The iPhone 5 may be months away from its release, but that doesn’t mean it’s too early to start thinking about what apps you may want to download for the device. While we’ve pointed out the ways that Apple can improve the iPhone 5‘s camera and photo editing capabilities, there’s no way Apple will be able to implement every possible photography feature that iPhone 5 owners want. Luckily, the iPhone App Store is home to over 500,000 apps, many of which are photo taking and editing apps. We’ll cover five iPhone 5 photography apps worth downloading.
Five Must-Have iPhone 5 Photography Apps
When selecting the apps on this list, we looked at three things: price, reviews, and features/design. Although there are thousands of iPhone photography apps, we feel that these are some of the best ones you can download for your iPhone 5.
Camera+
If you take the iPhone’s stock camera application and add the ability to tweak a lot of the camera’s settings, you end up with an app like Camera+. Camera+ currently is one of the most downloaded photography apps in the iPhone app store, and it’s for good reason: the Camera+ is capable of taking some very impressive pictures on the iPhone 4S, and it’s sure to do the same on the iPhone 5. Camera+ users have the ability to zoom in up to 6x and post images to Twitter/Facebook from within the app.
Cost: $1.99
Photoshop Express
For years now, Adobe’s Photoshop program has been known as one of the best photo editing tools available. While the iPhone version of Adobe Photoshop can’t hold a candle to the computer version, it is still pretty good. Photoshop Express is a must-have photography app for your iPhone 5 because it is so easy to use. Effects can be added to pictures and pictures can be cropped by tapping just a couple buttons. What’s perhaps even better is the cost of Photoshop Express: free.
Cost: Free
AutoStitch
The iPhone 5 camera will be able to do many things, but one thing it probably won’t be able to do out of the box is take panoramic photos. For those who don’t know, panoramic photos are comprised of 3 different photos that are stitched together to provide a large photo of a big area that cannot be captured by a single camera shot. AutoStitch allows users to take panoramic photos with their iPhone 5, 4S, 4, and 3GS. The photos are effortlessly and quickly stitched together. In our experience, AutoStitch does a great job of creating nice panoramic images. If you’re planning on taking a lot of photos with your iPhone 5, this is definitely an app that you should have.
Cost: $1.99
Snapseed
Remember how we mentioned that Adobe’s Photoshop Express iPhone app can’t hold a candle to the computer version of Photoshop Express? Well, there is one iPhone 5 app that can give Photoshop a run for its money: Snapseed. Snapseed is a robust iPhone app that enables both amateur and professional iPhone photographers to tweak photos to their heart’s desire. Images can be cropped, straightened, sharpened, structured, and even tilted or shifted. Snapseed comes with a bunch of photo filters and other adjustment features, too. Simply put: Snapseed can help you make even your worst iPhone 5 photo look good.
Cost: $4.99
We can’t have an iPhone 5 photography apps list without mentioning the most popular photo app, Instagram. Instagram first took the world by storm in 2010 and has since been downloaded over 15 million times from the App Store. Instagram is popular for one reason: it’s extremely simple to use and to share photos. Instagram works by applying specific filters to photos to give the photos a unique, elegant look. While Instagram certainly isn’t as good at photo editing as the other apps we mentioned, it’s still a photography app worth having on deck on your iPhone 5.
Cost: Free
What Do You Think?
What photography apps do you feel are must-haves for the iPhone? Leave us a comment below and give us your opinion on iPhone 5 photography apps.
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