Using your iPhone to ‘scan’ and create your family tree

I have mentioned before how much I dislike apps that claim to be ‘scanner’ apps when they are actually photograph apps with some level of image clean up. As I use my iPhone to take pictures of documents and whiteboards more and more, I am less excited about the use of the term. It really …

Reflecting water added to your iPhone images, a free app option

It’s no secret that I play a lot with images beyond the original snapshot. Most apps I use are on the robust side to tune and tweak. Of course there is a huge variety of apps that are on the light side, specializing in doing one thing. The user interfaces of these free apps are …

Using your iPhone to move pictures to Google+ from Facebook, Instagram, Flickr and Photobucket

So, your a HUGE fan of the new Google+, your like taking pictures and posting them up for folks to see, and most of your ‘greatest’ snaps are on other social networks. Why not just import all those photos onto Google+? For me… that would mean looking through tons and tons of iPhoto photos, hunting …

Paypal on the iPhone, everyone at lunch pays their part

Paypal has an update to their iPhone app to help that uncomfortable request for money when it comes time to split the bill from lunch or dinner. No need for folks to throw money on the table and look for change, some paying more than their share. And, no more worries about someone not having …

iPhone photos with depth of field beyond TiltShift

One of the best/easiest way to give a feeling of depth in a picture is to have a part in focus and other parts out of focus. A person’s mind says that they are focusing on a point and everything else must be further away cause it is out of focus. A common tool to …