Software : Updated: 10 best iPhone camera and photo editing apps

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Updated: 10 best iPhone camera and photo editing apps Posted: Best iPhone camera apps 1-5 The latest iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus have the best cameras yet from Apple. Despite going with an 8MP sensor for three years now, the Cupertino company gave its latest set of handsets faster phase-detect autofocus and even optical image stabilization on the larger phablet. Similarly iOS 8 brings a host of improvements to the default camera app, with new timelapse tool and ability to shoot slow motion movies - plus all the OS level editing tools. While Apple's prepacked imaging tools are great and all. The iPhoneography only truly sings when with a collection of apps to expand the capabilities of smartphone photography. With this in mind we've rounded up the 10 best camera apps letting you pull off all sorts of new tricks including toy box images, camera shake free videos and fixing lens distortion. 1. Manual One of the biggest new camera features of iOS 8 was the ability to finally adjust your exposure settings. Although you can manually brighten and darken the frame with the basic built-in camera app, the Manual app adds some more granular control over settings such as ISO and shutter speed. You could use this added flexibility to capture a long exposure by decreasing the ISO while lengthening the shutter speed. Alternatively when you want to shoot fast moving action in dark conditions, raise the ISO and shoot at a faster shutter speed. What's more, the app also gives you access to more features such as exposure compensation, manual focus and white balance. The only thing you won't be doing in Manual is editing your images afterwards. Manual is strictly a camera shooting app, focused purely on transmuting moments into pictures. 2. Photoshop Touch While Manual might not have any editing options whatsoever, look to Photoshop Touch for all your post processing needs. This versatile post processing tool lets you tweak your images for everything from brightness, contrast, saturation to toning down the highlights (otherwise known as the bright parts of the frame). Beyond some basic adjustments, the mobile Adobe workshop comes with layers and many of the same filtering effects from the full fledged desktop app. With these tools you could apply a blur to one layer and blend another image into the frame, all while adding a grainy texture to to create the effect of double exposed film. It might sound like overkill for the everyday iPhone snapshot, but it's crucial to have a fully featured image editor when more and more of the best DSLR cameras can wirelessly transfer images over to a smartphone. Like Lightroom Mobile for the iPad, Photoshop Touch also lets you remotely edit images you have stored on Adobe's Creative Cloud. 3. Replay If moving images are more your area there are plenty of video editors to choose from on iOS. Replay stands out in several respects thanks to its ease-of-use and the broad selection of tools packed into it (many of which you'll have to pay for, however). You can throw in filters, add text and music, trim scenes, add slow motion and choose from a selection of preset styles if you want most of the work done for you. You don't actually record anything with the app itself, just pick out clips and photos from the camera roll. When you're happy with the way things are looking, there are a bunch of sharing options to choose from (even though the app says it's "for Instagram" on the App Store). Speaking of Instagram, don't forget the excellent Hyperlapse video recorder from the same team, which can apply both time lapse and stabilisation effects to your footage. 4. SimplyB&W Color photography is modern and all that, but black and white photography still has it place in the world. Going with a monochromatic image is great for accentuating the lighting or capturing emotion in a photo by removing any distracting hues.With this in mind we're nominating SimplyB&W as the best camera app to make black and white images. This app can take any image you take and convert it into a grayscale image. For the best looking black and white images, you'll also want to mess around with the color levels by darkening reds or brightening the yellows. Luckily SimplyB&W includes a few templates, which darkens and lightens certain colors. You can also apply filters and add a vignette (dark circular border) to the image to make it a really classic looking image. 5. VSCO Cam While we're still on the topic of classical film looks, there's no other app that comes with as many excellent film simulations as VSCO Cam. With the app you can add little desaturating and color shifting filters just like Hipstamatic and other apps. VSCO Cam, however, also has a few more options for tweaking the exposure and adding film grain. If you want a simple image editor that also offers some great filter effects, VSCO Cam is it. Best iPhone camera apps 6-10 6. SKRWT Distortion is big problem with mobile phones because they all tend to come equipped with a wide-angle lens. If you've ever taken an image of a brick wall or a buildings head on, you might have noticed the center of the frame bulges out causing lines to curve into a bowl shape. It's a small but unmistakable problem all smartphones cameras suffer - that is until SKRWT showed up in the app store. This vowel-deficient app corrects (or adds more) distortion letting me square up this image above of the Brooklyn Bridge. SKRWT is also a great iPhone camera app if you want to change the perspective of an photo. For example you could take a photo of building looking upward to capture the whole thing. Then make a few adjustments to create a final picture that look like it was taken while looking at the building head on. 7. TinType Whether you like it or not, the selfie is now hugely popular with the majority of mobile picture snappers. TinType helps to add a touch of class to your your selfies — or portraits, as they used to be known — whether you're photographing yourself or someone else. Sepia, monochrome and painted colour effects are available (though we'd like to see a few more included as the app's developed) and there are options to let you adjust the plate grain, eye intensity and depth-of-field of your shot. You can save your new creation without writing over your old one and of course the usual sharing options are here too (including Instagram). If you take a lot of face shots, then give TinType a try — there's also Cinamatic from the same developers, a stylish video capture app with different filters, recording modes, manual controls and export options to play around with. 8. Brushstroke There's more than one way to create a beautiful image and the Brushstroke app will turn your real life stills into gorgeous watercolor paintings. The process is as simple as picking an image to convert and hitting the go button. After a few seconds Brushstroke will pop out a freshly painted image that can be further customized with different brush styles, colored paints and differently textured canvases. There are a handful of other painting conversion apps like Waterlogue and Popsicolor, but Brushstroke has always been the fastest app on the draw. Unlike the other apps, Brushstroke also lets you tweak the image with settings like saturation and brightness. 9. Afterlight Consistently near the top of the App Store charts, Afterlight is going to set you back a few pennies but is well worth the investment. It manages to marry powerful features with a simple interface, and it includes a ton of textures and filters as well as adjustment tools for dramatically changing the look of your pictures with a few swipes of the finger. Whether you want your photos to look scrappy and torn or like works of finely tuned art, Afterlight makes it possible. If you just want to straighten and crop your pictures, then it can do that too. It will take you a long time to explore all of the options here, even before you get into the paid packs of effects, and it's easy to see why so many iPhone users love it. 10. Slow Fast Slow YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=479NvFreqcc One of the neatest video tricks the iPhone 5S camera introduced was the ability to shoot slow motion videos. But watching balloons pop or skaters pull tricks in just slow motion by itself is gets old really fast. This is where the Slow Fast Slow video editing app comes to let you manipulate the tempo of your video. Speed up slow motion back to regular speed or put motion into fast forwards. Alternatively, you could take a regular movie clip and alter the frame rate in multiple sections. Slow Fast Slow can even take a video and turn it on its head to play backwards. Don't have an iPhone? Well these Android and Windows phones are pretty great too

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