ICloud Photos. One convenient home for all your photos and videos. ICloud Photos gives you access to your entire Mac photo and video library from all your devices. If you shoot a snapshot, slo-mo, or selfie on your iPhone, it’s automatically added to iCloud Photos — so it appears on your Mac, your iOS devices, Apple TV, iCloud.com, and your PC. Even the photos and videos imported from your DSLR, GoPro, or drone to your Mac appear on all your iCloud Photos–enabled devices.
The built-in Photos app on Mac offers several useful photo editing tools. You can crop, adjust lighting and color, set the white balance, add filters, remove unwanted blemishes, and a few more things. Want to make your pictures pop but don't have the time or money to invest in a photo-editing tool? If you have a Mac, you're in luck. With the latest version of OS X Yosemite, Apple is including.
And since your collection is organized the same way across your Apple devices, navigating your library always feels familiar. Fill your library, not your device. ICloud Photos can help you make the most of the space on your Mac. When you choose “Optimize Mac Storage,” all your full‑resolution photos and videos are stored in iCloud in their original formats, with storage-saving versions kept on your Mac as space is needed. You can also optimize storage on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, so you can access more photos and videos than ever before. You get 5GB of free storage in iCloud — and as your library grows, you have the option to choose a plan for up to 2TB.
Quickly find what you’re looking for with the always‑on sidebar. You can go right to your favorites, or view your library organized by people or places. There are albums that automatically collect your videos, selfies, panoramas, and other media types. You’ll find all the albums you create in My Albums. Moving your content around is as simple as dragging and dropping, with a handy selection counter that shows you how many items you’ve selected. And you can filter by criteria like favorites, edited, videos, and keywords. Perfect your best shots with powerful editing tools.
Create standout photos with a comprehensive set of powerful but easy-to-use editing tools. Instantly transform photos taken in Portrait mode with five different studio-quality lighting effects. Choose Enhance to improve your photo with just a click.
Use a filter to give it a new look. Or use Smart Sliders to quickly edit like a pro even if you’re a beginner. With Markup, you can add text, shapes, sketches, or a signature to your images. You can turn Live Photos into fun, short video loops to share. And you can make edits to photos using apps like Photoshop and Pixelmator, and your changes will automatically be saved back to your Photos library.
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By. 9:17 am, January 16, 2017. A good photo editing app can add mood and alter colors to clarify your vision of your dog or any of your photos. Photo: David Pierini/Cult of Mac One of my favorite observations by a now-forgotten sage explained the difference between writing and photography like this: A bad sentence can be massaged, but nothing helps a bad photo.
However, I’ve experienced for myself how a good photo-editing app can salvage sloppy composition or bad exposure — and even teach you something along the way. So if you resolve to become a better photographer in 2017, you might want to add some tools to put a finer finish on your iPhone photos. Start with the dedicated iPhone shooters at the, which recently published as we spring into the new year. IPhone Photography School gets more than half a million pageviews each month because of its deep well of educational resources, with tutorials, reviews and recommendations offered by a wide range of contributing artists.
Having an with any one of the following apps does not guarantee great pictures. That comes from you, the photographer, with practice and a search for knowledge to properly express in pixels what you see with your eyes. It should be noted that the iPhone’s native camera offers some basic editing tools that are pretty good. But if you haven’t already added a dedicated editing app, here are some you can graduate to, as recommended by some of the best iPhone photographers surveyed by the website.
There are dozens of photography apps in the App Store so let the list below be a trusted guide. Below you’ll find highlights of each app, as written by iPhone Photography School blog editor Kate Wesson. It’s worth reading her comprehensive descriptions (see link above). In many cases, our post includes links to past tutorials on how to use these apps. Best photo-editing apps for iPhone 1. Snapseed The favorite app of the iPhone Photography School and millions of mobile photographers around the world. Photo: David Pierini/Cult of Mac iPhone Photography School: “ excels in all basic photo processing techniques, including exposure, color, sharpening, cropping, and straightening.
It also offers advanced editing features such as selective adjustments and a healing tool for unwanted objects. “In addition, there’s a great selection of creative filters that you can use to convert your photos to black and white, apply textures, add blur effects, and otherwise enhance the mood of your images.” 2. VSCO More than 30 million mobile photographers use VSCO. Photo: VSCO iPhone Photography School: “While also functions as a camera app and photo sharing platform, it’s the rich collection of filters and user-friendly editing tools that really make it stand out. “Unlike other apps where the filters can be garish and overpowering, VSCO’s presets are designed to emulate classic and modern analog films. Many of the filters feature a soft, slightly faded look that’s quickly become very popular on Instagram.” 3.
