Diptic: Turn Your Pictures Into a Collage

Ever wonder how your friends and family make those great collages they share on Facebook and Instagram? One way may be by using Diptic, a photo collage app that you can purchase on your device.  Diptic is easy to use even for the beginner, and offers many different styles of collages. You can even add text. Below are two of their "Fancy" layouts, but you can choose from many different options.

Diptic is easy and fun to use, so start adding your own collages today and share them on your favorite social media platforms!

Diptic

• Name of App: Diptic
• Audience: Adult and Teen
• Platform: iOS, Android
• What the App Does and why we recommend it: The app will allow you to create collages for pictures taken on your electronic device.
• What platform we used to recommend the app: iOS 
• Cost (at time of review): Free.

Get the Most Out of Your Photos with PS Express

These days you have many choices when it comes to selecting a photo app. In our last post we highlighted the Relight app.  We thought you might want to look at another photo correcting app option.

With Spring Break and summer approaching it's time to make sure you are ready to take some photos. Many people have cameras on their phones, which makes it so much easier to take pictures wherever you go. But do you ever have trouble getting them to turn out right? Sometimes poor lighting and distance can really turn those picture perfect moments into picture disasters.

PS Express (Photoshop Express) can help you with that. With tons of features this app can take your photos from blah to wow in just a few seconds. Photos too dark? Lighten them. Photos too blurry? Sharpen them. A person popping up in your picture where they shouldn't be? Remove them! (Note: Removing people from photos really only works at a distance. If it is a close up--it would look really odd.)

Notice the difference PS Express can make in the photos below, the photos on the left are the originals and the ones on the right were doctored with PS Express.

PS Express for iOS

PS Express for Android

• Name of App: PS Express
• Audience: All
• Platform: iOS, Android
• What the App Does and why we recommend it: The app helps modify and fix your pictures after they are on your camera roll.
• What platform we used to recommend the app: iOS 
• Cost (at time of review): Free, there are some in app purchases if you want premium features, but I have done just fine with the basics.

Relight-Better Photos

No matter how good your phone’s camera is, it never quit captures the photo you want. The picture is too dark or it is just a little blurry. With the Relight app you can actually get pictures closer to what you actually see.

Relight uses eight special modes to bring out the best in all your photos.

• Enhance - Improve lighting, contrast, and color to give your photos a more  natural to the eye look
• Low Light - Improve dim lighting and correct exposure problems
• Artistic - Add creative HDR effects to your photos
• Clarity - Bring out details and enhance local contrast to make your photos stand out
• Sky - Enhance contrast in the sky to create a distinct look
• Dramatic - Heighten the emotion of your photos with bold lighting
• Overexposure - Improve washed out and overexposed photos
• Fog - Reduce fog and haze to bring life to otherwise dull photos

With all the photo enhancing apps out there, what sets this one apart? I like this app best for two reasons. One is its simplicity. After you download the app, you are given a quick, step-by-step tutorial that explains everything. You don’t have to be a photographer or artist to understand or operate the app. Secondly, it actually enhances your pictures without making them appear cartoonish.

Name of App: Relight

Audience: Adult

Platform: iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch running iOS 8.1 or higher

What the app does and why we recommend it: Enhances photos so they appear more like what the eye sees

Platform used to recommend: iPhone

Cost: $1.99