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Making Perfect Pictures On The iPhone

You’ve captured your image, tuned and processed it, added some additional flare using some specialized apps like BigLens and Piction, and finally shared it on Instagram. But, unfortunately, you’re left with an absolute mess of a camera roll. This is a place where Android shines, since most iOS photos apps aren’t built to talk directly to each other: the apps are forced to export and then reimport the full-resolution image every time you travel between apps, which leaves a mess of semi-processed images in their wake. Some chase inbox zero. I believe in camera-roll zero.

A good roundup of iPhone camera and photo editing apps by Jordan Oplinger at The Verge. It’s funny that he mentions “camera-roll zero” – that’s exactly what I do as well. Every day after I’ve taken a bunch of pictures, I open CameraSync and upload them to Dropbox; my Mac mini then takes care of automatically sorting them in a folder structure, and desktop uploaders for Loom and Picturelife (I’m trying both at the moment) monitor the source folder to upload photos to their respective services. When my photos are uploaded by CameraSync on the iPhone, I delete them and leave an empty camera roll. I can later view photos using Photo Stream (for the latest ones), Unbound (for the full Dropbox folder), or iOS apps by Loom and Picturelife (I prefer Picturelife’s app for now).

After The Sweet Setup’s recommendation for the best photo editing app for iPhone, I’m also trying VSCO Cam. While I don’t share many edited photos and I don’t like the custom UI of the app, VSCO does have some great filters and editing tools.