promising, app developers have pounced on the idea after the original release of Cinemagram. There's now a new contender for the throne in the form of Echograph, an app which on first glance is remarkably similar.
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Photobooths may be hard to find, but you can now actually carry one around in your pocket, in the form of a iPhone app. It's appropriately called Pocketbooth ($.99), and it really does replicate the vintage style, spontaneity, and instant feedback of analog booths.
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Most of us have seen them around in things like ‘Before’ and ‘After’ photos, on T-shirts, or even on famous art, but few realize that there’s a slightly un-stylish word used to describe them. Diptychs and Triptychs are images or photos that bring together two or three similar (or different) images and place them side-by-side, often separated by a slim border.
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While there's no limit to iOS photo frame apps that make it easy to jazz up your iPhone photos with cool frames and collages, the latest app to hit the iTunes App Store comes to us with a unique twist. SymbolGram, the new free app, brings unique frames, allowing you to create interesting shapes, words and more.
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Editing photos on a smartphone or tablet is fun, but it's more often than not a heavy-handed process. Since you have a small screen to work with, most image editors don't let you make fine-grained adjustments. Instead, they keep the interface simple by just letting you tap on a bunch of filters, and maybe adjust a slider or two to control the effect's intensity. This makes for a fast workflow, but doesn't allow for much sophistication.
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If there's one thing in the world you should hate doing, it's wasting time when you know there's got to be a better way to go about completing a task. If you're one of those people who go through every single photograph they take and edit them one after another, you've got reason to be grumpy. That's time that BatchPhoto can save you. This week, we're giving away 25 free copies of BatchPhoto Home! Continue reading through my review of the software, and at the end of this post feel free to enter our giveaway for your chance to win. I'll be reviewing through the Windows version of BatchPhoto, but our giveaway will allow those of you on a Mac to redeem a copy also.
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Who doesn’t like taking photos with their smartphone? Of course, taking the photo itself is usually just half the fun. The other half (the “larger” half, some would say) is applying funky effects to those photos. Apps like Instagram and FX Camera make it easy to apply beautiful effects to your images, and often have creative names for those effects like "Willow" or "Orton". Retro Camera is very much like those two apps.
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There's no denying that Instagram has the monopoly on vintage, filtered photography, and mobile photosharing. Competitors have come and gone, and Instagram is still going strong. That hasn't stopped the team behind Starmatic from putting together a slick app which is a joy to use. Starmatic's photo-taking interface allows you to use the front and back cameras, turn the flash on and off, and turn on grid guidelines.
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Instagram is not new on the scene. It's got a huge number of users, mainly because it is so very good at what it does. What is still relatively new though is the Android version of the Instagram app. Those of us who knew what we were missing felt as if we waited a lifetime for the Instagram Android application. In the meantime, many of us toyed with cool camera alternatives. None of which really held up as they didn't have the social aspect of Instagram built in.
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A diptych consists of 2 images displayed side by side, and can often be a creative and attractive way to tell an even more elaborate story with your images. While with a little bit of effort, you can create a diptych or photo collage using Photoshop, there are now web-based, desktop and mobile options that make the process a lot easier. Each of the options below offer users a different experience.
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