Five Handy Photo Apps

4/28/2013

Photosynth
By Microsoft - Free
Panorama maker. Works very well indoors to stitch together a small room. I've used it to inventory shelves. Patches together top, middle, bottom and left to right into one shot that would otherwise have taken at least 9. Could be useful to pull the whole side of a building into one shot say on a city street where you can't back away far enough to do it. Possible to capture a sphere. Upload to Bing to share publicly or photosynth.net to view on line. Can be an interactive panorama or a still. Way cool.
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GeniusScan+
By The Grizzly Labs - $3 (free version available, too)
Turns your iPhone or iPan into a scanner. Uses irregular cropping rhomboid to flatten the image.
You can get an elevation view from a foreshortened photo of a facade. Made me laugh - the result was so unexpectedly good.
Choose: No enhancement, Black and white, or Color
Send to email, Evernote, Dropbox, Skydrive, Box, print, Expensify, Google Drive, fax and as a jpeg to your camera roll, Facebook, Twitter.
Assemble multi page PDFs and rearrange pages. Tags can be added.Click image to link to App Store.

StillShot
By Macadamia Apps - $1
Take a movie with your phone.
Open it in StillShot.
Walk through the movie, frame by frame, and pick out any shots you would like to have as photos.
Send them to the camera roll, upload to Facebook or Twitter.
Very easy.
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TitleFX
By East Coast Pixels - $1
Extremely easy way to add titles to photos. Load pic into the app from your camera roll or take one with the app. Double tap the pic to edit the title. Pick a font, size and angle the text, select color, apply effects, add a background. Then drag your title into position. Add another title if you want.
Done.
Send to photo library, Facebook, email, Flicker, Tumblr, Twitter, SMS, clipboard, AirPrint, etc.
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PhotoInWord Pro
By Qnuouo - $1 (Free version available)
Like TitleFX, PhotoInWord is a title-making app for photos, but with a difference. PhotoInWord lets you layer a photo, a bold word and a solid (or additional photo) background to achieve the effect of seeing the photo through the letters of the word. This takes a little practice to get a result you are happy with, but the result you get is very distinctive.
Or with those same tools you can go for a simple title on photo. Options are to save to photo library or as Wallpaper, copy to clipboard, or email.
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