Awesome iPhone Camera Apps

My thanks to Loren Roberts in Santa Monica for alerting me to these two great iPhone apps that have transformed my view of the usefulness of the iPhone Camera.

Historically I believed that a combination of the lack of zoom and low number of megapixels consigned the iPhone to a snap camera – and not a very useful one at that, although I was puzzled to see some of the great photographers out there creating awesome iPhone images and assumed that these had been ported into Lightroom or Photoshop to “rescue” them. I wanted an app that allowed me to do everything directly on the iPhone.

Then Loren told me about Camera Zoom and Perfectly Clear. The former does what it says. It allows you to zoom the iPhone camera and then take an image. This was great and solved some of my problems, but it was the latter app that blew me away.

Perfectly Clear provides some basic post-processing capabilities. Snap the picture (using the original, iPhone camera app or Camera zoom ) and then open Perfectly Clear (you can take a picture from within Perfectly Clear but there is no zoom capability). The screen then gives you a “Before” and “After” side by side view. The results are spectacular. You can customize all the settings, but I found the standard settings good enough. It is effectively a mini version of Lightroom for the iPhone. Awesome.

Then upload you image directly using your Facebook, WordPress or Flickr app.

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