Friday App of the Week - Photos Companion, a Microsoft Garage project

Android and Windows 10 can be a great combo, if you want to transfer photos from your phone to your PC!

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Instanty (iPhone) - Grab the best snaps from your videos

Developer Quote: "With Instanty you're in total control to get the perfect shot."

Sometimes you'll shoot an amazing video, then later wish you had some great photos of the same events. It's very difficult to shoot videos and photos of the same things, as you'll no doubt agree, so this scenario is fairly common.

Thankfully, this app lets you grab the best snapshots from videos you've recorded, or record video straight from the app itself, then pick the best stills. You may not even be aware of the gold that's hidden in your existing videos just waiting to be mined with this powerful and easy-to-use app!

Features:

• Never miss a shot.
• Create awesome pictures like Levitation, Vadering, Hadokening, Pottering or even the Makankosappo !
• Twenty filters for your astonishing photos.
• Super fast capture and instant save for everything you take.
• Share quickly on your favorite social networks

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Top Camera - HDR and Slow Shutter for iPad

Developer Quote: "Create beautiful photographs using this full-featured camera app designed for the advanced photographer, the beginner and everyone in between."

Cost: $2.99

Some Amazing Features:

1. GENERAL
App was designed in cooperation with Artist / Photographer, David Scott Leibowitz to bring you the highest quality in every detail.
★ portrait and landscape orientation supported
★ file sharing integration
★ save images to the internal gallery, in system 'Photos' or in both

2. CAMERA
In shooting mode, the app provides a host of visual aids to help you take the best photograph possible - quick, intuitive controls, indicator to define exposure, Auto White Balance switch and many more.
★ "Volume" button shutter
★ "Sound" activated shutter
★ Video recording
★ Video zoom - full resolution, no frames dropped, no quality decrease!
★ LIVE ADJUSTMENTS: contrast, brightness, saturation, temperature
★ Stabilizer

3. PHOTO GALLERY
Clicking the picture icon in the lower left corner brings you into the world of Folders, Viewing, Editing and Sharing. When you enter this section of the app, you see the contents of selected folder.
★ Folders
★ Export - paste image to clipboard, export to photos or send by e-mail
★ Share - send one or more images to FACEBOOK, TWITTER, PICASA, YOUTUBE, DROPBOX or FLICKR.
★ Add new photos - import from 'Photos', paste from clipboard or duplicate selected image

4. VIEWER
“View” button, or double tap on thumbnail will bring up the folder’s images for fullscreen viewing and also give you info options to see the photo’s metadata including a GPS map view.
★ full resolution preview
★ slideshow
★ display image info
★ display GPS location in Maps



5. PHOTO EDITOR
Tap on “Edit” button to open powerful photo editor. Here you can crop an image, fix your common photo problems like bad lighting, low contrast, fuzzy colors, apply special effects and add frame.
★ crop - free mode, keep ratio, square, 2x3, 3x4, 9x16, golden proportions
★ rotate - rotate 90 degrees left/right, flip horizontal/vertical
★ adjust - use sliders to adjust brightness, contrast, saturation, improve (definition, sharpen), temperature, tint, shadows, highlights

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Blurtt (iOS) - Find, caption and share photos!

A well-known fact: The caption makes the photo. In fact, photos without captions can seem pitifully bare. What are we supposed to think about them? What do they mean? Is there something funny about them? Who knows, if there's no caption!

If you have an ounce of creativity in you, you'll want to get and use this app. Search for photos on the web or use your own. Add awesome captions and share the results with individuals, your friends, or the entire photo-caption-loving world.

Blurtt is FREE in the iTunes App Store!

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Flickr (Android) - Share your photo life!

Life is full of images, and images are the best way (besides video) to remember the good times. Think of the closing credits on the Hangover movies! This app makes it simple to record all those precious moments, and to share them with your friends. From the developers:

The best way to share your life in photos – now available on Android! Take beautiful photos with our in-app camera, enhance with filters, then share on Facebook, Twitter and more.

- Capture and enhance with one of our custom filters. High resolution photos that look good everywhere (on your PC, tablet or internet fridge).
- Upload straight to Flickr and share to your friends on Facebook, Twitter, via email and more. Stay up to date with latest comments and activity on your photos too.
- When you upload to Flickr you also get access to powerful online organizational tools, groups, fun photo apps, and a community of over 60 million members. That’s a whole lotta photo sharing unleashed in one app!

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New to Flickr? Sign up straight from your Android device.

Features:

• Share photos only with the people you want to with easy privacy settings.
• Full screen browsing and slideshows for your photos, your contacts photos or any of the public photos from the global Flickr community.
• Share the story behind your photo with titles, descriptions, comments and tags.
• Keep your track of where you took your photo by keeping your location data automatically through geotagging.

Flickr is FREE on the Android Market!

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JustPictures! (Android) - Best Android Gallery Replacement

Android equals customization, right? Making your phone look and work the way you like, and changing it whenever you want. So why not replace the boring stock Gallery with something better-looking and more useful?

Check out this feature list...