Filterstorm Neue A powerful Curves tool and easy-to-use masking brush. Photo: David Pierini/Cult of Mac iPhone Photography School: “In addition to all of the typical photo editing tools for adjusting color, exposure, etc., includes one of the best mobile implementations of a powerful Curves control for fine-tuning brightness and contrast. “Another feature that really sets (it) apart is that you can selectively apply adjustments through a number of tools, including a powerful masking brush as well as radial and linear gradient filters. If you’re looking to move beyond basic image editing with your iPhone, Filterstrom Neue is one of the best photo editing apps out there.” 4. Enlight Add “whimsical and artistic effects” to some of your photos with Enlight.
Photo: David Pierini/Cult of Mac iPhone Photography School: “ has an extensive collection of basic and advanced editing tools, as well as a selection of more whimsical and artistic effects for getting really creative with your images. “With so many features, this app can take a bit of time to fully understand, but each tool is very intuitive in how it works. Additionally, Enlight has one of the best built-in Help features available in any photo editor app.” 5. Mextures The go-to app for iPhone artists who apply texture to their work. Photo: Mextures iPhone Photography School: “While there are many worthwhile apps (for applying textures and other creative effects), the one that’s often mentioned first by mobile artists is. “Not only does this app offer a wide range of textures, grains and light leaks, each of them is fully adjustable and you can combine as many as you want through an easy-to-use layering feature.
The creative options available in Mextures really are endless, and its one of the best photo editing apps for creating your own unique editing style.” 6. TouchRetouch Removing objects is at your fingertip. Photo: TouchRetouch iPhone Photography School: “Many apps now offer the ability to remove unwanted elements from a photo, but TouchRetouch is dedicated solely to this purpose and it’s still one of the easiest and most effective to use. “Using your finger, you can quickly and easily highlight the objects (or parts of objects) that you want to remove. The app then automatically removes the selection, replacing that area with pixels from the surrounding area.” 7. SKRWT For correcting distortion and converging lines that result from wide-angle lenses. Photo: SKRWT Wide-angle lenses, such as the fixed lens on the iPhone, can distort images by making objects, especially the lines in buildings, appear bent or stretched.
IPhone Photography School: “With, you an quickly and easily correct these distortions and straighten converging lines. There are other apps that offer this (feature), including Snapped and Enlight, but SKRWT is solely focused on this type of editing and is still one of the best options.” 8. AfterFocus Gives you that look of a shallow depth of field. Photo: AfterFocus iPhone Photography School: “ is a specialty app designed to imitate the shallow depth of field effect that can typically only be achieved with a DSLR or close-up photography. “You simply use your finger to mark the foreground and background areas, then the app automatically blurs the background.
You can even add a natural-looking bokeh effect where the background highlights are rendered as soft circles or hexagons.” Note: This is a great option if you don’t have the iPhone 7 Plus, which features a portrait mode to simulate the look of shallow depth of field. Lens Distortions Add lens flare, fog, shimmer and other effects. Photo: Lens Distortions iPhone Photography School: One of the best apps for adding lighting effects and textures to your photos. “What really sets apart from other similar apps is that all of the filters/overlays are created from actual photos of those same elements, including actual sunlight (Light Hits collection), haze (Fog collections), fragments of glass (Legacy collection) as well as a unique ‘Shimmer’ collection. “Adding these elements to your photos is remarkably easy and intuitive, and its great fun playing around in this app to see what sort of new creations you can come up with.” 10. Superimpose To make the perfect photo from two.
Photo: David Pierini/Cult of Mac iPhone Photography School: Great for compositing multiple images into a single photo. “You can use for a wide range of compositing effects, from simply removing an unwanted background from your image to creating truly unique compositions and double-exposure photos. With this app, you’re only limited by your imagination.” This list goes to 11 Shooting RAW files on your iPhone was made possible by iOS 10 and the Adobe Lightroom mobile app. Photo: Adobe I have a couple favorites not on this list, but out of respect for a well-edited guide, I’d rather not gum up the works. However, if you find yourself growing in your artistry, an app worth having is. Apple’s release of iOS 10 paved the way for Adobe to give iPhone shooters the option of captures RAW DNG files inside the app. RAW file are uncompressed and can accept a greater range of adjustments in white balance, dynamic range and the recovery of highlight and shadow details after the pictures has been made.
This allows for unprecedented quality in photos made on the iPhone.