I’ve often get asked how do I process and export my iPhone photographs so here are the 3 iPhone apps that I use the most:
Adobe Photoshop Express
This one is the official iPhone app directly from Adobe. As many reviewers of the app have noted it has lots and lots of room for improvement but as I always say you have to use and make the best of whatever is in your resources bag right? so what I use Adobe Photoshop Express mainly for is to “Crop and Rotate”. As a photographer I’m not a big fan of the “cropping” part , it is always better to shoot the original photo as you intend the final to be straight from the camera but due to the mobility, quick opportunities of shooting stuff around you at anytime plus the obvious restrictions that shooting with an iPhone Camera imposes “cropping & rotating” to straighten and frame have proved to be an invaluable set of skills that this app delivers and it does it all for free.
I would like to be able to export the results without any changes to the exif data though or at least to have the ability to preserve camera info and some of the other basics. With that said I try to use it as less as possible cause I like to keep the photos as true to the original as possible regarding composition and EXIF data.
CameraBag
This one is a filter app, you pretty much load a photo from your collection or take a fresh one from inside the app and then you have the choice of applying 12 filters. There is no control over how much of the filter you choose to apply and you can apply only one filter a time which is not very convenient since you have to export and reload the photo with a filter already applied to apply a new one.
That said if you have an interesting composition but feel like any of the filters will bring the photo to a different level this app is a quick and easy way to achieve just that.
Filters available: Helga, Colorcross, Lolo, Magazine, Instant, Silver, Mono, 1962, 1974, Cinema, Infrared and Fisheye.
TiltShift Generator
Now this is my favourite one. If I had only one iPhone photography app this would definitely be the one.
Some of the features of this app are:
- Export into various resolutions (from 320 to original size)
- Radial or Linaer blur filter.
- Contrast and Saturation control.
- Vignetting Control.
- Camera and Library import.
- Direct email and twitter, and facebook exports.
The original concept came from using the effects as a ToyCamera and it allows you to make everyday city/landscapes look like miniatures by force focusing using blurs and exaggerated saturation levels. This in DSLRs used to be achieved by using tilt and shift lenses which are mostly used in architectural photography.
The app gives you control over the intensity of every adjustment applied plus you can combine all of them and then export the final result up to original size if needed.
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