✔ Upload and batch upload to Picasa, Facebook, Flickr, Smugmug, Photobucket and Imgur
✔ Fullscreen browsing with sensor based rotation,
✔ Slideshows and a Live Wallpaper on Android 2.1 devices,
✔ Zooming and panning capabilities with multitouch on 2.0+ devices, and one touch zoom on others
✔ Delete and Rotate local photos,
✔ Set photo as wallpaper, contact icon, email attachment,
✔ Batch mode edition (Favorite, Delete, Rotate, Share, Save),
✔ Access to Exifs tags (if any),
✔ Good usage of network for updates,
✔ Managed cache, cache size can be limited to user defined value,
✔ Automatic notification of album updates (Picasa and Smugmug only),
✔ Authentication of users to access private albums, password protected albums are supported on Smugmug,
✔ Quick access to Favorite photos,
✔ Set image as wallpaper.
✔ Geolocation of photos displayed on minimap + large map
✔ Tags from IPTC Picasa, Flickr, Smugmug, Tumblr and Deviant Art

JustPictures! is FREE on the Android Market!

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Snapbucket (Android) - Snap, Style and Share to Photobucket

This is a new app from Photobucket that works very nicely to take photos, fix them up, and share them to your Photobucket account.

"With Snapbucket by Photobucket, you can take a picture, edit it using cool effects, and share it with anyone in your network! It’s the easiest way to snap a picture, style it YOUR way, and share it with friends. Snap, Style and Share…wherever you’re at, all with your mobile phone!"

Snapbucket is FREE on the Android Market!

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Flickroid (Android) - Lets you easily share your photos to Flickr

If you love taking pictures on your Android phone, you'll love being able to share them easily to your Flickr account.

Free on the Android Market

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PhotoJoy - Transform your photos into screensavers, wallpapers, etc.

When you love photos you want to use them in everything. Here are some very neat ways you can spread the joy. From the website:

With PhotoJoy You Get:

Wallpaper Collages – The perfect way to relive your favorite moments
3D Screensavers – Make your photos look spectacular
PhotoToy Widgets – Display your photos in fun ways
Professional photos – 1000’s of them
So much fun and so easy to use



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Dropico - Drag and drop your media across social networks

If you are one of those who uploads photos to more than one social networking sites, this drag and drop utility can save you lots of time and suffering. Check out the video to see how it works.



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id.this - When you need someone to tell you what the hell you're looking at

We've all found ourselves looking at something and scratching our heads trying to figure out what it is, or who it is. Now you can snap a photo, upload it to this nifty website, and get help identifying it, or him/her.

Go to id.this

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ColorSuckr - Build color schemes from your photos

If you want to create a color palette from a photo, this is a powerful way to do it. You can use the web app or the Firefox add-on. (And I know what it sounds like.)

Go to ColorSuckr

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TiltShift Generator - A Flash app that adds a nice effect to photos

I love that Tilt-shift effect, the one that blurs the background of a photo while leaving a specific area in focus. Here's a super-easy-to-use web app that creates the effect and gives you several ways to tweak it to perfection. Use as an online or desktop app.

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fotografix - A free Photoshop alternative at less than 1 meg

When you install a Windows app, the installer just sloshes parts of it all over your machine like an insane painter. That's why portable apps are so cool. Everything's in one file, ergo easily moved, ipso facto portable. This one does a fair imitation of the behemoth Photoshop and is only 680 Kb small.

"Enhance photos
Quickly correct and enhance photos and other images.

Compose rich artwork
Use layers and other advanced features to digitally compose art.

Automate frequent tasks
Make use of scripts to automate repetitive tasks."

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fotografix - A free Photoshop alternative for non-professionals like me

The term "photoshop" has joined the likes of "kleenex" and xerox" to become the ubiquitous term for photo editing. But you don't need Photoshop to photoshop. From the website:

"Fotografix is an image editor that can be used for digital image enhancement, photo retouching and graphic design. As it is quite small and does not require installation, it can be run off a USB drive and hence can act as a substitute when other image editors are not readily available."

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Shape Collage - Create your own photo collages with ease

Putting some of your favorite photos together to make a collage can be fun and productive, especially when you have this tool. From the website:

# Create picture collages in less than a minute with just a few mouse clicks

# Photos are automatically and intelligently placed using a machine learning algorithm

# Use photos on your computer or from the web to make collages

Shape Collage

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WeightMirror.com - Take 50 lbs off with this web tool

This is decidedly easier than actually losing 50 pounds. Have a photo of yourself you want to post online, but you look too fat? Upload it to this site and watch it take off the weight. This is what you've been waiting for! From the site:

"Our patent-pending face recognition technology is based on years of research at Stanford University and the University of Toronto. With one click and in just a few seconds, it automatically detects your body shape and removes up to 50 lbs. Try out this revolutionary technology now COMPLETELY for FREE!"

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2Pad - Mine your webmail for photos and videos

I've always wanted to mine data. This is an idea whose time has come. You know you have scads of media file attachments in your webmail account, but it's a huge chore to look for them. 2Pad will comb through your emails, mining for those elusive photos and videos, then it'll show them to you in a gallery format. Very cool.

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Shrink Pic - Send smaller photos without using a photo editor

You people who love to send pictures to all your friends and who thus clog up the Internet, hear this: Here's an easy way to shrink those graphics files down to manageable size. From the site:

Automatically reduce the size of photos for email, IM, blogging and web galleries!

Today's high resolution digital cameras produce multi Megabyte photos. These are great for printing but cause a heavy burden when sending over the Internet.

Shrink Pic allows you to send dozens of photos as email attachments - quickly and with no effort at all!

All you need to do is install Shrink Pic. It automatically detects when you're sending large photo files and compresses them in the background.

There's no setup, no operating instructions, nothing, nada. Just send your photos normally and Shrink Pic takes care of shrinking them.

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Picasa 3 beta - Better than ever

For all you beta-lovers out there, here's one you shouldn't miss. With tons of improvements and new features, Picasa 3 beta is a winner.

Picasa 3

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