How to take better pictures with your cell phone

RICH BROOKS

Rich Brooks is the President of Flyte New Media, a web design and internet marketing company in Portland.  They integrate search engine optimization, email marketing, blogs, podcasts and other online marketing campaigns into professionally designed Web sites to help build your business.  Flyte New Media is offering two upcoming seminars: a Social Media Marketing for Beginners seminar on June 14th and an Advanced Social Media Marketing seminar on June 28th.

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CAMERA PHONE APPS

People are taking more pictures than ever because of camera phones, but how can you take your smart phone photography to the next level. Here are some apps that help you do just that.

Take better photos: Camera+ on the iPhone; Camera advance on the Droid. Camera+ offers a stabilizer, timer, and burst functionality. Better sharing and zoom features, too.

Take cooler photos: Instagram & Hipstamatic on iPhone, Instagram & fxcamera on Droid. With instagram, my personal fave, you can apply a host of filters to a photo you're taking or one from your library. Instagram can also automatically upload your photos to instagr.am, flickr, facebook, posterous & twitter.

Go crazy with filters: Camera Art FX for iPhone; dozens on Droid. You can really go crazy with some of the filters: turn your photos into line drawings, comic book art and more.

Create a Panorama: +++ on iPhone, Panorama on Droid.

Misc.: TiltShiftGen mimics tilt shift on advanced cameras to make real world photos look like minatures. Speaking of minature, TinyWorld twists your photos to create little planets.