You own the world's most versatile, customizable camera: your iPhone. Out of the box, your iPhone camera is no-frills, but you can transform it into a digital darkroom, photo editing suite, and photoblogging tool all rolled into one . . . if you know how to use it.
Create Great iPhone Photos shows you how to take great iPhone photographs—and even turn your not-so-hot photos into thrillingly inventive, atmospheric images. Author and iPhone photographer Allan Hoffman shows you how to harness the full potential of your iPhone's camera and turn it into a wildly fun tool for photographic creativity. You'll learn tips and tricks for generating effects, applying filters, and manipulating your images with wonderfully innovative apps—all right on your iPhone. And you'll be inspired by interviews with today's top iPhone photographers and galleries of their impressive work.
You'll also learn how to:
Produce stunning panoramas, vintage-style photobooth strips, and super-saturated Polaroid® photos with a hip, 1970s look
Unlock the secret power of your iPhone's camera with burst mode, high dynamic range (HDR) effects, exposure and focus controls, and more
Find and install the best iPhone apps for cropping images, adjusting contrast and exposure, and editing your photos to achieve eye-popping results
Publish and share images right from your iPhone, without the hassle of memory cards, cables, or complex desktop photo editing tools
You have Photoshop® (and a lot, lot more) right in your pocket. Do amazing things with your photos with Create Great iPhone Photos.
Chapter 1 iPhone Camera Essentials
Reasons to Love Your iPhone Camera
Simplicity—and Limitations
The iPhone’s Duo of Photography Apps
Taking Photos with the Camera App
Viewing Photos on Your iPhone
Transferring Your iPhone Photos to Your Computer
Using iTunes to Sync Photos to Your iPhone
Accessories for Your iPhone Camera Bag
The iPhone Photography Credo
Chapter 2 Customize Your iPhone Camera
Building Your Dream Camera
A Crash Course on Photography Apps
Using Apps to Add “Missing” Features to Your Camera
Replacement Camera Apps
The Big Decision: Use the Camera App or Another App?
Chapter 3 Photoshop in Your Pocket
Your iPhone Is Your Darkroom
Enhancing—and Fixing—Your Photos with Image Editors
Adobe Photoshop Express
Photogene
PhotoForge
Iris Photo Suite
PerfectPhoto
Automatic Adjustments—and Improvements—with a Few Taps
You’ve Only Just Begun
Chapter 4 Filters, Effects, and Recipes
Powerful Filters and Effects with Photo fx
Quick and Easy Filters with FX Photo Studio
Blur, Selective Focus, and Fake Miniature Effects
Panoramas
High Dynamic Range (HDR) Imaging
Color Adjustments and Effects with Mill Colour
Double Exposures
Adding a Border or Frame to Your Photo
Taking Things to the Next Level with App Recipes
Chapter 5 The Retro Look
Step into the iPhone’s Photographic Time Machine
To 1974—and Beyond
Polaroids and Instant Cameras
The Wonderful World of Hipstamatic
Re-creating the Darkroom Experience
Black-and-White Images
From App to the Desktop
Chapter 6 Fun and Offbeat Effects
Toy Cameras
Photo Booths
Build a LEGO Construction with LEGO Photo
Comic Strips with Strip Designer
Monet and Picasso, via ArtCamera
Ransom-Note Lettering with Ransom Letters
Digital Glitches and Off-the-Wall Artworks with Satromizer
Graphic Novel Sketches with ToonPAINT
Photo Mashups with Juxtaposer
A Psychedelic Look with PhotoTropedelic
Share the Love (and Laughs)
Chapter 7 Snap—and Share
Crafting Your Social Networking Strategy (or Not)
Flickr
Facebook
Twitter
MobileMe
Sharing at Photo Printing Services
Geotagging and Location-Based Sharing
Animoto
Photo Postcards
Go Postal with a Postcard Sent by the USPS
No End to Sharing
Chapter 8 Your Photoblog
Deciding on a Look for Your Photoblog
Blogging Tools
Photoblogging with Tumblr
Using WordPress for Your iPhone Photoblog
Using Posterous for Your iPhone Photoblog
Using Blogger for Your iPhone Photoblog
Seven Tips to Get People Looking at Your Photoblog
Chapter 9 For Inspiration
Peter Belanger
Jeremy Edwards
Gus Gusbano
Stephanie Chappe
Tony Cece
MissPixels
The iPhoneography Community
Title:
Create Great iPhone Photos
By:
Allan Hoffman
Publisher:
No Starch Press
Formats:
Print
Ebook
Safari Books Online
Print:
January 2011
Ebook:
February 2011
Pages:
224
Print ISBN:
978-1-59327-285-2
| ISBN 10:
1-59327-285-5
Ebook ISBN:
978-1-4571-0027-7
| ISBN 10:
1-4571-0027-4
Allan Hoffman
For the past fifteen years, Allan Hoffman has been the technology columnist for The Star-Ledger, New Jersey's largest daily newspaper, where he writes about Internet culture and trends, the iPhone, and digital photography. His work has appeared in Newsday, the New York Times, Wired.com, and many other magazines and newspapers. He maintains a photoblog at whatiseenow.com and spent much of his teenage years in his high school's darkroom.
