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The Single Most Important Tip for Recording Video on iPhone

Jul 18, 2012 - 29 Comments
iPhone video recording tip

Have you ever noticed that iPhone video gets recorded according to the orientation of the device? If you haven’t noticed that yet, pay attention to it now, because you’ll create significantly better videos if you just rotate the iPhone into horizontal orientation before hitting that record video button.

Make Easy Diptych & Triptychs of Your iPhone Photos with Diptic App

Jul 17, 2012 - 1 Comment
Diptic iPhone app makes diptychs and triptychs easy

Diptic is an app for iPhone and iPad that makes creating diptych and triptych photo collages easier than ever. With a ton of layouts, filters, basic editing tools, and customizations, you can quickly build a visual story using either freshly taken photos or pictures stored in your iPhone camera roll. When you’re finished, Diptic let’s … Read More

Crop Images on iPhone & iPad Easily with Photos App

Jul 14, 2012 - 9 Comments
Crop an image on iPhone

The Photos app in iOS includes a built-in crop tool that works very well for quick edits on the go with the iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. The bundled function offers a free transform options, thereby providing the ability to crop an image down to any proportion you’d like.

How to Make iPhone Photos Look Better By Using Auto-Enhance

Jul 13, 2012 - 4 Comments
Auto-Enhance makes Photos from iPhone look better

Want to quickly make an iPhone photo look even better? The iPhone Photos app includes a nice little trick called auto-enhance that will make a few various adjustments to an image that almost always improves the look of the photo being adjusted. It’s not an overwhelming effect by any means, it’s more of a subtle … Read More

How to Use Focus & Exposure Lock with the iPhone Camera

Apr 27, 2012 - 13 Comments
Focus and exposure lock on iPhone camera

You probably know that tapping once on the screen within the Camera app will cause the iPhone to automatically focus and adjust exposure to that region in the viewfinder, but if you’re trying to take a picture with challenging lighting or depth conditions the auto adjustments are not always ideal. Instead, use the excellent focus … Read More

How to Zoom the Camera on iPhone

Apr 18, 2012 - 8 Comments
Zoom iPhone Camera

You can use a zoom-in feature on the hardware cameras included on iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. The zoom trick is pretty easy to master but until someone shows you how to access it, zooming is hidden from the normal camera options. We’ll detail exactly how to zoom in and zoom out with the Camera … Read More

Turn the iPhone Camera Into a Macro Lens Using a Water Drop

Mar 12, 2012 - 18 Comments
Dollar zoom with water on iPhone lens

Want a free instant macro lens for your iPhone camera? Carefully apply a tiny drop of water to the lens, flip the iPhone over, and voila, you can suddenly take extreme close ups of just about anything. I know that sounds a little weird, but it works, and the results are fairly impressive.

Enable the iPhone Camera Grid to Take Better Pictures

Mar 4, 2012 - 7 Comments
iPhone camera grid

Turning on the iPhone camera grid makes it easier to take better pictures by offering a simple visual grid guide to improve photo composition. We’ll show you how to enable the grid on iPhone camera, and also how to use the grid to compose photos.

Stop iPhone HDR from Saving Two Photos

Sep 1, 2011 - 7 Comments
Stop iPhone HDR from taking and storing two pictures

The iPhone camera HDR mode takes great pictures, there’s no doubt about that. What might not be so great for some iPhone users is that when you have HDR mode enabled, the iPhone will store two versions of all photos you take into Camera Roll in Photos app, which at 5+ megapixels a pop can … Read More

Use your Mac and Photo Booth as a Mirror

Jan 6, 2011 - 5 Comments

Do you need a mirror but you’re nowhere near one? Hey no problem, bust out your Mac and open up Photo Booth, use the computers camera!

Disable iPhone GPS & Geographic Tagging Data in iPhone Photos

Jul 9, 2010 - 8 Comments
Disabling Camera Location EXIF data on iPhone

Want to disable iPhone GPS geotagging of photos and the camera? Many users may wish to turn off geotagging on iPhone photos for privacy reasons. In case you didn’t know, the iPhone Camera defaults to storing GPS and geographic tagging information in the EXIF data of your iPhone images. If you don’t want this type … Read More

How to Disable Flash or Countdown in Photo Booth

Jan 22, 2009 - 21 Comments
Photo Booth icon

Photo Booth is a really fun app that comes with all macs that have a built in iSight / FaceTime front facing camera. Here are a couple tips that make using Photo Booth on your mac even more enjoyable; the ability to disable the ‘white screen’ flash and the ability to disable the 3 second … Read More

How to Disable the Built-in iSight Camera on a Mac

Mar 26, 2007 - 39 Comments
FaceTime

Most new consumer Macs come with a built-in iSight / FaceTime camera which can be used for all sorts of fun, ranging from live video chatting in FaceTime, Skype, and iChat, to horsing around in Photo Booth, to using third party apps like Gawker to capture time lapse photography of whatever is going on. That … Read More

Cam2Web – Quick and easy Webcam setup for your Mac

Mar 8, 2007 - 8 Comments
Cam2web

Chances are if you have a new consumer Mac it has a built-in iSight camera, just waiting to be used. If you’ve ever thought about setting up a webcam but figured it would be too difficult, fear not, because it doesn’t get any easier than this. Cam2Web is a tiny free no frills app that … Read More

Make Easy Time Lapse Photography with Mac iSight Camera & Gawker App

Jan 31, 2007 - 1 Comment
Video

All of us have likely admired the results of a nice time-lapsed sequence, perhaps of a flower opening or the sun setting, the effect of time lapse video can be simply gorgeous. So, wouldn’t it be cool to do these on your own with little effort? With a Mac and the front-facing FaceTime / iSight … Read More

Capture iSight Images Using the Command Line

Jan 24, 2007 - 7 Comments
Terminal icon

We all know that Photo Booth is great fun and is sure to entertain our friends and family with the goofy effects. But what if you want to take pictures using your iSight from the command line? Unfortunately Apple doesn’t provide this option (at least that we know of), but thanks to a crafty individual … Read More

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