Five Reasons Photographers Should Love the Apple iPhone

23.05.2011

What you will find are all the essential basic photo editing tools, smartly implemented in a way that makes sense on a phone's touch screen. There are ways to crop, straighten, rotate, and flip a photo. You can change characteristics like exposure, saturation, and tint by sliding your finger across the screen until you see what you like. There are some special effects like soft focus and sketch mode. There's even an in-app upsell: Buy the Adobe Camera Pack for $2 to get extra features like a noise reduction filter and self-timer for taking photos.

I am a huge fan of --it's an online storage service that lets you put your files in the cloud. You get 2GB of space for free, and there are paid subscriptions for additional space. But there are also a slew of ways to get more space for free, such as referring others to the service and promoting it on Facebook or Twitter. I have more than 4GB of space available for free.

, and it's got a great feature tailored just for photographers. Start the app and go to the Uploads tab, where you can send multiple photos from your camera roll directly to any folder in your Dropbox account. Once you start the upload, it continues in the background while you go off and do other things. In the past, you could move photos to Dropbox (or other cloud storage solutions) only one photo at a time, so this is a great way to back up your iPhone photos or share them quickly with another PC that shares your Dropbox account.