Best 15 iPhone Camera and Photo Applications

 If you use an iPhone and love to play with the camera or the photos (edit, style or share) you have taken read this post for a list of useful apps available in the AppStore. I have briefly summarized the key features for you. (For a detailed read check out the source).

 

Taking Photos

1. Camera Genius (99 cents): Intuitive digital zoom, a full-screen shutter release, Photo timer, a grid that helps you level a photo and an antishake feature.

2. Best Camera ($2.99): Create, edit and share photos. Full-screen shutter release, an antishake feature and a shutter timer. Apply filters and effects. Sharing feature enables one-click uploads to Facebook, Twitter and e-mail accounts. Share photos in real time on www.thebestcamera.com.

3. Snapture ($1.99): Burst mode for sports or action shots, Snapture gets three consecutive shots. Has a Leveler, a full-screen shutter release and a 5X digital zoom.

4. Camera Zoom 2 (99 cents): Adjustable 4X digital zoom, slightly sharper images than free apps and also includes a full-screen shutter, an antishake feature and a shutter-release timer.

5. Night Camera (99 cents): Night Camera employs the iPhone’s accelerometer to fire the shutter only when the camera is stable. Includes full-screen shutter release and ability to save images in black and white or sepia.

 

Editing and Adding Filters

6. Photogene ($2.99):Crop, sharpen and straighten, correct colors (using a histogram or an auto button), tweak exposure and contrast. Add thought bubbles and other shapes, add frame types and effects. It includes multiple levels of undo.

7. Crop for Free (free): Free cropping utility. Just click the crop icon, grab the red brackets in any corner of the photo and drag to size.

8. CameraBag ($1.99): Apply vintage camera and film simulations. Helga, for instance, creates a square-format toy camera treatment with washed-out highlights and retro vignettes. Other filters include Magazine (rich tones), Mono (balanced black and white), 1974 (faded and tinted), infrared (black and white inverted), Lolo (hyper-vibrant), Instant (Polaroid), 1962 (high-contrast black and white) and fisheye. You can combine filters to create a custom style.

9. Cool fx (99 cents): From camera lens maker Tiffen, packs 172 preset filters into one 99-cent tool. Cool fx’s five categories — monochrome, color, diffusion, grain and temperature — provide a trove of film and photographic filters that includes 70 black-and-white film filters and 50 diffusion textures, including the esoteric Donkey Fur. Crop photos, create custom vignettes and adjust brightness.

10. ShakeItPhoto (99 cents): Create a “fauxlaroid” effect by shaking your iPhone. Select an image and click Use, and a Polaroid-like print descends from the top of the screen, complete with sound effects. Shake the iPhone to make the image “develop” faster.

11. iFlashReady (99 cents): Your iPhone lacks flash. iFlashReady can help you brighten images after they have been captured. Many apps enable you to adjust brightness, but iFlashReady is based on an algorithm that its maker says intelligently lightens each pixel.

 

Get Creative

12. ColorSplash ($1.99): Converts images to black and white and then lets you use your finger to “paint” color back in on certain areas — a stunning effect. You can zoom in for precision finger painting, and customize brush types and sizes. Share to Facebook, Twitter and Flickr.

13. TiltShift Generator (99 cents): Simulate the bokeh effect produced by D.S.L.R.’s by selecting a focal point and then blurring the background. Offers radial or linear blur, the size of which can be easily adjusted, tweak saturation and brightness as well as create custom vignettes. Has auto-export feature for Twitter and e-mail accounts. One downside: Images are saved in a noticeably lower resolution.

 

Sharing the Results

14. PixelPipe (free): Fast and easy to upload photos and videos simultaneously to photo-sharing sites, microblogs, social networks and e-mail accounts (total up to 95 destinations) in full resolution or in bandwidth-friendly smaller file sizes.

15. Your photo-sharing app (free): Whatever online photo-sharing service you favor, this app enables you to upload photos, browse images stored online, create slide shows and e-mail gallery links.

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