TiltShift Generator

First of all, I must start out saying that this is by far my favorite iPhone camera app.

Now, to the why.
Tilt shift Gen is not so much a picture TAKING application but more of a picture FIXING/EDITING app. It is simple, basic, and gives you the ability to take any picture you havein your mobile album, and make it awesome!

"There are controls for blur levels, color (saturation, brightness, contrast), and vignetting. Using any combination of these, you can create some beautiful effects and vintage style images."

If you don't already have this app on your iPhone, I suggest you rectify yourself!

Sources for information:
http://emilychang.com/2009/09/tiltshift-generator-for-iphone/

All pictures ©Staphon Arnold

Uploading Pictures to Picasa with a Mobile Device.

If you have downloaded the Picasa app on your iphone, you will notice that there is no option to actually upload your photos. However, there is a way to upload your photos. I found this last night when I was trying to get all these pictures up for the most recent blog post. It is a little time consuming, but great if you want to get all those pictures from your separate apps which don't save in a folder correctly to be taken off with iPhoto (still not sure why this issue happens.

Instructions (found on Google's help section for Picasa mobile uploads)

First of all, this feature requires you to E-mail the pictures with a photo attachment app and picasa's e-mail upload capabilities.

Set it up as follows:
1. Sign in to your acount at http://picasaweb.google.com/.
2. Click the Settings link in the top-right corner.
3. On the General tab, in the 'Upload photos by email' section, check the box next to 'Allow me to upload photos by email.'
4. Enter a 'secret word,' 6-15 characters long. As you enter this word, an email address appears.
5. Click the Save changes button.
6. To email upload your photos, just attach them to an email message and send it to the newly-created address.
7. A new folder will be created in your Picasa web albums at this point called 'Drop Box'

This can be done with any mobile device that has e-mail, not just the iPhone.

Enjoy.

PRO HDR

Pro HDR is a tool suggested to me by my old roommate and friend, David Linder. It is an app that takes two separate pictures (a dark picture and a light picture) and combines them together.

"Thanks to Pro HDR, you no longer have to choose between a blown-out sky or a hopelessly dark foreground. Bringing high dynamic range photography to your iPhone, Pro HDR lets you capture an image exposed for the highlights and another exposed for the shadows. It then automatically aligns andblends the images, giving you a gorgeous HDR image up to 5 megapixels like nothing you've ever seen from such a tiny device."

How to use it:

There are three ways.

one: You can take two images you already have, one light, one dark, and combine those together.

two: You can use PRO HDR to take two pictures where it will prompt you to tap a light part of your image and a dark part of your image and it will then combine them.

three: you can choose the Auto HDR where it will find the light and dark parts and combine them all by itself, all you have to do is hold your phone steady.

Downsides: You have to have an incredibly steady hand in order to take a good shot, or lay your phone on something. For this app alone, I am considering buying the iphone tripod.

Upsides: I love how the pictures turn out! They are so vibrant and colorful. After the pictures combine, you have some settings that you can mess around with, such as saturation and contrast giving lots of customization to your photos.

Download Pro HDR

All Pictures ©Staphon Arnold