Must-have Apps for Photography Nuts

Posted: January 30, 2013

[caption id="attachment_11147" align="alignright" width="580"]image TechHive[/caption]Tablets have added a whole new realm for photographers when it comes to photo editing. In today's portable world, it's much easier to take your tablet with you, rather than your laptop. If you're interested in enhancing your images on the go, these apps can big a big help.

Want to get more out of your photography? Your tablet can be a valuable tool in the pursuit of picture perfection. A variety of apps are now available that can expand your camera's features, and even replace your laptop completely, making it easier to shoot and edit. Whether you have an iPad, an Android tablet, or a Windows 8 tablet, here are our picks for the top 10 apps for photographers. We've picked out the best editing, cataloging, collaging, and shooting apps.

Snapseed

Most of the time, you don't need a complex photo editor for your tablet; you just need something that can do basic editing and tweaking. Snapseed (free; Android and iPad) is just such an editor: It can crop, rotate, adjust contrast, and tweak colors, providing enough features to enhance most images that you take with or store in your tablet. The selective adjust tool, for instance, allows you to tweak brightness, contrast and saturation on selected areas of an image, which is great for bringing out faces in poorly lit photos. It doesn't offer the features of more complicated apps, though, and some of the tools are limited (you can only tilt images by up to 10 degrees, and there is no support for layers and complex color adjustments). But it offers the tools that you are likely to need most of the time. And the price is right; this app is now free.

Pocketbooth

Old-fashioned photo booths are becoming few and far between, but your tablet comes to the rescue with Pocketbooth ($1.99; Android and iPad), a nifty little app that takes photos in quick succession and puts them together into a photo strip that you can email or share (or print, via a third-party app). You can configure the number and type of photos (color, B&W, sepia, or antique) and the look and feel of the photo strip (matte or glossy). It's nothing that you couldn't do with Adobe Photoshop Touch yourself, but the process is handled just like an old-fashioned photo booth, so it's a neat way to produce a party favor or get a cute, spontaneous photo memento of a trip.

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