The iPhone camera is not the best camera phone there is, but who says you can't improve them? These top 10 photography-related iPhone apps will let you edit, enhance, and add fun stuff to your iPhone photos in a snap.
1. CinemaFX
This app lets you apply movie-like effects to your iPhone photos using eight post-production techniques used by Hollywood filmmakers. You can use Spartan Sepia, Egyptian Gold, Cinematic Color, Dark Knight, Vampire World, Elf Glow, Dark Comic, and Surveillance Camera. The app features smart cropping, full resolution support of up to 1200 by 1600, full screen support, landscape and portrait mode, and photo viewer with zoom and span. (iTunes link - $.99)
2. Photo Wizard Fixer+Filter+Uploader Lite
This great iPhone app lets you improve under exposed photos produced by your iPhone camera. You can choose between manual or auto fixer. In manual mode, you can adjust your iPhone photos' brightness, contrast and color saturation. The auto fixer or photowizard lets you use five great photo filters - Oil Paint, Fish Eye and Fish Eye Effect, Sketch, Block Waves and Monochrome. To make it even more exciting, you can apply more than one filters to your photos as well. (iTunes link - Free)
3. Cropulator
Here's another cool iPhone app that you can use to enhance and edit your iPhone photos. This app lets you apply quick cropping and rotating enhancements to your iPhone photos. With this app you can cut off unwanted areas on your photos. You can lock the aspect ratio of your photos when cropping, straighten images, automatically crop images based on the amount of rotation, and edit in portrait or landscape mode. (iTunes link - $.99)
4. SP Photo Fix Lite
This iPhone app will be most useful if you're fond of sending photos by email right after you've taken them. Before sending a photo, you can fix its brightness, contrast, sharpness, hue, saturation and white balance. The app handles photos at 860x645 and saves it at 400x300 pixel resolution - just enough for sending photos via email. (iTunes link - Free)
5. Fantasy Lens
The Fantasy Lens iPhone app is both a useful photo editing tool and a fun digital composite photo tool. When taking a photo of a subject you can select any of the 24 templates before pressing your iPhone's shutter button. Afterwards you can adjust its brightness, contrast, color balance and create other seamless digital photo composites. (iTunes link - $.99)
6. Polarize
This iPhone app lets you perform a series of pixel-by-pixel enhancements to your photos. Polarize gives your iPhone photos a unique look and allows you to write anything at the bottom of your photos. The text is displayed in a handwritten font, giving your photos a personalized look. The app also produces high resolution outputs. (iTunes link - Free)
7. Colorsplash
If you're a Photoshop user, you may have done "cutout" or "selective desaturation" of your photos before. This app does the same thing on your iPhone photos. It allows you to convert some parts of your photos into black and white while retaining one part colored. It's a pretty neat application and adds some fun aspects to the camera feature of your iPhone.(iTunes link - $1.99)
8. Light
This application solves one of the major issues with the iPhone cameras photo output - light issues. It lets you add realistic lighting effects to an otherwise bland iPhone photo. The app lets you control brightness, blurring, and displacement for lightwrapping effects. You can adjust light position, rotation and even size. It's really a pretty neat tool for making your iPhone photos better looking. (iTunes link - $.99)
9. SepiaCamera
Despite the many advances in color photo production, nothing beats the beauty of the old photo style such as black and white and sepia. If you're fond of the sepia style, this iPhone app lets you convert the photo you've taken into sepia. What's best about this app is the fact that it doesn't require you to tweak any settings. Just take your photos, fire up the app and wait until your photos are converted into cool looking sepia style output. (iTunes link - $.99)
10. PhotoHype
This iPhone app gives you a feature-rich photo editing tool that allows you to rotate, crop, straighten or correct color distribution of your iPhone photos. It also allows you to apply various effects to your photos including Sepia, Black And White, Negative, Color Boost, Vignette, and more. (iTunes link - $.99)
